Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-05
slIire Bllllftin.
 Norwich, Saturday, Sept. 5, 1914.
VARIOUS MATTERS

ed Friday for outings.
 A cool night like that of Friday suits the dahlia growers.
 This year the national W. c. T. U. convention will be held at Atlanta. Ga.. Nov. 13-1s.
 Canterbury Green residents. MT. and Mrs. Charles Waldo, have been spend ing a month in Central Village.
 A number from Norwich attended the 18th annual exhibition of paint ings at the Phoebe Griffin library at Lyme on Friday.
 Early Friday morning the rain at sLedyard and Gales Ferry came down in torrents, the showers being among the heaviest of the, year.
 Nearly as pestiferous as the wild carrot, the wild cucumber vine is four ishing this season, in many instances killing other vines.
 A hive of bees was received at the Central Village postoffice this week, sent by parcel post to the Burgeson farm on Shepard Hill.
 Uncle Horace Johnson of Middle Haddam predicts an atmospheric dis turbance of note today. the 9th of Sep
 
 day.
 The county commissioners held their weekly meeting at the court transacted no business of public in- terest.
 The approach of another holiday means that people on rural delivery routes must go without mail from Sat- urday morning to Tuesday morning, 72 hours.
 Yesterday morning at the first Fri day devotions in St. Patrick's church, 5.30 o'clock. and Rev. Thomas A. Grumbly that at '.
 Contributions to the Willard fund received by the state W. C.. T. U. of late include: Meriden $2. East Hanp- Torrington $2; total S10.
 James E. Lord of Lords Hill. James Stoddard of Ledyard and Selectman sessing damages to turkels from dogs in North Stonington Wednesday.
 During the past summer the Groton monument and D. A. R. chapter house have attracted an unusually large number of visitors from various parts of this country. and some in England.
 All the schools in Montyille will open on Tuesday next. allowing the pupils Labor day as holiday: This announcement was made by the su- pervisor. Carlton D. Wheeler. this week.
 At Lake Wentworth. N. H., g favor ite vacation resort of Methodist pas iYfa q Scrivener and family of Norwich are lingering during the early September days.
 this week from the department at Washington to watch out for the send ing of mail by. employees of the postal service without proper postage affixed thereto.
 -i <. MT. and Mrs. Vincent Astor sailed for Block Island Thursday night from Newport for a, days fishing for sword fish. Their guests included MT and Mrs. Paulding Fosdick and Hermann Oelrichs.
 The parks. large and small, about the stationse of, the, New Haven road, in Connecticut, are especially attrac- tive this year, and show how much the roads employees aid in city beau tiful work.
 The county courthouse in New Lon- don will in a few days have the name of the building over the entrance. The words County Court House" will ap- pear in raised letters of gilt to cor respond with the figures in the peak.
 While the Versailles Sanitary Fibre mills are receiving orders for absorb ent cotton, starched gauge for ban dages, etc. only indirectly. as a result of the war. the plant Is extremely busy running on its regular 55-hour schedule.
 An automobile from the Norwich state insane asylum with two attend ants has been in New London in search of a. patient who escaped Thursday afternoon. The patient was a trusty at the state institution. He belongs in Bridgeport.
 Elizabeth Korper of the South Will lington family, who is but 1-2 years old, holds the record at Ocean Beach for long distance swimming. Miss Korper swam from the creek to the pier on the beach front. This is near ly one-half mile Some anxiety having been felt for Rev. and Mrs. Henry T. Arnold of Norwich, who are in Berlin, Germany, their son Henry appealed to Secretary Bryan, who. in communication with the American consul, was assured that they are safe and well. Cards have been received by friends in Westbrook announcing the recent marriage Of Walter Lindon of Clay county. Kansas. and Miss Ruth Jones of Merfden, Conn. The bride is a sis ter of Mir. Lindon's former wife, who was Miss Minnie Jones. In communication Friday with the curates of Rev. Hugh Treanor's rectory ! at Waterbury William. H. Shields learned that Father Treanor, though 1 very weak Is improving from his sud. den and severe illness and that his \ physicians are hopeful of his recovery The largest registration in the his. | tory of the institution Is expected al the Danbury State Normal school nex Tuesday when the school opens for tn,
 fall term. Last year the entering clas,
 was 120, but the indications are tha.
 this years entering class will be large
 by 20.
 The old house corner of Bath an,
 Franklin streets, now being remodeled
 was owned and occupied nearly 2
 years ago by J. c. Lamb, then stat