Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-25
dir Glllletiil.
Norwich. Monday. Oct. =. 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS


Sunday was St. Felix day.
Sunday travel by train and trolley
was unusually heavy.
Trap rock has been put on the state
road on Norwich avenue. Colchester.
Much cord wood is stacked at stod-
dard's Wharf for shipment by schoon-
er.
AT Montvins. Rev. E. ]. Ayres of
Windham preached az the Methodist
church Sunday.
At Fishers Island. Mrs. NIB. Hopes
Is having her hotel. the Mononotto inn.
improved for next season.
Bluejackets nom the flagship Coz
lunbia.s anchored of Eastern, Point,
were in Norwich Sunday.
Wolves attack helpless man. in
Broadway star feature. Out Of the Big
Shows. Colonial today.-adv.
Although Saturday night was cold,
cosmos and other supposedly delicate
blooms appear to have escaped the
frost.
7roton borough wDrkrnen have set
II poles at the Navy Yard for the
electric lighting system of the naval
station.
sShort afternoons and early lighting
are now the rule. The length Of the
day has decreased hours and SO
minutes.
While the Backus hospital automo-
bile ambulance is in the paint shop the
old horse drawn ambulance is being
brought into service.
! The cool weather of the past few
days has driven the small mackerel
into Mantle bay and large catches Of
the fish are being made:
William Morgan has returned to
Groton from hunting trip through
the woods Of Ledyard taking back
quail. partridge and weodcock,
This weeks meeting of the Ladies'
Aid society of Trinity Methodist
church Is to be held with Mrs e. d.
Witmarsh Of 20 Mulberry street.
There was no service at the Mantle
Baptist church Sunday. as the pastor,
Rev. Harry P. Fuller. formerly of
Norwich Is away on his vacation.
Tug Miles Standish has towed barge
No. 705. owned by the Pennsylvania
| railroad to Norwich where the barge
will discharge her cargo Of solft coal.
A Moosup patient. Mrs. Leslie Young
who has been i'll for nearly four weeks
with stomach trouble has been taken
to the Rackus hospital at Norwich Tor
| treatment
Plans are being made at the wo-
| mans college for the formation of
| a riding club The club will proba-
bly, ride each Saturday morning or
afternoon.
It was announced in the Catholic
churches that Saturday next will be
i q fast day for those obliged to fast
since the virgil Of All Souls Day falls
ON Sunday.
Saint crispin. patron of shot
makers, is commemorated in the
| church celander today. According to
| tradition. he was beheaded as Ro-
man martyr in 2sS.
| In Ledyard there was a family re-
union recently at the home of Mrs
Phebe E. Wilcox. There were thirteen
present, from Groton, Jewett City
| Ashwiilett, East Lyme and Ledyard.
The semi-annual meeting of the
| -Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary
| Conference for Eastern Connecticut is
to be held IN the Baptist church ir
Jewett. City Wednesday, November
At the Methodist Episcopal church
at Mantle, Sunday. in the absence Of
/ the pastor. Rev G.. G. Scrivener o.
Norwich, district superintendent
thepreached Sunday morning. In tn,
evening he conductor services at Blacl
Hall at 2.45 o'clock
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Blron Gallup O.
Ekonk celebrated their forty-fifth
wedding anniversary the other day b,
taking a ride to Mr.. Gallup's child.
in Hopkinton, r. l.. and calling OF
relatives and friends.
i The framework on the hotel Girls.
void looms large when seen from the
| water. Work on the addition of 81
rooms is well under way 1t is ex,
pected it will take practically all tn,
! time before the opening of the hous,
next season to complete all the work
The post office department calls at
tention to the one cent receipt for par
Gel post packages, and urges al
na1lers OF parcel post packages t
make use of this receipt. not in tn,
nature of an insurance, but as lega
evidence Of the mailing of pack
age.
in Old Lyme there is an elm that
| according to one of the selectmen O
Old Lyme. measures thirty eight fee
1 in circumference at the base Seven
ty years ago it was known as tn
great elm. It was a beautiful tire
with spreading limbs reaching nearl
to the ground.
| Word was received here today tina
Clarence, D. ,Andrus, of Norwich, for
merly of this city, has successful
passed the examination of the Stat
Board of Pharmacy for a senior dru
clerks license. Mr.. An6rus is the SO
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Andrus, c
142 South street.-Danbury News.
/ CORTLAND Rogers and Miss Menet
Ia Cooper, both of New Londo@ wer
married Friday afternoon by Rev -
seph W.. Kemp at Calvary Bartis
church. 123 West Fifty-Sevent
street, New York. Mr.. Rogers is flag
man in the employ of the New York
New Haven and Hartford railroad.
Postmaster and Grange Master Z
G. Hansen of Fishers Island is in Ne
York, where he was married Wednes
| day to Miss Hattie NUNS who is we