Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-04
VARIOUS MATTERS

.vAN1OOS MAI lENS Foggy weather is predicted for to- day.
 Light vehicle lamps at 5.57 this l evening.
 The moon is in its first quarter this | morning at 600.
 Recent gales have blown many horse ! chestnuts from the trees. I The October fly is lively and busy and this is a good time to swat him l out of existence.
 | Outdoor workers have had very lit l tle stormy weather to hinder them | for the past month.
 Some of the local boat owners are l beginning to think about hauling out thir craft for the winter. The duck hunting season on the l Connecticut river opened Monday and the hunters report excellent luck Tuesday was a beautiful autumn day and many improved the delightful weather for motor and other outings. The woodbines about town are 8 brilliant scarlet and many of the trees are taking on autumnaI tints of gold or red.
 It is quiet about Block Island since the warships left, but the U. s. Wor- don has gone back to Block Island sound for practice.
 Somerset Lodge will meet tonight at 7.30.-adV.
 Neptune park property owners are to receive half payment for sidewalks built in the park, by vote of the New London common council.
 Deaths in Connecticut from infan- tile paralysis, during September, ac- cording to unofficial records were 40 as compared with 60 in August.
 A number from eastern Connecticut will go to Norwalk today, to attend the semi annual meeting of the Wom- an's Congregational Home Missionary Union of Connecticut.
 The receipts of the state automobile department for the fiscal year which ended Saturday evening amounted to $768, ,727.91. The amount received for the previous fiscal year was S536,970
 The papers are announcing that the marriage of Rear Admiral Casper F. Goodrich, retired. of Pomfret, and Miss Sarah Minis Hays, of Philadelphia, is to take place in Philadelphia October 18th.
 Members of the w. R. c. are re- ceiving invitations to be present on October at the state capitol, when tablet will be dedicated ll memory of General Grant by the members of the. Connecticut division.
 September temperature figures show that the month just past was normal month, the mean temperature for the 30 days being 64 degrees as compared with an average mean for the past A years at 63.9.
 At the recent sale of domestic arti- cles made by the 50 women given work last winter by the Employment Blu reau of the United Workers, articles sold netted nearly $40. The women will start work again Nov. 1.
 According to the records of the State Health Board there are I'll cases of infantile paralysis in Connecticut at present, including a new case from New London. The New London case is the second in the same family.
 Violent deaths in Connecticut dur ing September were 7S. Of these 60 were accidental, 15 suicidal and 3 homicides. Nineteen deaths, the larg- est number of accidental fatalities at tributed to any one cause. were due to automobiles.
 Local suffra gists have received mo- tification that plans are completed for the annual convention of the Con necticut Woman Suffrage association to be held at Bridgeport, October 25 and 26. Delegates are expected from between S5 and 90 affiliated leagues.
 Commodore Morton F. Plant. who is building a residence from plans by Guy Lowell on the 5Ox1OO north cor ner of 5th avenue and Seth street, New York, sold his old home on the avenue at the southwest corner of 52d street Monday. He had held it at S750,000.
 At New London Monday Health Of- ficer Dr. c. E. Chipman issued an or der closing the Nameaug school and forbidding children from the vicini- ty of Wall. West High, Coleman, Summer and Spring streets attending the Parochial school for an indefn- ite period.
 A Columbia woman, Mrs. Ann Ho1- brook and her daughter, Mrs. Alan son H. Fox are visiting the formers sister in Colchester. Mrs. Holbrook is 95, but made the journey from Co., lumbia to Colchester, a distance of about ten miles by carriage, yet did not seem greatly fatigued.
 At Lyme Monday, Thomas L. Haynes and Henry H. Black, demo- cratic candidates for selectmen, poll ed but three votes more than the two republicans up for this office, and the republicans succeeded in placing two mem bers on the town school commit tee to one for the democrats
 A former Norwich man, Dr. T. R. Parker, of Willimantic, who with his wife and son. Raymond and Attorney B. Frank Bugbee has been at Upper Dam, Maine, for two weeks on a fish ing trip took two salmon which weighed over three pounds each and the party caught a number of small fish.
 At Derby, Patrick B. O'SulIivan, secretary of the democratic state cen tral committee, has been unanimously nominated for senator by the demo- crats of the 17th district He is the son of the late Dr. Thomas J. O'Su1- livan, native of Norwich and mar