Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-13
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 7.2a this | evening.
 Mid-August vacation travel started
 in with q rush Saturday.
 Shore hotels are crowded and coun . Ii try resorts have many guests 5ust
 now.
 few from this section attended the big closing day at Greene camp
 meeting Sunday.
 Evidently due to some recent t,,aS storm; m;
 the beach Saturday and Sunday.
 The goth annual reunion of the VII liam C. Coe family was held at the II Coe homestead in Durham Thursday.
 The annual outing of the Connecti- I cut Editorial association Is to be helo | at Lake Compounce Saturday. Aug. i The economy of war year is influ- I encing owners Of trees TO careIuiN l gather the windfal1 apples.
 l until Sept 4th.-adv.
 Second Lieut.. W. PA. T. von liar
 tung, U. s. A., paymaster, with about | sI1 900, has been at the encampment | at Mantle, paying off the men. | The beautiful phlox in the grounds | at the residence of Mrs. William N. | Blackstone on Washington street is admired by all who pass that way. Two Mormon elders. who visited l Norwich houses Saturday in the ef- fort to secure converts, came near | having the dog set on them at one place.
 A menace has been created by the -lortage of .65 attendants in the Con- necticut hospital for the insane at 4Iiddletown, due largely to the mili- tary draft.
 Under the new law relating to vital statistics. physicians are required to make a return to the town clerk of each birth within five days after the date of birth.
 It is announced that the noon hour gathering for Bible study at Broad way church will be conducted. Aug. 19 by Charles I. Smith and Aug. 26 by Herbert W. Gallup.
 The Christian Science board of d.. rectors has announced that a Christian Scientist cannot claim exemption from military service as a conscientious ob- lGCtOE W1(IoQI S-i- ence.
 To take Rev H. B. Sloat's place at the First Baptist church in Water Bury sunday morning Rev. Dr. p. c. Wright of Philadelphia. formerly of Norwich. who. is staying at Gales Ferry, preached.
 Two hundred young women. teach CTS from various parts of the state, attending the summer session of the state normal school in Danbury, are receiving daily instructions in han ding and firing rifles.
 At o'clock Saturday at St. Pat high mass for James F. Cosgrove was sung by the rector. Rev. J. H. Brod- l eriCk. There was a good attendance of | relatives and friends.
 Wednesday, the Feast of the As- sumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary | one of the six great holy days in the | Catholic church, there will be masses l iH St. Patrick's church at 5, and 8 1 o'clock, the last a high mass.
 Farmers state that the blackberry crop will be the largest in years They 1 say the weather conditions for big crop have been excellent, and the yield will be hundreds of quarts greater than that of last year.
 Members of the Connecticut Plumb CTS and Steamfitters' union have left D attend the national convention of Steamftters and Helpers ct Toledo, O., which opens today (Monday).
 Sunday at the 1o3o mass in St. Pat ricl1's church Rev. Myles P. Calvin preached from the epist1e for the Sum- day. l Cor. XIV. 1-10, on the humility of St. Paul, choosing the text But by the grace of God I am what I am.
 One of those expected to attend the i reInion of the 18th regiment in Nor l wich Thursday, the 18th. is George | Fuller of Company 4, now a wealthy l California real estate owner, who is l visiting his brother Joseph Fuller, of | Colchester.
 Seaside Topics notes that at the army and navy ball at The Griswold | Grosvenor Ely of Norwich entertained l a dinner party including MT. and Mrs | P Valentine Chappe1l, Mir. and Mrs | Kyle Sheffield and Mr. and Mrs. w. i Ellery Allyn.
 A warning Is being sent out against a. man and women who are said to be | travelling through New England ee- curing orders for soap and premiums l and defrauding people by collecting a 1 part payment and not being able to deliver the order.
 A carload of pigs has arrived at l Rockville from Red Hook N Y The plSs were purchased by J. A. Sims of | the Connecticut Agricultural college. Storrs. for the Holland county farm l bureau The pigs are of good size, weighing from 50 to 100 pounds each
 Prof. Frederick D. Mabrey of Ben | nington, Vt, son of MT. and Mrs Louis l M brey of Norwich, has returned to ms summer home at Bedding from )anbury hospital. where he underwent an operation for adhesions resultant l from treatment for appendicitis a num- Der of years ago.