Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-12
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VARIOUS MATTERS

The moon, ,fllls Friday at~11s40 p. m.
 Light vehicleelamps at 7.52- this ev- l,ening.
 Today is Herman day. among swed- ish residents.
 The Ozark has sailed from New York for New London.
 Supper tonight for St. 1rary's church. Sprague hall, BaItic.-adv.
 So much damp weather is having a bad effect upon the strawberry crop.
 Several from here attended the 1O1 Ranch show in New London Tuesday.
 Candy dealers and manufactures find these humid days hard on their stock.
 The haymakers~ have been busy for the past week but there is still a large crop standing.
 An automobile load of nice looking green peas was brought to market from Jewett City Tuesday.
 Yesterady had all the marks of a dog day, although dog days do not be- gin until Tuesday, July 25.
 In old-fashioned gardens hereabouts hoIyhocks are in bloom and are un- usually tall and thrifty this season.
 Owners of gardens have hard work keeping ahead of the weeds, which grow rapidly as the result of ire quent rain.
 Whist and 45 given by Ladies Aux ilary A. O. H., in Buckingham AIemOr- ial Thursday evening. Whist from 8 to 10. Admission I5C.-adV.
 Fishermen have been in numbers off Pleasant View during the past few days fishing for maCberel which are running in large schools off the coast.
 The partial eclipse of the moon, July 14-15, will be visible here. The moon enters the suns shadow. July 14, at 1919 D. nl., and leaves the shadow July 15 at 1.l2 a. m.
 Norwich friends were notified Tues day of the death at Mystic of Mrs Charles E. Gaskell, a former local res ident, and the daughter of the late Charles King of Meriden
 4 New Haven man, Burt Wood, who had been many years in the concession business at Savin Rock, has been taken to the Norwich state hospital because of mental trouble.
 The members of the Watch Hill park commission have been appointed a committee to investigate ways and means for eXteTn1inating the few mos. Quitoes that exist about Watch Hill.
 Lightning early Monday morning struck the lightning rod on the new 15O foot smokestac15 at GrOtOn power plant and ripped the shingles off a barn on the E. T. Pettigrew estate.
 A welcome innovation at Block Isl and this summer is the morning mail which arrives from Stonington at ' o'clock. The launch that brings 1t will also carry passengers and the morning papers.
 A party of eight soldiers from Fort Wright who had been adrift for sev- eral hours in a disabled launch, were picked up by the Sound steamer Com monwealth and were landed at New port Monday.
 The alumni association of the Suf- field school, of which Judge Lucius Brown of Norwich is a trustee. has started movement to raise $1,200 so that the school can have a recreation room and girls lunch room.
 The body Of Mrs. Grace Gaston Lu- caS, of Stafford Springs, was taken to Middletown Tuesday. Burial was in Indian Hill cemetery, where Rev. Dr. Frank F. German, rector of the Church of Holy Trinity Ofhciated.
 The state president of the Jitney Drivers Union of Connecticut, W L. Gray, has begun the organization of the jitney drivers of New London. Thirty drivers have already signified their intention of joining the union.
 The most interesting fish catches of the past week at Block Island were made by the schooner Theresa which on Tuesday brought in 15,OO0 pounds of tilefsh caught near the island. There were about 800 of the rare fish weighing from 50 pounds down.
 The new general manager of the Robert Palmer Shipbuilding company, c. R. HanscOm, is daily expected to arrive at NOank. Mr. HanscOm was one of the managers of the Eastern Shipbuilding company at Groton, where the Dakota and Minnesota were built
 In the consular promotions Tuesday was that of George A. Chamberlain to Hosona, and aCquaintanCes thought it might be the Woodstocw man. George Ellsworth ChamberIin, son of Edward Chamberlin, of Woodstock, continues at Georgetown, British Guiana, where he has bean for two years. THREE THOUSAND RAPRERS