Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-24

Rev. F. s. Dickson or NorWlch preached in the Third Baptist church, Stonington, Sunday evening.
 Rev. A. P. Blinn of Norwich will lecture at Pine Grove next Sunday the last of the regular meetings this season.
 The feast of St. Rocco, the physi- cian- protector of Italy in the seven teenth century, was generally observed by Italians Sunday.
 Dr. Hanford will be at his ofhce on Wednesday and Saturday only of thls week. regular office hours. Next week will resume my regular office hours adv.
 The Connecticut tSate Agricultural society will hold it's state fair at Ser lin this year on Sept. 14, IS, 16 and Y and it promises to be up to the stand ard
 Henry Stahle of Stanton street, Westerly, was in Norwich this week to consult an eye specialist for the pur- pose of having piece of steel removed from one of his eyes.
 Ahearn Brothers of Norwich began blasting Mondoy on the road improve ments at Southington for which they have been awarded the contract ,py Highway Commissioner Macdonald. Captain Nathaniel s. Keeney of New London caught a tarpon Saturday while fishing east of Bartlett Reef lightship. It is very unusual to eaten this kind of fish in port,-srn waters Twenty-one members of the Forest CTS of America representing the Con necticut Grand Court left Saturday to attend the biennial convention of the Supreme court F. of A. at Toledo this week.
 The reconstructing of the road lead ing from Watch Hill to the fort is pro- crossing very slowly. Motorists regret that this road must remain in such condition that autos cannot get to the fort.
 The Sassalqua club of young men from Brooklyn Y. M. c. A, who are camping at Gardner Lake, were the guests of the Scotch Cap Canoe club | Saturday at the latter's quarters at Scotch Cap.
 The employees of the Hall mill at South Wilmington passed through Nor wich Saturday morning over the Cen tral Vermont road bound for Watch Hill and Block Island on the annual outing given by the owner.
 The special stamps to commemorate the discovery of the Hudson river by | Henry Hudson in 1909 and of the in- | troduction of steam navigation on its waters by Robert Fulton in 1907, will | be placed on sale Sept. 25.
 That excursions by water are by nc means decreasing in popularity was shown by the crowd of $500 people that the Plymouth and Puritan brought into New London from New Bedford and Providence Sunday afternoon.
 At Mystic crabs have at last struck on up the river and many large catches were reported daily during the last week. Most of the crabs are of goot size and the soft shelled varieties art quite plentiful.
 The Windham County Poultrymeni | association has been organized b! prominent poultrymen of the count. and the first open meeting will talk
 place in September. w. J. Tilley, Jr
 of Packerville is temporary secretary
 Invitations have been issued to tn
 wedding of Frederick Pliny Lilley, sol
 of the late Governor Lilley, to Mis-
 Perie Augustine Anderson, daughter o
 Justice and Mrs. Thomas Henry An
 dersou in Washington on Thursday
 Sept. 2.
 That there will be some revisio
 of wage schedules in an upward direc
 tion as the result of the improvement
 in textile conditions seems to be gen
 orally accepted in manufacturing cir
 cles. Already in various places a rais ' has been made.
 The greatest cause of sickness i , the "war" just over was sore fec
 caused by the fact that entire com
 panies, to live up to the regulation! purchased new tan shoes and wor
 them on the march without properl . breaking them in.
 Summer residents at Ocean Beac who came to Norwich Sunday wer } delayed an hour on their "trip back a
 9.45 in the evening by broken trolle
 wire at Trading Cove, and on thei
 arrivel at New London were force l. to walk the distance out. ,, The lobster season this year ha been one of the heaviest on record and the agents have been kept bus from early morning until late at nigh . However the first week in Septembe will probably see the windup of ship z ments to the shore resorts. The Crocodile club will hold ii thirty-thrd annual barbecue dinner 2 Lake Compounce Thursday afternoo at o'clock. The fame of these din | ners is well known and it is expecte v,t,r,ha,. of pror,1fpanF ,,o1i4foia,