Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-25
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VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps at 7.os this evening.
 Andrea House arrivals at Pleasant View include Miss Isabel NTurphey, of Norwich.
 The marked drop in temperature on Thursday was relief after a stretch of heat and humidity.
 Farmers say the crop of high black berries will be very short this season, although the vines blossoned well.
 Trying to obey the law and rid fields of wild carrot, is a task too big for most landowners this weedy season.
 Next Sunday, August 27, Methodist churches in this district will be closed on account of camp meeting at Wilu- mantle.
 Although Dollar Day is over, Nor wich merchants are offering many tempting bargains during the mid summer clearance sales.
 The Windham County Observer notes that Mrs. William F. Bidweu, of Dayville, Is to go to Worcester in September, for the winter.
 Collectors from here attended the SCGIlJOn the North road, Stoningcon, Tuesday. Many antique pieces were put up.
 With no grange fair at Colchester this year the grangers have decided to do all they can to make a good grange exhibit at the Norwich fair in Sep tember.
 At Ledyard, the engagement of Miss Leila May Montgomery, daughter of v11 Ave A cry, to Leslie O. Gray. has been an- nounced.
 At Trinity Episcopal church Thurs day at 10 o'clock, Rev. J. EIdred Brown officiated at the celebration of the holy communion. for St. Bartho- lomew's day.
 An old chestnut tree on the Bowen farm at Eastfcrd, recently struck by lightning and totally demolished, used to bear chestnuts near to horse chest nuts in size.
 Richmond Park. at the intersection of High and West Thames streets, which was groOmed @ bit during Clean-Up Week, is in need of being 1! tidied up and moved.
 First class artists will furnish the stage attraction at St. Mary's parish
 
 adv.
 The Hotchkiss family reunion, us- ualIy held at Lake COmpounce, Bris- toI, will not be held this year, on ac- count or the prevalence Of infantile paralysis in various towns of the state
 So far, efforts to locate William Gale, who broke from Stafford Springs
  ceeded. It is believed now that Gale was given outside assistance in rlaIz- ing his escape.
 The school committee of -PoQuonoc has appointed Miss Anna Carlson of Mantle teacher of the primary grades 2t POquonOc school to succeed Miss Mary Wells, who is to teach at Gro ton Heights school
 DeIegat ttons from Norwich. Mystic and Groron are expected in New Lon don this (F'riday) evening at the dance to be given under the auspices of St Mary's Tierney cadets and St. Jo- sepE's Tierney league.
 Hay making. is still going on in the suburbs, so heavy is the crop and with scarcity of help, etc, it looks as tnouGh some farmers might be driv- ing the mCWing-machine or swinging the scythe up to September first.
 The strike of the section men on the New London Northern division of the Central Vermont Railway for S2 Tor nine hours continues l. started a week ago Tuesday morning. The men have been getting S1.75 for nine hours.
 A movement for the construction of high school in Groton has cathered ] Y1 a l the town has already many adherents l who propose to petition the select men to call town meeting to take I'action on the matter. Local druggists learned with satis- faction Thursday that the trend of the | market for sulphuric and nitric acids i continues easy, and prices on car l pohc acid have dropped under the in- l Huence Of increased supplies and more | active competition among sellers. A passenger aIighting from a Mont l Vile car ne-r the sanitariun. Thurs | day morning, was nearly run dowr l by two automobiles, which totally ig- nored the law about stopping wFer i the car stopped. Other passengers | took note of the automobile numbers 1 Concerning former Norwich resi- dents an Abingdon corresponden- W44ICo. T UT the next two sundays Aug. 27 and Sept 8, there will be nc | services at the Congregational church 1 because of Rev. Frank Fuller and wife being away on their two weeks vaca. | tion.
 Mrs. Mary MuIlaney of sacket | street, Brooklyn, N. Y., arrived ir | New London by the 4.14 train Tues | day afternoon, bound to PlainfielC | with her four children, the oldest 10 | Inspector Frank Savage saw to it tha ! she went back to New York, takins 1 the steamer Chelsea.
 The engagement of Miss Florens, | Porter of Hampton, to Addison Chas, 1 of New Rochelle, N. Y, was an | nounced at a bridge party at the hon | of Mrs. Russell c. Germond in Nev | Britain Wednesday afternoon. Mis- Porter is the daughter Of R. R. Porte of Hampton.
 I At the automobile hearings in Hart | ford Tuesday, the case of Toni Gam l batista of Brooklyn, arrested early ii | August for using the wrong marker | on his car, was continued. Licens l was returned to Elijah Weston O ! Waterford, concerned in a fatal acci dent last May.
 A well informed reader rebukes Tn
 Bulletin for stating that William