Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-19
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VARIOUS MATTERS


 VARIOUS MATTERS
 Snapper. blues are beginning to ar-H rive in large numbers.
 Peach growers about the state are beginning to market the early varie- ties.
 Capt. c. T. Potter is to be one of the speakers at the camp meeting at North Attleboro.
 Fifty engraved cards and plate script or old English text. 80 cents, at4 The Bulletin Go. See adv.
 Fruit thieves are ransacking orch: ards about the state. Several nave already been caught and fined in potlce. courts for their evil doing.
 Those who arise early on Friday morning. Aug. 21, will be able t9 see the eclipse of the sun, which occnts between 5.34 and sos o'clock.
 Rt. Rev. John J. Milan, bishop of Hartford. has announced that he will pay an official visit to St. Augustine church, Seymour. Saturday, Sept. D.
 Men have begun work on the dam
  don. Residents in that vicinity re- ported that the dam was in pooc con- dition.
 Josephine Barre. S1. wife of Napoleon Barre who died Monday afternoon at her home 13 Patton street, Hartford. leaves a brother, Edward Bussiere, Of Willinaantic.
 On the favorable report of the ref cree in bankruptcy, Robert D. Shaw of Woo Istock has been discharged from bankruptcy. there being no opposition to his discharge.
 George F. Broughton of Stonington was fined S5 for violation of the motor vehicle law in the Stonington town court Monday. The arrest was made by the state police.
 The state police wero active in Ply ing and caught several automobihsts for violation of the auto law for cut ting out the mu61er.
 Right through the hot weather the girls state trade school at New Britain has been keeping industriously on. The trade school was the subject of much discussion among the local business men last spring.
  of this state which provides a penalty of not more than $5,000 and not more than five years for anyone who con- spires to raise the prices. The law was passed in 1911.
 Signs and advertisements which hat e for years disfgured the landscape alongside the roads of Connecticut were removed in large numbers Mon day by Edward s. Cornell, secretary of the National Highway Protective so- ciety.
 Rev. Charles P. Biglin of Hoy Heart seminary, Halifax, N. S., has been visiting friends in Derby, and now goes for a, visit with Rev. David R. O'Donnell, formerly of New London now rector of St. Andrews church l1 Colchester.
 The Chappell company's steam light CT Atlas and pile driver have arrived at Palmer's cove, Groton Long PoiaL, and work on the new bridge across the cove to connect the point with tie road building to Noank will be started immediately.
 According to the report on occupa- tions recently issued by Director Will liam J. Harris of the bureau of cen suS, department of commerce, there were 490,462 persons 10 years of age and over in Connecticut engaged in gainful occupations in 1910.
 In a special order issued Monday the adjutant generals office has ap- proved the nomination of Major Ed win E.. Lamb, First infantry, to be lieutenant colonel in place of Lieuten- ant Colonel Richard J. Goodman, who was promoted to be colonel of the regiment.
 Parcel post exhibits will be a feature at county fairs throughout the country m the fall. In response to :. widespread demand, Postmaster General Burleson ct Washington has instructed post masters to provide exhibits, the pur- pose being to show the farmers the | advantages of the parcel post. It is though that Mir. and Mrs. Simor J. Reuter- and daughter Mary of West | erly, who sailed rom New York Marcl | 22 and went to MainZ, Germany, where | they planned to make their quarters | for l year. are safe in Germany. MT Reuter- is president of S. J. Reuter- & Son, Inc, florists, of Westerly, with 2 | Norwich branch.
 A member of the state board of e1. ucation, Miss Ruth Carpenter, has re. | turned to Hartford after spending he1 vacation in this city, Jewett City anj | Lebanon. Three other members O. | that department have also returned 1 after period of rest, these being Mis-, | Mol v Sullivan, Miss Jessica Crandal and Miss Nettie Amberg. Visitors at Ocean Beach Monda5 | were drenched when a heavy thunder shower broke during the afternoon Those who have been familiar with the beach for many years said that they had never seen greater thunder storm , there. Bentley avenue was flooded b1 | the heavy rain and veranda furnish. ings were torn to pieces by the sudde1 blow.