Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-10

I | Bass Taken from Nearhy PcE<is- pr. J. B. Sweet Expecting f50 Bush els in Wheat Harvess-Sunday Ser vices.
 Funeral sexv8ces for Martin $. Wal hce were held from St Mary's church Friday morning. Reqlziem mass was sung by Dew. J. H. SiefeTman The bearers were Mic4ad McCartf1v. Ionn Foley, John F7tzgerazd, Louis Gagnon, | John Farrell and Michael Murray A waiting hymn was sung by Miss Agfea TherriEn. There were present relatives and friends from Lawrence and Springfield, Mass, TaftEiEle and Occazn1. Burial was in St Marys cemetery in SyfEandale Funeral Di- rector Hourigan was in charge. l About 600 May Register. Under the amended miNtary service | law whereby all men between the ages I-of IS and 45, inclusive, must register, | GriszFOfd will furnish a rugged body | of men to draw from. Foxr hundred and fifty were registered in the H to l S1 class. The new registration will include IS to 21, then allowing that those from 21 to 31 are already regis | tered, from 31 to 45 An estimate has I l register under the new 1aW, which is expected to pass at once.
 Taken to Bacseus Hospital. The Backals hospital ambulance made hurried trip to Jewett City upon call of Dr. F. B. RainxiIe, and Mrs. Broufl1ard of Mechanic street was taken to the hospital for immediate treatment
 MT. and Mrs. Geoege Aver had sas gnests Wednesday Mrs, F. s. Brown and her son, Arnold P. Brown, of Maiden, Mass. They were en route by aHkomobiae to Indian Head On the return trip they Will go Sozer the Mo- hawk trail and through the White mountains.
 Record Hot Spell Ends.
 A brisk thunder shower Friday af- ternoon cleared up the atmosphere, lowered the humidity and put the hot spell out of business.
 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, taken together, gave the borough Il hours with a temperature of 100 de- grees or over and 71 hours 95 degrees or over. and only at night time in the whole sT2 hours did the mercury drop below 80, These are shade readings and take the. banner for this burg!
 Hefty BaSSr
 Assistant Superintendent Brown of the Ashland n1slls caught five bass in the Pachaug reservoir Wednesday 4 evening in an hour. The largest weighed 5 pounds when brought to 7. Jewett City. tWo others weighed 1-2 each, one 2 11-2s and one 3 poxnd+14 , pounds tn all But, according to Se- lect1nan John Potter and several other witnesses of u1sqEastDned veracity, a Iman in NoluntOWn caught one early in the week' that gWNefghed7 t-z pounds and was P inches long. The Volnn-
 town man will try and secure a few , of Mir BroHns bass for bait when he i, goes fishing today. He4 expects to gel ..sst a. 10-poHnder from the same hole No one herea2oa1tS believed Ihad such fish were to be caught in the ponds at the very door. The l.; : poandar was one of the large nnoz1thed> species, ,..as were thBee of MT BEoWn,s fish. A mans ghoVed haIcC could easily have been placed in the mouth of the fish.
 Wheat Harvested.
 Dr. J. B. Sweet has just finished , harvesting five acres of spring W4lea1 which he expects will yield at leas1 30 bushels to the acre. It. has always ! been the popular belief that Wheat would not grow in these parts Witf
 any degree of success. A man whose
 business has brought himvmauy- times 5 in touch with the great wheat fields 5 of western Canada was at Dr. Sweets
 farm last week. He said, he, saw n< i, apprec5able difference in the doctors fields and those of the western Whea1
 belts.
 Pheasafts in the Highway. A man driving from Howe.s -cornel
 to Butts bridge Friday morning %caml i. pheaSdntS walking across the road. :, quail caught that way would have hat n a broken wing at once and put III considerable of scrap. Not so witt Mrs. Pheasant She unceEemnnioust q took to cover, but, like the young O 2 the partridge; the chicks were inEisi ble in a second eor two.
 Mrs. c. F. Gardner, Mrs. R. W
 Dearnley and Mrs. E. H.. Hiscox Wer,
 guests of Mrs. A. M Clarke on an au 1 tomobile trip to Jamestown, R. l., Fri
 day.
 Sunday Services. At the Baptist church Sunda, Il morning there will be public worship 2 at 10.45. The Old Garret will be tn
 subject of the junior sermonette. Tn sANS>0No0FoO communion service will be Se1at E Bible school at noon hour, when sev neral new stars will be added to tn Rfservice flag. r. P. $. c. E. at 6.E Miss Ellen Wilcox; topic, Il
 Natures School Pastors evening sub
 ject at T will be. A Fixed Heart. Rex E Myron D. Fuller, pastor.
 E At. the Methodist church, on Sunda E Emorning the pastors suhject wiil A Model Sermon The+combined meet ing of the church and Epworth leagu at D. m- Leader. Mrs. A c. Bur
 dick; topic, Is There Anyone Can
 Forgive? The pastor, Rev. James I
 Aldrich. will preach on the same sub
 ject. \ Ashland -Gruton Iron Works Game For Sundays game on Ashland par z between Ashland and the Grotou Ipo
 works, Van Dyke will pitch for Ash
 land and Hanel will catch. Tn
 management of the Iron works tea1
 has not announced his battery yet bE
 says he is coming up strong and
 going to win The Ashland manage
 ment is making preparations to ac
 commodate one of the largest crowd
 of the season.