Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-19
VARIOUS MATTERS

| VARIOUS MATTERS | Light vehicle lamps at 7.4S this 1 evening.
 | Manufacturers throughout the state have taken up agricultural production 1 on a more or less extensive scale. The dome of the capitol at Hartford 1 is to be regilded at a cost of S3,00o. | Comptroller Webster will soon let the | contract.
 Only one more day left in which to ! pay your water bill.-adv. posed to be taking the hardening pro cess but in July it seems more nke | the melting process.
 While the Connecticut peach crop is ! to be of record proportions, the states apple crop will be less than half the | normal yield, according to fruit grow CTS.
 Forty new bakery companies in ad dition to the ten companies now with in the continental limits of the United States are about to be organized in the regular army.
 The inmates of Wethersfeld state prison will play baseball every Satur- day afternoon at 8 o'clock until Nov. 1.
 Each of the eight shops in the prison
 is represented by team.
 It has been pointed out that the
 new automobile law works a hardship
 on liverymen who must hire man to
 run cars for them and who do not do a regular jitney business.
 .wanted-1.OO0 men and women to pay their water bills today.-adv.
 Reports from the various counties "a h11y- af necticut have secured and placed on the farms of farmers at their request about 400 farmhands to date.
 A campaign to recruit women for agricultural work has been started by the National League for Women's Ser vice in cooperation with the depart ment of labor at Washington.
 A warning against the acceptance by recruiting officers of applicants for naval or military service who may be suffering from trachoma has been is sued by the public health service.
 The rose chafers, or rosebugs, s they are called. are unusually numer- ous this summer and are doing con- siderable damage on shade, fruit trees, shrubbery and in the vegetable gar dens.
 Before or after the matinee today, pay your water bill. Office open till p. m.-adv.
 Officials of the New Haven road are rearranging the working schedules of the employees affected by the enact ment of the Adamson eight hour law, especially the men comprising the yard crews.
 Tine average cost of producing milk on 179 Connecticut farms during the year beginning May 1, 1916, was 5.53
 T1r-i1., ceived a quart by these farmers was t.S7 cents.
 Automobilists who have thurs far neglected to conform to the require l merts of the 1917 automobile law. reg 1 ulating the use Of headlights and li- |, censes will be compelled to do so i'm 1 nediately.
 Passenger trains aggregating 16,267,- 1 DPS miles of train service a year have 1 been eliminated by the railroad of the | to facilitate maximum trans | portation of freight for successful | prosecution of the war.
 Do not fail to hear Madame Ro- l pierre tell of the many thrilling events l in her war experience in France See 1 adv.-adv.
 With the New York state militia 1 getting ready for movements toward | and concentration camps, | the Connecticut state militia is mark | ing time preparatory to the date of i set for July 25.
 Tn a circular to commanding officers of the units of the Connecticut Ma l tionaI guard Tuesday Adjuta nt General l George NJ Cole called for the preser- vation of papers of historical value i dealing with the units drafted or to be | drafted into the army.
 To prosecute and convict Mrs Amy E. Archer -Gilligan for the murder of | Franklin R. Andrews who was con- tract patient in her home for elderly people, the cost to the state of Con- necticut was about $25.000, according 10 State Attorney Alcorn.
 The need for some constructive plan Q meet the grave moral danger to our young girls and women is more keen1y 'elt every day, and was one of the If the New London National Women's League for Service held Tuesday.
 Lieut.. Col. V. M. King of the Coast corps of Connecticut is re- ;1-uiting to its full strength of 27 mu- ;icians, a leader and two cooks, the Coast Artillery band of Bridgeport, he ranks Of which were sadly depict d by the discharge of Is men having iependent relatives.
 In it's June bulletin the Vermont tate board of health shows how one woman with a case of smallpox. who travelled from New London to Essex Junction. spread the disease to nine or en people who travelled on the train with her on April 12, and these cases were followed by 21 secondary cases.
 The Connecticut public health ser +fce reserve. which Dr. John T. Black, 'tate health commissioner, started to form during the last session of the general assembly, has been held up pending action by congress on a bill a reserve of the public | lealth service which is now before that 1ody.