Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-07
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Norwich, Friday. Aua. 2, 1e14.
VARIOUS MATTERS

ScAAlAilCAlOIdlGQ the 0lTCA0aV or Daniel OCoAneN, the great Catholic emancipator.
 The Neptune park raft that was washed ashore was towed out to it's nooring Wednesday by tug Alert of the Scott fleet.
 Yesterday was cool and comfortable and that fact enticed many shoppers to town for the special August bar gains the stores offer.
 Mrs. Robert Lyons of Gilead had a birthday Wednesday and number of friends gave her a surprise party. There were about 90 present.
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 A new timetable Is being prepared by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad which, it is ex- pected. will go into effect on August
 S. J. Reuter- the florist of Norwich and Westerly. who with his wife and daughter is now in Germany. saw ser vice in the Franco-Prussian war 56 years ago.
 A Providence man. Edwin Eiiin- wood, celebrated Wednesday as his hftieth anniversary as a barber Fred erick l.. Klein of Norwich has been a barber over SO years.
 Connecticut trolleymen have form ed conference board to obtain the passage of a law preventing the oper- atfng of "one man" cars on any of the trolley lines in this state
 Eastern Connecticut will send a del egation of representative republicans to Bridgeport Aug. Is. when sheep bake will be held following the meet ing of the republican state central committee.
 Excursion to Montreal Aug 12 and IS; return limit Aug. 2e; s1o for round trip. See flyers for partieulars.-adv.
 Boston Is having, for the next two days what Massachusetts has never had before, the annual meeting Of the international apple shippers associa- tion. The Connecticut college at Storrs sends an exhibit.
 The telegraph offices have had to turn down applications to cable money to friends in Europe, the eompanies having made a rule that no money could be cabled to any part of Europe by private individuals.
 At the big vaudeville show at the Hotel Griswold this evening, when The Elephants Remorse will be pre- sented, two of those In the cast will De Mrs. John Rawsen Hughes and Mrs. Charles H. Kenyon.
 The 23d annual reunion of the Ben nett family was held Wednesday in the grange hall grove in Ludlow Cen the family were present and enjoyed the luncheon served under the trees.
 The Hartford postmaster received a message from New York that the sail ing of steamers with mail for trans Atlantic ports is very uncertain, and it is a grave question whether mail may be dispatched to any Balkan ports.
 tailed the following vessels to assist in the celebration at Stenington Aug. 8 to 10: The U. s. s. Wake. the Mon aghan. the Terry, the Perkins, the Roe the Lamson and the Sterett, all destroyers.
 The Stafford Press mentions that Miss Helen Mowry, who has been a guest of her aunt, Mrs. G. Percival Bard, has returned to her home in Sterling, her parents. MT. and Mrs. H. B. Mowry. having returned from a trip abroad.
 l Among names sent to the highway | commissioner as eligible for appoint i nent to the various places in that 1 department for which examinations were taken on July 10 is. for transit man, Walter J. Moran, New London 93.5 per cent.
 A large opening day crowd attended 1 the start of the 30-days' camp meet ing of the Spiritualists at Lake Pleas ant Sunday. At 1o.so a. m., Rev. G Tabor Thompson spoke. Lake Pleas ant has moving pictures for the first time this year.
 The planet Mercury was at it's great l est western elongation on Aug 5, anG may be seen low in the northeast fol l about an hour before sunrise. This planet again enters the evening sky Aug. 38, but does not reach it's great est distance east of the sun until Oct | 10.
 Signal lights. that show an alpin, blue light from a distance, have beer installed by the New Haven railroad In using the new kind of light 1t il the danger of head-on and rear-ent collisions will be eliminated. The nev lights are much more expensive thai the old ones.
 Melissa Bloomfield Starr, TT, widov of Edwin J. Starr. died Wednesda, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fl mer Johnson. T2 Lenox avenue. Pitts field, Mass. She was born in NeJ Lendon and spent the greater part Q
 her life at Moosup The body will b
 taken to Moosup for burial in Plain
 field cemetery.
 Miss Buckley and Her Sister in lrelan
 Miss Sarah J. Buckley of Rorwic
 Town and her sister, Miss Alice Buck abroad. were last heard from at Kiliar
 ney, Ireland, under date of July 2l
 They had planned to sail from South
 anpton, England. on the Oceanic C
 the White Star line Aug. 12th after
 brief stay in London. As Southamp l ton is now closed as A landing port