Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-28
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VARIOUS MATTERS

A number of local people took ir
 the excursion to Newport, Thursday
 A Bethel man is out with the pro- phecy that August is to be hot and dry.
 The Yankton has left the navy yard
 for Newport, by way of Gardners
 Bay.
 At the Norwich State Hospital for l the Insane there were 1885 patients 1 Thursday.
 There was a, grateful drop in the | temperature, following Thursday af- 1 ternoon's showers.
 Owners of cranberry bogs fear that 1 the green berries will begin to decay, unless the rainy season ends. | Outdoor work, painting, building, 1 repairing and the like, is seriously in terfered with by the frequent hard 1 showers.
 Herman day was celebrated Thurs | day, July 27. at Savin Rock. Lodges 1 from all over the state were in at l tendance.
 The woman's open golf tournament l Shenecossett Country club at Eastern Point Thursday.
 ] The Rice family reunion will be | held the first Thursday in August in | the grove near the North Granby Con 1 gregational church.
 | Earl Lathrop of Montviue, who has i been a patient at a New London hos ] pital was discharged from that in i stitution Wednesday.
 i The old rhyme reads: The wind in | the west suits everyone best. The 1 wind has kept in the east consistently, 1 so that nobody is suited. At New London Ward T. Alling, of Norwich, has offered a handsome cup for the boys championship ball team at the public pIaygrounds.
 Mary Elizabeth. widow of Captain John w. Luce, died at her home in Mantle Wednesday evening. Mrs. Luce is survived by a son and a daughter.
 The allotment of 100 state automo- bile registers sent Town Clerk Charles H. HolbroOk for distribution Is about exhausted and another allotment is expected before long,
 Because the motormen did not bring the car to a halt on the crOsswaIk, four would-be passengers on the West sue 4ALlG at <aSy AUI1l GGk COI1GL IG- fused to get aboard.
 At the request of the Catholic Bene- volent Legion, a high mass of requiem for Timothy J. Sullivan was sung in St. PatriCkS church at o'clock on Thursday, by Rev. J. H. BrOderick.
 Eastern Point road has been closed at a point just below the Ship and Engine Co. plant and all traffic to and from E,g stern Point will what is known the old Eastern Point road.
 Local members of the denomination have been notified that the annual conference of the Seventh-day Bap- tist denomination is to be held this year in Salem. w. Va, beginning Aug.
 Bad weather is not confined to Con- necticut. Writing from Sharon Springs, Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Allen tell of the heavy rain Wednesday and for the first time during four visits there the former has seen fog.
 Trinity college will open the aca- demic year, Sept. q, with President FlaveI s. Luther, a native of Brook lyn, who has been on years leave of absence, once again in the chair. Dr. Luther returns much improved in health after his years rest.
 Druggists here who have had their profits cut down by war prices were relieved Thursday, when the weekly drug bulletin announced important decline in prices for bromine and bro mides, benzoI and toluoI, and citric, tartaric and carbolic acids.
 The summer meeting of the direc- tors and officers of the Connecticut Dairymen's Association was held at MiddletOWn Wednesday. In the af- ternOO nthe visiting dairymen were guests of IT. O. Daniels at MilIbrook Farm. About 20 were present.
 Volumes and of The Western Re- serve of Ohio, and Some of Its PiO- neers, Places and WOmen's Clubs have been given to the Connecticut FIistori- cal Society by Dr. George PaTmele of Glastonbury. Pioneers from Norwich helped settle The Western Reserve.
 George Bartha and Elmer Most ar rived at Lords Point this week for several dpys' visit having made the trip from Philadelphia by power canoe in 12 days. The craft is about the regulation 15-foOt canoe and is euuip- ped with Out-rigging to make it more seaworthy. \
 In some counties of Connecticut the county homes are refusing to accept children till the paralysis scare is over. At Norwich no such rule is necessary since all new children go into the re- ceiving house for three weeks, after the county commissioners have been given four days notice.
 Miss Kate Copp of Groton, has mo- tifed Anna Warner Bailey chapter D. A. R., that she is to present a Col-- lection of Eskimo weapons and trOph- ies to the chapter for exhibition at the Monument house. The collection will be given in memory of her broth CT, to whom the articles belonged.
 The United States civil service com mission announces for Aug. an ex- animation for assistant in marketing livestock and meats, for men only, to fill two vacancies in the office of markets and rural organization, de- partment Of agriculture, Washington D. C., at salaries ranging from $1,8OO to $2,400 a year.
 A party of fifteen young women and one man, members of this years class of the Eugenics' Record Office of Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, un- der direction of the Carnegie Founda- tton, is visiting Connecticut institu- ttons this week. A similar delegation came to the Norwich State Hospital about three years ago.
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