Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-15
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VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Light vehicle lamps at S.1s o'clock this evening.
 Just arrived. Big cargo fresh fish, OSgood wharf. Prices very low.-adv.
 North Stonington grange is to hold it's picnic today (Thursday) at At lantic Beach.
 A family reunion was held at the Ivoryton hotel at Ivoryton Sunday by the Startling family.
 The home grown pear crop is good | hereabouts, pears selling at S2 per bushel if sound and ripe.
 At Colchester. Saturday. M R. Abell, justice of the peace, married Harry Begoom and Miss Saran Mar ] GUS.
 There was a refreshing drop in temperature Wednesday evening alters the sky darkened for the thunder | storm.
 At 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, the thermometer at J. J. Shea's on Broadway marked 1o6 degrees in the sun.
 Housewives who have been keeping their pledges to can during the re- cent hot days have certainly been >do- ing their bit.
 Shoppers were out for the special fur sales Wednesday in spite of the heat, and many handsome coats and sets were purchased.
 The French Orphan Fund and the Armenian relief work are being kept up by the Connecticut W. C. T. U. during>the summer.
 Venus rises in the east at 4.30 a. m. today. the 18th. It moves SS de- grees eastward during the month from Gemini into Cancer.
 An anniversary requiem high mass for Mrs. Nora Kearney was sung in St. Patrick's church Wednesday at 8 o'clock by Rev. J. H. Broderick.
 Hotels at Pleasant View are full and there are practically no cottages vacant There is very little going on in general social way. however.
 Guy c. Wiggins. the prominent ar tist of the Old Lyme colony, is ex- pected to sail any day for France where he will engage in Y. M. c. A. work.
 great laymen's organization of the Episcopal church. met at East North field, Mass, Wednesday for it's annual national convention
 At Lyme George Mitchell and chill dren went over to the big elm one day recently, picked nearly a bushel of huckleberries, and sold them in the : village at 30 cents a quart 2 A large amount of finished work was returned to the Red Cross room on Wednesday by the women of St. Pat rick's parish, representing garments s made for refugees during home sew ing.
 The last payment on the Third Lib erty loan on the government plan will { he due and payable today, August Is This is a forty per cent payment of the amount of the bond suu-1,r4Ued s for.
 The Manchester Herald mentions that Mrs. George Mallon and daugh- k ter of Johnson Terrace and a little New York Fresh Air girl who is vis- iting them. are spending the week al E Coventry lake.
 The new owner of the Charles W = Comstock property at Uncasville 1 Harry Hellar, of New York, is great ly improving the estate. remodeIing the stable into a garage. installing electric lights. etc. f The Shore Line Electric Railway is now providing two conductors tc . collect fares on their cars betweer |. Montville and New London, the neY f plan working well since the Rookt :. fare registers are used.
 Tinfoil has been collected for tn Red Cross by the children of the Dali.
 Vacation School of the Central Bap
 tIst church. which has been in ses
 sion for the Italian children of tn
 city for the last six weeks.
 The annual outing of the Connect
 cut Shoe Retailers association wa h6-I Tol-
 terbury, Wednesday. A beefsteaI
 dinner was served at 230 o'clock an
 was followed by a programme 0
 sports.
 C As a result of the recent talk a U Watch Hill of Miss Carita Spencer
 chairman of the Food for Franc
 fund, about $500 has been donated {
 the cause by Watch Hill people in
 terested in it. through Miss Spencer
 address.
 His relatives have received wor
 that Francis B. Skelly, of Norwich
 wh was captain of his contingent of 6
 men on leaving Baltimore for Cam 'o Meade 10 weeks ago. has been pro
 noted corporal of the 94th Co.,, 154t
 Depot Brigade.
 - An Ellington tobacco farmer zoe = to Manchester every day after loa A Ul Cililureil IU WOFk on Cu6 1arrn. Ii , has an automobile and attached {
 the machine he has four wheele
 affair with broad platform on wnic
 the children ride. One of the men leaving Bridgepol 's today for special training at Newto,
 Mass, is Raymond Eugene Gibsol
 younger son of Eugene Gibson . Norwich, who has been in the Par
 City for a year and half was wit - the U. M. C. company. U The lights and telephone servic
 have not been repaired yet throug T, the section of Saybrook that was al hardest byN last weeks tornado. Al 'o tomobiles are unable to be taken fro T.. the garages where She big trees we d. felled, blocking their path. V. Cut off from the stairway ! n- smoke, MT. and Mrs Harry Ha, in. were rescued from their burning hon r at Groton. firemen taking them out | a window of their bedroom. TT of blaze which started from an electr e. fiat iron caused $1,500 damage. n; Interesting work done in the histol T. course of the Normal school depar ok ment of the Danbury Normal Sur of ner school is the construction wo of of models representing pioneer lii
 Indian life and Dutch life. This wo It. was done by the students in the hi
 tory class.