Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-10
WE1a1lleti1l
Norwich, Thursday, Aug. 10, 1916.
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Huckleberries are plentiful and large, and the berry pickers are busy.
 At Hamburg today Lyme grange will have the annual field day of Sea View Pomona grange.
 The change to cooler weather made wraps not uncomfortable at Wednes- day nights band concert.
 Hibernians are locking forward to marching in the greatest parade Mid dletown has ever had at the state gathering on Aug. 22d.
 The congestion of freight trains still continues at Saybrook Junction, and is the cause of many delays of ship ment 10 points beyond.
 Announcement is made that the reunion of the Brown family is to be held on Saturday with William H. Brown of Jewett City.
 Stevens Studio is closed for the rest of this week.-adv.
 A thriving eastern Connecticut in dustry is the candy factory at Lyme which has so many orders that it Is employing p girls and running over time.
 The heat was so intense in one fac tory on Tuesday afternoon that the superintendent ordered the roofs wet down with the fire hose to make things more comfortable.
 The Norwich district, the August Telephone Bulletin says. will probably before June 30, 1917, have the honor of having the largest class c exchange in point of development.
 F. c. Welden of Norwich. head of this division ir the state highway de- partment was among the gathering of civil engineers from all parts of the state at New London Tuesday.
 There has been a very noticeable absence of young men from the several recruiting stations that have been opened to fill up the ranks of the Con- necticut troops on the border.
 The August Telephone Bulletin has photograph of Exchange Manager Knight, formerly of Norwich, whose Bridgeport exchange carried off the honors in development in class A.
 Excursion to Montreal, via the Central Vermont railway, August Il and F, final return limit August 2S. Only $10.00 for the round trip. See flyers for particulars.-adv.
 Mrs. Amanda R. Comstoclz has for the past 54 or 5 seasons COnseCutiveIy attended all the meetings with but two exceptions at the WillimantiC camp grounds. She will be SS years cid the Sth of next October.
 Miss Louise Fleischmann, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Julius Fleischmann of New York, who have spent several summers at New London, will be married in New York today to Henry c. Yeiser, Jr, of Cincinnati.
 Nick" Walsh of Norwich. swim ming Instructor and ltfe-saver at the Globe Hollow pool in South AIanches- ter. is planning a meet on Aug. 19. There were 500 people in the pool on Sunday and lots of enthusiasm.
 A report heard at NogaIes to the that the Connecticut troops were to return in the middle of September and that the New Haven road was preparing cars to be sent to the border to bring the men back is denied by the road.
 Frank Hamilton and Richard Schel- lens of GToton left this week for Plattsburg, Y. Y, where they have enrolled for the second encampment at the military training camp. They are both Free Academy graduates.
 Miss Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of Capt. Warren H. Douglas of Oswe- gatchie and Ray Fogg of GrOtOn were marie dat St. James Episcopal church. CIV London. by Rev. Philip M. Kerridge. They will live in Groton. Suspected cases of rabies have been reported u the commissioner of do- mestic animals from Plainfeld, New Haven, Hamden and DanielsOn. The heads of the dogs killed in each case have been sent to the state laboratory
 Director Jenkins of the New Haven Experimental Station at New Haven, has invited Norwich grangers and their friends to attend the annual field meeting of the station at Mt Carmel on Aug. 16, or if stormy, on Aug. IT.
 Over 200 pouItrymen and women are occupying the big dOrmitories at the Connecticut Agricultural college at the field meeting which ends today. Sc many ladies are present that Q section i of one of the dormitories was reserved for their use.
 Secretary Burnes has sent @ letter to the sheriffs of all counties in the state explaining that automobile mark | CTS over 41,0O0, owing to the embargo on freight, have not yet been received and that owners of motor cars are obliged to use their old markers. When the lightning hit at Ocean 1 Beach Tuesday several women who were in the crowds fainted and four were hastened to their homes in jit- neys or automobiles. Not until the 1 storm had abated somewhat did the 1 majority regain their composure. l Miss Nellie A. Delaney. Norwich