Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
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Norwich, Thursday. Sept. 2s, 1916.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Wednesday was Dagmar day among Swedish residents.
 Everything is dry and dusty and good rain IS needed.
 High temperatures were recorded yesterday and the ice cream and soda trade revived.
 Most of the Norwich cottagers at Gales Ferry have closed their summer homes and returned to town. Commissioner Walter S. Garde Of Hartford has been closed for the sea son.
 Naval reports Wednesday stated that Capt. Isaac B. Smiths ship, the Saturn, has left Tiburon for San Diego, Cal
 Call for your repair work at Kings bury's. See adv.-adv.
 Tomorrow, the feast day of St. Mi chael and All Angels, will be marked by special services in the Episcopal churches.
 At Andover, Charles W. Johnson of Hartford has sold his farm of 300 acres in Cheney Hollow to New Jersey purchasers.
 Wednesdays weather was not so fa- vorable for brisk fall shopping as were the days of snappier temperature earlier in the week.
 An anniversary high mass of re. quiem for Patrick NcNamara was sung in St. Patrick's church "Wednesday by Rev. J. H. Broderick.
 Bricllayers' union, local No. 10, will anfprfain hn of Tta c+o +o ot oa annual state convention at New Lon don Oct. 30 and 31.
 The annual fall exhibition of the citation is to be held in New London some time during November.
 The postoff1ce at Groton Long Point will remain open until Nov. 1, making the longest season since the opening of the summer colony at the Point.
 Rt. Rev. c. B. Brewster of the Epis- copal church will hold a Quiet day for the clergy of this Archdeaconry in Norwich, Wednesday, December 6.
 Miss Carrie E. Cbamplin, teacher of piano and harmony. IA Chuch street. --adV.
 The cranberry crop of the state is being harvested. There is a fair crop this year, although many berries rot ted as the result of wet weather during July.
 In the superior court at Rockville Tuesday, Judge Curtis sentenced Will liam J. Baldwin of Hebron, charged with assault with intent to Kill, to four months in jail.
 Beginning next Sunday, there will be only one Sunday train run down the Valley branch of the New Haven road to New London. This will run until the 18th of October.
 Warren l. Hof of South Coventry has been accepted at the recruiting station on Asylum street, Hartford, for the United States cavalry. He will leave later for Fort Slocum, N. Y.
 The state law fixes the age for send ing children to school at years but permits children to go to school before that age if their parents desire to send them, especially to a kindergar- ten.
 Under the largest tent on the Rock vile fair grounds, the Connecticut Agricultural college and Storrs experi- ment station have assembled a most interesting exhibit of real educational value.
 Dec. to Dec. 10, inclusive has been set aside as Tuberculosis week in the United States, according to an an nouncement issued Wednesday by the national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis.
 A hotel man well known in eastern Connecticut, J. Allen Walker, of Con- ley inn, Torrington, has returned from Norway, Me, where he spent nearly four months with his brother His health is greatly improved. With over 10000 blossoms shown at the Dahlia show of the American in stitute and the American Dahlia so- ciety in New York Tuesday, Mrs. Otis P. Chapman, Jr, of Westerly, R. l., carried off the honors for the best vase of single blossoms.
 The new locomotives on the New l York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road are much larger and more com l plicated than the former allotment oi | the 1900 series. It is said that these are the largest engines ever run over ] the rails of the road
 Amendment of a certificate of in corporation before organization has | been filed by the American Kiln Con- struction company of New London 1 The amendment calls for an authorized capital stock of s6O,0O0 divided int
 500 shares, par value $100. [ Henry Moves of Old Lyme, who cele.
 brated his 90th birthday Sunday, Sept r. was taken suddenly i'll Monday ant
 was not expected to live through the day. MT. Moves is a forty miner anC 1 is believed to be the only survivor O, that squad that went out from this section.
 A federation of French American Catholic societies was formed ir l Woonsocket, R. l., Sunday by delegates from five organizations representing more than 10000 French-A Catholic citizens in New England an6 l including those in eastern Connecticut towns.
 A new order of the postoffice de- partnent does away after Oct 1 with | what is known as 70. K. pay days This custom, which has been in vogue | in postoffces throughout the Country permitted @ clerk or carrier to draw on his wage account between the reg ular pay days.
 An army order of Wednesday reads: The commanding officer, Watertowr arsenal, Mass, or one of his assistants 1 will make one visit to inspect materia l 4