Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-01

of the Rockville fuel administration has received an appointment as su- pervisor of cord wood there.
 During their unexpected vacation some of the school children are con sGlting books at the Otis Library in preparation for Columbus day com positions.
 When the Vernon Public Evening School opens Oct. 8 a speclal feature will be a course in French for any men who are likely to be called into the service.
 Special October devotions will be held in St. Patrick's church at the regular parish mass every morning at o'clock and following veSpers Sun day afternoons.
 The death from grip of Eugene Cav agnaro who formerly lived in Bolton was reported Friday from Camp De- vens. Joseph Mack of the same place has the grip in camp.
 Mrs. Herbert S. Colt has at her home in Pearl street. Mystic what is probably the finest collection of pitch CTS in that part of the state. The col lection numbers 110 pieces.
 In his garden at Quaker Hill Nelson H. Moore grew among other musk melons one which was 3l 1-2 inches in circumference and which he thinks hangs up new record for this sec | ton.
 The state of Connecticut has 1,o17 miles of steam railroad and 700 miles steam lines carried 54,3i5,S14 pasSen- gers and the trolley 93,111, ,4e2 passen- gers.
 ' aI.s. kt.a. 1 October meeting of Faith Trumbull chapter, D, A. R, will be postponed until Further notice-ad8
 The officials Of the UniversNlist l church have asked all churches of that denomination to take an offering for the purpose of equipping chaplains of the denomination appointed to the i army.
 | Residents of Stonington are peeved | at the high cost of food supplies But i ter of the first quality now sells fer + G cents pound Salt codfish while ! high cannot be obtained in the beta odeh at present.
 The Catholic women's Benevolent | Legion, which has a council in Nor | Tich, is receiving contributions to the ambulance which the national organi- zation is giving to France and which 1 is to cost about S3,000.
 Owing to epidemic conditions Dr Shahan urgently requests all appoint ment cases to call at his office between 2 and p. m. No morning hours.- adv.
 Eastern Connecticut Alumni learr that the Brown University Ambulance | unit. which was sent from this coHn try to Italy early last sun1iEer is nov In France, having made the tril across country from Genoa. A suffrage canteen is to be estab lished at the Danbury Fair by tn Connecticut Woman Suffrage associa tion, and subscriptions for Libert
 honds will be received. Miss Louis
 Hall, of Hartford, will be in charge f People intending 10 send Christina
 packages to relatives in the navy wh
 are abroad must send their gifts s
 that they will reach New York no \ later than Nov. Is, according to a
 announcement just made by Secretar
 Daniels. III Norwich relatives of Mir. and Mir.
 Jacob Lang and daughter, continue t
 hear the encoura ging news that all i
 well with them at Brescia, their hom
 hi northern Italy, where MT. Lanz i
 Representative of the American Ra
 diator company
 M booklet of instruction for the us
 of men chosen under the selectiv
 draft, entitled Before You Go" wi
 hereafter be issued to every man wh t enters the army or navy. The book
 let Is published by the Atlantic al = vision of the Red Cross.
 The sugar ration at the Connecticl
 Hospital for the Insane at Middletow e has been cut down, and IS now bein 0 served at the tables in small enve a. opes. An allowance of one teaspoo
 Is made for coffee or tea, while tr '- same amount is allowed for cereal. It A service flag with three stars fiit :o It the residence of the late Mir, an
 Mrs. Michael Hourigan, Church stree for their sons. Joseph W. of the mel V chant marine, now in Texas, Richar
 E, U. s. Marines. in France, ar
 James Houigan. who is at Cam
 Devens.
 Friends of Mrs. Edward J. Morrisst
 of News Milford, former well know ns resident of Norwich, will be pleased
 learn she is making rapid recovel ,S from injuries sustained when she f, T from step ladder. She is being car,
 for by Miss Anna A. Fitzpatrick, R. ! of this city.
 The city of Rockville is making
 record start towards doubling US qu
 ta in the Fourth Liberty Loan. IT quota for the city of Rockville h. been fixed at $s23,S0O. This is twi
 the quota of the Third Liberty To;
 which was s3l1,S00, but Ne aft,ou ~ raised was S5sS,500
 O Thirty four years ago today. Oct,
 1884, free delivery was started fra
 the Norwich post office, with six ca
 riers, of whom only Herman S. ca
 and Assistant Superintendent of Ma Major William A, Wells, have remai n ed, under five postmasters. Now the Q |