Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-11
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VARIOUS MATTERS

1 D = | Light vehicle lamps at 724 this | evening.
 l The girls at Best View are making | the most of the canoeing season. l A brief shower early Friday morn 1 ing helped the growing crops some.
 The forty hours devotion begins | Sunday at St. Johns church, Mont vile.
 Fred Talcott, of Williams street has | joined the list of automobile owners | in town.
 The Norwich Red Cross contribu- tions here slowly climbed above the | s20.000 mark. spending the season at her summer home in Ashford. l number from this vicinity have been attending the poultry convention at Storrs this week.
 Mrs. Jane D. Nichols. ss. widow of Edward W. Nichols, died Wednesday at her home in Wateford. Chautauqua at Jewett City, Aug. 14- 1S.-adv.
 Tent caterpillars from neglected trees are now crawling about, making a nuisance of themselves. The annual reunion of the 20th Con- necticut Volunteers of the Civil War is to be held at Cheshire, August 23. Farmers are beginning to make preparations for exhibiting prize fruit and vegetables at the coming Norwich fair.
 Among guests registered at the Wigwam hotel, Pleasant View is Mrs. Harriet L. Kingsley, of Plainfield Conn.
 There are old fashioned dooryards along the Montville road where beds of petunias are still featured every season.
 Historians remembered Friday, Au- gust 10th. the anniversary of the Battle of Stonington, during the War of 1912.
 Tomorrow Sunday evening a team of the Westerly Laymen's league will visit North Stonington and conduct services at o'clock.
 Those who a short time ago were buying potatoes at 20 cents a quart feel like near -millionaires now when digging them by the bushel.
 A book of Eastern Connecticut in tenestly acquired by the Otis Library is J. D. Halls genealogy and biogra- phy of the Waldos of America.
 Relatives from a number of cities will be in Norwich today. to attend the memorial mass for James F. Cosgrove, at St. Patrick's church.
 Visit Barrow's mid summer shoe sale. All summer shoes at greatly re- duced prices.-adv.
 Norwich cottagers at Groton Long Point maintain that it was cooler there during the recent hot wave than at any other location along the coast.
 Extra work has been made for local dentists, who have been fixing up the molars of some of the men who have had to undergo the draft examina- ton.
 Edgcomb & Poppe. of Groton. are exhibiting an interesting picture of Groton and New London in 1850. A good view of Fort Griswold at that time is given.
 Dealers say that not only are house. wives canning and preserving fresh berries, vegetables, etc, but that canned goods.
 A Norwich boy, Fred Williams, suc- ceeded in distancing all competitors
 
 Ramp kilkare, the Y. M. C. A. camp on the Mantle river.
 The families of Henry w Branche formerly of Norwich, and Charles P. Potter, of Hartford, are spending the month at MT. Branches cottage, Rox- mont, at Lords Point
 Although the season was unusually late and the water of the Sound con- sidered chilly well into the summer, bathers are now finding the surf at just the proper temperature to prove exhilarating.
 General Manager J. Arthur Atwood of the Wauregan Mills has stated that it was the first time in thirty two years that the Wauregan Nils were forced to close because of heat, dur ing last weeks torrid days.
 A Plainfie1d correspondent notes that Rev. Dr. J. H. Selden of Norwich occupied the pulpit last Sunday at the Congregational church and gave war sermon on the text Why do they difer?" He was listened to by good sized audience for the vacation month.
 When the memorial window "The Good Shepherd, was unveiled at the Stafford Springs Congregational church Sunday morning, to Mrs. Clara K Baker, her former pastor and friend, Rev. Edwin W. Bishop, D. D.. a native of Norwich, eulogized her beautiful character and fife.
 If the government accepts one of