Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-22
VARIOUS MATTERS

| Norwich, Friday, June 22, 1917. | VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 7.B4 thi. evening.
 The term and year of St. Patrick's parish school will close at noon to-
 day.
 watermelons have appeared in mar
 ket, coincident with the shore dinner | sess son.
 l A few more sunny days will put the native strawberry crop i'll picking | condition.
 Stevens Studio closed today oders
 taken for N. F. A. graduating class grorp.-adv.
 Lou Merino, of Amston, has shipped | his famous St. Bernard dog, Bale, to Vermont, to spend the summer.
 Today, June 22, is the soth birthday of E. A. Dudley, one of the most ac- tive residents of the West Side. Some of the lumbermen hereabouts have acquired the knack Of hauling their big telephone poles by auto truck.
 A North Ashford man, Donald A. Collins, has returned from California His object is to enlist in Connecti- cut regiment.
 At the Thursday evening prayer
 meeting at Broadway church. the sub ject was Questions on the Fifth Chap ter of Matthew.
 Crows are giving Old Lyme farmers
 much extra work this season through
 pulling up corn. They are more trou-
 blesome than the deer.
 Railroad men learn that the short age of freight cars in the United States was reduced during May from l4s.627 to 105,127 cars.
 It is announced by the White Ribbon Banner that the National w c. T. U. convention will be held in Washing ton, D. C., Dec. 2-7, 1917.
 Some of the New York public schools do not close until next week which will delay the coming of summer boarders to surrounding towns.
 The former Chapman property at Gardner Lake, recently purchased by Archibald Mitchell, Jr. of Norwich, Is being put in order for the season.
 Thursday afternoon, Comfort circle of the Kings Daughters met with Mrs.
 ~, the vice regent, Mrs. J. H. Allen, pre- siding.
 Much interest is being shown in the mid week meetings at Trinity Metho- dist church, as conducted according to an original plan by the pastor, Rev J. H. Newland.
 One person has been propounded for membership in the Second ConSre- sational church by profession of faith and one by letter at the next meeting Of the church committee.
 At o'clock Thursday, in St. Pat rfck's church, months mind high | Holy Name society for NJ. B. Ring l was sung by Rev. J. H. Frederick.
 The annual meeting of the State Lake Con1pounce Wednesday The | speaker Wednesday afternoon was | Mrs. Mary Banderbilt of Brooklyn, x. | Y.
 Next Monday the New Haven road 1 will again change it's timetable and a | new one will go into effect A num- Der ot trains will probably be discon- l tinued but on what divisions has not yet been given out.
 Henry H. Gorton of the Gilead dis trfct. Waterford was one of nineteen of the 27 members who were grad 1ated from Yale with the class of 1862, present at the annual reunion of that class Wednesday.
 Miss Fife Watson Rogers. former secretary to the president of Storru l Agricultural College. died wednesdaS It the home of her parents, MT and place, East Orange. N. J.
 The Atlantic & Pacific Tea store x-i f@ ! .er1t. amount on all sales conducted Tuesday. This policy was carried out y the entire chain of stores of this corporation in this country
 Groton D. A. R. chapter, as, unit las taken upon itself the task of rais- ng s1.e0o among it's members and 1 heir friends for the Red Cross cam ptred by the s1oo gift from Morton I :. Plant
 The United States civil service com 1fssio1 announces for June 26 an ex- , for inspector of cloth men : nly. One to three vacancies in the rdnance department at large of the l ' Tar department at s2,500 to s3,O00 a [ ear will be filled from this examina- . lon. By notice issued Wednesday men r conscript age who have violated the { elective draft law by failing to reg i 'ter for service still have a chance keep out of jail if they go to head 1 c uarters in the district in which they ve and offer themselves for registra- V on. Q Mrs. David Watt. Mrs. Charles Mc- O lynn. Miss Marion Nash, Miss Netta ,eeler. Miss Anna Willing, Miss Bid ie, attended a four day course Of annirg at Storrs' Agricultural Col f 'se, which Is in the interest of the \ inning the women of Rfdgeffeld are A tanning.
 The almanacs fixed sunrise Thurs ay at 4.23, and sunset at TAO. mak- lg the day Is hours and r minutes II ng The United States Coast and II eodetic Survey decided that the sun L 'se yesterday at 4-24 and set at 731