Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-22
VARIOUS MATTERS

J.~H. Moseley of Scotland has pur- l chased the Oliver Pavey farm in that
 place. l Sentner, the great ballot medium l Spiritual Academy, Tuesday night ] adv.
 l Some very good looking chestnuts are in market. although the nuts seem | a bit smaller than ordinary. This will be short week in the public schools because of the State 1 Teachers convention Friday. l There was an unusual number of | flags flying yesterday. denoting the 1 importance of Liberty Loan Sunday. 1 The mercury slid down to 2s de- l grees at Trading Cove. yesterday grees at Trading Cove. yesterday. By 1 recorded. 1 that Connecticut's total army enlist merits number 2,724. one man having enlisted the previous day.
 | The prize of a garden set offered by 1 Plainfield grange for the best of the l school gardens, has been awarded to
 Fred Kennedy of Moosup. l Sunday afternoon there were 56 visitors to the Otis Library Reading | room, the majority being men. Miss
 Martha A. Ward was in charge. Although they may not get on the ] Honor Roll, the bank employees served ] their country by doing much overtime l Saturday. | Alumrae from this. section have
 been in Providence attending the | twenty-fift anniversary of the ] founding of the Women's College of 1 Brown university.
 Hundreds inspected the new bull 1 letin board in the Court House grounds during Sunday, reading <he | Honor Roll of Norwich men in both | arms of the service.
 The six foremen of the new con- structiOn work on and near Saybrook Junction, who finished their work, left for Providence Saturday. many Of the men accompanying them. After trying to enlist in several de- partments of the U. S. army and fail ing to pass the examinations, Norman J. Bond, of Mantle. has enlisted with the Canadian forces at Toronto, Can ada.
 Harry J. Lewis, formerly of the ! Shore Line Electric company, has re- signed special agent with the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., and is now in training at the Norfolk Naval station.
 
 The. voluntary registration of the women of this state. recommended by the Woman's committee of sthe Council of Nationa, Defense, vii: be started soon. The plan will be in augurated in New Haven.
 News haSbeen received by the Nor wicb Red Cross of the safe arrival in Ndw York of 1S6 Christmas cheer bags, forwarded under direction of N-e ,@rf> ed overseas shortly after November 1st
 Clarence F. Newell, formerly of] Crystal Lake, Maehapaug, now of Hartford and Miss Laura F. Mon grain also of Hartford, were married fast week Wednesday evening by. Rev HI. $: Scarborough and are living in Hartford.
 Dentists from Connecticut will at tend the national convention of the Dental Association of America which Astor. New York, Tuesday. It is ex- pected the convention will be in ses- sion for four days.
 The Connecticut Churchman begins it's twelfth volume with the number for October 12, just out. This nsmber Is an anniversary number. commem. orating the completion of 20 years ill
 
 Bunce Brewster, D. D.
 The New York Sunday Times Re- view of Books noted the speedy fs- suances of "The Virgin Is:ands of the United States" the new book bv Vics Consul Luther K zabriskie, of Nor wich, now in Mexico, written when he was stationed at St. Thomas.
 During one of the cold nights re- gently when heavy frost was i'm minent, one of the well known and in dustrious farmers of Hebron called his sons at 3 o'clock in the morning to help pull the beans. They work ed until .12 o'clock and saved the crop. 1
 Nine sheep killed and several oth- CTS so badly injured that they will probably die is the result of a raid 1 made by dogs on the flock of sixty 1 six sheep owned by Charles c. Knowl- | ton of Brooklyn, N. Y, in his pasture l
 The programme of the services of l church edifce at Waterbury, began | Sunday. Next Sunday, at the Bible | School service. there will be an ad- dress on What the Bible School | Stands for Today. by James L. Case, l
 In spite of the most rigid econ i omy the Memorial hospital in New ! I1oHuoii idS oho"u an increasing deficit from $1.7SS.S6 for the insti- ] tution's first year of operation to s19,S19.S2 for the twelve months enG- ing March 1, 1917. The yearly aver age has been ss,7o1.71.
 Steeple Tom Fitzpatrick. who has worked in Norwich, has finished rag ing the i6o foot chimney at the mill of the GrosvenordaA. company. It was a bell top chimney and measured 6 feet. inches on the inside. the cir cumference being IA feet. There were 450, 900 bricks in the stack
 According to announcements Sun day, there is still room for men from nineteen to thirty-five or forty above five feet six inches, in the Marine corps. Youths from sixteen to nine teen. who will be schooled as musi- clans before being assigned to the