Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-02
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Norwich. Wednesday, Sept. P, f9f4.

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 VARIOUS MATTERS
 The Norwich Free Academy will open Wednesday. September sth.
 Monday was set apart by the Salva- tlon army throughout the world as a. special day Of prayer for peace.
 In the window of a local store .ap-. pears the accommodating sign, "Crutches for sale or to rent"
 The main road between the trolley station and Palmertown Is closed for a few days while being repaired. v Next Sunday vii finish the summer. schedule for Sunday trains on the. Valley branch of the New Haven road.
 This is the last week for beach night at the Ocean Beach dance hall. Next Monday night the pavilion will close for the season.
 The twenty-first Fairchi1d- Camp family reunion was held at Savia Rock, New Haven. Saturday, there Icing forty-three present.
 Stated communication of Somerset lodge/Z3o ?. m.-Adv.
 Tuesday at o'clock in St Patrick's church, an anniversary high mass of requiem for Martin Sullivan was. sung by Rev. J. H. Frederick.
 Extra sections are being added to several of the regular trains on the New Haven read, to accommodate the many returning vacationfsts.
 Work has commenced on the stone piers for the bridge to cross the New York, New Haven & Hartford tracks on the new Groton Long Point road.
 At Lyme. J. M. Seh1ey has donated handsome silver cups as prizes in the mems doubles and singles in the ten- his tournament which will be held. next week.
 The annual reunion of Gen. Har- lands Connecticut Brigade, comprising the Eighth, Eleventh and Sixteenth regiments, will be held in Hartford, September IT.
 Monday a mum ber interested in the care of the cemetery at Chesterfield met there. moved the grass and had 2, clearing of brush, etc. Coffee was furnished by friends.
 WOrR on CHe HSW lSlepnGu6 eA- change at Old Lyme is progressing and it looks now as if it would surely be in working order by October 15, the appointed time.
 Norwich cottagers are among the of the Pleasant View Improvement +as- sociation, making preparations for big carnival to be held Labor day.
  badly damaged by the storm last win-i ter is being repaired by the Robert Davidson Submarine Co. Cottagersi at the park are paying for the work.
 Local members ct Casholie organi- zations are receiving notification that the thirteenth national convention of. the American Federation of Catholic Societies is to be held at Baltimore, Md. September 27. 2s, 29 and 30. In the current Catholic Transcript, John M. Lee, of Norwich, writes Of the Knights of Columbus lecture cam paign. which is to be vigorously push ed during the fall and wdnter. = The 134th annual session of the Shaftsbury, Vt, Baptist association, which convened in Wallingford, Vt, closed Thursday. The speakers in- cluded Miss Minnie sehulman of Nor- wien .COnn.
 Consul George Chamberlain. of Queenstown, Ireland. who has been so helpful to American tourists. strand ed abroad, is a native of Woodstock, and has been promoted rapidly in the consular service.
 A Winsted correspondent notes that Charles W. Constock of Montvilie, mentioned as a candidate for the .Jo was in Winsted Sunday on business of q. political nature.
 The Mystic peach crop this year is far below normal. but what peaches there are, are of fine quality <and flavor A year ago at this time peaches could be bought for 50 or 75 cents basket, while this year a dol- lar is being asked.
 John Massey of Bolton has 100 glad ioil coming into blossom which are unusually fine this season on account Of the late rains which have made the stalks longer and the blossoms larger. Stalks three feet and even more in length with big blossoms are common this year.
 SeIectman A. F. Hewitt of Groton brought Edward R. Perkins of Led- yard to the Norwich state asylum
 
 yard, MT Perkins has lived at the home of his sister, Mrs. Cyrus Ayery of Poquonoc. for some time. He Is about 50 years old.
 It is feared that the handsome pine l in front of the residence Of Richard Sanders, below Thamesville, which was struck by lightning during Q re- cent storms, will die. The bolt ran from the tree back to the big barn. entering that and passing out through a window.
 At Waterbury, Rev. Hugh Treanor. of the Church of the Sacred Heart, was taken i'll Saturday and was un- able to attend to his duties 1t the church Sunday morning. His condi- ton is not alarming unless compIfca- lions develop. Rev. W. H. Cavanaugh Of Hartford is acting pastor until the recovery of Father Treanor.
 MAKING GOOD PROGRESS ON SALEM ROAD.
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