Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 14, 1915, Page 5

QUALITY GRAPEFRUIT and ORANGES From Florida SPECIAL PRICE BY THE BOX NEW LOT OF CHRISTMAS TREES TODAY SOMERS R. R. AGNEW, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Room 214 Thayer Building Norwich, Conn. Greeneville office: Office Hours: 12-2; 2-4 p.m.; 7-8 except Wednesday and Saturday 7-8 Wednesday and Satur- day evenings, and by appointment Good Skating s0 early in the season took the young- sters by surprise. Every dollar invested in skates will be repaid manyfold by better health and greater enjoyment. There are only a few open air sports and this is one of the best. Skates for all ages. Skates for all prices. They make good gifts. The EATON CHASE Company 129 Main St., Norwich, Ct. We advertise Reading Lamps to- morrow. PLUM PUDDING Premier or Blue Label from RALLION,S Lowney’s Chocolates BON-BONS IN POUND AND HALF POUND BOXES AT Dunn’s Pharmacy 60 MAIN STREET PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING Call Up 734 With or Without Gas Attach- ments but Always EFFICIENT and ECONOMICAL— MODEL RANGES We furnish Repairs for all makes of Ranges A. d. Wholey & Co. 12 Ferry Street Phone 581 MODERN PLUMBING essential in modern house as electricity is to lighting. We guaran- tee the very best PLUMBING WORK by expert workmen at the fariest prices. Ask us for plans and prices. J F. TOMPKINS 67 West Main Street Robert J. Cochrane GAS FITTING, APLUMBING, STEAM FITTING, 10 West Main Street, Norwich, Con. Agent for N. B. O. Sheet Packing. T. F. BURNS Heating and Plumbing 92 Franklin Street IRON GASTINGS FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY THE VAUGHN FOUNDRY CO No. 11 ¢a 25 Farmy Straat Norwich, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1915. VARIOUS MATTERS Monday was St. Lucys day. Most of the schools in the country districts will close Friday. Some of the churches will observe next Sunday as Christmas Sunday. Fitty printed caulng cards for 25 cents at The Bulletin office.—adv. A Niantic pastor, Rev. Charles F. Eldredge, supplied the Baptist pulpit in Lebanon, Sunday. The term at Yale closes Friday, Dec. 17 at 1.20 p. m. and the winter term opens Tuesday, Jan. 4, at 8 a. m. When it set in to snow Monday, merchants brought their Christmas sleds out, expecting a boom in trade. People who were at the beaches Sunday found evidences of the un- usually high tides of the past week. Thirty consecutive years of active service £ the record of Sergeant Ben- jamin A. Beebe of the New London po- lice force. Sale, salad and meat Spiritual Academy, supper, at ‘Wednesday.—adv. The Lyme librarp report for Nevem- ber was as follows: Fiction circulated 539, non-fiction 194, total 733. Reading room attendance 195. Work on Rope Ferry bridge, Nian- tic, which has been closed for several weeks, has been completed and the bridge is now open to the public. A former Hebron teacher, Ray Hill of Maine, who taught in the Lord dis- trict, has left Westchester for Georgia, where he will spend the winter. Lent will begin March Sth and Eas- ter will be very late, coming on April 23rd. This year Ash Wednesday was Pebruary 17 and Easter came on April Several local people knew Rabbi Meyer Elkin, of Hartford, whose death was announced Monday and who was long a summer resident at Crescent Beach. The Shore Line Trolley Co. is using one*of its Norwich-New London cars on the line through the section near Centerbrook, while some of their other cars are in the paint shop. Sale of Christmas novelties by Mrs. M. Jewelt at 58 Church St. Wed. and Thurs., Dec. 15-16.—adv. The sea-going barge Old Dominion has been towed from Allyn's Point to an_anchorage in midstream at New Lonron, having finished discharging her cargo of coal. Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 27-28, the Central Baptist church will entertain a conference of Baptist pastors who are coming at the call of the state con- vention to consider the Five-Year Pro- gram. Naval orders include: Col. W. Walke, C. A. C., from dutp as commanding officer, coast defenses of Savannah, assigned to duty as commanding offi- cer, coast defenses of Long Island sound. At Connecticut college Sunday aft- ernoon, Rev. Joseph H. Seldon of Nor- wich, the speaker at the weekly convo. cation at Thames hall, taking as hi theme, Th Gospel a Gift to the Imagi nation. _The Kensington, Conn., Congrega- tional church passed the 203rd mile- stone of its organization Friday. One of its pastors was Rev. Cornelius Mor- row. D. D., 1879 to 1882, a former Nor- wich pastor. The Ladies’ Union will hold a fair and supper in the Montville Center chapel, Wed. afternoon and evening, Dec. 15. If stormy, next fair day.— adv. Robert Chamberlain, an employe of the Alling Rubber Co., and Miss Min- nie McClay, both of New London, were married by Rev. Joseph P. Brown at his home at 199 Huntington street in that city Saturday. Seventy-seven members of the Con- necticut Society of Civil Engineers at- tended the best smoker held at the Elks’ club in New Britain Friday night. C. C. Elwell, chairman of the public utilities commission, presided. _Officials here have received invita- tions to attend the First International Road congress, which will be held in Worcester, December 14, 15, 16 and 17. The congress is intended for all persons interested in good roads. Quilt salesmen of Connecticut who have returned from recent trips report considerable success, the jobbers' stocks of these goods being quite gen- erally depleted and the call for imme- diate shipments larger than usual as a result. The planet Saturn is coming into view in the eastern evening sky in Gemini, rising at 7 p. m., and will be on the meridian between 12.30 mid- night and 2.30 a. m,, during the month. Its rings are finely placed for obser- vation. When Miss Marion Wells, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Wells of Mon- tauk avenue, entertained a number of Connecticut college students and town friends at tea at her home Sat- urday afternoon, the guests included Miss Carrie Chapman of Norwich. Announcement has been made of the gifts to the new church at Elling- ton, of a clock for the audience room, the donor being Mrs. Susan Chapman Boa of Oklahoma. Mrs. Chapman is a sister of the late Wilbur F. Chap- man, and formerly lived in Ellington. The local freights between New Ha- ven and New London take two to three crews to cover the distance. Their sixteen hours’ working time ex- pires before vovering half the sched- ule, caused mostly by the passenger trains and numerous through freights. The old government steamer Panu- co, Capt. Oscar Holm, has gone to Fishers Island. The Panuco has gone out of commission and will remain at the Fort Wright dock until disposed of by the U. 8. government, which plans to replace the Panuco with a new and larger vessel. —_— AT DAVIS THEATRE. Vaudeville and Photoplays. At the Davis theatre on Monday a singing act by the Capitol City Trio opened the Dill for the first half of the week, presenting a variety of num- bers in mirth, music and melody that had the favor of the audiences. The three in the troupe all had good voices and showed that they knew how to use them. The big feature on the photoplay bill was the prize picture, The Sins of Mothers, one of the most powerful of photoplays that has been written, and with Anita Stewart and Earle Wil- liams in the leading roles. It was a gripping dramatic story with the pas- sion for gambling delineated in strik- ing form. On_the bill also was the Mutual War Weekly and a comedy raal PERSONALS Ira C. Chappell of New London has been a visitor in Norwich. Mrs. H. S. Staplins of Montville is visiting relatives in Quiambog. Mrs. F. E. Beckwith of Norwich spent the week end with relatives in Noank. Mrs. Charles Hayden and Mrs. John G. Hayden of Westbrook were recent visitors to Norwich hospital and called on Miss Nellie Tryon. DEMOCRATS WANT SYSTEM IN STATE CAMPAIGN Proposition to Name Manager to Co- operate with State Central Commit- tee. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 13.—Practically every district in the state was rep- resented at the meéting of the demo- cratic state central committee at the Hartford club this afternoon. The meeting was preceded by luncheon and the business session was late in getting started. National Committeeman Homer S. Cummings, former Lieutenant Govern- or Lyman T. Tingier and_former Con- gressman Thomas L. Reilly were among those present. Chairman David E. Fitzgerald presided. The secretary of the committee, Patrick B. O'Sullivan, was also pres- ent as a guest of the committee. The meeting of the committee con- tinued during the afternoon until a late hour. Matters pertaining to the management of the state campaign next year were discussed and sugggs- tions offered. The proposition to cre- ate the position of manager to act in coopefation with the state central com- mittee and to begin the work of the campaign without delay Instead of waiting until the fall of 1916, was the occasion of a discussion. t was point- ed out by those who favored the prop- osition that it was necessary to sys- tematize the work of the campaign. Among members of the committee present were Bryan Mahan, New London, Eighteenth di ict; Dr. Wil- liam C. MecLaughlin, Norwich, ne- teenth; Daniel Finn of Sprague, Twen- tieth; James Sullivan, Putnam, Twen- ty-eighth; John M. Bassette, Daniel- son, Twenty-ninth. NORWICH HAD RAIN WHERE OTHERS HAD SNOW During Monday Afterncon and Early Evening—Snow After Midnight. While cities in other parts of the state were experiencing the first bliz- zard of the season, Norwich escaped with a heavy downpour of rain Monday afternoon and evening. About 11 o'clock Monday night the rain stopped temporarily, but soon began again with renewed vigor. The temperature dropped several degrees between that time and 1 a. m., and at 1.45 o'clock a snowstorm set in with every evidence of a heavy fall. A broken trolley wire near the tuber- culosis sanatorium and a stalled car on the West Side were about the only storm damage hereabouts. About 8 o'clock a short stretch of trolley wire fell down near the tuberculosis san torium and it was necessary to trans- fer passengers around the broken wire until it could be repaired. The Greeneville-West Side trolley car due in the square at 8.30 o'clock had engine trouble on the West Side and had to be towed to the Greeneville barn for repairs. The rain put an'end to the skating at Mohegan park, where nearly a thousand people enjoyed the first skating of the season on Sunday. FUNERALS. Mrs. Solon A. Moxley. A prayer service was conducted on Monday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock, over the remains of Mrs. Solon A.Moxley at her home No. 120 Broadway, Rev. Joel B. Slocum, D, D., pastor of the Central Baptist church 2 o'clock a public service was held at Bushnell chapel, Central _ Baptist church and was conducted by Rev. Dr. Slocum. The bearers were Shep- herd B_Palmer, J. P. Holloway, C. Ed- ward Smith and Prof. Herbert | Georze and burial took place in Yan- tic cemetery. Rev. Dr. Slocum read a committal service at the grave. There was a wealth of very beautiful floral remembrances. attendance were members of the edg- wick Woman's Relief corps, 16 and other organizations. Undertaker C. A. Gager, Jr., had charge of the funeral arrangements. Mrs. Albert P. Sterry. Many were in attendance Monday afternoon at the funeral of Mrs. bert P. Sterry, which was held at 2 o'clock from ~her late home on the Scotland road. Rev. G. H. Ewing con- ducted the service, speaking words of comfort and appreciation of her char- acter and life, saying Mrs. Ster held for herself high standards. shall go on inspired by the thought of one who conquered her difficulties and has entered the life of perfect joy. Lead, Kindly Light, and Some Sweet Day were beautifully rendered by Mrs. Charles G. Pierce. Among the choice floral tributes were Gates Ajar, a sheaf of white roses and one of white carnations from the family; roses. Mrs. H. A. Cook; carnations, Mrs. A. M. Chap- man; sheaf of white carnations, Mrs. William H. Armstrong; wreath, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. George: standing wreath, roses and carnations, officers L. O. M.; wreath, pink rosebuds, P. L. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Bailey, Miss Lillian Bailey; crescent, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Heath; wreath roses, Mrs. Harry Bond, New London; crescent, Mrs. J. E. Bushnell, Mr. and Mrs. Eu- gene Bayrer, Hartford; white carna- tions, Misses Louise and Elsie Ernst; calla lilies, S. W. Brown and family; violets, Mrs. C. P. Lane; cluster of roses, Miss M. M. Bacheler; wreath of magnolia and pink roses, Scotland road neighbors; wreath, magnolia and pink carnations, First Congregational Home Missionary society; wreath marked Sunday school, and flowers from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sterry, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sterry and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Day Burial was in the family lot in Yan- tic cemetery, where a committal ser- vice was read at the grave. The bear- ers wera H. L. Yerrington, W. R. La- throp, Frank S. Avery and D. W. Avery. - Relatives from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Cook of ‘Willimantic and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Chapman from Scotland. Church & Allen had charge of tHe arrangements. The Other Side. And how a lot of other hyphenates would tear out their hair to prove that every last hair was American if they got caught in Germany without their passport! Philadelphia In- quirer. May Alse Cop the Chautauguas. If Bryan doesn’t watch out, Henry Ford will yet snatch that Nobel mca prize from him.—Philadelphia ss. Waterbury.—The Kenosha (Wis.) Evening News of Dec. § says: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hale Matthews an- nounce the engagement of their daugh- ter, Mary Newell, to Clifford Stanley Hackett, son_of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Hackett. Mr. and Mrs. Hackett are former Waterburians. officiating. At | Numbered in the large | Al- ACH BULLETIN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1915 BUYS TWO FRANKLIN ST. PLOTS Hopkins & Allen Co. Secures Howie and Fanning Property— Plans for Big New Building on Chestnut ‘Street Front— New Conrtact for 1,000,000 Rifles May be Secured— Would Mean Wonderful Expansion of Norwich Plant if City Can Show Aocommodation, for New Workers. The Hopkins & Allen Arms company on Monday bought two pieces of prop- erty on Franklin street just north of their plant—the John E. Fanning property, bordering on Harvey lane, and the Howie property, next south of the Fanning property. With these two pieces they now own all the land from Willow street to Harvey lane and be- tween Franklin street and Chestnut street, with the exception of the Leone property, which is next gouth of the Howie property, and which it is be- lleved will be acquired by them also. The deeds for the two pieces purchased on Monday were placed on record at the town clerk’s office during the af- ternoon. The Howie property has a frontage of 63 feet on Franklin street, is 103 feet deep, and contains on it a small two-story wooden building. The Fan- ning property fronts about 35 feet on the street and is about 125 feet deep. It has on it a two-story and base- ment brick and frame building and both lots adjoin on sides or rear other land alréady owned by the company. The acquirement of the Leone proper- ty. which contains a three-story and basement brick dwelling house on it, will complete the solid block of land between the streets to be owned by the company. Attorney Edwin W. Higgins has acted for the company in making the purchases. On the Chestnut street side the property of the company now runs from the corner of Willow street northerly up to and including the fac- tory building formerly occupied by the Norwich Nickel and Brass company, which was purchased a short time ago by the Hopkins & Allen company. This will provide an area to develop a plant several times the size of the present one and will mean the most important industrial development that Norwich has known for many years past, and possibly the most important in the history of the city. Over the long distance telephone Monday night, President James A. Mc- Gregor of Athol, Mass., confirmed the report of the sale and stated that the buildings now standing on the pur- chased property would be of no use to the company, but that it was the ulti- mate expectation that they would be torn down and new shop buildings erected in their place. Just how soon this would be he could not state, but he believed it would be accomplished as soon as certain plans now under way could be matured. President McGregor also confirmed the report that negotiations have been in progress looking to the company taking a new contract for 1,000,000 rifles and that if that were secured it would mean a plant about quadruple the size of the present one and mean the employment of about 5,000 men. At the present time the contract that the company has is for 150,000 rifles at about $4,500,000 and it is understood that the new contract would involve something like $26,000,000. But President McGregor was em- phatic upon one point, which was that the thing that concerned the officers of the company was what provision Norwich was going to make to house the employes who would be brought here and if the big new contract were secured it was no certainty that the work could be done here unless Nor- wich work up and showed that it could house the employes. If the employes that the company will have to have to work out its contract cannot be house here, it will be no use for the company to think of doing work here, but it would be taken somewhere eclse. This is one of the prime factors in the situation far as the Norwich plant is concerned. ‘While the company officers appre- ciate what the Norwich Housing com- pany has already done and is doing, what has been done so far is not near- ly enough to take care of the large influx of employes that will be received here when the plant gets going at full capacity on its present contract and the shortage of housing accommoda- tions would be immensely more ap- parent if the Hopkins & Allen com- pany gets the immense new contract. This is a matter of big concern now to the officers of the company and they want to see Norwich rise to the situa- tion, for failure to do so will be a most serious handicap to the company and will be the thing that will turn away the immense development that is promised if the other contract is secured. There is great activity in the shops of the company now in preparation for the work of the present contract and plans are- made for a new build- ing, of probably four or five or six stories to occupy the entire Chestnut street front as far up as the build- lcmz of the Norwich Nickel & .Brass 0. NEW AUTO PUMPER HAS REACHED NORWICH. | Delivery Engineer Expected Here by Wednesday, Probably. The Seagrave combination pumping and chemical engine which has been purchased by the local fire department arrived in the freight yard in this city on Monday morning. Chief H. L. Stanton has sent word to the Sea- grave company in Columbus, O., that the engine has arrived and that he will await the arrival of the delivery clerk before taking possession. The manufacturers have notified Chief Stanton by telegram that the delivery clerk would probably arrive here on Wednesday. It is understood that the central tation is looked upon as the proper place to put the new pumping engine, but just what other changes in the disposition of other apparatus will be | made not indicated yet. | " The delivery engineer -who will come to turn it over to the Norwich depart- ment will stay long enough to give adequate instruction upon how to run it. Before it is accepted it will be tested by engineers from the National Board of Fire Underwriters, who will be equipped with all the appliances to demonstrate that the pumper will do | all that is called for in the contract. It is possible that the test will not be | made until some time after Christ- mas, though it may be sooner. When the test is made a number of fire chiefs from nearby cities in New England will come here to see _the pumper demonstrate its capabilities. New Haven is the nearest city to Nor- wich that has similar apparatus. They have three or four Of this type and two more ordered. STORRS FRESHMEN TRIUMPH. Finally Elude Watchful Sophomores and Have Banquet at Middietown. Many of ther hiding all day in the basement of Stueck's Modern Tavern, a majority of the freshmen class of the Connecticut Agricultural college at Storrs, held the annual class banquet at Stueck’s Wedgewood hall, Middle- town, Friday night, in spite of the efforts of the sophomore class to pre- vent its occurrence. The event was held by the freshmen to be a fitting windup to the many triumphs over the sophomores, which include vic- tory in both the baseball and football games. It has been the custom at Storrs for the sophomores to break up the fresh- men banquet yearly, and in fact it is said that the sophomores heretofore have been so successful that a fresh- man banquet has never been held. Last year the present sophomores went to Springfield, but the upper class- men were too much for them and the banquet never came off. This vear the freshmen kept the sophs guessing and scouts were on the alert in Willimantic, Norwich and Hartford, to try to discover where the feast was to be held. But the freshies eluded them and slipped off to feast at Middletown. FROM CITY COURT. Two Men Go to Jail to Work Out Fines. Zebulon Little, a former cook in a Norwich boarding house, who after he was arrested Sunday gave the name of Joseph Heeben, was fined $5 and costs for intoxication, in the city court on Monday morning. Little was so intoxicated that he fell off a wall on Laurel Hill avenue Sunday _and badly cut his head. Policeman John Irish, who arrested him, had to bring a wagon into service in order to get the man to police headquarters. He went to_jail to work out $16.75. Edward Moran, a Groton man, paid $12.50 for intoxication and a Norwich man who was unable to pay $1 and costs for intoxication went to jail. For making trouble in his home, C. Coughlin, 40 years of age, paid $5. WEDDING Chizzelo-Luther At the home of the bride, Rev. John Thompson united in marriage on Saturday, Dec. 11th, Maurice L. Chiz- zelo of Springfield, Mass., and Miss Henrijetta L. Luther of Preston. IMPORTANT INFLUENCE ON INSURANCE DISTRICT. Charles F. Noyes Co. Has Played Big Part in New York. In its current ue The Insurance Advocate of New York gives a sketch of the Charles F. Noves Company of New York along with cuts of Presi- dent Charles F. Noyes, formerly of this city, Secretary F and Insurance Renting Specialist Francis W. Gridley Of the important part the com- pany has played in changing and greatly improving the insurance dis- trict in New York The Advocate says The Charles I Noyes company, than which no real estate firm in New York has grown more rapidly during the past five vears, is so closely associat- ed with the insurance business and in- surance interests that it seems emin- ently fitting and proper to furnish our readers with further details of the ex- change negotiated by the company for the Postal Life Insurance company. The largest real estate brokerage transaction ever closed in New York involves the exchange of the 15- Postal Life Insurance Building at vy and Nassau streets, valued at $3,235,000, for the new 16-story Guar- anty Trust Company building, at Fifth The values aggregate nearly $8,000,000. In the same exchange, the Life Insurance company the 10-story mercantile building at No. 3 East 17th street, the S8-story loft building at No. 80-82 Wooster street, a very larze apartment house at Am- sterdam avenue and 106th street, and the Germania Bank building, at Sa- vannah, Ga., which is one of the fin- est bank buildirgs in the south. This exchange is proof of the pro- gressive spirit back of the manage- ment of the Pestal Life Insurance Cohpany and the selection of 43rd street and Fifth avenue is conceded b real estate men to be a master stroke in the securine of a location second to none in the ca” of New York. At the same time, the company disoss of scattered real estate interests and brings together in one excellent hold- ing with a tremendous future, substan- tially all of its real estate interests in New York. Charles F Noyes founded the com- pany which bears his name in 1398 and sincc then has devoted a majority of his time and effort to insurance inter- ests, as they relate to real estate and to the formation of the new insurance district on William street from Maiden lane te Fulton street. Through his efforts were erected the 12-story Grankel bullding, at No. 45 John street, the 16-story Hilliard building at No. 55 John street agd the 6-story Golden Hill building at No. 59 John street. To the Liverpool & Lon- don & Globe Insurance company he sold its present home at No. 80-82 William street and only recently he sold the 11,000-foot plot at the north- east corner of John and William streets to Harry F. Blanchard, who no doubt represents large and powerful insurance interests. Several years ago he sold to Julius Kayser for the North River interests the 16-story builéing at No. 95-91 Willlam street and about a month aga sold the building at No. 103-105 Will- iam street. Numerous other sales all having a direct bearing on the new insurance district have been made by him during the past eight years, one of the largest plottages being the sale of Nos. 130-134 Willlam street, now vacant, a plot of 8,000 square feet. The large leases made by him and his office are almost too numerous to mention, but they include the lease ot two floors at No. 59 William street to the Ocean, single floors in the same bullding to the Norwich Union and the Williamsburg City; the lease of entire floors at No. 100 Willlam street to the Aetna of Hartford and the Phoenix of London; the lease of entire floors at No. 55 John street to the Northern of London, the London Gaurantee& Accident company, _the Great Eastern Casualty, Kelly & Ful- ler, J. G. Hilllard, John A. Eckert & Company and the General Accident Fire & Life Assurance corporation; and the lease of the entire building at No. 4-8 Dutch street to the Connecticut Union assurance. ‘The transactions above mentioned are but the largest of many closed by Mr. Noyes and his office and clearly show tha framendous bearinz hia af. involved Postal sher P. Weaver | disposed ot | forts have had upon the foundation of the new insurance district. Fisher P. Weaver, the secretary and a strong factor in the company’s tre- mendous growth and rise to a ranking second to none in the real estate world, was one of the first, if not the first, to see the possibilities of placing the real estate management business upon eubstantial foundation rivaling the broad lipes along which the largest commercial business of the country are handled. Mr. Weaver, prior to his connection with the Charles F. Noyes company had charge of the Western Electric Company's insurance and purchased probably the largest line in America. The Charles F. Noyes Company's ngency organization under his man agement is said to be the best in the city, including as it does, in addition to the members usually required for such business a department of trained mechanical engineers who work out in theors as well as In practice, the prob- lems presented in real estate manage- ment. Owners of real estate whose build- inge are not producing the maximum income should consult the Noyes com- pany, as_concrete examples are in ev- idence of savings effected by that or- ganization running from $20,000 to $20,000 annually, ‘With Messrs. Noyes and Weaver ac- tively working for insurance interests, in the new insurance district. it is not surprising that the company which they represent has achieved such fine results It has in its charge more prominent Insurance buildings than any other firm and enjoys the confi- dence of the insurance people at large to a marked degree. Francis W. Gridley is a prominent membher of the Noyes Company’s staff and has no doubt rented more space to insurance interests than any other renting broker. Incidents In Society Halsey Richards of Broadway has returned to New York. John Porteous of Mirmount street is in Portland, Me., for a short stay. Arthur H. Brewer of Broad street spent a portion of last week in Hart- ford. Miss Annie Ruggles of Broad street has left for a visit of several days in Duluth, Minn. Mrs. Daniel M. Lester of Warren street has returned from a fortnight's visit in Troy, N. Y. Mrs. Clarence M. Gallup has return- to_Providence after a visit with s. B. H. Gallup of Broad street. ed M Mrs. Charles W. Prentice of Wash- ington street entertains the members of Faith Trumbull chapter this after- noon. Miss Gertrude Taylor of Cleveland, O., has left town after visiting for several days with Msis Marion Pullen of Lincoln avenue. Mrs. Albert Lewis of Jamaica Plains, Mass., has returned to Norwich and is to be the guest for several weeks of her cousin, Mrs. Gardiner Greene, of Sachem terrace. Miss Carrie E. Rogers has closed her summer home in Mystic_and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. James Lewis Smith, of Broad street, before leaving for her winter home in Washington, B e BRIEF STATE NEWS Meriden.—Arrangements are practi- cally complete for the annual holiday concert and dance of Company I, C. N. G., to be held Christmas night at the state armory. New Haven.—No woman has applied to take the examination for the place of school dentist, to be held at the high school Dec. 22, although men and | women are eligible. Middletown—C. L. Wood, of Wes- leyan, has been appointed assistan pastor and superintendent of Sun chool work of Trinity Methodist church, New Britain. Wallingford.—Abbot Thompson of Melrose, Conn.,, who has played half- back for Choate for the past two sea- sons, has been elected captain of the Blue and Gold for next year. Torrington.—Some of the depart- ments at the plant of the Coe brass branch of the American Brass com- pany are so rushed with orders that the employes were working Sunday. Bridgeport.—An inventory of the estate of Enoch P. Hincks, filed in the probate court, shows $165,354.82. Of this amount, $110,000 is in realty hold- ings. The remainder is in personal estate. Old Saybrook.—The sectionmen on the Shore Line at the Junction re- turned to duty Friday, thereby break- ing their strike for advanced pay and shorter hours, which they started last Monday. Hartford.—Twenty-two young wom- en will be graduated from St. Francis' hospital _training school Thursday evening, Dec. 30. An address will be given by Corporation Counsel John W. Coogan of this city. Middletown.—That the contests for the destruction of the tent caterpillar masses is being effectively conducted in the town schools is shown by the fact that a partial report from the schools for the first week of the con- t shows that over 14,000 of the pests THE L. A. GALLUP CO. CUMMINGS & RING Funeral_Directors and Embalmer; 337 MAIN STREET Oppevite Post Office "Phone 321-2 Lady Assistant FERGUSON’S 239 Main St. Franklin Sq. Large Assortment of DIAMOND | LAVALLIERES Fancy Stone LAVALLIERES BRACELET WATCHES FERGUSON'S Franklin Square have been destroyed. of the Westfleld school has the best record in his section with a total of 1,300, but Paul Petrosky of the Durant | school leads him with a score of 1,584. Thomas Flynn New Haven.—The will of Margaret H. Bradley of New Haven was filed in the probate court Saturday. Much of the estate, amounting to about $30,000, is bequeathed to relatives, but there are a few public bequests. New Britain.—The New Britain Na- tional bank Christmas club funds will total $134,000, there being 7,025 members. The checks will be sent out Dec. 14. Last year the club savings totalled $72,000 with 3,700 members. Norwalk.—The jitney business can't be as profitable in Norwalk as in some places, for Oscar E. Hedman, who had a flock of the nickel catchers, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His assets are given as $1,521.31 and his labili- ties g Middletown.—The Connecticut river was reported to be frozen over for the first time this winter Saturday morn- ing from a point just above the Nar- rows to Hartford. The Hartford boat had to break the skim ice on its trip, and immediately after its passage the ice formed again. ANNOUNCEMENT The office of Miss Farnham, hair and scalp specialist, in Room 304, Thayer Building, is now open, Miss Farnham having returned this week after a long and severe illness. HARPER METHOD Telephone 578 Daboll’s Almanacs FOR 1916 Wholesale and Retail THE CRANSTON CO. DR. SHAHAN Marion Block, 326 Main Street SPECIALIST on Diseases of the Stomach and Rheumatism 2-4 and 7-8 p. m. Also Manicuring Tel. 821 Ernest E. Bullard VIOLIN TEACHER All String Instruments repaired Violins sold on sasy terms For appointments address E. E. BULLARD, Bliss Place, Nor- wich, Conn. FUR COATS AUTO ROBES (Get a Montana) HORSE BLANKETS DRIVING GLOVES l Make a Good Christmas Present THE L. L. CHAPMAN CO. 14 Bath Street, Norwich, Ct. THERE 1 mo advertismg Eastin Connecticut equal to xhe eaulta. let:n” for businesa r i