Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-18
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Norwich, Tuesday, Aug. IS. 1914.
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Prayers for peace were offered in many of the state churches Sunday mo1 ming.
 The Rev. Levi Brink of Asylum street preached at the Preston C1ty Baptist church on Sunday.
 Fifty engraved cards and plate script or old English text. 80 cents, at The Bulletin Go. See adv.
 Miss Collette Lee of willimantic has been re-engaged as a teacher at th
 The Fifth Connecticut volunteers, veterans of the Civil war, held the.I 18th reunion at Savin Rock last week.
 The internal revenue staff of this dis.rlct, which includes Connectlcu- and Rhode Island, will have plcnlc Sept. at Savin Rock.
 The 47th annual reunion of the Tenth regiment of Connecticut Volun- : teers' association will be held at Sav1n RocI. on Thursday, Sept. 3.
 Guests at Tierney circle. Sound View, 1nCluoe MISS AHtI@ '. VI T1. Miss Margaret Wellwood, Miss Julia FIa!,erty, Miss Anna Flaherty, Miss Agnes .FIaherty, all of South Coven- try.
 The largest excursion party of the season. 1.63s persons, arrived in New Io 1don Sunday from Providence and adjacent cities on the steamer Ply mouth of the New England steamship line.
 Sunday was a heavy day at all the shore resorts, due chiefly to the ideal weather conditions which invited bath ing and seashore pleasure. The tenn perature of the water was mild, over 67 degrees.
 A number of notorboat races have been held this month at Ocean Beach and several hundred boat owners have sig nifi ad their intention of holding race next season, either on the Thames or the Connecticut river.
 Among the Norwich people regis tered at Block Island hotels are H. Sears, George Greenberger, Miss K. B. Lyons, MT. and Mrs. F. A. Fox, Rev J. Eldred Brown, Thomas J. Holt and Mir and Mrs. Frank B. King.
 Labor. day the State Hayrnakers' as- sociation of Connecticut will hold their annual convocation in Milford at the hall of Ackenash tribe of Red Men. Delegates and representatives from alt parts of the state will be present.
 The first annual report of the Con- necticut Women's League for Anima shows the league to be in a fiourishing condition and to have done much good in allevfating conditions among anl- mals. The league now has IA mem bers.
 An automobile containing former Secretary of State Matthew H. Rogers of l3ridgeport. Mrs. Rogers and chauf- feur ran into Wardenite Spencer, breaking a number of ribs and inf1ict : ing other injuries, some of which may be internal.
 A collection was taken at the Groton Heights Baptist church Sunday for the Montauk avenue Baptist society of New London to help defray the ex- peDses of rebuilding an edifice to re- pIace the one destroyed bysfire several weeks ago. &
 The target practice at Fort Wright shook many houses at Crescent Beach and caused many reports of naval en- gagements but the cause of the con- cussions was soon aSceTtained and tn } cornmotion caused by the firing quick " SuDS1oeo
 John Kane, proprietor of Winsted hotel has announced that he will close the dining room of the hotel because of the high prices of foodstuffs anG- will not reopen until prices return to the point at which they stood prior t, the European war.
 Added impetus has been given to the project for erecting clubhouse at CresC ent Beach by several encouraging gifts. Miss Richman of New Tor wh1 has been regular visitor there for many years, sent a handsome check to the committee.
 A cablegram received from John Porteous of the Porteous & Mitchell company stated that he would sail from Glasgow. Scotland, on the Cam eronia of the Anchor line for home Saturday. MT. Porteous has been 'n Sect and during the summer. vii; meet in Esse- Tuesday at the farm of Charles G. Bliss. Highmoors is farm of 60 acres, much of it rough land, where apple and peach orchards are being planted, and the view of ths Connecticut river and surrounding country is magnificent.
 After eight days of mimic warfare in the northeastern part of the stat, Troop 4, cavalry, returned to New Haven Saturday night. The troop was one of the 12 units of the cavalry or ganiZations in the war game which was held last week near Pomfret. The troop received a high rating for it's effit iency in the nanoeuvres.
 There has been some doubt in the minds of Connecticut people as to whether they are permitted 70 cable to their friends and relatives who are in EIrope- Representative Lonergan asked the state department at Wash ington whether there was any objec- tion to Americans sending private messages to others abroad The de |. partment said it had no objection,
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