Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-18

and wild Towers would not be ir
 bloom much before Memorial Day. 1 The etate's number of recruits fol
 the regular army is growing. Thurs
 day it was 5277, ten having enlisted tn. previous day.
 A North woodstocE correspondent
 notes that Mrs Clara Rawson has l been operated on for appendicitis ir ] 8 Providence hospital
 The weekly bulletin to local drug 1 gists, received Thursday. stated that
 there were very few declines in prices l during the past wesk.
 l The pupils of the Ivy1ie school al l Voluntowp are planting d garden There Is much enthusiasm among the 1 children over farming this year. The grounds in the, rear of the i school house at Old Lyme are being wired for electricity so the Home Guard will have better place to drill Leslie N. Newman, master mechan- l ic at the Shore Line power house at | Saybrook has finished his work and ] left for New York where he will be employed.
 One of the speakers in stonington Borough hall Thursday evening for the purpose of discussing food con- servation was County Agent F. c. Warner of Norwich.
 The Misses Warren of Ponafret have taken a studio ill Belmont, Mass, for the summer. Miss Elizabeth Warren is illustrating a book for a publish ing house in Boston.
 State police appeared at five Groton stores Wednesday and notified their owners to appear in court Saturday morning to answer to the charge of running slot machines.
 Fine new granolithic. walks have been completed on Union street, in front of the Callahan, Kilroy, Smith, Ccit. F. Callahan, Hilton. McInnis, Kir- by and Cash properties.
 ticut Iicms 7diss,onar- society. who fern @rlv had charge os churches in this vicinity, IS new engaged in work in and about Middietown.
 During his visitation to the Episcopal church in, Putnam tf4is week Ven. Archdeacon J. Eldred Brown was entertained ahy sFrankAF Russell, a classnate --Trinity-~coliege. ssss -z= Y
 It is estimated that there are in round numbers 10000, 900 men between the ages of 21 and 30, inclusive, in the United States and that of this mum Der 123,60o are in Connecticut.
 Secretary of the Navy Daniels has announced that the use of exact re- productions of insignia of the navy on niddy blouses and other garments, for women and misses is illegal.
 Extra work was done at the Red Cross room Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Robert w. Perkins and Mrs James Lewis Smith, preparing ma terial for the regular workers today.
 Although there will be no boat races at Gales Ferry this season, the cot tages are well taken, because of so many extra families coming, due to additional men at the submarine base.
 The sparrows have discovered that the D. A. R. memorial fountain on for the season and five or six of them had swimming party there yester- day.
 At the annual meeting of the Am ston fire department the following were elected: President, Garrison F Bailey; vice president, R. F. Porter: secretary, William Frese. treasurer,
 The Ascension day mass at 5o'- clock Thursday in St. Patricks church vas read by Rev. Myles P. Calvin. that at by Rev. J. H. Broderick and the high mass at s was sung by Rev. | Peter J. Cuny.
 
 Tn motorboats of the Hctel Gris- | wold, Beileview and GriswoId, are be- ing overhauled prior to going into i commission when the hotel opens in i June. The boats are s.t <-rimre's dock l in shaw's cove.
 The placing of government orders ] in the Fall River market For upward ! of 90. ooo,o yards Of lightweight cot |. ton cloths for hospital purposes has ] strengthened the general cloth mar. l ket and affected Eastern $coxlnscficut ] mills.
 Because the majority of the stu dents at Colgate college have joined l the army and navy, the college year Will close May 2 and there will be | Connecticut students have returned l home. After five weeks in the post graduate vent a serious operation, Mrs. Louis lfabrey returned to Norwich Thurs 1 lay, in greatly improved health. She | vas accompanied home by her daugh- l er, Mrs. Ernest c. Champlin, of SJra- ,use.
 Because of the war, Sphinx TeTn- l pie, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Connecticut | 3 trip to Minneapolis, A1inn., which | was to have been made June c6 The | convention of the Imperial Council will be held there, but it will be simp- y a series of business meetings.
 The twenty first semi annual meet ns of the Diocesan council, of the | Connecticut Girls Friendly society. will be held in Holy Trinity Episcopal oariEh house, Middletown, Saturday, May 19. There vii be morning and afternoon sessions. and luncheon will | 'e served by the missionary society.