Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-09

| rel1ef Tuesday aILernOOn.
 Arrangements are completed for the annual State Convention of Fife and
 Drum Corps, in Rockville, August IS
 and 19.
 Three more enrollments this week | have brought Connecticuts total of
 citizens at the PIattsburg camps this
 summer up to 522.
 1 August rag-weed will be bothering hay fever victims these coming weeks.
 and golden rod will continue the tor
 ment during September.
 The cloud forms and their varied
 hues of grays and whites were ad-
 mired by people who watched the ad- vancing storm on Tuesday afternoon. A chicken thief made a successful
 raid on the hen coop of Morris Free
 man in Uncasville early Sunday morn 1 ing, making away with about 25 of
 the roost.
 New London Typographical union l No. 159 is to make plans for the cele- bration of the twentieth anniversary | of the local, which occurs on Sep
 tember 17th.
 A health survey of the entire state l by federal officers is underway, par i ticularly in regard to the possibilities 1 of typhoid infection from Contamina | tion of water sheds.
 Members of the Germanta Schuetzen 1 Verein at Taftvllle were interested in 1 the annual prize shoot of the Southern ! New England Schuetzen Bund at l Springfield this week.
 Dr. D. Gardner Cobb, surgeon of the 1 .. s. Ranger, came VGth Dr. Frank w 1 Hewes of GrOton to the last health l officers conference in tkis city and ad- 1 dressed the medical naep.
 Excursion to Montreal, via the i Central Vermont railway, August II i and 12, final return limit August 2S. i Only $1O0O for the round trip. See | flyers for particuIars.-adV.
 Mir. siIas WhippIe The Farmer 1 brought from LeffingweL on Tuesday 1 the first sweet corn of the season. 1 ears of kernels to the cob. l Dr. James F. Young left the Backus hospital for his home in New London l Tuesday noon. His ribs broken when his car hit two poles near the Golf 1 club last week are mending satisfac- torily.
 The new type of telephone directory now in use here was selected from @ 1 hundred styles by Directory Agent | Joseph E. Southerton and legibility is 1 hoped to be one of it's advantages over l the old.
 4 heavy blow in the New London l County Suffrage campaign is to be | struck at a mass meeting in the New | London municipal building on August 1 l7, Miss Ludington, county chairman l in charge.
 Groton members of the Thames l Past Brands association have received l invitations to attend 9 meeting on l Friday at the home of Mrs. Grace Vii 1 ly, Asylum street, Norwich,-New Lon don Telegraph.
 Over 2.0OO, 900 feet Of lumber will be shipped from the AndOver station, in the near future. Thosr. who have re- gently sold their woodI0ts are Mrs. | Edgar D. White, Elliott ?. Skinner, and Edward Standish, 1 Block Island fishermen find that tuna are running well and avera ging ] 15 to 70 pounds, while swordfsh and 1 nackerel are scarce. SraafI sharks are | brought in almost daily, and give the
 summer people topics q conversation. Within the last two weeks lobster
 men have been bringing in good ! catches along the Eastern Connecticut shore and the pBospect now is for a ! fair season, instead of a poor one as 1 seemed probable earlier in the sum mer.
 Mir. and Mrs. ". A. Pierce enter ] tained sixty relatives at the annual i Welch- Bailey families reunion Sat urday at Millstone Cottage, CrE7tal | Lake, people from WiIlimantic, Staf-
 ford Springs, being among those pres | ert.
 1 The annual convention of the Con
 pecticut FedeEation of Labor, at Hart ford, Tuesday, Septauaber 5, will be l bership of the aederatjop, the largest
 gathering ever held by the state l branch.
 | Tn spite Of an offer to transfer his moving picture company to Jackson vile, Fla, Joseph E. Fotteu is contin- | Ulng to make Improvements at the i Perdleton Hill plant, where already 1 several thousand dollars has been eX- | pended. The resignation ow Rev. James ST. Bixler, pastor of the Second COnS-ea gational church, New London, foTES be of his acceptance Of the chair of Bib- Heal theology at the Atlanta TheolOg- ical seminary.
 unSLanclnS NOanhS nlgh Llde or In- dustry, a correspondent notes that the village houses are full and that nearly forty men come in every morning from the east by train, besides many by trolley and jitneys from New Lon don and Groton.
 Rural mail carrier E. P. Lyman of Columbia finds that July furnished l the heaviest business of any month since the route was established about | fourteen years ago. He handled 13,947 l pieces during the month, delivering 9,293. collecting 4.654.
 1 The annual summer luncheon of the 1 State Bar association of Connecticut
 will be held at the Hotel Griswold nn l Wednesday, August Is, 1916. These l luncheons have been greatly enjoyed 1 in past years and are attended by some of the most prominent lawyers 1 of the country.
 1 When the water in Columbia Lake 1 was recently seven inches above high water mark and a section of road on the west side of the lake was under water Gate Tender ". A Lyman 1 hoisted the gate and the water was l lowered to high water mark, a thing never found necessary before in the | summer.