Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-20
STONINGTON
Ten Inch Ice Harvested March 14th, First in 45 Years-Continuing Rail- road lmproVements-Miss Atwood Plays at Torrineton Concert.

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 John Chesebro has his ice all har- vested for the season. He has just 1 completed filling shed at his pond at 1 Wequetequocll with l0-inch ice cut 1 Saturday, March If. This last cutting l has proved to be a record breaker. as l never before in the past 10 years has i he remembered housing ice at this time 1 of year. The ice is unusually good and | clear.
 1 Good Team at High School.
 A subscription paper has been start l ed at Stonington High school to raise ! funds for the purchase of suits for the coming seasons baseball team. There ] Is good material and plenty of it at l the school this year and the nine bids ! fair to being the strongest the school has ever had. Games will be played with Norwich Free Academy, Bulkeley ] High and Westerly High school 1 Wheeler and WilHmantic High schools and other teams in this section Rev. Sherrod SouIe to Speak. Rev Sherrod Soule superintendent ! of the Missionary society in Connecti- cut, will preach on the work at the Second Congregational church Sunday ] morning. In the evening he will give an illustrated lecture on the work in this part of the state. The lecture will be illustrated with the stereopticon; Waserside Interests SudTlGS hOSIleT IS DllSN A4tn WOFk on his new fishing boat and expects to have it in readiness to launch fn a few weeks.
 William Cook is making repairs to the launch Ismay Emmett, which was built this winter for Charles Emmett and when it was launched q few ,ruys ago two or the blanks were broken. The smack Frances Belle Capt l Grover Ildridgc. came in Thursday from q fishing trip with catch of 25 i barrels of cod. lie shipped 19 barrels from Newport and six from Stoning- ton.
 The Stepngton High school indepen- . dent basketball team will play the Norwich Free Academy team in Nor wick Saturday evening.
 Railroad Improvements Ce1.inue. CarDenters in the employ of the New Haven railroad have commenced tearing down the fence around the otd roadhouse on North Water street The building is to be removed. Foreman { Lord has received six large reels of H. way electric cable which will be sus- l pended from the steel wire messenger cable which has been stretched on 1 the railroad distance of one mile east 1 and west from the new junction tow CT.
 The electric cable will conduct the i power and the motors operating along the switches and signals in the new system.
 Reported G. and S. Improvements. It is reported that the sum of $50,- ! 900 Will be expended in improvements on the Groton and Stonington road during the coming spring and summer. New ties are to be put in all the way 1 between Groton and Stonington and 1 other improvements made to the road 1 bed and rolling stock.
 i Coming from the South.
 Mrs. Courtlandt G. Babcock and 1 Harry w. Babcok are expected to ar rive at their borough home March 2S. l after spending the winter in the south
 In the Mines.
 | Word has been received here from | Jerome A. Wilcox. who is doing repor- 1orial work for the Labor Leader of Baltimore, that he has been investi- gating the conditions below ground in
 the mines at Hagerstown, Md, in the