Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-15
QIlaeBaligtin.
Norwich, Monday, July IS, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Light vehicle lamps at $50 o'clock this evening.
 The moon is in it's first quarter to- morrow, the 18th. at 2.25 a. m.
 Stevens studio closed this week. Open July 22nd.-tdv.
 Boston papers were delayed in get ting into town Sunday on account of a wreck near Providence.
 This is St. Swithin's day when shower woAld cause the superstitious to look for rain for forty days.
 Some of the tallest hollyhocks in town arg growing in the garden at the Eliza Huntington Memorial Home.
 The beautiful service flag displayed at Christ Episcopal church shows 23 stars for the parish young men in the service.
 Maude Squires, IA, a member of the Planfield junior food army has an acre of potatoes all planted by her self and all nearly in blossom.
 At North stonington Leonard R.
 
 six years standing which stood four feet high and was very heavy. The South Coventry State Guard purchased six war savings stamps dur ing the last campaign. also gave $25 to the Red Cross during the recent drive.
 A noticeably handsome French flag T l Stripes SundS~ at the residence of Professor and Mrs. Francis R. Haley, on Broadway.
 Although Chelsea Parade was mow- | ed but a short time ago frequent rains 1 have caused the grass to grow so rap | idly that more having will be neces- sary there soon.
 A beautiful contrast of colors is ad- mired at the Charles Bard residence 1 on Broadway, where the Dorothy Per kins roses on the arbors are set off by | a background of larkspur At the 10S0 mass in St. Patrick's church Sunday, Rev. Myles P. Calvin | preached on Conservation, as applied spiritually as well as materially. The mass was read by Rev. Peter J. Cuny
 County Farm Bureaus have received from the Department of Agriculture notice in regard to the cabbage worr and the cabbage looper which should be guarded against by vegetable grow CTS.
 Police in nearby towns have been no. tified that George Rockford Of Woon- socket, R. l., has escaped from the | Norwich State Farm for Inebriates. He was committed from the Putnam city 1 court.
 The women who are securing sigma lures to canning pledges will be as sisted this week in a number of towns by the letter carriers. who are to dis l tribute the pledg9s to householders or their routes.
 The Norwich Red Cross needs olt newspapers to back pads, to be cut .; inches long and II 1-2 inches wide and to be brought at once to Mrs Frederick A. Byrnes at the Red Cros: room in the Thayer building. The majority of Mansfield Center women are proving their patriotism b! l denying themselves the use of whea in any but small quantities "A bushe of wheat saved will support a soldier | over there till next harvest"
 Local employees of the express companies learn that the increase 1T II express rates recently granted by the inter- state. commerce commission makes it possible to immediately re. wise and increase the wage schedule.
 The planet Neptune is in Cancer, { few degrees west of Saturn. and ha! been telescopically visible until today the 18th after which it will he grad ually lost in the suns rays, being il conjunction with the sun on the 30th
 A Potter Hill. R, L, man, George N Riddle. for Ii years boss fnisher il the Smiths, Mass, Woolen Mills re gently resigned to become boss finishet at the Farnsworth Penny Mills in Cen tral Village. much larger plant thai that at Smiths.
 The Connecticut Conference of tn German Lutheran Churches purchaser last year the old Peter Farley place il Southbury, to be used as a home fo aged persons of that denomination. I was formally opened and dedicate i
 Tuesday next being the anniversar of the Feat of the Lady of Noun Carmel, a religious festival of specis significance and interest to people ( Italian nationality, special masses fo Italian people will be celebrated in tn 5 larger Connecticut cities.
 People living in the country wh want to gather roots and herbs S much desired by the government al being asked to write and ascertai the names and addresses of the pros pective buyers from the department agriculture at the capitol.
 Grant Hill school house located i the southern part of Holland was d. stroyed by fire the other night about o'clock. It was one of the older strut L lures in the county. The tire is be lieved to have been incendiary. IT loss is partly covered by insurance. Six years ago Mrs. Philip Vel U ber of Pendleton Hill had a fall ar
 broke her leg. Since then she h;
 broken the same leg four times TT H mother of five small children, she now confined to her bed and almo
 helpless as the result of her accident
 Warning has been issued to hous r holders by Thomas ". Russell. flu s administrator for Connecticut, to b ie ware of persons who claim to be ac ID ing as inspectors for the United Stat
 fuel administration enforcing the co Is rationing plan recently announced
 the press.