Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-29
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 The trolley service yesterday was very good considering the bad weather. |
 War savings stamps with maturity values totaIling nearly $1,5eo,00o are held in Hartford.
 The sleet storm Of Thursday made slippery going for time until the hail came and acted as sand. The retail price of eggs has taken al decided drop within the past two weeks Two weeks ago strictly fresh eggs were selling at 90 cents retail. Special meeting K. u c. tonight at 3 o'clock.-adv. Connecticut Stata Health Commission CT Stanley H. Osborn issued a state nent recently in which he says whoop- | ing cough is nearly as fatal as dfph- | theria. Safety Week in September. 1921, was a success, says a report. It reduced ac- l cidents throughout Connecticut approxi-, I rnateiy ten per cent for the rest of I the year following.
 Receipts at the motor vehicle depart \ ment at the capitol, up to Tuesday | night, on account of 1923 registrations issued, aggregated $930,S03.ol 1t was \ announced this week.
 The Business and Professional Wo- l mans club of New Haven was open I this week to the women from all over I the country who are attending the va rious. meetings of learned societies at
 Yale.
 It is announced that the Palestine
 Foundation Fund campaign for $35,- 900 for New Haven will be ushered in by a banquet and reception at Republi-
 can hall, Crown street, Sunday evening, Jan. [. I The annual inspection of cigar and tobacco factories in Connecticut viii commence on January 2 and extend to January 15, it was announced at the offices of the deputy collector of revenue at New Haven.
 Another "lfuuor day" will be observed in the United States district court on
 Thursday, Jan. {, when about 100 eases involving charged violations of the u- ? qlpr laws will be put to plea before . Judge Edwin s. Thomas.
 r Providence reported 66 arrests for
 drunkenness over Christmas, which # ? one less than in 1921 and two less than , in 1916, eight years ago, when the pop l ulation of Providence was smaller and the open saloons prevailed.
 The degree team of Narragansett l council, No. 21, Knights Of Columbus , 6t westerly, will confer the third de- gree of the order on a class of candi-
 dates at White Cross council in Nor. . wich. next Sunday afternoon.
 7t Governor-elect Charles A. TempletoE
 authorised the statement ttRs week that he had not been approached in behalf
 of. or considered, anyone other than Charles J. Bennett for the appointment
 of state highway commissioner.
 Recommendations ernbodying the re peal of Connecticut statutes pertaining ! to the military enrolment at the com 9 ing session of the general assembly, art f contained in the biennial report of Ad
 jutant General George NJ. Cole. Vineyards Of the United States pro ! duced a bumper crop of grapes in 1929 D Total carlot shipments from all section:
 up to and including November IT, were 51,254 cars, an increase compared witt 1921 Of 14,053 cars, or about 36 l.. lp per cent.
 Out Of 15,o00 deaths in the Unitet
 States in 1921 from diabetes, .316 occur 1 red in Connecticut. In 1920 there wer | 2S4 deaths from the same cause in tn C state and in 1919 there were 267, ac . cording to the United States Depart
 ment of Commerce.
 C There are more than three times a z many varieties of fish in Japan as il z the waters surrounding Great Britain
 Professor David Starr Jordan, presi ' dent Starr Jordan, president emeritus 0 :. Leland Stanford, Jr., university told < the Asiatic society in a lecture S The Connecticut Friends of Irisl S Freedom will meet in annual convesSbo, 7 in Erin hall. State street, New Have,
 Sunday afternoon. It is expected tha
 about 200 delegates from the variou
 branches in this state will be presen to participate in the proceedings.
 That cooperative associations unie 1 the statutes of this state, are require, to pay a franchise tax upon increase
 of their authorize capital stock, tn
 same as all other corporations, is tn
 ruling of Attorney General Frank E
 Healy in an opinion given recently.
 Mrs. Lillian Wilcox Ashmore Of Hart
 ford and Mrs Lena Bacon Stanciift Q New Hartford were among the vic
 presidents of the Association Of tn
 Wilcox family and Allied Families elect
 cd at it's tenth annual reunion at tn
 Hotel Astor, New York, on Friday,
 From records of the state highwa
 department, of traffic 1t points on u,
 Boston post road at Bridgeport, Strat N ford and the state line at Greenwich a Y different dates in October and Nove,r
 Der, it Is shown that the average nun
 Der of cars passing a given point in thi
 stretch of highway per hour was 2e2. t American farmers are losing approx G ifnateiy sS0 ro0OiD0O year on their oai < crop and probably 8 like amount c . their hay crops through the use of ay J tomobties, motor trucks and tractor which have largely suppianted the us liOf h0rqho iu tha ! Robert McDougal, president of the On
 cApn hoard nR fradR