Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-11
VARIOUS MATTERS

Tuesday was Helmar day among Swedish residents
 The U. S. Ozark has left Newport for the Thames naval station.
 Dealers in blankets and other win ter comforts had their first day of good trade yesterday.
 It is claimed that butternuts and wild grapes are among other things that are scarce this Fall.
 Some of the granges are to make next Sunday Harvest Sunday, attend ing special church services.
 AS tomorrow, Columbus Day, is legal holiday in this state. the Stars and Stripes will be displayed.
 The mercury had dropped below 40 degrees Tuesday morning. fall of over thirty degrees in about ten hours.
 City department~men gave the Little Plain cleanup yesterday, raking in to piles and burning some of the ur1- slightly leaves.
 The Royal Nefghbors' whist will be postponed until Oct. 1Sth.-adv.
 A1umnae in Connecticut have been notified that Founders Day will be observed at Wheaton College. Norton, Mass, Oct. 21.
 The flock of wild geese was heard flying over the Coggeshan Brothers farm at Trading Cove, about 4 o'clock Tuesday morning.
 The nationwide celebration of Fed eral Amendment day will be partici- pated in by Equal Suffrage leagues in many places. Oct. 21.
 A Coventry correspondent notes that the meeting of East Central Pomona Grange will be held today (Wednes- day) with Hillstown grange.
 Connecticut delegates have left to attend the Undertakers' and Embalm- CTS Examining board of North Amer lea convention in Columbus. Ohio, Oct 12, 13 and IA.
 At Bolton, MT. and Mrs. Milton Hal ing of Belknap had the ground broken Monday for a hotel which they will run during the summer. The hotel is to overlook the Bellnap reservoir.
 A certificate of increase of capital ,stock has been filed by the Thames River Lumber company of New Lon- don, which has raised it's authorized capital stock from $150,000 to $250,o0O.
 The annual meeting of the Connec- ticut Mayors association is to be held at the Hotel Elton. Waterbury, Tues day, Oct. IT. Ex-Mayor T. C. Murphy of Norwich is president of the state association.
 When the Order of the Eastern Star held a largely attended meeting at Bristol last week which was preceded by a banquet, the grand officers pres ent included Grand Conductor Miss Ethel Latham of NOank,
 In response to a very active demand to Storrs College extension school work in Home Economics there will be available to communities in the state during December extension schools in Home Economics.
 St. Bernard's T. A. B. society of Rockville, which celebrated it's fftieth anniversary Tuesday evening in the town hall. has only one living charter member John Rogcra0n. now resi- dent of Springfield, Mass.
 Locnl r. A. R. members learned with regret of the death of Newton Barney, father of State Regent Mrs. John L. Buell, of Litchield, whose funeral was held Tuesday. MT. Barney had been an invalid for some time.
 Orders have been sent out from the offices of the New Haven road at New Haven prohibiting the lettering of box cars with political inscriptions. The order states that the railroad company is strictly neutral. politically.
 The French River Textile company of Thompson has filed a certificate of organization, having ten shares of au- thorized capital stock subscribed, par value $100. amounting to $1,000. on which the company will begin busi- ness.
 Homer S. Cummings of Stamford, democratic candidate for United States senator, who is making tour of Tol- land county towns, spoke Tuesday at South Coventry, Storrs. South Will ington, Columbia, Hebron, Andover and Bolton.
 The commissioner of agriculture of New York has placed the ban on the shipment of Christmas trees and other kinds of wood to that state which come through here from several Mass achusetts towns. because of the preva- lence of the gypsy moth.
 The Wheeler school, North Stoning- ton, has opened with the largest num- Der of students ever present on the opening day. This school is in pros porous condition under the principal ship of Royal c. Moore, formerly of Bacon Academy, Colchester.
 There will be no sessions Of the su- perior court in New Haven this week under Judge Gardiner Greene of Nor wich, on account of the fact that there are no cases scheduled to come before him. The sessions of this court will convene again next Tuesday.
 A gross income of $2.522, ,957.O7 Is re- ported by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad for August this year as against S2,241,2 for the same month a year ago while the net corporate income figures for this year are $959. .189.18 against 687.537.88 in 1915.
 B. H. Brady of Lebanon visited the capitol Monday and. in signing the Capitol register. dated his signature a day ahead of time. A dozen other vis- itors who signed after him accepted the date without a Tnurnur. It re- mained for 8 Hartford visitor to dis cover the error.
 Manufacturers in this state received the Spring (1917) color card Monday, of the twenty-one colors shown, the favorites being sand, utria, robins egg, citrus, rhub barb, wireless, begonia, ma- lachite. diaLnine, and Jack rose. Wire