Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-06
VARIOUS MATTERS

The final dog day Thursday proved of moderate heat and with. very little humidity.
 A beautiful bed of astsrs at the J. R. Allyn residence, below Thamesvllle, is winning admiration. Some of the children have begun to save fruit pits. as their patriotic help toward winning the war.
 Shrub hydrangeas about town are taking on a pink tinge and blossom-J ing unusually full this season.
 K of c. meeting tonight Election of oficers,-ady.
 To the Willard Fund the SWAliman- tic L. T. L., has contributed S2 and Colchester W. C. T. U. has given $2.
 Men from the shore towns are now catching a few mackerel and hope the fish will come in large numbers soon.
 Word is being received of the safe arrivSl overseas Of the men who left Fishers Island with tAe 6Sth heavy ar tiliery.
 Rt. Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster the Episcopal hishop of Connecticut, was. born at Windham. Conn, 70 years ago yesterday.
 A poem by John Troland. of Nor wich, entitled "St Peters Shadow" is copied in the current issue of the Catholic Transcript, Hartford.
 Long and heavy freights continue to run through this city and local manu- factories are doing their full share to- ward increasing freight shipments. Today, Sept. 6. is the 137th ami versary of the battle of Groton Heights. It is also the 37th anniver- sary of the famous Yellow Day. ir 1881.
 About the usual number ef children received work permits Thursday from State Agent A. W. Buchanan, of Mansfield, during his weekly visit to Norwich.
 Thursday evening, Norwich cottag- CTS at Ocean beach reported the waves s and feet high and water nearly up ] to the board walk, indicating a big storm in some direction.
 The State Working Girls Vacation House at Madison closed Tuesday for the season. The annual group picture was taken last week and about 30 guests were photographed.
 Many at Weekapaug are staying on very late into the season. Only two families, those of Joseph Ensign Of SSmsbury, and Mrs. & B. Donchian O. Hartford, have left the beach. 1 How the war is affecting local bus | mess houses is indicated by the fact that one leading firm which reuulres oyer fifty employees is obliged to get along with less than thirty five
 At the Thursday evening prayer meeting of .he Central Baptist church the pastor Rev. A. F PurSiss. was ihe leader, the topic being the last lesson in Hebrews 18th chapter.
 The marriage of Miss Charlotte B. Allen and Arthur Parker of Mansheld took place Tuesday afternoon at the New London Methodist parsonage Rev. Myron E. Center performed the ceremony.
 A Dayville correspondent notes that Miss Helen M. Kelley, who has been a teacher at the Norwich AcademN Tor q number of years, has resigned and Will spend the winter at her home in Dayviile.
 The retiring school superintendent Charles B. Jennings. read his repor, at the meeting of the New London school board Wednesday evening, after 52 years of continuous service in i the public schools of his native town
 Many Watch Hill cottagers are staying on throughout the month aud consider that these days are the pest of the season. The hotels vii close about the twelfth, but .the golt club Will keep open into October prob, ably.
 1 Now that the Norwich fair is over the officials of the county w. C. T. U. are gratified to find that their reve. hue from sales, etc, at their bootf during the three days reached tn, highest figure their books have eve shown.
 Although the state agricultural so ciety has tried to get farmers wive and child interested in gathering tn, l common roots and herbs which tht country needs so urgently, little O such work has been taken up in th.i section.
 Now that four can be bought with out taking an equal amount of sub sutptes many more housewives hay, begun doing their own bread mak ing. Five pounds of flour can nov be purchased with only pound o
 substitutes.
 Making the trip in their tourinj car. MT and Mrs. Thomas Hope an,
 their daughters, Misses Fac, Mary 5 and little Margaret, of Potter HiI : 1 WY cASoco lOA bhc HOliudY o l MT. Hopes brother. A. Taite Hope, a his home in DaYville.
 A circular letter from Bishop Nila1 , : asks the Catholic pastors of the dio ! eese to urge their people to co. oper ate in every way with the food ad ministration, by carefully carrying ou the instructions published in tn . newspapers and pamphlets. The National Grand Lodge, I. O. (
 F, Manchester Unity, convened in bi
 ennial convention at New Haven. O
 Wednesday, with a large number (
 delegates present. New York was se
 lected as the next convention meet
 ing place with 1920 selected as tn
 date.
 The County Home school on Srlit
 avenue, Norwich. has opened, with a the S4 children enrolled. Miss M. la nie Leach is detained at her home i Vermont by illness, Mrs. L. H. Presto
 taking her classes. Miss Holden an
 Miss St, John have returned as teacf
 CTS in the other grades.
 Probably one of the youngest Civ
 War Veterans in this vicinity Thomas E. Wormsley of Nit. Plaasar street who has been acting as chi n at Ocean Beach during the season. ar
 who ran away and enlisted when bl . IS, serving as member of a dru1 4 corps until the end of the war.