Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-29
UlleBullstin,
Norwich, Monday, July g, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Not drop of water is running over the Uncasville dam. indicating the low pond conditions there. The long period of dry weather has contributed to the untidy appearance of the city's streets. The world-war began four years ago Saturday. July 2S. 1914, as many Nor wich families have reason to refnefn- btri
 Two homes in voIuntown community which have sons in the service took over $500 worth of war stamps re- gently.
 Members of the local grange will attend the picnic of the county and Sea View Pomonas to be held Aug. g at the Golden Spur.
 The lobster catch along the Connec- | tieut shore was very poor this past week. The fishermen have not been making their usual catch. ] In their short season the display of sweet peas at the residence of MT. and Mrs. George $. Palmer; in tho Pe- quot section, have been greatly ad- ! nired.
 | Work will commence immediately on the Groton side of the new bridge over | the Thames river, the middle of which 1 has been almost reached from the op- posite side.
 In thermometers which read 100 de- grees last Tuesday the mercury mark l ed a6 degrees Sunday. There was cooling breeze from the east which may mean rain.
 Local Salvation Army members have learned that four physicians and twenty-two ambulances have already been supplied the Red Cross py the Salvation Army.
 Immediate fertilization of Block Is- land as a protection against the sub marines operating off the coast of | southern New England is being urged upon the war department.
 Mrs. Lena Lohse, wife of Coxswain Lohse of the submarine base who Is i'll with smallpox at 60 Federal street, New London, was taken to the con tagious hospital Saturday.
 The appeal for student nurses from Connecticut is signed by a committee which includes Miss Katherine Me- Carthy R. ~N., chief nurse, visiting nurse association. Rockville.
 While spending the vacation with her aunt. Mrs. Edwards, of Chicago, Miss Helen B. Royce, kindergaftner at Hobart avenue and Laurel Hill schools, is taking a special kindergarten course. Il An Old Saybrook correspondent ! mentions that Tower Operator T. R. l Neal has resigned as relief operator 1 on the Shore Line and has moved his l family to Port Ewen. \. Y., their for nler home.
 During Sunday, Franklin street park was like an animated kindergar- | ten, the babies in the neighborhood, accompanied by mothers and little mothers and a few fathers, taking possession of that shady, grassy tran gle.
 No word has been received by To- It cal officers of the telephone company or telegraph companies that would in- dicate any change of mana cement as the result of the government takins over the telegraph and telephone wires of the country.
 
 (Monday) running between Saybrook Point and the ship yards in New Lon- don to carry the laborers to and from their work This will also accomr1o- date owners of cottages along the shore.
 George r. Cleveland, recently killed
 n action is the third Voluntown boy
 to give his life for his country. He 1
 land and enlisted in the marine corps the day after President Wilson de
 clared war on Germany.
 Defective coupling resulted in con.
 siderable water waste Sunday after.
 noon, when one of the city water wag-
 chs was filling up from a hydran'
 near The Bulletin building. For abou
 five minutes there was a small gey'
 ser spouting there.
 With the railroads under govern.
 ment direction the theft of merchan-
 disc or anything else from ra1froac
 property constitutes a federal offenst and any offender who is caught i! likely to find very little leniency in :
 United States court.
 An automobile owned by W. G. Kfns
 
 Globe says. struck transient vehicle
 near the union station Friday after noon, the driver of the former vehicl' driving away without ascertaining tht extent of the damage he had occa
 stoned
 ' In the twenty-nine men who lief . Stafford Springs in the latest draf
 quota last week were several brothers
 Carl F. Jensen. Thomas J. Jensen
 Henry Bosquet, Walter J. Bosquet . Frederick L. Ramsey, Elric L. Ram sey, Silas J. Bolieau and F'redericl A J. Boliean.
 Among 600 representative men an women invited to meet at New Yori City Hall today for permanent organ X ization to aid the memorial move ment Tor Major John Purroy Nit cheI are two former Norwich resi- dents. Albert S. Bard and Dr. Edwar Eagaman Hall.
 MT. and Mrs. Howard Durfee of No , ank announce the engagement Of thei daughter, Laura W. Durfee to Orri \ Verie Hodgson of Medway, Mass. nov
 employed in the steam fitting depart |