Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-12
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Norwich, Thursday, Oct. 12, 1916.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Some of the schools held Columbus day exercises yesterday. Several from this vicinity attended Stafford fair Wednesday. A heavy white frost covered the roofs yesterday morning. With yesterday, the days length de- creased just four hours. Wednesday was a busy day at the banks because of the legal holiday to- day.
 The Ladies' Benevolent Union of the Central Baptist church met Tuesday afternoon in Bushnell chapel. For @ short time yesterday the dust | blew about in clouds, making people realize how badly rain is needed
 Most of the Norwich families who have cottages at Groton Long Point have closed them for the season.
 As the schools will be closed today, l Columbus day. Q number of the teach CTS left Wednesday night for short outings.
 Chief Gunners Mate F. W. Dun ming of the Hartford naval recruiting 1 station has been conducting a recruit 1 ing campaign at Stafford fair. This (Thursday) evening at the mid week meeting of the Second Congre- gational church. the topic will be The Gospel in Action; Mark 1:16-34 Twenty churches are represented in the Adventist conference in Danbury, and fully a hundred delegates from ali parts of the territory in Connecticut.
 The planet Mars is still in the west ern evening sky, but. is too distant to be well seen. It was in Libra on the 1st and will be in Scorpio on the 31st.
 B. B. James. with his two hounds, caught and killed a big raccoon the other morning not far from the home of William Partlo, east of North Ston- ington.
 Although temperatures of 33 de- greeS and under were recorded early Wednesday morning, cosmos, saIvia, heliotrope and other blossoms were untouched by frost
 Don't forget the dance at Yantic Friday.-adV.
 A Guilford correspondent states that the Shore Line trolley freight which runs through Guilford daily was taken off Tuesday for an indefinite period on account of lack of power.
 The state W. c. T. U. paper, The White Ribbon Banner, says: Cheering news in the way of an increased mem bership comes from Mystic, Water bury, New Haven No l and some other places.
 Next Sunday afternoon at Trinity Methodist church. five difrereDn reIig- ions will be impersonated by ladies from the First Congregations church The Rev. G. H. Ewing will have charge of the exercises.
 says: A very large share of the ma terial for this issue was prepared by Edgar M. Warner of Putnam, a man well known for his tremendous 1nter- est in prison reform. .lt.4
 Miss Josephine D. Sutton. secretary to President F. H. Syes. will address the Windham committee in charge of raising fund for the erection of Windham hall at Connecticut college at a meeting at Thompson Saturday Wednesday, afternoon Comfort circle of the Kings Daughters met with Mrs Freelove A. Miller of Penobscot street. present. The leader Mrs. 4. T. Utley, came up from Neptune Park to pre- side.
  New London expects to discontinue on Sunday. Oct. Is, enactment of the health embargo against children un- der 16 which has been operative since the outbreak of infantile paralysis out of town last summer.
 A determined effort is to be made to reach every legislator throughout the cities and towns of Connecticut before the next state legislature con- in fO int II, project for the erection of state home for delinquent women.
 The Waterbury American says that the AIumnae Association Of Notre Dame Convent met Monday evening and went on record as favoring the formation of a state Federation of A1umnae Associations, including that of the Convent of the Holy Family, Baltic.
 Rev. Dr. John BrownIee Voorhees, pastor of the Asylum Hill Congrega- tjonal church. and Rev Irving H. Berg, pastor of the South Congrega- tional church, Hartford, are among the ministers who will preach during the winter at the Connecticut College for Women.
 The United States civil service com mission announces for Oct IS-19, an examination for fruit crop specialist for men only, to fill three vacancies in the Bureau of Crop Estimates, De- partment of Agriculture for duty in the field, at salaries ranging from $1,098 to $2,016.
 The body of Wright Huntington (John H. Silliman). the actor who has played in suburban towns and who dropped dead on the street in Gin cinnati two weeks ago, was cremated It Is expected that the ashes will be buried in the Silliman family plot in Moodus cemetery.
 At the wedding of Miss Clara Slo- cum Bates and Joseph Paquette at St. Joseph's church, New London, on Tuesday morning, friends were pres ent from North Adams, Worcester, Fall River, Preston and Norwich. Rev. William c. Fitzsimmons celebrated the nuptial mass.
 At University of Vermont. Among the students enrolled at the T-zs-x