Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-03
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps at 5.5s this evening.
 The Groton Monument house is to be
 kept open dat,y until Nov. 15. This weeks census at the Norwich
 State hospital shows 1,25S patients. The next legal holiday, Columbus | day, comes a week from Thursday, the
 18th.
 Miss Carrie B. Champ1in. teacher of
 piano and harmony. IA Chuch street. | adv.
 Ndlknen and other early risers | found the mercury down to 29 degrees Monday morning.
 At present Jailer oscar Main has 30 | prisoners in his charge a. Norwich l jail, 29 men and one woman.
 Fine new asphalt walks have been l laid on Union street in front of the
 Collins and Kennedy properties.
 The big Episcopalian convention at St. Louis will be attended by the rec 1 tor of Christ church, Rev. Richard R.
 Graham, and Mrs. Graham. Waterbury members of the w. c. T. U. are preparing to entertain over 200 delegates to the state convention in that city Oct. Il, 12 and 13, Although a number of women in the towns of Bozrah and Colchester had been made voters, not one in either
 place went to the polls at Mondays election.
 Tonight ct Trinity college, Hartford,
 there will be a college smoker in honor
 of the return of Rev. Dr. Tlavel S.
 Luther, president of the college, a na-
 tive of Brooklyn, Conn.
 Charles P. Avery, occurred Sunday
 morning at their home on the Alewife
 farm in Waterford. She is survived by
 her husband and two sons. Wanted, everybody to come to the Norwich Girls Club whist tonight, 8 o'clock, Buckingham Memorial.-adV.
 During October the planet Mercury
 will be in the western evening sky, l reaching its greatest distance from the sun on Oct. IS. It will be too near the sun to be seen to advantage. After F years of service as matron
 of the New London jail, Mrs. Mary J. | Stebbins has resigned and has been succeeded by Mrs. William Gilbert. | The change became effective Sunday. The United States civil service com 1 mission announces fer Oct. IT an ex- animation for gardener. for men only, to fill. vacancy at s720 a year in the 1 Indian service at Tulalfp, Washing ton.
 The Franco Serbian field hospital of America, with offices at 1T West 18th street, New York, Henry B. Britton,
 treasurer, acknowledges recent gifts, including one from Norwich, Conn.,, of
 s66.
 The first Tuesday in each month
 mass is read at the Norwich tuber- culosis sanatorium by 8 priest from
 St. Patrick's church for the consola-
 tion of the 50 or more Catholic pa
 tients.
 last week Beatrice Whitehouse was franted a decree from Herbert E. Whitehouse on the ground of deser- ton. The plaintiff was given right to | change of name.
 Tn spite of warnings, for the year | ending June 30, 172 persons were kill | ed while trespassing on New Haven | railroad property, as compared with | I3a for the previous 12 months. Killed
 and injured were 346 as compared
 with 27G.
 Rev. P. F. Wolfenden of Waterford 1 conducted the first vesper services of l the year at Thames hall, Connecticut | celege, Sunday afternoon, delivering
 an eloquent sermon on Spiritual Civ
 ilization. Singing was led by choir | of 10 students.
 1 Workmen are cleaning off the upper end of Themes street Groton and it | is opened to the public as far as | Pleasant street. Another section will | be opened this week. The cars of the Groton and Stonington line run all the way to the ferry.
 Monday evening on the open field next to Dr. Fox's house in. Uncasville there was a campfire, 'marshmallows and frankfurts were toasted, songs
 sung and stories told, The object was to make up the last few dollars of the electric light fund. At a recent meeting, of ouina tissett grange, Thompson. a letter written by
 murdered Sybel Pettis, which was written by her the evening before her
 tragic death, was :ead by Miss Edna
 Hall, and produced deep sadness throughout the El ange. Miss Dorothy Strobridge Fi1eld was united in ma rriage at the home of her parents in New Haven with George | Curtiss Job. Yale, "A, Saturday even | ing by Rev. Harlan P. Beach of Yale, assisted by Rev. Herbert K. Job, 1 father of the groom, the latter once naturalist at StorrS.
 | An interesting incident of yester- days election at Fitchville, town of l Bozrah, was the fact that Mrs. Helen l Dawley Palmer, nominated by the democrats for school committee re- ceived the second highest vote, 105, while her husband, Frank E. Palmer Republica nnominee, boiled 80. No wo-
 men voted.
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