Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-30

street There is a ditch dug about 225
 A Plainville correspondent notes that Orrin l.. Judd is to be principal of the grammar school there again this year.
 Dr. Higgins will remove his office Sept. 1 to his residence, 21 Fairmount street-ady
 Thursday afternoon Mrs. Thomas Watts of PalmertOwn entertained the Good Cheer Sunshine society at her home.
 The programme has been arranged for Ocean beach day events, beginning at o'clock in the afternoon of Sep tember 4.
 Mrs, John G. Shea and son of West Main street have returned after visit ing relatives in Washington, D. C., and at Bradley Beach, N. J.
 Towermen from eastern Connecticut were in New Haven Wednesday to attend the meeting of the New Eng land railroad telegraph operators.
 Miss Alice Latina moi Groton, who has recently returned from the sum- mer normal school at Danbury, has been engaged as teacher in the school at Killingly
 The boat house at the estate of Ed ward C. Hammond at Goshen, Water ford, was entered recently, and 6 quantity of bathing suits, bathing shoes and other material stolen.
 New Haven railroad inspectors will begin September 1 to require square ties, but while the lumbermen say they have the machinery to make them square they cannot produce them at the price offered.
 Rev. Henry J. Crist of Pasadena, Cal, who has been the guest of his cousins, the Misses Geer of, their Gales Ferry cottage. is now visiting other relatives in the county and is to preach in Goshen Sunday.
 feet long and six feet deep.
 Frank Pitcher of East Great Plain comes to the front with barred Plym- outh Rock bullets matched the latter part of March which are now laying. This sets @ new record.
 Lobsters, crabs and scalIops at Au- ditorium ladies and gents cafe today. Shore dinner Friday.-adv.
 The floor in the front parlor at the Y. NJ. C. A. is being refnished and new rugs have been purchased for the room. The work is in charge of the house committee and the Ladies' aux ili9FN Of T1a 4 4SGopidtiOn Miss Mary Pendleton daughter of MT. and Mrs. Harris Pendleton of New London. gave a whist at her home on Tuesday afternoon, announcing her engagement to Leonard w. Cooper. No date has been set for the wedding.
 About all the west bound express trains on the New Haven railroad are | being run in two sections because of the crowds returning to their homes after having spent weeks in the coun- try and at New England short re- sorts.
 Prof. and Mrs. J. H. George. who have returned from a 1.500-mile trip in Minnesota and to points north found the weather uniformly cool and in a visit to the shores of Lake Stu perior encountered sharp frost during l July.
 Assistant Secretary Ely of the Y. M c. A. is expected back from q two weeks vacation trip today. Tomorrow with members of the association he will hike to Gardner Lake for the week end. The boys will return some time 1 Monday.
 The State Pomologieal society is en- deaVoring to have all owners of apple and peach orchards get into com munication with Mr Wilder the ex- pert who is now in Waterbury, re- | garding the soil types adapted to or charding,
 Steamer Katahdin from Georgetown | s. C.. is at the New London dock dis 1 charging a cargo of 1000 0004 feet ot l lumber which will be transported over l the Central Vermont railroad to Bur. l lington. to a screen and door manu. 1 featuring company.
 Miss Alice Sheridan. daughter of Mir and Mrs. Patrick H. Sheridan, now O ! New London entertained at a miscel laneous shower Tuesday, the many friends of Miss Mary Alice Russell who is to marry Jeremiah Fitzgerald of that city in October.
 Today is the fortieth anniversary 0 the wreck of the steamer Metis of tn
 New York and Providence line. Aug ust 30. 1872. when in a gale. the schoo
 ner Nettie Cushing, bound from Thom
 aston. Me, to New York. colided wit
 the steamer in Fishers Island sound.
 The recent shell gsh law passed b
 the state of Rhode Island will caus
 Connecticut people to cease clammin
 at Sandy Point in Little Narraganset
 bay, at which place many bushels c
 clans and mussels were gathered an
 brought to the shore towns for mar
 ket.
 The disastrous floods in Nerwicl
 England, are of more than passing in
 terest here, because of the eourteou
 felicitations from old Norwich to tht
 town during the 250th anniversary eel
 ebration, Some fear is entertained ft
 the safety of historic Norwich ca
 thedral, whiS& has been visited b