Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-23
UIl1e Bullstin.
 Norwich, Thursday, May 2s, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps at S.S6 o'clock this evening.
 There was .Ss of an ich of rain on Tuesday morning and night.
 The misty weather is making grass and foliage grow with surprising rapidity.
 Orchard owners hereabouts are en- outraged by the outlook for a big ap- pie crop.
 The display of the new. second drive Red Cross pins is beginning to be noticeable.
 The Chappell Ca. put 100 tons of coal into the bins at the courthouse on Wednesday.
 Taxes will be collected today at the drug store of John A. Morgan, Greene vile, from Il a. m. to ? p. m.-adv.
 Many of. the churches and Sunday schools are planning special patriotic exercises for Sunday next, Memorial Sunday.
 Farewell dance-Danz Jazz Band Thursday, May 23, Pulaski hall.-adv.
 The Rockville factories are doing their share in the Red Cross drive. Two of the mills subscribed 100 per cent. the first day.
 Commodore and Mrs. Morton F. Plant have arrived at Branford House, Eastern Point, from New York, coming by automobile.
 Local schools are now able to show visitors some interesting and care fully prepared exhibits of class wok in various lines.
 Railroad men learn that A. l. Chap- man has resigned at the, Midway yard and is now assistant car inspector at Saybrook Junction.
 With the coming of June 9th. James Burke, of 54 Roath street, will com plete fifty two years as driver of a pub lie hack in Norwich.
 Two Essex boys, Henry Palan and Burton Chapman, have gone to Storrs Agricultural college to take a special course in agriculture.
 For some reason horse chestnut trees about town, which in other years have been covered with blossoms, show scarcely a bloom this spring.
 The fair of Seaside council, Knights of Columbus, New London, which was conducted a week at Lawrence hall recently, will net nearly s2,oOo. The service next Sunday at the Gen. tral Baptist church is to be a Memo rial Day service with a special ser mon for the parents of soldiers and sailors.
 Mercury is visible in the eastern morning sky since May 18th, rising about an honr before the sun. It is south of Aries and rises we'll up in the northeast.
 Twenty four towns have turned in their lists of electors now in the naval or military service. The time limit for presentation to the seere- tary of the state is June IS. Attend the informal whist and dance for the benefit of Red Cross. by the Over There club Friday evening at the Elks' home.-adv.
 Stanley Blaschick, the first drafted man sent from East Haddam, writes from France that he has been in sixteen fights and escaped without scratch. He has been appointed corporal
 Recent letters from Percy Morgan the first Waterford boy to arrive in France with the American forces, re- port that he is enjoying the experi- ence he is getting over there and is in the best of health. A Red Cross mass meeting held ir the town hall at Old Lyme Tuesday evening to open the second war fund | drive was well attended. Prof. B. " Bacon. of Yale, formerly of Norwich gave ar inspiring speech. .---.--
 Commissioner of Domestic Animals | T. M. Whitt1esey has two deputies giy- | ing their time to the trailing of dog: which have not been registered. ac. cording to the law, which require: registration and the purchase of tags
 Two hundred tons of coal have heea secured by Groton borough powel department from a company in New London and it is being brought owe by auto trucks. It requires about i tons of coal day for the needs of thu pl~nt. ',t
 Mrs. Carrie weimer of Greenwich was fined s5 in the New London DO lice court, being the minimum fine fo marking a vehicle in excess of the tim limit on State street. A plea of. gull ty was entered.
 Department Commander Christian Quien. of the C. A. R. of Connecticut has issued general orders to the va rious posts of the department, an nouncing his official appointments an giving instructions for the observanc of Memorial day.
 The New London Memorial hospital trustees have adopted vote tha an amalganation of the interests an efforts of the Josenh Lawrence Ere Pubic Hospital and of the Memoria |. Hospital association would be for tn best interests of the city, , Mir. and Mrs. Paul A. Downs. lateI nf the Horticultural College at Storr. left Tuesday. for Albert Lea. in south ern Minnesota. to spend severs [. months. MT. Downs is to be inspecto | nf butter provided by the governmer
 for the use of the men in the servic. At Fishers Island. Mir. and Mrs. 4 l Smvthe of New York arrived and ar : putting the Hay Harbor club in req adi
 ness for the season. Mir Smythe ha
 for a number Of summers been stew y ard of the club and has just returne