Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-24
TAFTVILLE

Who should pay the Connecticut sales tax and who is exempt from it, is a subject being talked over among local merchants since the visit of an official from the tax department at Hartford, to check over the returns made by residents of the village. The state law provides that all retail sales of unincorporated businesses, shall be taxed at the rate of one dollar per thousand, with a mini mum tax of five dollars. There are any number of people throughout the state who make a practice of selling goods from house to house; or a side line. and the question that has come up is wheth- CT or not they should pay the sales tax. The state has a check on all those who take out peddlers' licenses. and as a result they come in for their share of the tax. The problem is, how the state is to discover the identity of persons who take out no licenses, nor in any way get their names on the official records of Connecticut. Taftville merchants feel that if they are liable to taxation, sim ply because they maintain a place of business, those who dispose of merchan- disc at a profit without the expense of keeping store, should bear their share of the burden. While this subject is be- l ing talked extensively among the busi- ness men, the majority of the villagers are little concerned about it. They long ago realized that when the legislature lays a tax, the public pays it.
 | The crow colony, which is established every fall and winter in the woods north of the village, has now, probably reach l ed its greatest size, and the cawing oi l the birds in the early morning before l they start on their daily flights, and ir the evening when they return to the roost can be heard very plainly in the north ern section of the town. The roost shelt. CTS approximately three to four hundred crows, which is about the usual number although residents can remember a dog en years ago, when one year thousand: of crows held their meeting here, ant the assembling of the focks was an i'm posing sight. At that time. it seemed a. though the air was black with these birds, and they arrived in such mum bers that the branches of trees bent un der their weight and the noise made b! them was deafening. About three year ago, the crows shifted their roost tt the Lisbon side of the Shetucket riv Ter, where at that time they found com fortab1e shelter in the hemlock trees ol the river banks, but the following yea
 found them back in their old haunts. Tn crows, which spend the. spring and sum mer in small groups, begin assembling
 in these big fiocks in September, and un til March all birds meet every even ing at this common roost, leaving in. tn
 early morning to forage for their food
 Local naturalists recall time several years back, when the roost was Visite'
 by a disease, popularly known as cro7
 roup, which caused birds afflicted by
 to. go blind, the sick crows dying by doz
 ems in single night from this dis ease.
 The marriage of Miss Margaret Fitz mauEice and William Nolan was sol
 emnized Thursday morning at Sacred Heart church at nuptial high mass eel
 ebrated by Rev. U. O. Bellerose, paste
 Of the church at 7.S0. The church wa
 filled with relatives and friends of tn young couple. The best man was CharIe
 Nolan, brother of the groom, and tn . bridesmaid was Miss Anna Fitzmaurict
 of Norwich, a cousin of the bride. As tn
 wedding party moved up the aisle. tn
 Briday Chorus was played by Hugh Kir
 der, organist at the church. The brid !. was attractively gowned in white crer