Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-12
VARIOUS MATTERS

| aL WdlCn Hill tnlS week. ! The room Of the employment bureau | of the United Workers will be closed l until further notfce.-adv. l Many Norwich housewives make a summer practice of regularly donating i jars of jam and jelly for use at the | hospital.
 | As announced Wednesday, 3s enlist ed Tn Connecticut the day before, n1ak- | ing the states total army enlistments | to date 1,467.
 l For the second time this year, the 18th, tomorrow, will fall on Friday, as | 1t did in April. This will not happen again during 1917.
 Shore hotel people are hoping for a few more pleasant days like Sunday, when 1,4o0 automobiles crossed the state bridge at Saybrook. People who buy awnings find a sharp advance in price this week. due to the governments big demand for duck and heavy awning fabric. day at present Eastern Connecticut l farmers are shipping 10000 quarts of milk daily to the Boston market. Steam is still up at the Hopkins & Allen Arms plant and several hun dred workmen have been employed right along, finishing up contracts. This season about so,22o motor ve- hicie operators licenses have been issued. which, at 8 apiece, has l brought $160,4 40 into the state treas ury.
 This CThursday) evening, at Broad way church prayer meeting. Rev. E. s. Worcester, the pastor. will consider the topic of Congregationalism in the South.
 The Lyme library report for June was as follows: Main library, books circulated, SIS; South Lyme branch, 42. Total s60 Reading room attend ance, 1s5.
 While the Connecticut peach crop is to be of record proportions, the states apple crop will be less than half the normal yield, according to fruit growers.
 As valuable feed for poultry and a seed growing well on poor land state authorities are urging Connecticut farmers to sow at least a little buck wheat just now.
 Residents in the vicinity of Frank lin Street Park complain of the way some of the boy visitors to the park upset the benches and otherwise dam age city property.
 Notice was received here Wednesday that the national enlisted strength of only 3,23o men are needed to round it out to maximum strength, 30, ,0o0
 Peter Durando, of New London. charged with delivering liquor in a no-Hcense town was found guilty and
 fined $2O0 and costs of S1467 by Dep uty Judge A. r. Hewitt in the Groton town court Tuesday.
 A large catch of swordfish was brought in Tuesday by schooner Con- quest Captain John Hendrickson of Noark. The catch, g fish in all weigh ed s,s6o pounds. the largest fish weighing 565 pounds.
 arrested in Cron1wall charged with passing 9 standing trolley ear with his automobile was given hearing be- fore Justice Noble and fined s10 and costs amounting to s22.72. The governor of New York, Charles s. Whitman. son of a Spr-gue Conn. minister, has appointed Sunday. July Is, day upon which all people. of whatever religion or creed shall offer prayer for Americas armies Delegates from this section are at of foreign missionary societies opened Tuesday and will be insessipn until July r. This will be followed by the home mission summer school from July IS to July A.
 The national commission announces for July z5 an examination for veter- marian. for men only. Vacancies in the Bureau of Animal Industry. De- partment of Agriculture, at the en- trance salary<o of s1,4o0 year, will be filled from this examination.
 Officials of the Norwich Savings so- ciety are pleased to see how many children continue to add to their ac- counts inaugurated during Thrift Week. when the bank matched each original dollar deposited with a gift dollar to many girls and boys.
 Friends here learn that Rev. F. w Coleman and family intend to go from home at wolfboro, N H.. ar usual, joining the family of District Superin- tendent c. c. Scrivener of Norwich, who arrived at the lake last week.
 number of members of the Holy Name society and other friends joined relatives who assisted at a months mind requiem high mass for James B. Shannon. sung in St. Patrick's church Wednesday by Rev J. H. Brod- efick at the request of the society.
 Local motorists forget that the or
 
 must not exceed thirty miles an hour. But when going through places where the average distance between buildings IS not more than one hundred feet the rate or speed must not exceed twenty miles.
 With Boston full of visiting Eiks. walters in ten leading hotels went on strike Tuesday. At the Lenox Form CT Governor David I. Walsh, who was 2 speaker at the Norwich Board of Trade banquet last year a guest at the house. put or an apron and served his friends.
 The laboratory of the state board of health at Middletown has been trans ferred to the Connecticut Experiment station under the direction of the new bacteriolcgfst, Dr. Charles J. Bartlett. whom the new health commission ap- pointed 8 few days ago to succeed the late Dr. Conn.