Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-02
VARIOUS MATTERS

Tides will be high today.
 Light vehicle lamps at 7.s5 this evening.
 Wild roses are still in bloom along the road in certain sections of Mont vile.
 | The family with a sleeping porch l these tropical nights is the envy Of 1 the neighborhood.
 Have you sprinkling permit? See
 notice in another column-adv. Keeping weeds out of the home gar l den has been a trying test of pa | triotisin, the past few days.
 Local housewives are looking up all the old. tried recipes for preserving and drying fruits and vegetables | The past month proved an unusual 1 ly busy one for the Norwich exchange | of the s. N. E. Telephone company. 1 Delegates from this county will at 1 tend the convention of the National As l sociation of Chiropodists in Providence
 next week.
 1 The first native green corn, brought from Norwich Town, is in market. The | quality is excellent, although the ears
 Ire small yet.
 The peach crop at Bolton will be | big one if nothing unforeseen | happens. The orchards of the Italian l growers are full of fruit. Today will finish the hay harvesting at the Norwich Alnshouse, Superin | tendent James B. Chapman estimating the crop at 15 or 16 tons. Peaches in the local stores now are chiefly from Georgia, the last of the crop The first of the home grown fruit Several local civil engineers will at tend the annual field day of the Con necticut Society of Civil Engineers at Momaug71in. New Haven, August s. Warning has been sent out against a man who has been operating in low CT New England cities as a federal agent and "exempting" drafted men for S1
 The evening and Saturday afternoon sessions of the Jewett Shorthand school will be discontinued until Sept. 4th.- adv.
 sun is now setting earlier and a lit tie further south each day. so that there is a perceptible shortening of the hot days.
 Norwich cottasers are working for the bazaar which the women of East ern Point are planning to hold for the benefit of the Red Cross at the Hotel Griswold next week.
 The total number in camp at Niantic is 1.311 rank and file. This figure is 'compiled hx Lieutenant Henry C.. branch, camp adjutant.
 Under the captaincy of Mrs. c. B. 1-und the Girl Scouts of Groton are h There are two patrols and 15 have passed the tenderfoot test
 The hot wave has not skipped Gard her Lake. At the Olin Boynton cottage. a usitaIlV cool site, between Gardner and Oxoboxo lakes. g degrees in the shaG, has been recorded this week.
 Mir and Mrs EIford Perry Trow- bridge. Of New Haven, are to give a lawn fete or the grounds at their benefit Of the Red Cross chapter of Old Lyme.
 Capt. George E. Tripp. who died st his home al Mystic Tuesday on his S3d birthday, was a regular attendant at Norwich fair every fail. and his speedy horses were familiar to all who followed the races.
 There are two objects specially in teresting to amateur astronomers in the evening sky at this time and easily observable with an opera glass. They are the great Nebula and Andromeda and the star cluster in Hercules.
 Van verplanck. son of Superintend- ant F. A. Verp1anck. of the Ninth Dis trict schools of South Manchester, Nor wich Free Academy. 'S4 Is member of the Johns Hopkins Hospital unit which is now at the front in France.
 Five per cent was added to all water bills remaining unpaid after July 20th A second addition of 50 cents was ma de to all water bills remaining unpaid July 30th. There will be q third addi- ton of S1 made to all water bills re- naining unpaid after Aug. 2Oth, 1917.- adv
 Alex V. Mcdonald of Rockville. who has been employed by the state of Connecticut as a guard at the state reformatorv in Cheshire for the past four months, has been transferred to the state prison at Wethersfeld where '! he is filling a similar. place. Persons liable for the corporation i income tax were reminded sharply that ! "Wednesday was the last day for the i payment of the tax. This tax applies ] to mercantile and manufacturing cor porations and when all collected ought | to reach a total of s9,2o0, GOO.
 Commodore Morton F. Plant of ! Eastern Point was one of the largest 1 subscribers to recent movement ] started in Hartford for the erection i of a new s1,o00,o00 hotel in that city. ! Commodore Plants subscription was | for S10.000 worth of stock. 1,
 The summer school, under the direc- ton of the state board of education i opened at the Danbury s Normal i School building Tuesday, with an en- rolment of TO: The instructors include l Frank W. Barber, Putnam, Miriam i Skidmore. and Levi T. Garrison, of | Willimantic. "A barn and contents, owned by | N. Morgan Strong, a successful dairy 1 farmer at Vernon Center, was de- l stroyed by fire about 1145 o'clock 1 Tuesday night. There were twenty | tons of green hay in the barn, and it | is believed that the heat generated 1