Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-03
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VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MAI lERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 8.s4 o'clock this evening.
 Seasonable weather makes business good for the dry goods stores.
 Annual camp meeting at T. H. Pea body's has been cancelied.-adv.
 Neglected tent caterpillars are bad ly damaging garden and wayside trees.
 City campers at Gardner Lake are daily visitors to Norwich for supplies of various kinds.
 Holland county's state attorney, | Thomas F. Noone. of Rockville, has re- turned from a months vacation.
 Boys and girls who peddle huclz1e- berries from house to house in Nor wich are getting good prices for them.
 These suItry days the G. A. R. men appreciate sle wide piazza and shady grounds at the Buckingham Memorial
 Now that the hay crop is stored, 1 most farmers in this vicinity estimate it at about one third that of last year.
 The Connecticut State Council of Defense will have an exhibit at the Rockville fair, which comes the middle of September.
 Stevens studio will be closed from noon today until Aug. Sth, while at tending Conn State Guard Camp at Niantic.-ady.
 Capt. Harry Chapman of Poquonoc caught a 12-pound salmon in a trap off Pine Island near the mouth of the Thames river. Masons Island off Noank, which ii has bean very quiet this season so far, has shown more signs of activity since the recent hot weather. During the summer the Jewett Shorthand school closes at noon Sat urday. providing half holiday for teaching staff and pupils. Harold Hammick of Lyme has dis appeared from hs home and the po- lice have been asked to assist in an effort to locate the young man. A student from Plainfeld, Miss Hen retta Hall is taking summer course at Storrs college She is to be teacher at Green Hollow school this fall. Although the passenger traffic on the New Haven road has dropped materially since the raise in rates the freight business is heavier than ever.
 E.vervbodv interested in Red Fri angle work should hear Dr. Peter
 Wright Sunday night at Central Bap-
 list church. Service under Y. Nj. C.
 4 auspices.-adv.
 State bank men have been notified that the sixteenth annual convention of the American Institute of Banking . is to be in Denver. September r, Is and 19.
 Today is the last day to help John
 Hurley at the Pleasant Dav Cigar stand and the Red Cross Everyone | should do their bit-adv. North stonington was the first town in this county to go over the tor in pledges for the canning cam
 4,0C0 quarts.
 Hartford papers mention that Rev and Mrs. Walter E. Lanphear have returned to Hartford from Nortl
 Windham whe-e, they have spent tht 5 past few weeks. Although the Norwich reservoir
 are in fine condition it is just as pru
 dent to add anti water waste to tn z other forms of conservation during . this dry month. Mrs. Florence Ledyard Kitchelt E Windham county organizer, recent addressed the Rockville Red Cros unit. Her subject was Women 10 z Per Cent. Patriotic E The funeral of Chandler Waldo c B Quaker Hill, who died at the Law 3 renee hospital, Wednesday, was hel Friday afternoon at undertakin s rooms in New London. E Frank B. Cranska of the Thame E National bank has received word C ] the arrival in France of his sen, Cor \ poraI w. Randall CransEa, of the 304t
 Engineers, 18th division. E All who would like to do Red Fri E angle work should attend meeting Q 3 Central Paptist church, Sunday nigh Dr. Peter Wright will speak, unde '. NJ. c. A. auspices.-adv. One of the popular diversions o ! city people at the shore is attendin E country auctions, chiefly for the pun E pose of picking up old furniture, chin E looking glasses and the like. 1 Passersby stop to inspect in a sho - window of the Mohican Store a 5-ine r shell from Camp Devens, used by u V 302nd Field Artillery, Co., E. of Ne
 Haven, and secured by E. A. and A.
 Aubrey.
 So that he may devote all h .o time to his candidacy for sher- E of New Haven county, ex-Congres
 man. Thomas L. Reilly, of Meride
 has thrown up his job of intern - revenue inspector.
 A resolution to increase the amou l. of the benefits which membership
 the State Firemen's association carri
 with it is to be presented at the cor
 ing convention which will be held rt Bridgeport, August 14th and f5th l. The summer meetir- of t "4 Connecticut Society of Civil Engi - cert is to be held at AEomaugut
 Cosey Beach, Wednesday. Hui
 Rockwell, of the Marltn-Pockwe sa Company, will give an exhibition sF hydroplane flights.