Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
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Norwich, Friday, Sept. 27, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Today is calendar day for october. Light vehicle lamps at 7.Os o'clock this evening.
 Saints Cosmas and Damian are commemorated in the church calendar today.
 Steady rain all day Thursday helped fill ponds and brooks which have been so low.
 The Slater museum will be open Sundays from 2.30 to 4.30 until further notice.-adv.
 A number of Boy Scouts began on Thursday morning to sort the tin and leadfoil brought to the Norwich Red Cross.
 During the October November term. Judge Gardiner Greene, of Norwich is presiding in the superior court at Litchfield.
 Dr. Joseph Robbins, who is to preach at the Central Baptist church next Sunday morning, has just returned from a world tour.
 In spite of somewhat unfavorable conditions, the Rockville fair premiums amounted to s1.30O There were excel
 
 The length of the day is now a lit tie less than twelve hours. the de- crease being very noticeable to those whose work demands early rising.
 MT. and Mrs. George N. Skinner of their daughter, Ethel Maria, and Ed ward L. Worcester, Saturday, Sept. 21.
 Throughout Connecticut, merchants are perfecting plans to have Christmas buying start earlier than ever this lear on account Of the shortage of help.
 ' Fourteen men at the railroad labor camp at Saybrook are ill with Span ish influenza, and are quarantined in one of the cars. in charge of two l nurses.
 excepting the species known as wood : ducks, Tuesday, Oct. l. The law will be off on upland game Tuesday. o. tober 8.
 The housewives of the state are ask ed to lend their assistance in con- | serving the large crop of green toma- toes either on the vines or on sale at the stores.
 l y ties are electing delegates to the au- nual meeting of the New England branch which is to be held in Spring field Oct. S-10.
 At the funeral services for William J. Riordan, held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock in St. Patricks church the requiem high mass was sung by the rector, Rev. John H. Frederick.
 The state of Connecticut has two federal courts, supreme and superior courts. eight common pleas courts, one district court, 70 city, borough anu town courts and 112 probate courts.
 On Saturday, Sept. 2S. from 10 to o'clock, small potted plants from tn, E greenhouses of Mrs. C. H. Osgood vii be on sale for the benefit of the Rec Cross at the Plaut- Cadden building adv
 A campaign to cull out the slacller is being run this fall by the Fairfield County Farm Bureau in cooperation with Professor Roy E, Jones. eXten sion poultry man of the Connection Agricultural college, Storrs. Just arrived, The Argo. at Osgoo, wharf, with fresh fish, reasonabl prices.-adv.
 The republican convention, to nomi nate a candidate for senator from tn Thirty fifth senatorial district, whici includes the thirtee towns in Tol land county, has been called for Wed nesday, Oct. g. at Rockville. The fall luncheon and meeting O the Connecticut Society, Daughters O 1872, will be held today (F'riday) a the New Haven Lawn club. Thos who will attend include Mrs. Frank , Tracey, of South Coventry. Next Sunday the morning servic at Trinity Methodist church will conducted hv Rev Myron E. Gente of New London. It is the opening ( the campaign to raise the Conferenc Claimants Endowment Fund. The Red Cross hospitals in Franc are in urgent need of linen to replen ish their much depleted stock. To fl this want all the Red Cross chapter in the country are being asked to giV their share of a very large amount. The State Department Of Health
 sending out to every mother who's child was born since July 1st an CT graved certificate of birth which signed by the governor and the con missioner of health, Dr. John T. Bla .
 A young woman of Union, Tollar county, Miss Helen Baldwin, has rt
 ceived her commission as a work . behind the lines in France and w soon go overseas. She is now at u <, home of her mother. Mrs. l. P. BalC J win.
 At a recent meeting of food dire D tors of Connecticut, held at the cap
 tol, it was announced that the whe
 situation was good, but substitut
 would be sold with the flour until u
 war is over. to prevent wheat shor
 age.
 |, Rev s. J. A. Rock. pastor of t
 Vednon Methodist church, is to lea
 Oct. 1st to assume the pastorate
 the Methodist church in Putnam T
 present pastor at Putnam has he - appointed to fill the vacancy at Yves
 erly, R. I.
 The North Manchester Epwor
 League received three second prizes
 the annual convention at Willimant
 for best yearly activities, for large . number of persons registered for t Is Institute, and for the best decoratio
 in the space allotted in the Tabern
 cle.
 The Peck Library has just -receiv
 as a gift from Poultney Bigelow,
 r. A. '73. his last beck, Genseric, Ri ,,, of the Vandals and First Prussi as Kaiser, in which he compares 1 ts methods of brutal conquest of u sn earlier Hun with those of the prest ~. Kaiser, whose cruelty is as great oe that of his prototype.
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