Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-24

ne danudl COnN6nllOn or the Con l necticut State F'iremen's association is to be held in Bridgeport this year during August.
 It is claimed that the loafer law in effect in New York and New Jersey would undoubtedly be enacted in this | state were the legislature in session.
 Show your patriotism by attending the Red Cross Whist and dance at the Elks this evening.-adv.
 Tomorrow (Saturday) the bird and nature clubs of the state are to meet | in Hartford, where the clubs of the | state federation hold their annual out | ing.
 At Noank. pupils of the seventh and | eighth grades of the Main street | school have begun the study of the | French language and are delighted | with it. Hebron correspondent writes: Da- vid Tenant went to Norwich Sun- day. His family expects to go later Hebron people are very sorry to have them leave town. 1 The shad catch in Connecticut is i still increasing. The crews are all making good hauls and the pounds are making enormous catches, from 300 to 800 daily.
 Memorial Day at Lyme will be cele- brated by the Home Guard marching down the village street to the church where Hyacinth Ringrose of New York city will deliver a patriotic address.
 The Connecticut State Council of Defense has strongly endorsed and ap- proved the celebration today of the third anniversary of Italy's entry into the war. An official endorsement has been sent out.
 Consignments of home work were taken from the Red Cross room on Thursday afternoon by the Leffingwell Sunshine society and the Woman's Guild of St. James Episcopal church, Poquetanuck.
 Thursday evening at the mid-week meeting of Trinity Methodist church. the second subject in a series being conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. H. Newland. If I Am Christian, What :? was the topic.
 Pioneer Hose Co. of Groton, gave farewell banquet Tuesday evening to one of its number, Edward Brogan, who left Thursday for Fort Slocum, N. Y. Mir. Brogan played in the ball game in Norwich last Saturday. A number of applicants for free wool had to be refused Thursday by Mrs. Ida l.. Eccleston. who was in charge of the room of the Woman's S League, in the Thayer building. The free wool fund is exhausted again.
 Over 15O men from the submarine base. state pier Coast Guard acad- emy and experimental station, are pa tients at the present o-called United States Naval hospital, New London the former Memorial hospital build ing.
 At the site of the projected state farm for women which was recently purchased, surrounding Bride pond, in East Lyme, between six and seven hundred acres having been bought. if Is planned to stock the lake with sal mon.
 Don't fail to see A Night at Peel 3 In" and patriotic spectacle, Prepared ness at the Auditorium theatre tonigh l at s.15. Auspices of Young Ladies' So dality, St. Mary's parish. Tickets 5 1 cents.-adv.
 By strenuous effort, Captain anc
 Mrs. Richardson Jewell, of the Nor
 wich Salvation Army have been abl
 to make up the required quota of $11l for Self Denial Week, although sev
 eral small items of expense are stil = to be met.
 Five per cent. was added to all wa
 ter bills remaining unpaid April 2ott
 Fifty per cent. was added to the sam
 bills still unpaid April S0th. A thir
 and last addition of one dollar wa
 added to the same bills still unpai
 May 20, 191s.-adv.
 At the sixty eighth annual meetin,
 of the Connecticut Homeopathic so
 ciety in Hartford. Tuesday, tribut |. was paid to the patriotism of physi 4 clans in the great war About 75 wer E present. Dr. M. z. Westervelt of Ne1
 Haven was reelected president. A meeting of the Connecticut or ! ganization for Public Health Nursin 's will be he'd in Merliden. Friday. Tn
 speakers will be Mrs. E. D. Smitf = president Visiting Nurse Association
 Stamford, Conn, and Dr. Walter F
 Brown, health officer of Bridgeport i- The Otis library is cooperating wit the activities of the present time i providing books and magazines on tn ei subjects of gardening and farming i ts general There are also books on dc ,E mestic science, including the care
 the home. the preservation of foo,
 etc.
 r.
 e. Health authorities are sending O,
 notice that the Swat the Fly can
 paign should be started earlier tn {, ear than usual and all precautionar I' measures taken, first of all to prt
 vent disease from getting a footho
 and later to prevent it from spread
 ing.
 .l There is interest among Norwit
 Masons in the fact that Thursds
 marked the fifty fourth business ann
 versary of H. Wales Lines. of Mer
 den, dating from May 23. 1864, whe he purchased the equipment and bu Ie mess of his employer, George Ba lis sett.
 Connecticut people have been not = fled from the post office that they c: ~ tear off their coupons from Liber R bonds and send them in by carrier al
 have thrift stamps delivered to thel 'ss That will save the government fro
 having to pay out money in the VI IA