Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-17
VARIOUS MATTERS


 this evening.
 The season for watermelon cuts has begun with the granges.
 The Beauty Parlors- will be closed from Aug. 17th to Sept 3rd-adv. Y The Perrin family annual picnic is to be held at East Thompson Tues- day, Aug. 20.
 Word has been received that Ser geant Robert Graham of 54 Spring street has arrived safely overseas.
 The wedding of Miss Grace Crufi and Harlan Amidon took place al Thompson, Friday afternoon at O. clock,
 The planet, Mercury, is in the con- stellation Leo throughout this month and has been visible in the western evening sky.
 Word has been received that Pri. vate Richard E. Lane. son of Mrs. Wm T. Lane, of Norwich, has arrived safe ly in France.
 No more Budweiser beer is to be shipped out of St. Louis, according tc advices received by Connecticut sa- loonkeepers.
 Many eastern Connecticut Odd Eel; lows will attend the field day exer- cises at Lighthouse Point, New Haven today (Saturday)
 At Ellington, A. U. Charter has re- vived the old industry of charcoa, burning in order to meet the needs oi the tobacco raisers.
 The Holy Name society of St. Pat rick's parish has requested a months mind requiem high mass this morn ing for John Hourigan.
 The order of Red Men throughout the state will devote Saturday thf 24th to q special appeal for the pur- chase of thrift stamps.
 A native of Norwich Dr Thoma, Shannon, has been appointed chair man of the democratic town commit tee in Falls Village. Conn.
 Delegates from this state have beer in New York attending the annua convention of the National C1cthiers Association at the Hotel McAlpin.
 The Shore Line Electric Railway Company is receiving big shipment: of coal daily by rail and is now fill = ing the yard at the car barns at Say brook
 Plumbers are finding heater pipe in many public buildings like hotel so badly out of repair as the resui of last winters cold that they vii . AtofS u hV lSpldNCd' Like The Bulletin, the Danbur, News has announced a reduction in it ' size to six pages, by order of tn = federal war industries board, in tn effort to conserve paper.
 The papers note that Mrs. Sara I Kinney, honorary regent of the Con neeticut D. A. R.. and her sister, Mrs Susan T. Darling of Hartford, art spending this month at Woodmont.
 Warning to young girls to be watch ful of the acqu2intanceships the, : make Wilh soldiers was issued Wed nesday by the war and navy depart nlentS commissions on training cam activities.
 The business men and resident throughout the city of Rockville wi he asked to decorate their places c business and homes for the Elks' cele hration to be Eeld in that city Thurs day, Sept. 2.
 President F7ayel s. Luther, nativ of Brooklyn, Conn, has received telegram from Adjutant General Me } Cain at N ashinGton that Trinity col lege. in Hartford. has been designate as a college training camp
 A former Norwich resident, Rev nr. E. ". Bishop. of Brockton, Mass who preached in Norwich Sunday, wi he in Hartford tomorrow Rev. Il Bishop goes to his new charge Lansing, Mich. in a few weeks.
 Mail order houses which do bushes . in Connecticut have been requested | Food Administrator Robert Scoville 1 send into Connecticut only sue amounts of sugar as Connecticut res idents are permitted to purchase.
 4 local taxpayer expressed wondt h, Friday that ashmen who make the ,s dusty rounds through a street alwa4 seem blind to loose papers and ruE bish in the gutters, confining the ar efforts simply to spilling the conten of cans and barrels into their carts.
 The generous donation of s15 f. free wool for the Gales Ferry Au1 Hilary of the Norwich Red Cross h; been received by the chairman, MI = Walter M. Buckingham from MT ar Mrs. Carleton P. Browning (MG Rudd Gibbs now residents of Br tania Beach, B. C.
 Yale is among the colleges selects .h by the United States government ir,'; be equipped next month for units III the students army framing corr This will have no effect on the GU re rlcu&un. The students will contin1 d., their regular academic work and tra at lat the same time for commissions
 One of the most important feast da ". in the Italian religious calendWr, : ill Rocco's day. was observed Friday n- the large cities Of Connecticut, havil special significance and soiemnity b R. cause of the war, and the fact tin ce the thousands of Italian Catholics m. the state have relatives at the front.
 A number of Catholic clergyman " al be absent from their parishes ne n- week from Monday till Saturday a he tending the annual spiritual retre ry held during the next two weeks f all the clergy of the diocese, the SD a cial religious exercises being at Ma ,o1 resa Institute, Keyser Island, off Sou ic Norwalk.
 ip. It is good news to thousands
 bathers along the Connecticut sho >h that the jeIlyfsh pest which for t ,r1 past few weeks has bothered tho , who went in the waters of the yves ern end of the Sound has gone r other parts. These fish have hitt zee a number of bathers and the sti 13 has been a painful one.
 ------------ m' SAILORS AT BASE
 MUST BE SWlMMEl IN All sailor men at the submarine bs