Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-05
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Norwich, Friday, July 5, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Light vehicle lamps at s.55 o'clock this evening.
 Piazza parties were numerous along the line of march.
 The drug stores were crowded and busy places on the holiday.
 Just arrived, Osgood's wharf, big cargo of fresh fish: Prices low.-adv
 Baggage handlers are beginning to feel the burden of early vacation travel.
 Now that the schools are closed for the summer, young readers flock to the Otis library.
 A rainbow about 730 Thursday even ing topped the variety of weather changes for the day.
 Most of the Norwich industries which closed for Independence day will start up this morning.
 Never before has Norwich seen so many and such a diversity of uni forms on a Fourth of July.
 A Voluntown home gardener, Ezra P Edwards, dug a fine lot of new po- tatoes from his garden in June.
 There is a rumor at Mystic that Capt. Mark L. Gilbert is to build ships there for foreign government.
 First sword fish of the season at the Broadway Fish Market, 10 Broadway. adv.
 At Pleasant View, Silas Wheelock and family of Putnam have opened the Wheelock cottage for the season. A handsome new flag on a tall pole was flying Fodrth of July at the Win chester Woolen mills plant at Thames vile
 The grange gave a dinner Fourth /, of July at the Congrega rational church in Chaplin for the benefit of the Red Cross.
 Some of the most beautiful rambler roses in town are those at the resi- l dence of Mir. and Mrs. James E. De- | Wolf, below Thamesville.
 Because Thursday was Fourth of July, the prayer meeting at the Gen. tral Baptist church was postponed un- til this (F'riday) evening.
 Approval has been given by the Con- necticut State Council of Defense to a statewide campaign for funds by the Il Connecticut Childrens Aid society.
 A Union boy, John E. Sellers, writes Il from France that as a result of gas II poisoning he has been withdrawn from the infantry and is at headquarters for a time.
 At Phoenixville. Peter Leone of Hartford is building a log cabin in the south part of the town on William Howlett's farm, preparatory to burn ing coal pits.
 The heavy shower Thursday after noon. which in the suburbs had some of the characteristics of a tornado was big disappointment to farmers who had begun cutting grass ] After next Sunday, the summer schedule of a low mass instead of the 10.30 high mass will go into effect al St. Patrick's church. The choir vii have vacation during the summer. Any retail dealers in sugar who die
 
 able to purchase from wholesalers til 1 they obtain their certificates from the federal food administrator at Hartford
 Many motorboat parties have visited the place where the freight steamer Onondaga went down off Watch Hil Friday night, parts of the vessel ant other articles floating about having been picked up as souvenirs.
 
 A boycott against German mad, goods, to which at least twenty mil | lion persons in the two America ! shall be pledged. has been started b. the American Defense society and i gaining support in Connecticut. At the annual exhibition of the Mys tic Art association to be held in Au gust at the Broadway scheel there, tn charge, including G. Albert Thompson former director of Norwich AT , school.
 Faith Trumbull chapter, D. A. R A received a letter from Mrs John Laid law Buel, state regent, which touche on the celebration of the Fourth c | July and also indicated that the wor a of the Daughters will not cease durin the summer.
 r A big motortruck with another trail CT brought $50 bales from the Palme Bros Co Fitchville quilt mill for ship ment from Norwich to New Tor | Thursday evening on steamer Eugen c. Hart. The Hart got off at o'cloc with big miscellaneous cargo. A frequent Norwich visitor, Mis- Daphne Selden, state organizer of tn Connecticut Woman Suffrage associa ton. is to spend three weeks in Mid 2 dletown where she will work as o farmerette on the Samuel Russell, J1 - farm. Miss Selden's home is in Dee " River. $ Leo W. Hall. 53, who died earl Wednesday morning at the Middlese hospital at Middletown, besides h = wife, leaves a son, John. who somewhere in France, and a daughte Julia: also four brothers. includin
 Marvin of Willimantic and Eugene
 East Hampton.
 The Shore Line trolley crews apprt
 ciated the thoughtfulness of the mar k agement of the road yesterday in pro ," viding an abundant lunch of fir | class sandwiches, hot coffee, etc, at t - carbarns, so that even the most hu ried of the men were not cOnneI1t