Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-27
JEWETT CITY
Two Men Injured at Slater Mill Taken to Norwich For Surgical Attention Rare Books Owned by Miss Burdick Sixty seven Babies Examined in Child Welfare Campaign.

Child Welfare Campaign.
 While changing a warper m the Sla- ter mill Friday afternoon, Peter Bry- ant and Jerry Mercy were injured by the giving way of some part of the moving mechanism. Bryant was cut about the head and Mercy was in- jured about the hips. No doctor was available in Jewett City at the time so the injured men were hurried by automobile to Dr. R. R. Agnew in Nor wich.
 Pulpit Themes For Sunday.
 At the Baptist church Sunday morn ing the pastors talk to his junior con- gregation will be on Umbrella Faith. The subject of the sermon will be The Table of Shew Bread Bible school at noon. Mems class. A 6.15 Y. P. s. c. E., Miss Marion Frink. the leader. Topic, Bible Proverbs. At ' o'clock twilight service, an acrostic sermon, title, Prince. Rev. Myron D. Fuller, pastor.
 l Rev. Albert Donnell, pastor of the Congregational church, will take for his morning subject, A Gentieman's Choice or Lots Dilemma. Y. P. s. c. E. at '. Miss Marguerite Young. lead CT. Topic. Bible Proverbs. The church l VIII bO ClO6CO III
 Potato Crop Will Be Short. Last year GriswoId farmers and war l gardeners harvested bumper crop of potatoes. They grew and thrived in any old place; there were no bugs, no lice and no blight
 l This year it is different. In this vii cinity there will be less than q one third crop, on account of the blight which in many cases has ruined whole fields. Those not in the blight zones are covered with green lice. These. some say, do no harm. yet opinions are divided.
 Rare Old Books.
 Miss M. A. Burdick has a collection Iof old literature dating back I30 years land even earlier. One book is printed
 sermon delivered in January, 17S0, by lZebulon Ely, pastor of the church ir Lebanon. Conn. On the death of Mir
 Jonathan L. Leach who died Ja1l. 12 1790. this book was the property ol Thomas Rix. Another book is g lchild's catechism, printed by Hudson land Goodwin of Hartford, in 1792.
 Another is an oration delivered ir l the First school society in Richmond ]; at a quarterly exhibition of the schol- lars on the 10th of September, 17S9 : by Bela A. Frost. This remarkable , oration opens with these sentences That peace and unity may continue lamongst you-and that education may grow up and flourish like the bay tree
 bud and blossom like the rose, anC bring forth fruit to the honor of tn, Iyoung men, and joy of declining age
 is the sincere wish of the orator. Twins in the Service. Stewart and John T. Edmond, tn,
 twin sons of MT. and Mrs. s. F. Ed ! imond of Waterbury. and nephews O Mrs. James Crary of GriSwold wer born in this town. They were twen ty-one in April, and both are enlistea men. Stewatr received his trainin!
 on the U. s. s. Meade and has beel
 transferred to the transport Governo : Cobb. John is in the naval reserv t lat Pelham Bay Park.
 e Brevities.
 Dr. s. H, Holmes and Mrs. Holme @ attended the meeting of the Tiame Past Noble Grands' Association i
 New London this week.
 The children who were appointed e act as runners at the Red Cross roor
 Monday will not need to go that da
 as there is not sufficient cut wor f ready for next week
 !. Dr. F. E.. Rainville is visiting in Can Iada for week.
 Few Scarlet Tanisers This Season. For some reason the scarlet tanige F is missing in this section this sunime
 1tast summer no less than twent q were reported, and their appearanc IS was mentioned in the news items frol s. many towns near Jewett City. Ther
 are only four species in the Unite 'f States and only one comes here, an e taken with the oriole they are th l. handsomeSt birds seen here3bout
 They are not only remarkable for ihe 'f brilliancy of plumage, but for the .- marked sexual differences in colo Ls Florence Merriam Early says, "He n like a Bird of Paradise in our llortf l. ern landscape.