Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-02

B. c. Bugbee has just closed seven years in the pastorate of Ashford churches.
 Choice soft shell crabs, fresh arrival today at Powers Bros.-adv.
 Much interest is manifested in the Norwich c. E. union meeting which is to be held next Saturday with the Lef- | fngwell church.
 A herd from the handsome Dutch belted cattle on the Leonard farm at Holland has been sent to a fair near the Canadian border.
 At S o'clock Friday morning in St. Patrick's church an anniversary high mass of requiem for Mrs. Henrietta Vanburen was sung by Rev. John H. Broderick.
 Poultry fanciers have been notified that the 21st annual exhibition of the Western Connecticut Poultry associa- ton, Inc, is to be held in Danbury late in November.
 Beginning the church year after va cation, The Parish Visitor of St. James Episcopal church, Poquetanuck, is issued in attractive form by the rector, Rev. Leavitt c. Sherburne.
 Rally for men and women Sunday, , D. m., Thayer building, Y. NJ. c. A. auspices, Rev. L. c. Sherburne and Swahn's orchestra.-adv.
 MacRae's Blue Book, Americas Greatest Buying Guide and the New England Business Directory, 1916, has been added to the Otis Library shelves.
 The schools at Mansfield will soon open. The grammar grades will be taught by Miss Fannie WhitIe of South Coventry and the primary room by Miss Clara Lindgren of New Haven.
 The choir of Park Congregational church, Eben Learned director which had a vacation for the last two. weeks of July and the last two weeks in Au- gust, will sing at the services tonor- row.
 After presiding at WiIIimantic camp meeting, District Superintendent George G. Scrivenor of Norwich joined his family at their summer cottage at Lake Wentworth, N. H., for a short stay.
 Funeral services for Mrs. Mary c. Harris were held at 48 Shapley street, New London. at 2.30 o'clock Thursday afternoon, with Rev. Joseph P. Brown officiating. Burial was at Starr ceme- tery, Groton.
 Following the all-day missionary 44lGCLIIlS at LilS IlOulC Ol AlIS. trace IA. Peckham at Franklin, a box of cake fine enough to win first premium at the coming county fair was forwarded to The Bulletin.
 For the accommodation of those wishing 70 reach New York the even ing of Labor day, the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad is to op- crate a special train from Boston the evening of the holiday.
 Literary workers and librarians are showing lively interest in the biogra- phy of Edmund Clarence Stedman, the banker-poet, written by Miss Margaret Fuller of Norwich, and due to be placed in circulation this month
 Six or eight graduate nurses from Norwich will go to New Britain for the quarterly meeting of the Graduate Nurses association of Connecticut to be held at St. Marks parish house Sept. 6, preceded by a basket lunch. Norwich women have received the assurance that Miss Julia Sabine the gifted speaker and experienced travel CT, will so arrange her appointments as to give public illustrated talk on Serbia in Norwich during September.
 Fire in a small shed used as a bath house in the rear of the waiting room of the Shore Line Electric Railway Co. at Ocean Beach was extinguished by a bucket brigade hurriedIy formed late Thursday afternoon. The damage was slight.
 Dr. and Mrs. Virgil P. Gibney of New York have announced the en- gagement of their daughter Miss Mari 1 on P. Gibney, to Dr. Daniel c. Patter- son of Bridgeport, son of w. E. Patter- son, of New London. No date has been set for the wedding
 Wonder is being excited by what are called yardstick beans, grown by Christopher Busch qS Sturtevant ave- The Bulletin office Friday were 32 inches in length, and the pods on the vines are still growing.
 The 18th annual exhibition of paint ings held at Old Lyme has proved the week were $575, and the amount l received from the tea $15S.92. Over $5,000 worth of pictures and sketches were sold during the week.
 The New London Telegraph notes that pr. James F. Young, city physi- clan, who was injured in an automo- bile accident on the Norwich New Lon- don highway several weeks ago, and who has been resting at his home in Danbury since that time, has returned to New London. The Hay Fever association's annual convention is being held at Bethlehem, W. H., and @ summer resident of Wind ham, Mrs. Simeon Ford, said in a letter to the association that her son. a long sufferer, had apparently been cured by taking carbonate of soda in 15-grain doses after each meal.
  |. Waterbury.--At the meeting of~ the city's law committee recently it was voted to report favorably to the boahd of aldermen on "an ordinance con- corning the blowing of steam and elec- tric whistles from g D. m. to 5 a. m"