Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-09
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Light vehicle lamps at 5.4s this evening.
 The Manor Inn at Stonington has closed for the season.
 F1ocks of wild geese have already been noticed flying south.
 The first Casaba melons from Cali fornia are reaching local dealers.
 Stores of Jewish merchants closed Saturday for Tom Kippur, opening at p. III.
 summer days with temperature above 80 degrees.
 Eighty acres of rye is to be the fall planting at Shepherd Hill farm. Tn Central Village.
 The pastors probationers' class of Trinity Methodist church met Sunday afternoon at 4.30.
 The governors Fire Prevention day proclamation is posted conspicuously in the Otis Library. A good rain is needed to clean the streets and walks which fallen leaves make extra unSightly. Plans are being made for social affairs on Halloween, Oct. S1, which falls on Tuesday this year. For those who do not wish to attend my Auction sale, I will be open from g to 12 a. m.. daily. A. B. Kingsbury.- adv.
 Strollers in the woods yesterday found promise of a, good number of chestnuts but scarcity of walnuts.
 Thamesville pond, opposite the boarding house, which after the spring rains was small lake. is now nearly dry.
 Now that the smoke of town cleo tion has cleared away, it is claimed that only one woman voted in Canter- bury.
 A petition is in circulation for sig natures to have the name of the post office at South Canterbury changed to Canterbury.
 The marriage of Miss Lillian Si- mon of Oakdale and Rubin Prottas of Sew London will take place at Oak | dale Oct. 29.
 The death of Elbert J. Andrews. 51, | of Brooklyn, N. Y. occurred Friday | at West Farms, Coventry, where fu- neral services will be held today (Mon- day).
 Several from here will go to New l York to attend the annual electrical i exposition which will open in Grand | Central alace Wednesday and continue | for ten days.
 As most of the state troopers have 1 been ordered home it does not appear | that there will be any Copnecticut militiarnen at the border to vote there 1 on election day. | The current Catholic Transcript 1 states that Bishop Milan is recovering from rheumatic trouble and is to leave 1 this week for a trip south, probably visiting Panama
 There has been so little rain of late that the foliage is unusually brilliant l the woodbines and sumacs having l turned a vivid scarlet This is the | time for country outings. The Franco Serbian Field Hospita, of America. Henry B. Britton of New 1 York, treasurer, acknowledged recent | donations Sunday. including, from the Red Cross. Danielson, Conn, $10.
 A taste of the laws severity is need. ed by the children who have Uttered 1 Franklin street park by tearing III papers and throwing them about or the turf. which received a thorough cleanup a short time ago.
 The bulletin of Fall publications is. sued Sunday contained a note of the charming story of Edmund Clarence Stedman, Banker-Poet, "A New Eng. land Childhood" narrated by Mis-. Margaret Fuller, of Norwich. ] At Packerville, Mrs. Martha c Johnson and Mrs. Jeannette P. Weeks two Civil war widows past seventy | years of age. have received supple. ments to their certificates paying then $10 per month during widowhood.
 The Danbury News makes specia | mention of the fact that the exhibi made by the Connecticut Agricultura 1 college at Storrs, beneath it's own tent 1 near the agricultural tent at las | weeks fair, attracted many visitors.
 The annual conference of tht churches of the Advent Christian faitI of western Connecticut and southwest ern Massachusetts is to be held at tn, Advent Christian church in Danbur. for four days. beginning tomorrow | (Tuesday) morning.
 Three women and man who ha, been at the Women's Relief Corp | home in Cromwell, left the institution l Thursday asserting that they had re 1 ceived poor treatment and have hire, a small cottage in South street. Crom
 well. There are now 23 at the home
 There are being received for distri
 button copies of the proceedings 0
 the special session of the general as
 senbly on Sept. 12. at which provis r ion was made for enabling Connection militiamen doing duty at the Mexica border to vote in the presidential cleo ton.
 :. Because Frank H. Merrill, a forme I popular Y. M. c. A. secretary of Nor = wich, is one of the collectors, there r local interest in the statement ( = Bishop William Lawrence that tn ] Episcopal clergy pension fund mus