Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-13

Friday, and the 13thl
 The chilly nights have killed off the
 troublesome mosquitoes.
 "s Bells" has made millions laugh.
 Laugh again, August 23.-adv.
 The special sales brought many
 shoppers to town on Thursday.
 Dealers are selling equipment for
 schools and school building repairs. 
 Every day makes it more and more |, necessary to be careful in the use of city water.
 I Because swallows are Hooking on the telephone wires the knowing ones pre- dict an early fall. | The past week at Block Island has been an ideal one as regards weather | conditions. with no rain or fog. | The mercury was down to 5s de- 1 grees Thursday morning, sharp con- trast to Sunday, when it reached 11S degrees.
 Corporations are making haste to | file their belated reports with the sec retary of state and at the office of the town clerk.
 Throughout the state the plum crop has been very large. Fine juicy plums are selling on the local fruit stands | for ten cents dozen. On the magazine page of Thursdays l Springfield Republican, John Troland of Norwich had a beautiful poem, ''The Light and Song of Life"
 A party of young men from the Scotch Cap Canoe club and the Selqussa club, with nine or ten young women and a chaperone, drove to Gardner Lake Thursday for a picnic.
 Connecticut delegates will leave on Sunday for Grand Rapids, Mich, to attend the national convention of the fire chiefs of the country. There will be seventeen fire chiefs from this state at the convention.
 The engagement of Dr. Harold A. Foster of New York, son of MT. and Mrs. F. N. Foster of Putnam, to Miss Constance Ives, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Charles Taylor Ives of Montclair, N. J., has been announced. Encouraging reports come to local Spirftualists of the condition of Mrs May Pepper-Vanderbilt, who fainted twice at Camp Progress, Salem, Mass, on Tuesday, just as she finished a se- ance Mrs. Vanderbilt lectured at the academy on Park street a few weeks ago.
 Word was received in Ellington on Wednesday of the sudden death in Springfield of A. M. Bancroft, a broth CT of Mrs. John Thompson of Filing ton. He formerly lived in that town. The funeral was held Thursday at two o'clock in the afternoon at his residence in Springfield. Uncle Sam gave instructions We'd nesday that all mail for the Connecti- cut troops fighting in Massachusetts next week should be plainly marked with the name and number of the reg iment, troop, battery. or company care of Provost Marshal, First Division, First Corps. Red Army, via New Bed ford.
 There is activity in all the suburb an school districts to decide the num- Der of committeeman who will look after the town schools from now on. According to an act passed by the last legislature the electors may name three. six, nine or twelve men as a committee to look after the business of all the schools in the town, thus doing away with the separate district committees.
 The Lansing, Mich, Republican, of Tuesday evening, said in its social news: Miss Florence Reeves enter tained twelve guests at a weekend house party, beginning Friday and ending yesterday morning; at the Mer- rifield cottage at Pine lake, Among the guests was Willard Lucas of Nor wich, Conn., guest at the Johns home There were many informal skating. bathing, dancing and boating parties.