Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-17
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
Light vehicle lamps at 7.4s this eve
| ming.
All the state tuberculosis iastitu-
lions are overcrowded just now.
Nearly 500 Connecticut men have
| thus far enrolled in the Plattsburg
Training Camp.
The G-8, now at Bridgeport, has
| been ordered to proceed to the Thames
Naval Station, thence to the New York
yard.
The W. Tyler Oloott camp ON the
South Bluff, Block Island, has been
leased for the season by family from
New Haven.
Ten of the patients at the inebriate
farm of the State Hospital have been
paroIed and will leave a few at a time
until all of the ten have gone.
The Stonington Mirror notes that
District Deputy Grand Regent Thomas
Curry of Bozrahvile, recently made an
official visit to Pequot Council, r. A.
The street departments men moved
Franklin street park Saturday and
many persons in the neighborhood en-
joyed that shady spot during Sun
day.
A pleasant St. swfthin's Day Sat
urday and a delightful day Sunday,
compensated for the rain, heat, hui
nudity and storm damage of the past
week.
Some of the ToI1and farmers who
have gone into raising Cucumbers for
the picking company had their whole
crop rooted UP by torrents of rain
Thursday
In all probability. the new state road
to Eastern Point will not be COM
pleted before fall because of difficulty
IN getting laborers and delay in the
arrival of material.
In the final settling of accounts fol-
lowing the recent Shakesperean pag-
cant, nearly $500 was divided between
Norwich Free Academy and the Con
uecticut College fund.
GrotOn members of the Thames Past
GTands association have received in
vltaIons to attend a meeting Of the
assoc citation July % at Jewett City
where picnic will be held
The British-American War Relief
Fund, 6S1 Fifth Avenue, y. Y, of
which Lady Herbert is president, ac-
knoWledges recent donations including
from people Of PlainfeId, $40.
A Willimantic man, J. Edward Stan
ley has asked for the appointment OF
q conservatOr over his brother, Frank
\. Stanley, who was recently commit
ted 10 the Norwich State Hospital.
The Hay Harbor CLUB is the social
center Of Fishers Island life, and
under the management OF boat
committee, a series of One-design
boat races is being sailed on Saturday
afternoons.
Venus and Mars are to blame for all
the rain, fog untimely cold, and gen
eral depression from which the coun-
try has suffered during the last month.
At least, that's what Horace Johnson
told New York Sunday paper.
No sharks have been seen in the
waters along the shores at SaybrOOk
ard fishermen state they have not
come across any signs OF them, and
believe they will not come to shallow
waters which the bathers frequent.
Lieut.. Eugene O'NeiIl, Z. s. A, sta
toned at Port au Prince, Haiti, has
already seen active service He is
the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Owen O'Neill
Of p West street, New London. and a
graduate of Bulkeley school, class of
1910.
Saturday evening at the Old Lyme
Inn, there was a dance, the proceeds
/ OF which viii GO toward paying for the
automobile recently bought by ST
AIMS mission of Black Hall for Rev
/ N. Mclean GOldie, rector OF the parish
recently Of Yantic
At Lords Point, Postmaster e L
| Davis has built an addition to Bay
| view cottage for the post Office and
| call on lock, with patent combinations
! The outer room has q desk for the
| convenience of patrons.
Seventy-fve officers and about 1900
! Ien comprising three battaliOns OF
naval militia from New York state
and two from New Jersey embarked
| on United States warships at New
/ York Saturday for their annual prac-
! tice cruise off Block Island
/ There is local interest in the item
! Of LenoN society news that Mrs E
| Halsey Malone Eleanor Slater,) OF
| Cedarhurst, L. I, has arrived to visit
| her father William A. Slater, at Home
| Farm, and that Mrs. William A. SIa,-
| ter has gone to York HarDOr, Ne
Nineteen cases Of violations OF the
motor vehicle laws are scheduled for
| hearing Tuesday afternoon in the
| former senate chamber at the Capt.
| toll, New Haven leads the van with
| five alleged transgressions. The cases
/ include that of R. J. Collins, Norwich
John H. Reddin, of Denver, Col, su-
| preme master of the Fourth degree
! Knights of Columbus, has re-appoint-
! ed John NJ. Lee of Norwich, master OF
| the Fourth degree for the district OF
| Connecticut. The appointment is 70.
! a two-year term, beginning July list
! 1916.
| Among forty Connecticut postmas-
| ters to be given an increase in sal
! airy based on increases in business al
| the offices are Baltic. from $1,000 tc
| $1,000; Lyme, from $1,000 to $1,4OO;
| Putnam, from $4,000 to $4,000 Al
! Noanl1 the salary is to be reduced
! from $1,000 to S1,100.
| A circular detailing the plans fol
| the trip Of the Connecticut mem