Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 7.1s this evening.
 Thursday was, Saint Joachim's day
 In the church calendar.
 During August the planet Neptune
 Is very near Saturn in Cancer. By tomorrow the days length will
 have decreased an even hour and a
 half.
 II There are fewer cat tails than in or
 dinary years in the swamps below Fort Point.
 II The Parker Genealogy is among | books recently acquired by the Otis | library.
 Dr. Lynes' office will be closed until Il Sept. 4th.-adv.
 There were many new arrivals of yesterday.
 Wild cherry trees along the country roads are disfigured with nests of the tent caterpillars.
 i Yesterday was day to the golf | CTS taste, and there were many mem bers at the club house.
 Vacation tourists yesterday had nothing on the stay-at-homes who reveled in Thursdays fine weather. | The 22d annual Fowler family re- l union is to be held at the town hall in Middlefield, Conn.,, Wednesday, Aug f2
 A Saybrook correspondent mentions 1 that Supt. G. G. Rudd made his last visit at the carbarns Tuesday as an official of the road. Oranges in surrounding towns are | beginning to get interested in the 63d annual county fair, to be held in Norwich next month.
 The license fee on all female dogs has been raised from s5 to s10 and certain changes in the law are widen Ing the dog wardens' power. Charles E. Pennima9 of Middletown caught a seven and q half pound black fish recently off Griswold's Island, be- tween South Lyme and Crescent Beach.
 Former Norwich residents, Rev. and Mrs. c. B. Bromley, now of the Meth odist church at Wilsonville, will reach their golden wedding anniversary Nov. 14t1 next.
 Dr. Richards office will be closed until Sept. 4th.-adv.
 A d9rIIord paper noted InurSudy that Mrs Edwin W. Higgins of Nor wich, wife of former Congressman Higgins, was a visitor at the state capitol Wednesday.
 At Pomfret this (Friday) evening Mrs. Bella P. Learned of Norwich, who Is spending the season at the inn, is to give public reading at Pomfret Neighborhood house.
 An Ellington resident. Mrs. Maud Pomeroy Kimball, started Thursday for North Bethel, Me. for two weeks tramping trip with the Appa- lachian Club of Boston.
 Next Sunday is the communion Sun day of the Rosary and Scapuiar so- numbers particularly most of the married women of the parish.
 A correspondent advises: After you have gathered the garden vegetables, give the hens an open season on the bugs and insects, the denizens of the old vines and other waste vegetation.
 That money may be sent to the American expeditionary forces in Flu | rope at the same rate by postoff1ce | money order as it may be sent do- mestically is announced in the daily l bulletin of the postal department.
 Those who are exempted from the |
 
 boards will be given a bronze button | Issued by the government which may | be worn in the coat lapel. The but l tons are being received in Connecti- l cut towns.
 The schooner Clara Davis, which is | at Leghorn. Italy, has been sold to a for the sum of $S0,O00. She cost about | t40,000. This is the last boat of the | Atlantic Shipping company of Stoning- | Ion to be disposed of.
 The pine trees at Poquonnoc which were set out by Groton borough about | ten years ago are not doing well. They have been attacked by an insect for which nobody can find a cure. The "a talpa trees planted at the same time are not large but seem healthy
 Sixteen Portuguese men, all friendly aliens, left Stonington Tuesday for va 'ious parts in an effort to get back to he Western Islands A few go with he intention of entering service in heir native land and others hope to escape the draft if they are called,
 There are now in use in the Norwich ;ity water system about 1900 meters l which are read quarterly, and four months of the year (March, June and December) are practi- ally consumed in these readings and special calls by Inspector Frederick Tyler. A warning against the unlawful wearing of the uniform of the United states army, navy or marine corps has been issued from Washington. The penalty for violation. of the law quoted s a fine not exceeding $500 and inn Drlsonment not exceeding six months, | ,r both.
 Announcement is made of the en- sagement of Miss Bessie T. Wilcox, laughter of MT and Mrs IT IT Wi1oov