Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-22
UIl1e Bnllefiu. Norwich, "Wednesday, May g, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Light vehicle lamps at s.s5 o'clock this evening.
 Farewell dance-Danz Jazz Band Thursday May 2S. Pulaski hall.-adv. Probably due to careless cigarette smoker, there was a bad brush fire at Trading Cove Monday.
 Warmer weather has started up the demand for lawn and porch furniture, hammocks and swings.
 Farmers in the suburbs who have been anxious about the hay crop vel comed Tuesdays showers.
 A Noank correspondent mentions surveyor, has gone to Baltic in the interest of the Noanlk shipyard.
 The stores are having calls for Ital- ian flags of different sizes, as favors for Italy day, Friday next The Ital- ian colors are red, white and green.
 William N. Allen, s2. who died re- gently at Davisville, had lived in that ducted grist mill for more than 60 years.
 The Bow Scouts are to have drill on the Academy campus at 7.15 this Wednesday, evening, in command of Lieut.. B. F. Brewster of the State Guard.
 Taxes will be collected today at Ed ward McNamara's store, Falls, from 12 m. to p. m.-adv.
 A large class of children of St. Pat rick's parish will receive first holy communion at a special mass at O. clock, Saturday next, the eve of Trin-: ity Sunday.
 Old Saybrook men, Richard Doyle and Walden Spencer, of the Shore Line Electric Railway, are called in the twenty second division and noti- fled to report at Camp Upton.
 A woodshed and carriage house be- longing to MT. and Mrs. Carl Seniko- vich at Holland was burned Sunday, and only by the timely help of neigh bors were the house and surrounding buildings saved.
 A meeting of South Coventry Red Cross canvassers was held at the home of the chairman Mrs L. A. Kingsbury Monday evening. and ter ritory was assigned. The quota for Coventry is s1,400.
 Delegates from womens clubs in this section will attend the twenty second annual convention of the Connecticut State Federation of Women's Clubs to be held in Hartford today CWed- nesday), and Thursday. Owners of woodland are finding a disposition among families to inn 1 prove every opportunity to collect waste wood, indicating that the ex- periences during the recent fuel short age are having good effect. Having presided for his last term ir eastern Connecticut, Judge William L ! Bennett, of the superior court bench officially retired Saturday by reason of age limitation. He will become 8 corporation lawyer in New Haven.
 Attend the informal whist and dance for the benefit of Red Cross by the | Over There club Friday evening al | the E1ks' home.-adv.
 The flags on soldiers graves in the cemeteries about town need replac- | ing by the bright new ones to be dis tributed Memorial Day, as like ev- erything else they show the effect ot the storms and winds during the long hard winter.
 l Four or five men will be taken from the list to leave Rockville this week at least three of them because O their teeth. Seventy mine men have been called and seventy-two of then will be sent to camp as the quots l from Holland county.
 One of the teachers when the state summer school was held at Norwich Miss Fanniebelle Curtis, director O New York kindergartens, has beer granted leave of absence until nex September to organize kindergarten for the children in France.
 Norwich residents who were accus toned to drive annually to Lyme re lize that the planked shad days alons the Connecticut river are over ant gone. The weather this month ha! been ideal. but there has not been single planked shad outing yet.
 A gold star is to be placed on tn, roll of honor in the Noank Baptis
 
 of young men of the village servins their country. The star will be place. opposite the name of Harrison M Ward, a young soldier who died il service.
 When a service flag in honor of tn members of St Mary's church. Wind sor Locks. who have gone into tn service of the country. was dedicate Sunday afternoon, Rev. Thomas F Lynch, formerly of Baltic, army chap lain of the 301st Machine Gun com pany at Camp Devens, spoke.
 Norwich alumni learn that com mencement activities at Wesleyan wi start June 14 and continue throug Saturday and Sunday. closing with tn conferring of the degrees Monday June r. President Shanklin is ex pected to be home and preach the bac calaureate sermon Sunday, June Is.
 Funeral services were held Tuesda at Noank for Miss Ida Potter. 66, wl cled at Norwich. She was the daugh ter Of the late Capt. Joseph and Mar E. Potter and is survived by two sis ters. Mrs. Jane Andrews of Cente Groton, and Mrs. Sarah Latham. an a brother. J. Walton Potter of Noanl
 Certain of the Norwich banks ar having over 1000 transactions dail, during these strenuous weeks of Lii erty bonds, Red Cross subscription war stamp sales and the rest, and tn
 while members of the force have ar swered the call to service and the work devolves upon those remaininj