Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-22
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VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Stevens Studio will be closed today. Open Wednesday.-adv.
 The cattails in the big swamp below Fort Point are beginning to head
 Complaints about boys stealing fruit have been made by some of the orchard owners.
 At present there are 61 inmates at the State Inebriates' farm at Brew sters' Neck.
 Janitor Fields has some handsome saIvia and geraniums in bloom in the courthouse grounds.
 A patient from Hamburg, Mrs. Mary Tiffany, who has been at Lawrence hospital, New London, was discharged Sunday.
 After eight or ten comfortable sum- mer days, the mercury climbed into the 90's Monday, and there was con- siderable humidity.
 At North stonirgton, Thurman Maine, who was overcome by the heat Tuesday whil eoperating his moving machine, is recovering.
 Norwich mothers who venture to take their children to the beaches these days are careful to go provided with the health officers certificate.
 At waIlingford, Miss Ruth B. Fowler of W1llimantic has been appointed by the Central school district committee commercial teacher in the high school
 4 Norwich man who was in Noank Monday states that nearly 500 men are now employed at the shipyard and ev- cry man at all qualified is hired on application.
 The cucumber season has started and these sunny days they ripen fast. They are picking hundreds on Holland county farms, where they raise them for the pickle factory.
 With the civilian rockies on board, nine battleships of the reserve fleet, forming the nucleus of the defending squadron in the coming uanOeuvTes, are lying at anchor off Block Island. The New London Telegraph men tiOns that Prosecuting Attorney Daniel M. Cronin has entered Lawrence hos pitaI for treatment for an affection Of his eyes from which he has previously suffered.
 Notices are posted on all roads lead ing into Hebron that no children under Is years of age can enter the town, under penalty Of the law. That is, they may not remain there. They may ride through
 Groton Camp Fire Girls will leave Friday for 11ason's Island, where they have rented one of the Palmer cot tages for two weeks camping under 1 the chaperOnage of Mrs. Lester Harris, l guardian of the circle. The Westerly Sur referring to the big gale of Sept. 23d, 1915, recalls that l the spray Of the sea was borne far back into the country, so that salt was collected on the window panes upon PendletOR Hill and as far back as Plain1eId.
 The motorboat owned by Dr. Frank W. HOlms of Norwich, run into and sunk on boat race day by the Widener steam yacht, is still in q boat build CTS var dat Groton, while the lawyers and insurance men haggle over some settlement.
 Alfred Foster of Mystic captured a l copperhead snake at Lantern Hill Fri day. It is claimed to be a deadly l poisonous reptile, but Poster handled it as though it was harmless. After showing 1t to a large crowd, he killed and skinned 1t.
 All college students who are mem | D~-D u IIlC 4lGL4OIldl $ uUIu NlIl De ! mustered out of federal service about Sept. l, unless conditions make neces- | sary their presence with their various l commands then, according to Q recent ! ruling of the War department.
 Regarding delaying the term opening ] at Yale because of infantile paralysis l Dean r. $. Jones of the college said 1 Sunday that he had heard of no such | step having been taken by the univer- tr~sA | had not been informed Cf it. While a few days of waiting may l change the situation n Connecticut in | regard to the oyster set, indications 1 just now are unfavorable A few | shells planted on the beach are show | ing little spawn, but out in the 1 sound very few sets have been seen.
 Frank A. Munsey of New York. | owner of the Mohican hotel, spent l Monday somewhere in Maine The 1 day was the 62d anniversary of MT. 1 Munsey's birth and he spent the day l in resting, as i3 his custom each year.
 He was born at Mercer, Me, Aug. 21, | 1854.
 4 riva. Of Horace Johnson, Henry | [. Hedges, is out with the prediction | that the weather for September and l October will be the best two months O4 l 1 coming cold winter, he says The war
 in Europe will not come to an end until 1 1917.
 The former Jonathan Pope house on | Broadway, having been moved to it's
 new foundation down Otis street. for i the owner, D. T. Shea, the grounds in front have been graded by St. Pat
 ricks parish and the church on that | side is being repaired and all the | irOnWork repainted.
 Eighteen members of the Christian | EndeavOr society of the Groton Con- gregational church enjoyed a launch
 ing party and picnic Saturday after
 noon. On board James D. Williams launch, piloted by Earl Fowler, the
 party came up the river to the Smith
 place at Kitcmaug.
 This week at Watch Hill the big Ram Island races will be held and four cups are offered ae enticements to the en-
 tries. Two are given by Phillips Turnbull for the handicap class, first
 and second pries, and the other two
 by Mrs. Mantan B. Metcaf for the
 winners in the dory class.
 This (Tuesday) evening there is tc