Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-31
VARIOUS MATTERS

Norwich, Friday, Aug. af, 1917.
 VARIOUS MATTERS
 This is almanac day for September.
 Light vehicle lacmps at 6.54 this
 evening.
 1 Considerable buying for the holiday
 will figure in. trade today and Satur- day.
 Preparatory lectures in the congre-
 gat:onaI churches Thursday evening
 were well attended.
 The last of the Spiritualist lectures
 at Pine Grove, Mantle, for this season | were held Sunday.
 Katydids have been heard around in tht trees this week. This is claimed ] to be the forerunner of frosts Janitors at the different schools are a1resdv at work getting the buildings | in condition for the opening of the fall
 term.
 horns of automobiles parked on Union | square are a nuisance in that ne1gh- borhood.
 1 Rev Y, A. w 1lI1aI11S G0du HIS CoAe5 = nation as pastor of the Congregational i church at Union recently and is to go 1 to Goshen.
 1 Dr. Richards office will be closed | until September 4th.-adv. 1 The Tierney cadets of New London l and their guests had a picnic Thursday i at the Golden Spur. About 1OO cadets attended the outing.
 i A thunder shower, with heavy rain while it lasted, marked the early hours | of Thursday, and considerable rain Tell i during the evening also The Junior Order of United Ameri- can Mechanics will hold it's annual state convention in the Odd Fellows temple, Hartford. Sept. 24 and 27. 4 New Haven paper notes that an nouncenent has been made of the en- gagement of Miss Cecilia K. Hale of | Norwich to T. Parker Lathrop, Yale, | IS.
 The list of recent visitors at the 1 Monument house, Groton, includes: Ethyl NJ. Benjamin, Edyth Benjamin and Mrs. H. H. Benjamin Of Preston City.
 The Seth annual outing of the Order of Eastern Star is to be held at Light
 
 day). A basket picnic will be held. cese, headed by Bishop Milan and Chancellor John G. Murray, are at tending the retreat being held this week at Manresa institute. Keyser Isl-'l and South NorWalk.
 It has been voted to add q woman county agent to the staff of Holland 1 county farm bureau and H. J. Baker 1f woman to fill this place and take the work up immediately.
 George W. Wilcox of Quiambaug has been catching Holsters of unusual size lately Last week he caught an 1S- pounder and Monday one that weighed 13 pounds, and has had several of late that weighed five pounds
 Out of respect to the memory of the !aue Amos A. Browning Of Norwich, Wheeler school and library, North Stoning.on, the library was not opened Thursday, the day of Mr. Browning's funeral.
 The body of Rev. Merriok Ransome. IS, who died at Indian Orchard, Mass, | Monday, was brought to the East Hampton NJ. l.. church at 1 o'clock "Wednesday and burial was in Tartia cemetery. Mir. RansOme was a native | of East Hampton.
 The electric cars on the Shore Line | have been running on good time all week All cars are now run on regular | train orders issued by despaIcher i signed bY the crews at registering sta | tions along the line, thus avoiding any | misunderstanding.
 Extra coaches will be added to the ! regular scheduled trains of the \. Y., i N. H. 6 H. railroad on Labor day. There will be no extra trains owing to | the shortage of cars caused by the mobilization or trains for the moving cf troops on Sept. ,.
 The semi annual convention of the Young JUdea Zion council of Con- necticut is to be held in Red Mems 10.30 a. m under the auspices of the F. o. z. club. Many prominent speak CTS will be in attendance.
 Charles w. Bolles of New London has announced the marriage of his daushte~ Margaret and John J. O'Con- nor of Washington, D. C., at Westerly l. Aug. 12th. MT. OConnor is attached i to the '. $. s. Fulton. but expects to make his home in Washington.
 The new Gonnecticut State Register is out Innumerable delays were en- Countered in it's publication this year, lack of paper hO4ding back the work for a time, but all these difficulties were overcome at last, add the book made it's appearance Wednesday.
 A party of 14 Norwich girls are stay ing at the Elheron, Pleasant View, over Labor day, Misses May Shields, Alice and Helen Kilroy, Julia and Nel- lie Connell, Mary and Nettie Holmes Helen and Mary McNe1Iy, Agnes and Irene Brickley and Catherine Murray.
 Announcement is made by G. Law renee Perkins of POnfret Center of the enlargement of his niece, Miss Constance Welsh Perkins to Lieut.. Robert w. Sherwin of Boston, mem Der of the signal corps of the United States reserves, now in camp in New Jersey.