Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-27


 Norwich. Monday. Aug: 27, 1917.
 VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 7.O1 this ] evening.
 | The Coventry fair is to be held 1 this year on the last Wednesday in l September.
 This year the Norwich Red Cross is to have a display booth at the | County Fair.
 Recent guests at East Harram were 1 Mrs. Marion Comstock and children of Quaker Hill.
 pr. Richards office will be closed until Sept. 4th.-adv.
 | Ground attracted Methodists from this l section Sunday.
 About 400 men have arrived in camp 1 at Mantle from Vermont to remain 1 for several weeks.
 On 8 clear day like Sunday. many l visitors enjoy the view from the sum 1 init of Lantern Hill.
 
 in Boston in attendance at the c. A l R. convention have returned. Raccoons are reported as damag ging the corn crop in some places, during the past moonlight nights. i Some exceptionally tall dahlias are | growing in the garden of George E. | Zimmerman. on Warren street l Passengers on the Groton division 1 trains find much to interest them in watching the hydroa erop1ane at the | submarine base.
 The wind from .he northwest oar- to points far south of Norwich, on Sunday morning.
 The little blues have failed to show up off the shore towns, and it is doubtful if they will, as it is getting rather late for them now.
 Thursday next. is the forty fifth an- niversary of the wreck of the steamer Metis, from New York to Provi- dence. when off Watch Hill, August 90, 1872.
 Attorney David g Day. of Bridge port, son of former Consul F. S. Day of Colchester. has left for Plattsburg. N. Y, to enter the officers training camp.
 The girls at Twin Lake camp Lantern Hill, gave their annual vau- deville show at the camp Saturday evening
 Yesterday the last Sunday of sum nner well as the last Sunday in August, everybody felt the outing i'm pulse. and traffic was heavy in all directions
 The state automobile department is making vigorous efforts to enforce the law governing the licensing of. auto mobilists who have been living in the state for 30 days.
 Following Saturdays heat and Eumitidy there was a drop of near " 20 degrees in ternpera ture so that Sunday was cool and bracing as an Autumn day.
 A Bolton man. H. Douglas Fryer has gone to Charlotte, South Carolina, as general secretary of the Y. M c A. in a camp of 16.oo9 soldiers. He has three secretaries assisting him.
 John NJ. Crampton, state superin- tendent of fish and game, will speak at the convention of the National Fish and Game Commissioners associa- ton in St. Paul Minn. this week.
 St. Thomas Seminary, Hartford, where there are Eastern Connect V. September 12- Entrance exanina tions will be at ? D. m. Resident students will report at D. m.
 Proceeds from an entertainment given Saturday night by cottagers in the chapel at Pleasure Beach. Water ford. are t0 be divided equally between the Central War Work fund and the Beach Improvement association
 Friday the summer school which had been in session at the Danbury State Normal school ended after ses- sions of four weeks. The school has been very well attended and great in terest has been shown in the work
 William 4. Prothero of Norwich. has seven nephews enlisted in the great world war. Three of the bows gre located at the front in France and four others are doing service in the army and navy of the United States.
 Dr. and Mrs Edmund Lyman Hood have announced the marriage of their dausf7 ter Claris and Rev. Arthur Wes- lev Parwick Thursday, August 16 at Atlanta. Georgia. They will he home after September first in Plafnf1eld, Conn.
 Recent storms have churned up the water so that the surf at the beaches has been very dirty for several days,
 -hOueN lO DuF WOOL TOT Knitting is being received by members of the Wo- mans League for National service. but much more could be used.
 Al the service at St Stephens' church. East Haddam, Sunday, at To- 30 the preacher was Rev. R. R. Parker, o~ner rector of St. Andrews parish. tireeneviHe, who recently presented a beautiful silk flag to the East Had dam church, his former charge.
 Copies of the new tatutes which are being distributed provide a penal | tF Of ten years for the theft of a mo- TOT vehicle. Tax liens and alta ch- ment liens are also made void after i2 yeE~s. an enactment which will 1 save much trouble for title searchers.
 The formal acceptance to the call l e:>tended by the Central Baptist l