Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-27
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Norwich, Friday, Aug. 27, 1909. VARIOUS MATTERS
 The football season will soon be here.
 Low water is still troubling the | mills.
 The summer boarders are leaving
 for their city homes. Harvest moon dances will take place soon in a number of places. Passengers on the willimantic troll
 ley see deer almost every day, some; times four or five in a group being | observed.
 The county convention of the W. C.. T. L./is to be held in Mystic in Sep tember, although the exact date has mot yet been decided. A ock of wild ducks were seen flying southward. this week. This
 would seem to indicate northeast storms in the near future. The Norwich Spiritual Lyceum will
 hold their annual picnic at Lincoln park Saturday, August 2sth. Car leaves 9.45 a. m. All are welcome.-ady.
 People returning from the field
 meeting of the Connecticut Pomologi- cal society at Stars this week say ( st.
 'The Captive" march and two-step
 and the new waltz song Wont You
 Change Your Name to Mine" 15c each [ tomorrow at The Plaud-Cadden Co.'S. -adv
 The Menhaden Oil and Guano com
 pany at Mantle is having success full season. The company had made
 4,OOO barrels of oil this season, each
 barrel containing fifty gallons. On the open trolley car Sunday over
 the new South Coventry line the con- | ductor took in $2S5. The previous record collection was $2OS on these lines of the Connecticut company.
 Superintendent Cole of the Vest
 erly silk Mill company, was in Vest
 erly "Wednesday from Norwich to wind up all of it's affairs. The last ma | chinery was moved to this city Thurs
 day.
 There. ifs a possibility if the plans
 of the anti-saloon forces are carried
 through this fall. that Middlesex coun- | ty will be the first dry county in the state. At present ten of the fifteen towns. are no license.
 A writer in the Springfield Republi- can says: The earth's autumnal equi-
 nox begins Aug. IA and ends Oct 1S. | Most people watch for an equinoctial storm only around Sept. 21, to foretell | cold or warm winter. Members of Norwich grange and | others from New London county at | tended the field meeting of Quinebaug Pomona grange of Windham county at | the home of State Master L. H. Healy of North Woodstock Thursday. New London will be asked again
 this year to vote on the license ques- tion. The petition has been started, and before it becomes effective, there
 will be more than 427 names attached, the number required by law. Wednesday and Thursday will go down on record as two of the really hot days of the summer. Every one was well aware that summer is still on deck and in earnest, although there | is less than a week left of the last l summer month.
 Nearly all the fishermen, who for
 the past six weeks have been follow | ing the swordfish, have concluded their labors in this line, and are now get | ting ready for sea bass. The svord-
 fish this year have kept off shore
 nearly altogether.
 Boil your milk is the advice the health officers are giving where there
 is typhoid or other infectious diseases. | MIX is always an object of suspicion
 and for household uses should be
 boiled in order that any germs may be killed.
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 the Litchfield County Automobile club | is placing danger signs at crossings
 and bad turns. It is a work that has
 been done to some extent on roads around Norwich and could easily be extended hereabouts.
 Of the large number of Wesleyan
 undergraduates who work their way through college, eleven have spent the summer in. Middletown. Five have
 worked in the college library, several in the laboratories, one peddled home made butter and one did job printing. This fall will mark the Tooth anni- versary of the organization of the Windham County Agricultural society, which is the oldest agricultural society in the United States. An invitation
 is to be extended to all of the living
 past presidents of the societies and their wives.
  At Pleasant View. Mrs. J. H. Cunningham of Norwich arrived at Pleasant Views Tuesday to spend the week end with Mrs. George Madden.
 Miss Nellie Fenton. MT and Mrs
 John Carroll. and Mrs. Mary Fenton
 have returned to Norwich after spend