Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-26
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Friday was calendar day for No venber.
 Light vehicle lamps at e23 o'clock this evening.
 Church organizations are preparing for Christmas sales.
 Unlike last year. there, will be plen- ty of pumpkins this season for Hal- lowe'en jack-o- lanterns.
 At Somers the numbers of loan sub scribers was 54S:, the amount sub scrfhed $5s,54o. The quota was sSs, . 0o0
 Greatest ballot medium in America, Mrs. Bradley Spiritual Academy, Sun day.-adv.
 The Rockville school board intends to pay the teachers full salaries while they are out on account of the epi- dvmic.
 Friday, at o'clock, in St. Patrick's church, requiem high mass for Jo- seph Reamus was sung by Rev. J. H. Frederick. At Pennington, Miss Porter's school, of which Robert Porter Keer, formerly of Norwich is the head. has opened for the fall term.
 Some of the district schools are to make up for time lost during the in ffuenza epidemic by hoiding ses- sions Saturdays.
 The Connecticut Pomological soci. ety has voted s1,ooo for premium mon ey at its annual fruit show that will be held in December.
 The body of Mrs Carrie Flood was taken to Haddam Neck from the Nor wich Hospital for burial iE the fam fly plot in Rock Landing cemetery.
 By order of the state fooG admins trator, no more sugar certificates will be issued in New London, as it is stated that the canning season is now over.
 The Otis Library announces that books taken out before Oct. 7th arc now overdue.-adv.
 The entertainment committee of Fairview lodge, Groton, net Friday night to make plans for the twenty fifth anniversary of the lodge, which falls on November 20.
 Delegates from several of the wo- mems clubs of Eastern Connecticut will go to Bridgeport next Thursday to attend the convention of the State Federation of Women's clubs.
 All the railroad clocks will be put back an hour, at 2 a. m. tomorrow | but train passengers have simply to follow the time tables, leaving all cal | culations to the railroad officials.
 The military programme necessi- tates the classification and physical 1 examination of all September 12th registrants before January ], 1919. The classification of all these men is com ! pulsory.
 i Episcopal rectors from this section : will go to Middletown for the inaug- | uratiou of the new Dean of Berkeley 1 Divinity School, Rev. William P Ladd. E. D, Monday, October 2s at S.3O o'clock.
 The office of Dr. Emma Durham Shannon Bldg, will be open as usual l Monday morning.-adv.
 Hartford papers note that a form CT East Norwich resident, Chief Jus tice Samuel Q. Prentic3 of the su- preme court has a slight attack ot grip, but is expected to be out in 8 i few days.
 Warning has been sounded py the | food administration against impostol | book agents who are canvass ing from door to door with publica- tions purportIng tc be issued by the government an. representing that they have government sanction.
 Between thirty and fcrty experts -frcm the New Haven plant of the Marlin Rockwell Company have beer In Norwich the past week, setting III new machinery at the big Franklin street arms plant of the corporation
 Mantle went over the top in tn, Fourth Liberty loan campaig ign, as th' quota was $s0,00O. but owing to tn, good work of the canvassers $S7 50- was subscribed. The Boy Scout trooq did fine work securing 92 subscrip tions amounting to $24,son. As Nelson Holdredge of Grotor was shutting up his chickens fo the night he discovered carrie with his pets in their coop. Ther was an aluminium band on one le with the marking "S. 11615"
 Not more than 4 GOO soldier ballot have been received by the state sec retary yet, although about 10000 bal lots have been sent out so far. Thi does not, however, represent the to tai soldier vote of the state as bal lots are still being sent out.
 There has been a noticeable tast to the New London water supply re gently. The water department official there stated that this taste and sligh odor are due to the decomposition of vegetable growth, and is commo occurrence every fall and spring. Rt. Rev. Charles Sanford Olmsteat of Denver Protestant Episcopal Dish op of Colorado, who came 10 Old Say brook sometime ago, and who die from heart disease Monday, was burie there Tuesday. Services were { Grace church over which the bisho had presided.
 Bishop Chauncey R. Brewster is re covering from a light attack of tn . grip, which has confined him to tn house in Hartford for few week. He was able to preside at a. meetin in Christ church there Thursday ev ening, when the lord bishor of OK Al l---