Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-25
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Fits-U eyeglasses worth ss,5o for s1s5. Burnhams, 227 Main street. adv.
 The blow Friday night along the shore was one of the hardest exper- fenced this summer.
 The days length is hour and 4s minutes shorter and darkness begins to come notieeably earlier.
 Motor boats and sailing craft found sthf wind and heavy sea Saturday. The Block Island remained at Watch Hill.
 Attorney and Mrs. William H. Stonington Manor Inn Sunday after noon,
 The surf at Watch Hill and along the Pleasant View shore presented a splen- did sight on Saturday after the heavy wind,
 The river was dotted with pleasure motor craft on Sunday and there were but few boats left at the Chelsea Boat club moorings.
 A year ago there were five out of eight stormy Sundays in the height of the summer season. This year there nave been none, While repairs are being made to the 1 bridge in the highway al the end witch ! hazel mill in Uncasville, traffic there is at the risk of drivers. Not many black bass are being pull ed out of Lantern Hill pond this sum mer, but a Stonington Walton recent ly landed nice 3 12 pounder, Since. the application of coat of oil and binder, the Norwich New Lon don highway has been worn down into splendid shape for automobiles.
 New London is busy place of a Sunday afternoon when the passen- gers from one of the big excursion boats throug through the streets.
 Along the shore line Sunday, al- though the trolley cars carried the piacards the aeroplane was out of or der, there was no lack of patronage.
 Norwich has very little typhoid this summer, the medical practitioners find There has been some summer grip and people subject to hay fever are in season.
 Typewriter copies of the individual labor laws of the state are being sent to those who ask for them during the codification of the entire body of labor legislation.
 Neither the Willimantic camp meet ing nor the Norwich rogue tournament were marred by rain and the little downpour just made things nicer at both places.
 There is a scarcity of snake stories emanating from Lantern Hill this year and people who go about in that vii cinity report the failure to stir up any of them
 Since progress on the frame for a big advertisement on the Chapman block, Franklin square, was halted by Fire Chief Stanton, the work has re- mained untouched.
 Warden W. A. Garner at the state prison iN Wethersfieid is getting bids for material for a new gateway and entrance to the prison. The convicts will do the work
 The Connecticut Horticultural so- ciety, it's share in state appropriations to agricultural societies having been withdrawn, will hold no exhibitions this fall, not even it's usual chrysan- themum show in November
 At Latimer's reef in Fishers Island sound Sunday noon the steamer Block Island was near a school of bluefish. outward bound They were packed closely together for fifty yards or more. heading toward the end of Fishers Island.
 The state highway department has announced the completion of the Old Lyme and New London road. which has been under construction for some time Highway Commissioner Charles J. Bennett inspected the road Friday and found that it is in excellent con- dition-
 Trolleys are now running to Old Lyme, since Saturday, and it is con- hdenty anticipated that the new bridge over the Lieutenant river will be completed in time to have the through line from New London to New Haven in operation by Labor day.
 The change of runningboards on the double step ears on the MontviiIe line makes extra work for the crews and seems to the passengers to take much time In reality, most crews make the shift in less than a minute and record time is often down close to 30 seconds.