Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-18
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Light vehicle lamps at 7.49 o'clock this evening.
 Crab apple trees about town are loaded with the small fruit.
 Do not forget to pay your water bill. adv
 A patient from Lower Pawcatuck, Mrs. Thomas Burrell, is at the Backus hospital, Norwich.
 Holland county tobacco growers do not like these July showers, so apt to bring damaging hail with the cold Tain.
 Farmers in Lyme are complaining about the poor appearance of potato vines. They look as if blight had come upon them.
 Many persons writing to men in the service forget that the name and ad dress of the sender is necessary in sending mail to soldiers.
 There was considerable talk We'd though dog days do not begin until Thursday next, July 25th.
 After being stopped for several days the clock on Park church is running again It was put in running order late Wednesday afternoon.
 All along the railroad banks the showy and rather coarse Bouncing Bet has begun to bloom, an indication of the flight of the summer days. Soldiers Comfort Kits at Lee & Os- goods.-adv.
 The Avery Memorial grounds at Poquonoc are being put in condition for the annual meeting of the Avery Memorial association this month.
 Tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday the annual Connecticut state cham pionship trapshooting tournament is to be held with the New Haven Gun club.
 For a meeting of the Mystic Coun- try club to be held this evening the committee includes Miss Carrie E. Rogers of Washington, formerly of Norwich.
 Policeman John Irish, one of the successful Norwich dahlia growers | has about SO varieties at his home on Laurel Hill, and already fully p hills are in bloom.
 About twenty of the schools in the suburban towns supervised by o. E Lowell of Norwich are holding half day Red Cross sessions weekly, tC help win. he war.
 Pay your water bill; additions af- ter the 20th.-adv.
 The state recently announced tha , the personal tax is now being uset for state war purposes and since this l announcement a number of persona 1 tax del;nQuents have paid up. 1 A Rockville man, John Schwartz charged recently with failing to carry duplicate order slips when delivering coal to customers, pleaded guilty ant was fined s25 and costs of S14.24.
 Many attended a lecture on bird! l given by Professor Avis in AmstoI l Wednesday evening. He not only i'm 1 itated the songs of the birds but the sounds of the cricket, the toad anC the frog.
 In some cities about Connection there was a shower Monday, St Swithin's day. followed by a pair O l beautiful rainbows and the weather sages are trying to interpret this un usual sign.
 Pay your water bill before the ad ditions go on.-adv.
 In Connecticut the demand fo teachers having normal school train ing is greater this year than eve before and increased salaries are be
 ing offered candidates for teaching appointments.
 Some of the Jewish societies helt services Wednesday in commemora tion of the important fast day of Tishi Be-ab. the day that the Jewish peopl suffered destruction of the temple 2000 years ago.
 A public demonstration in cheese making by Miss Morse of Storrs col lege and Miss Ketcham, county dem onstrating agent in home economics is planned for Friday, July 18th, a 230 o'clock, in Westbrook town hall.
 At the state summer school in Dan bury Wednesds- afternoon at 2.3 Frederick ". Edgerton, librarian o New London public library, lecture, on poetry. MT. Edgerton read selec tions of poetry in illustration of hi points.
 D. Curtis Bernard's office will b closed until August 12th.-ady.
 The commissioners of the stat
 board of examiners of embalmers me at the Hotel Heuhlein. Hartford, O Monday. Officers for the ensuing yea were elected, Arthur R. Leete c
 Thompsonville being the choice fo
 president
 Few Of his friends were aware tha . the late Hiram Cook of Norwich ha ever attempted authorship. This wee
 x. Douglas Sevin received from Nil Cooks son. A. H. Cook, of Tacoma, book of verse written and publishe
 by his father
 : A former PoduetanucK resident, Re- A. T. Randall, of Meriden, has re ceived a cablegram from his son, Joh Randall, from London He was in 4 jured recently in an aeroplane acci 3 dent and has been transferred to hospital in England. Wednesday at 1o.sO Rev. Richard I Graham, rector of Christ church, off cldleu at the SeTNlc6 OI inOTIllHS pray
 c rat the Norwich state tuberculos sanatorium. Rev. Mr. Graham wi k conduct one more Wednesday servit 2 there before vacation. Tuesday evening Mrs. Delima Pal k niece of Mrs. Fred Chamberlain, rt 2 signed after three years as cashit at the City Lunch and will leave for ! long vacation in Bristol, Pa. H. k associate workers presented her beautiful cut glass fruit dish.