Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-23

country roads is showing it's velvet blooms.
 The town school committee of He bron at it's last meeting voted to post pone the opening of the schools. for two weeks.
 The katy-dids sang for the first time Monday evening. The first frost comes September q. if the old tradition proves true,
 Not the least annoying feature of the heated evening is the plague of in sects, large and small. which are un- comfortably active.
 The preacIer at the Central Bap- tist church next Sunday will be Rev. Peter c. Wright. of Philadelphia. a
 New London real estate transac- lions include the sale by Maria E. Squire to Duncan Sinclair, formerly of Norwich, of building and land on Linden street.
 A Canaan correspondent notes that School Supervisor E. B. Stone Is spending two weeks at StOrrs attend ing the annual meer1ng of state school supervisors.
 This weeks movements of naval vessels include: Missouri. Ohio, and Wisconsin. from Hampton Roads for Block Island sound; Promotions, Nor fork, for Block Island sound.
 Those sage Individuals who pre- dicted that this summer was to dupH- cate the heatless season of 1916 are silent these days, when temperatures of 95 and 96 are being recorded.
 The faIling-off in the number of children at the beaches because of the paralysis scare is seriously inter the dealers in candy. toys, novelties, etc.
 The election at Hartford of a sue cCssOr to the late Mother Fabian. su- periOr general of the Sisters of NTer- probably be held the latter part of this week.
 Horace Johnson predicts a violent storm near the end of this week. Iris. he says will he the last Of the seasons storms. He predicts that LahOr Day week will bring good weather.
 Joseph J. Libby, chief engineer at the Shore Line electric power house. at Saybrook. has resigned. A man from the General Electric company. Schenectady. will cover the job for the present.
 tt the annual meeting of the Wo- mans association Of Eastern Point. held ag Mrs. William .. NcDOnald's home the officers elected included: Secretary, Mrs. Edmund ". Perkins, os Norwich.
 The Volunteer lowed a scow to Mas sapcaC Monday afternoon where it will load sand at the bank of the Sand and Stone Co.,, to be used by BQlbrook, Cabot and Rollins Co.,, on the Thames River bridge job.
 The summer cottagers of Block Is land looked upon a. most imposing ar mada. Monday, the reserve fleet of nine battleships on which the civilian volunteers are serving having been joined by thirty-One other vessels.
 The members of the reception com rnittee for the 4. o. H. parade and convention at NiddIetown. Tuesday, as appointed by Postmaster M. H. Walsh, chairman of the commission, included Postmaster John P. Murphy, of Norwich.
 Tuna fishing at Block Island con tirues good, the biggest catch of the week falling to Fred J. Myers and Arthur o. Freedman of New York. who caught TAT 1-2 pounds of fish, the largest weighing forty seven and one half pounds.
 Preparations are being made to celebrate on o national scale on Sept. 6 the one hundred and ffty-ninth an niversary of the birth of Lafayette. The distinguished French general wis ited Norwich three times during and after the Revolutionary War.
 
 Officials of the NTisquamicut Golf club ct Watch Hill are negotiating for the bungalow of the Norwich choir boys at Pleasant View to house tho 115 caddies employed on the golf links. because of the regulations re- stricting children under 15 y&rs of age from riding on the trolley cars.
 4 New London man who has recov- cred after a year at the Norwich Tu- berculosis sanitarium, but whose rel atives refuse. through fear of the dis ease. to take him and his family in until he gets work, is furnishing a problem for the Associated Chari- ties of that city.
 Although it is expected that New York children in Connecticut will stay later than usual this year announce nlent was made Tuesday thst princi- pals and clerks of the department of education are ordered to report Sep tember 6-7 and teachers to assemble September 8.
 Friends here receive word that Mrs. Henry Robins, of the Drawbridge, has successfully undergone a second oper- ation at a sanitarium in Ielrose, Mass. She is 2 member of Comfort circle of the Kings Daughters, of Norwich, and has numerous relatives in Moosup and Ekonk.
 The ffty-sixth annual reunion of the Abner Dickinson family was held at the Pond house in Elizabeth park, Hartford, Saturday, and was attended by about thirty members. The first reunion was held in 1860. The officers reelected included Vice President Miss Julia Dickinson, of Vernon, ToI- land county.
 New London men, s. M. Johnson and Frank Burner. soldiers on the re- serve list and for the past several months employed as brakemen on the New Haven road, have been called back to duty by the government and left Sunday for Houston, Texas, to report. Johnson is member Of the
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