Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-13
VARIOUS MATTERS

of the Foresters is to be held In Ney
 Haven Saturday.
 Sons of St. George. met Tuesday a
 Lake Compource.
 Men in the Shore Line employ hav been engag repairing the tracks a Uncasville this week.
 The corn crop in most localities i
 looking fine and some field corn stalk are from 8 to 10 feet tall.
 The Seventh day Advent cam,
 meeting for the state is to open II
 Plainville tomorrow (Thursday).
 Tuesday evening the Young People,.
 Service at the Central Baptist church
 was in charge of Rev. c. L. Kenagy.
 Now there is talk of the possibility
 of closing Hartford county jail, where
 there are but about 10S prisoners. men
 and women.
 Jubilee contributions acknowledged by the White Ribbon Banner include from this county. Mystic $100. New London $67.21.s
 The planet Neptune will not be wis., i iblc until the last week in August when it will rise less than an hour before the sun.
 Connecticut and Rhode Island dele l gates have left for Battle Creek, Mich. 1 where they will attend the Seventh | day Baptist conference. The 1919 convention of field men
  ance Company will be held Sept at l the Griswold. Eastern Point. At Saybrook. William R. Martin re- ported as assistant baggagemaster Sunday at the Junction. three months later than in previous years. Unless trolley and railroad con- ditions improve and the weather changes, the season at some of the beaches will prove a failure. Twenty-Five hundred vehicles cross ca the state bridge at Lyme for east ern points and as many more visited FenWick and the shores west. TheAmerican and Chinese Restaur- ant will be closed for alterations the l first of this week. Will announce when we will open. Lee Co-adv. Townspeople and residents of su ourban places are taking their outings | now to Mohegan Park. discovering new attractions there with each visit.
 The annual convention of the Flu perai Directors Association of Con necticut was held Tuesday in New Haven. President George J. Smith of Milford presided.
 Pauline Frederick. one of the most popular actresses in motion pictures. was born in Boston, 35 years ago Tuesday. She is the daughter of Elcnard Q. Libby. of 121 Broadway,
 The Andrews Family sAssociation Of Connecticut. al it's annual reunion last week. voted to erect a tablet on the ale campus in memory of Rev. Sam uel Andrew. second president of Yale University.
 At recent meeting of Division No. l, A. o. H.. of Rockville, the delegates elected othe annual convention in Danoury, Wednesday and Thursday, sept. 10 and II. were Fred J. Sheehan and Roger J. Murphy.
 N.rxx-fol, ing Tuesday becauee. while troIlev service in New London has beeaf~prac really restored, the business men here nave not taken some active measures to control the local situation.
 Copies of war risk insurance no1i- cies to be offered to ex-service men have been received in the state The American Legion has gone on record as favoring the retention of govern meht insurance by service men
 The telegraph offices have been mo- tifed of the resumption of direct ca ble communication with China and Siberia through the repairing of the Manila Shanghai cable. This line re- gently was broken by typhoon.
 Ansonia led the state in per capita the first six months of 1919. according 10 statistics. just issued. A total of SS6,211.36 worth of war savings stamps were sold in Ansonia during IAdI LlIaS.
 The United States civil service com mission announces for Aug. 19 exam inatfon for specialist in cotton class ing, for men only. Three vacancies in the bureau of markets. department ! of agriculture, will be filled from this l examination.
 Members of the International Sun shine Society have been notified that | the board and council of headquarters will De held at Dyker Heights, New | York, today, Aug. IS. MT. and Mrs | AldeIi's e3d wedding anniversary will | be celebrated.
 The freight embargo on the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road has not affected the ice situa- tion in Connecticut, as ice is classed as "fo,d for human consumption" and shipments have thus far been re- ceived as usual.
 Richard T, Higgins. chairman of the Connecticut Public Utilities com has been summoned to to tell the special com what he knows of the trolley troubles in Connecticut.
 According to a New York dispatch the surprising advance of New Haven i road stock recently was the outcome of the rival interests in the PennsyI- vania and New York Central systems to gain cont fof of the road and link ] It up with enc or the other.
 The field day trip of the Holland County Farm Bureau. which was to be held Thursday has been postponed on account of farmers being. rushed with their work which was delayed by the stormy weather. The trip vii; De taken a little later in the season.
 Guests at the Rockhaven Hotel. at | Weakapaug, and bathers who frequent the west end of the beach have con -ributed money for purchasing a life buoy and rope to be hung in the shell ter on the shore, where it can be quickly used in case of an emergency.
 The report of the injuries in a troll ey accident to Mrs. Lillian Shaw. an to the matron of the Coun- " Home. Norwich. was greatly exag- serated. Mrs. Shaw, with Mrs. Hattie Sargent took 19 girls and 36 boys from he home on an outing to Mohegan Park Tuesday.