Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-04
VARIOUS MATTERS


 and some of the woodwork on the courthouse.
 Repairs are being made to the ten ant houses ar the papec mill plant, in Thamesville.
 Two men have been in and about Phoenixville, looking after desirable mill properties.
 September fl is the last day that a name can be placed on the registrars list, ''To be made"
 Garden flowers have grown well this summer. so the exhibits at the fair should be varied and attractive. A holiday excursion from towns north will come down on the c. V. road today, bound for Ocean Beach,
 The state board of education has reappointed A. N. Potter of Willi- mantle superintendent of schools for the town of Somers-
 ard R. Graham announced that Sun day school sessions would not be re- stunned until all danger from infantile paralysis was past.
 A portion of the ell of the former
 
 detached from the house, and Is being enlarged into a garage for the new owner, Daniel T. Shea.
 The Mowry family had the 6Sd an- nual reunion at Nipmuc park in Ux- bridge, Mass, Friday. Sixty five from all over the country were present, and President Samuel B. Taft presided.
 The newly designed cent pieces rz,I 14 11a s,, 1i1 1Nn- fore the 18th or 20th of this month. Two hundred and fifty thousand of the new dimes are being coined daily.
 Effective Sept. 1. a day letter ser vice was inaugurated at all Western Union Telegraph company offices, in Canada and including those operated by the Great Northwestern Telegraph company.
 State Highway Commissioner Charles J. Bennett has awarded a contract to Frank A Wilcox of Nor wich for a section of native stone macadam road in Montville. The work will cost s8,0O0.
 The employers of children under 16 years of age in shops and stores learn that certificates issued to the chil- dren permitting them to work dur ing the summer vacation hold good until the fall term of the schools open.
 Unless the farmers of the state use their blows and hoes with diligence in tha next few days to dig up the widely advertised crop of potatoes, Hartford will be without potatoes by Wednesday, according to an appeal from that city.
 The Spiritual Temple at Hartford began it's new season Sunday after noon at 3 o'clock, the speaker being Charles J, Prevon of Boston. The speakers announced for the forthcom- ing winter include Mrs. Frances H. Spalding of Norwich.
 On account of Labor Day and the holiday travel from Hartford and branch to the seashore, 8 special re- turn train, starting from New Lon don will be operated this evening by the New Haven railroad.
 Thames lodge of Montville which lost all it's paraphernalia in a fire some time ago took candida tes to New London Friday evening to Odd Fellows hall for the initiatory degree and had it exempIif1ed after the reg ular meeting Of Pequot lodge.
 Gable reports from the Oscar IT., the ship on which Chauncey Hubert and Miss Winifred Hubert, daughters of Rev. and Mrs. Henry w. Hubert of Groton, sailed to Sweden en route for Constantinople, announced that the ship had reached Christiana.
 Concerning the new book by Miss Margaret Fuller of Norwich, Satur- days Hartford Courant said; "A New England Childhood is the story of the aa VI nP Stedman. His life as boy was spent near Norwich, Connecticut.
 At a special meeting of the school board at South Coventry It was coted to delay the opening of the schools been engaged, F. Ward Ireland, to succeed J. A. Young. He will spend all of his time in the town of Cov- entry.
 Mrs. W. J. Stephens has returned to Vernon after two weeks stay at Willimantic camp ground where as social vice president of Norwich Dis trict Epworth League she had charge of the various social events at the combined Epworth League Institute and camp meeting.
 The Brotherhood conductors and en- gineers, Saybrook representatives, were calling on the members at June ton all day Thursday. and met them as they came in on their runs, giving them in detail their instructions as to what to do Monday, in case the word was given to strike.
 Winthrop House will be the name of the new dormitory in course of construction at Connecticut college. Of list of several names submitted. including Mohegan and Pequot, the board of trustees has chosen that name, which shall commemorate the founder of New London.
 Students have been notified that the fall term at Holy Cross college, wor- cester, will open Sept. 13, and Rev. James A. Mullin, s. J., who has charge of the registration, expects the largest enrolment in the history of the college. The registration last year was almost 600 students. Friends of Mrs. John Addison Por- ter of New Haven, who has a sum rner home in Pomfret, have received word that she will shortly open her Pomfret house for a few weeks. At present she and her daughter, Miss Agnes Porter. are at Island Villa