Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-24
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VARIOUS MATTERS

Yesterday was the 11th Sunday af- ter Trinity.
 At Bestview the foundation for a new water tower is being built.
 Night firing at Fort Terry was postponed Friday on account of the rain.
 According to the Telephone Bulle- tin. just issued there are 3059 tele- phones in Norwich.
 Summer residents at Sound View a resort a>~few miles west of Mantle. celebrated Beach Day Saturday.
 The Bar Harbor expresses arrive here regularly so promptly on schedule them.
 The annual convention of the state hremen's association will be held
 Wednesday and Thursday next at Stamford.
 Postmaster Moore of Norwich, N.
 Y, Is visiting in New London. Mr.
 Moore is a native Of Nv London This
 is his first visit there in some years.
 le forty fifth annual convention of
 < Connecticut Total Abstinence un-
 ion began Sunday evening at Hart
 ford with 6 rally.
 machinery concerns are busy install ing new machinery in the plant of
 the Totokett Manufacturing company, Civil war veterans believe that the coming eucampment in Detroit. com mencinE Aug. 31, will be the largest
 national gathering in the history of the organization.
 Recently liberated from the state
 hospital at BreWster's Neck, William
 Warren again displayed the unsound-
 ness of his mind and is now back again at the institution Parties out handline fishing report better catches than they have been having during the summer up to the present time and also large schools of bluefish have been seen. General George M. Cole. adjutant- genrals c. N. G., attended the celebra- ticn of the 275th anniversary Of Mill ford. Lieutenant Governor Lyman T Tingier was present at the celebration Residents of the surrounding coun- try say that chestnuts are likely to be
 more plentiful this year than at any time within their memory. The trees
 have been in heavy bloom and the in dicationS point to larg crop F. o. Gresbeck, president of the Con necticut branch of the American Poul- try association, attended the national convention in Chicago, August 10 to IA. Mir. Gresbeck is a member or the executive committee of the National association.
 Permission has been granted the First and Second companies Govern OTIS Foot Guard, to leave the state under arms. for the purpose of taking part in the Star Spangled Banner centennial parades at Baltimore, Sep- tember 11-12.
 Mayor Timothy c. Murphy and Dr. D. J. Shahan of this city are among the delegates elected at a meeting of | the Connecticut Deeper Waterways as- sociation. to attend the Atlantic Deep CT Waterways convention to be held in New. York, September 2. Misses Howe and Marot are having improvements and interior renova- tions made on the Girls school at Thompson preparatory to opening school the first day of October A thoroughbred Jersey COW is on the way l from Ohio for the school. Saying that the proposed waterway I lAAtPA w OiiICIt III IlIS VlGlH1Iy or New York city would tend to promote the | defense of Connecticut in the event | of war, Governor Baldwin has writer 1 to Representative Augustine Lonergan
 endorsing the plan of improvement. l A scarcity of potash for fertilizer is l impending according to Prof E. H 1 Jenkins. director of the agriculture l experimnt station, at Nnew Haven, be- 1 cause this country depends upon tho 1 German supply. The potato growers vii suffer the most as potash is de. | manded by them.
 1 Members of Connecticut Christian ] Endeaver societies, in common witt | Endeavorers the world over, are preparing to celebrate the sixty-thirG l birthday of the Rev. Dr. Francis E | Clark, president of the Internationa 1 Socity of Christian Endeavor. His ma. l tai day is September 12. 1 J. W. Lourance, manager of tht | Roxbury Tutoring school at the Yale 1 quarters, Gales Ferry, who has occu. | pied the Payne Whitney 0house sine, l the opening of the school the first O. 1 the month. has removed his family tC Neptune Park. New London, the daily arrival of students making the use O. ! nn l,,sJ