Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-16
VARIOUS MATTERS

days.
 The funeral of Mrs. Ruth Giddings, 7s. was held at Mantle Saturday after noon.
 Owners of French flags will display them tomorrow in honor of the bands visit to Norwich.
 Fringed gentians in Ledyard and vicinity are unusually numerous and very beautiful this year.
 Wheeler school at North Stonir gton, Royal A. Moore principal, will open for the fall term Tuesday of next week.
 Many of the stores of the Jewish merchants are closed today because of the observance of the Day of Atone ment.
 The forty hours devotion opened Sunday at St. Andrews church, Col chester, and St. Thomas church, Vol untown.
 A state dairy inspector was in Gro- ton borough the other day and, after investigation, ordered that one of Jo- seph Bergman's cows be killed.
 The typhoid fever scare at Noank seems to have died out All the pa- tients are improving. Incidentally the village get much needed cleaning up.
 As sanitary and economical, nearby hotels and restaurants are serving sugar to patrons in small sealed white envelopes, the style used in business as pay envelopes.
 Sunday at Saybrook Point, a former Ledyard pastor, Rev. M. F. White, of the First Congregational church, lec- tured at the 10.30 a. m. service on Darkness, the Environment of GGvil.
 Tinfoil has been brought to the room of the Service league by Ida Reynolds. R. F. D. No. :, Nellie Chappell, Maurice Blake of Preston Plains and large box full from Rena Meunier Johnson.
 On the calendar of Trinity Methodist church Sunday was the minute: In Memoriam, Mrs. A. N Carpenter 1855 1918. She had lived a good life, she had kept the faith. henceforth there is a crown for her.
 At North Stonington, Rev. William o. Keirstead. agent of the Connecticut Prison association, who gave an ad- dress at the grange Friday evening, spoke also at the Congregational church Sunday morning.
 Tnc 18th anniversary of the dedi- cation of Danbury Universalist church edifce was observed Sunday. The pastor of this church, Rev. Elliott B. Barber, is the son of Mrs. Elizabeth D Barber of Laurel Hill avenue, Nor wich.
 Robert Hahn, 62, patient of the Norwich state hospital. escaped from the Institution Saturday noon. The police were requested to be on the lookout for him, as it was believed he would start in the direction of New Lc=icn.
 Sunday evening a delegation from the Holy Name society of St. Patrick's S church. Alexander Jordan president, van of Ward street, who died Friday, uniting if prayers for the repose of his soul.
 The will of the late Charles Mallory, head of the Mallory steamship line, a member of the Mystic family, was ad- 'nitted to probate at Greenwich, leaves his estate of S100,000 to the widow, Mrs. Moriah L. D. Mallory, who is eEecutriS.
 Hunters who have been out on the meadows bordering the Connecticut river after railbirds find the wild rice very rank and difficult to get through with a boat. The birds are more nu- n7erous than they have been for many years back.
 Six Smonths' interest on the third ] Liberty loan bonds was due and pay 1 able yesterday, the 18th. The govern ment suggests that this interest be 1 invested in war savings stamps Coupons can be exchanged for same 1 at the postof1ices.
 1 The Sevin family has moved from | Church street Mir and Mrs N D ! Sevin to Park street and MT. and Mrs l Frank Sevin and son to Laurel Hill avenue. The house which they occu- pied has been leased by Mir and Mrs | George Fritz of Quaker Hill. ! The Connecticut women who vii i take part in the suffrage demonstra- tion at Washington today (Monday) | will have as their spokesman in the i preliminary, Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn i of Hartford, formerly president of the : Connecticut Woman's Suffrage asso. citation.
 The engagement has been announced of Miss Dorothy Bishop Wafer, daugh. ter of Judge and Mrs. Charles B Waller, of New London, to Ensign Rolf I c. Bennett. L. s. \. Ensign Bennett is a graduate of Cornell and is sta. tioned at the experimental station a 1
 Having resigned as pastor of tn, Second Congregational church, Nor wich, Rev Herbert J. Wyckoff has en gagged as teacher in a boys prepara l tory school in Haverford, Pa. Mir Wyckoff is in Woodbury, Conn, {, spend several days with his father Rev. J. l., R. Wyckoff.
 Today the state tuberculosis com mission will meet at the Norwich san atorium, with Supt. Dr. Hugh Camp bell. The members of the comnis
 sion are Ds. Stephen J. Maher. Ne7 Haven, chairman, Attorney Wallace Allis of Norwich and Editor Arthu Reed Kimball of Waterbury. 7.
 Thread manufacturers in Connecti
 cut have been notified that, effectiv
 Jan. 1, spools are to be made wit
 the smallest practical diameter for 20
 yards minimum per spool in domesti , cotton threads; 100 yards minimum fo ] carpet and button threads: 45 yard
 minimum per unit for alarming cottor
 A card dated New York, receive
 Saturday evening from William N
 Skelly or Norwich, who has been talk
 ing special government course 8
 Newton, Mass. High school, state
 that he had just received an appoint
 ment to the officers training schoo
 Camp Hancock, Ga, and was on hi
 way, expecting to reach there Monda,