Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-22
VARIOUS MATTERS

T 1 mills at Old Lyme have been sold. l St. Timcthy and companions are Il commemorAted in the church calendar 1 today, Aug. 22.
 The grabbing season is in full swing in the Mantle river between the Cast- | no and the Golden Spur.
 1 Sunday next is the communion Sun- | day for the members of the Holy Name society of St. Patrick's parish. A requiem high mass for Hugh Me | Cam was sung in St. Patrick's church l Thursday at s o'clock by Rev. Peter J. l Cuny. 1 The beach at Weekapaug is strewn I with seaweed since the recent storms l Some of it is being carted away to be 1 used as fertilizer.
 T. Dunleavy, has moved from the Ma rion. 324 Main St., to 315 Main St., the Holloway.-adv.
 Visitors for the national roque tour nament have added to the patronage 1 of Norwich hotels and restaurants for l the past few days.
 At Old Saybrook Mir and Mrs. E. B. Clark have entertained Mrs. Frank D. Palmer of Norwich. Mrs. Clark's schoolmate, the last 10 days. A party of 25 members of the Coun- ty Historical society motored up to Norwich from New London Thursday for an outing at Mohegan park. The annual convention of the State Trade School Teachers association will be held in Danbury Sept. 12 and IS in the State Normal school The papers noted Thursday that Frank A. Munsey. the well known pub fisher and financier. was born at Mer- cer, Me. 65 years ago. Aug. 21st.
 The annual midsummer meeting of
 the Mayors association of Connecti-
 cut will be held at the Elks club,
 Bristol, Thursday. Aug. 2S. at noon.
 
 Yale in China mission. and his family left Norwich Thursday on their return trip to Yali, the mission at Chang-sha.
 Farmers in a number of towns re- port the potato crop a failure. There seems to be an abundance in each hill. but so small as to be useless for the table.
 There are now ss2.6o1 persons e,,, ployed in the factories of Connecticut, according to statement of Factory Inspector William Duncan made at the capitol.
 At South Coventry Frederic James Burton and Anna M. Stiefel of North Coventry were ma srried Tuesday at the Congregational parsonage by Rev. H. C. Beebe.
 At the annual reunion of the Stark Family associat tion held in the Crocker house, New London, Wednesday Mon reau J. Stark of Hadlyme was elected president.
 A WequeteQuock correspondent writes: The Shore Line trolley service was never so truly appreciated as since cars started running after being idle four weeks.
 Bishop Nilan's engagements for Sep tember include: 21. Voluntown, St. Thomas. church, confirmation, 10 a. m. and 2s. Dayville. St. Joseph's church and missions. confirmation.
 Over 100 new freight cars of the Nickel Plate line of the New York Central and St. Louis railroad have passed through Noank village in the last two days. west bound. A
 An outing is to be held at Jobs pond, Portland, on Labor day for the Oster- gren association which will be attend ed by relatives of the family from the various New England states.
 The suit. for s2oo.ooo against the estate of Morton F. Plant of Groton has been brought in the superior court at Norwich for Jennie M. Lynch of Onset, Mass, by a Bridgeport firm of attorneys.
 A new law has recently been passed Tn regard to government insurance is- i sued to soldiers and sailors, and under its provisions policies which have been allowed to lapse may be renewed by | paying one months premium.
 The business block at the corner of l Bank street and Montauk avenue, New l London a large portion of which is | occupied by Shalletts dyeworks, was sold to the ShallettS dyeworks Tues day by Carto Satti. the owner.
 A meeting was held in the school | rooms to appoint a committee to so- | licit funds to make up the amount l necessary to pay for a district nurse | for the town of Lyme but the amount | was subscribed before those attending left the room,
 A former member of Norwich Free Academy faculty. Marcus White prin- cipal of New Britain State Normal | school, has been in charge of the school 25 years, and it is believed that he has passed 2,50O young women into the teaching profession.
 Former United States Senator G. P Wetmore was reelected president of 1 the Newport. R. l.. reading room at the annual meeting of the stockholders W WedneSday. pr. Harry J. Knapp for merly of Norwich. was re- elected one of the governors for three years.
 In >Westchester Rev. H. E. Murl<ett and his family are guests of MT. Mur- kett's sister, Mrs. Frank Williams. af- California. MT. and Mrs. Murl<ett with their family will go to Chatta- nooga. Tenn. the first of September.
 When Mrs. Emily Stedman of East Hampton was rendered a birthday party at the home of her sister, Mrs Mary Thomas. Aug. 18th, in honor of her 91st birthday. guests present in- cluded Frank Stedman. her son, and his wife, and Mrs. Williams of Mystic
 Connecticut drummers carried off a sOod1y number of prizes at the recent meeting of the Massachusetts Fifers' md Drummers association in Worces- er. The Father Mathew Drum corps ,f Hartford won first prize. Connectf- gut organizations captured six other prizes.
 Robbins B. Stoeckel, commissioner ,f motor vehicles. has entered into a -eciprocal agreement with the authori- -ies of Massachusetts to revoke the | icenses of operators who fail to ap- pear in Connecticut court to answer Q the charge of violating the statutes of this state.
 About dozen men and several cams are at work on the location of he new thread mill at Poquonnoc The way to Poquonnoc has been closed at he corner of the Eastern Point road where the workmen are making a new wall and preparing the new stafe road