Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-09-22


Tuesday for the openings.
Cottagers at Ocean beach have been
securing some good soft shell crabs
| during the past few weeks.
Tuesdays sudden drop in temper
allure suited the dealers in winter
garments, furs and the like.
Eastern Connecticut Holy Cross stu
dents left Tuesday for Worcester, for
the beginning of the Fall term.
Judge John A. Prior of Moosup, his
son, John. with two guests, are spend
| ing a few days at Block Island.
Because of the rain on Tuesday
there was a one session day for the
lower grades of the town schools.
Residents of Mantle are enjoying
the concerts at the state camp ground
given by the crack band from Fort
Wright.
H c. Lane has removed his black
smith shop to the rear of 60 Frank
lin street-Adv.
The Neighborhood club of Gilead is
making arrangements for an agricul-
tural exhibit, to be held Saturday aft
enroon and evening.
A number from Norwich were at
the auction of household furniture and
farm implements at the Charles Ray
farm in Salem Moday.
A record flock of barn swallows
have been attracting the attention of
residents in the Pequot section, New
London for the past week.
Barge Leach Brothers has finished
discharging her cargo of coal at Mont
vile and has been towed to New
London by the tdg Aquidneck..
, About the state delegates are being
appointed to attend Y. NJ. c. A. Wo-
mans auxiliary convention to be held
| at Hartford, October II and Is.
Next Sunday in the auditorium of
| the Central Baptist church, the City
| Bible class for Men will resume its
sessions, following the summer vaca-
ton.
| Taxes and roads are the most i'm
| portant matters to come up for dis
cussion at the annual town meeting
Monday morning in the town hall at
Poquonoc.
| Manufacturers from this state are in
| New York attending the First Ma
tional Exposition of Chemical Indus
| tries, which opened Monday at Grand
Central Palace.
after the Ball." six reels, Colonial
today. Herbert Kelley and Effie Shan
non.-adv.
The Misquamicut Inn at Watch
| Hill closed for the season Tuesday
morning. The majority of the hotels
are now closed. but many of the cot
tages remain open.
| The italian government has sent
through the consul in this state, locat-
ed in New Haven, the sum stipulated
| to be given to each family whose head
| is now serving his country.
! Rev. T. Owen Jones, who has been
conducting Sunday afternoon meetings
| at the Bitgood school house, in Vol
| untoWn during the summer has return
ed to the Grocer henninary at Chester,
PA.
Fall opening Studio Specially Shop.
Tuesday and Wednesday,, Sept 81
and q. 50 Church street.-Adv.
The Fishers Island steamer has gone
| on winter schedule. From now on she
will make three trips a week-on
| Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
| During the summer she made daily
| trips.
| James Mclaughlin, of Groton, pilot
many years in the employ of the Cen
| trail Vermont railroad company, has
Fresigned and will devote his time to
operating a farm in the northern part
of the state.
/ An Essex correspondent mentions
that a former Yantie resident. Miss
| Rachel Barnes, has returned from st
Raphaeps hospital, New Haven, where
she recently underwent an operation
for appendicitis.
Pupils in many of the suburban
districts are now entertaining theil
parents and friends by exhibits of the
fruit, vegetables and flowers which
they have grown during the season
in connection with the state agricul-
tural clubs.
i It is stated that the New Haver
road is contemplating further re
| duction in train mileage to meet tn,
falling os in passenger, traffic. TIL,
falling off is attributed to the increas
ing use of the automobile in the New
Ravens territory.
| At Waterford Mrs. ]. Lawrence Col
entertained at dinner Sunday in homo
| of the birthdays of her grandmoth
err, Mrs. Pamela Moshier; her moth
er, Mrs Ferdinand Hancock, anC
Mrs. Edward Young, whose birthday
all come within a day or two of eacl
other.
Arrangements have been made witt
the Groton authorities to have tn,
eyes of some of the pupils in the Oh
Mystic school examined by a specialist
The matter was called to the attention
Of Health Oficer C. F. Congdon. M
D.. recently. who made an investiga
ton.
Mercury will be visible in the west
ern evening sky for a few days befor
and after September 81 on which dat
1t will be at it's greatest elongatiol
east of the sun-26 degrees. 20 min
utes. 1t will be found near the poin
: at which the sun disappears on tn
| horizon.
The United States Civil Servic
commission announces for October
an examination for male aeronautica
mechanical draughsmen to fill a va
cancy in the Experimental and Repai
department of the Signal Corps Avia
ton school at San Diego, Cal. at 81,
$50 a year.
: At Middletown Friday the superio
| coIIrf will ha form Ifx1 opared for