Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-01
VARIOUS MATTERS

SA4&A000 kv&fA 1AAA0 Aug. 1st is Lammas day. It is daybreak now at 3.36. Light vehicle lamps at s,se o'clocl | this evening.
 | Regular meeting of Knights of Co l lumbus tonight at 8 ociock.-Adv. I The best moonlight nights in Angus | will be from the 11th to the 14th. Farmers complain that a new ixint
 of worm is destroying the lima beal 1 At a town meeting at Union it wa | voted to appropriate the sum of s1o.0 for the roads of the town.
 1 The Sunday school of Sterling HI | joined with Ekonk school Thursday il
 a picnic on Ekonk church lawn.
 Those enlisting at New Haven fol i the army and sent to Fort Slocum in
 elude Alfred Farland of Mystic. The annual picnic of the Alder l Skinner auxiliary to the G. A. R. O Rockville Is to be held Saturday at tht
 Felbert farm in Holland. In New York Tuesday George c Howe, husband of Jennie c. Howe, diet suddenly. The funeral was he1c Thursday at Rockville. Conn. Those Noank fishermen engaged ir dragging are making the most money
 now, as founders are bringing 30 cents
 pound in New York markets.
 Cards have been received announc-
 ing the marriage of Theron Ernest
 Clapp of Elliott and Miss Elizabeth Pierpont Beach of North Haven.
 In his report to Governor Holcomb Insurance Commissioner Mansfield states that fraterna1 benefit societies suffered severely as the result of the influenza epidemic.
 The three Norwich wholesalers are still looking forward to receiving sugar ordered in May and held up be- cause of the marine strike. They hope for it in a week or two.
 The New Haven road has notified a number of factories. and through them their employees, that commencing Aug. 1 persons walking the tracks will be arrested mad prosecuted.
 Central Baptist Young People!! :! Don't forget the 'Weenee" roast. Par ties leave N. Y. N. H. & H. Sta. to- night at 4.47 and 7.10 o'clock. Don't miss this great tirne.-adv
 Raymond H. Curtiss, attorney of Ansonia. is claimed to be the biggest member of the Connecticut bar He weighs PTS pounds and was the big gest man in his regiment during the war.
 Authorities here learn that the pas sage of the July 1 dry law has served to decrease the daily population at the New Haven county jail to about 35 prisoners a day, where the average used to be 200.
 At a banquet Wednesday night in New Haven of the Society of Civil Engineers the Connecticut association of members of the American Society of Civil Engineers was formally organ ized with about 121 members.
 In a circular letter issued by Robert C. Deming. director of Americaniza- ton of the state board of education attention is called to the possibilities for naturalization in connection with the establishment of evening schools
 State Highway Commissioner c, J. Bennett declares that S1 ,oe0,e 900 set aside for the cons struction of a federal aid road between Hartford and New London is twice what the project could have been completed for six years ago.
 Five generations of Spfcers picnick- ed the other day at the old Edmund Spicer hom eStead at Ledyard Center, the first time in generation that the sons and daughters of the late Edmund Spicer have sat together in family re- union.
 Today (Friday) is Woman's Home Missionary day at Plainville Methodist camp meeting and the speakersa are Rev ". C. Judd. Rev. J. c. Day, D. D., president Neighbors' league of Amer ica, on AInericanization, Rev. J. D. Roberts.
 Miss Caroline Merchant of New Fa- ven, president of the Connecticut Teachers Federation. will serve sas Connecticut vice president in the new organization of the Federation of Bus mess and Professional Women of America
 Every Connecticut man and woman who has been in active service in the United States arn1y or navy and who fills out the state military service questionnaires will be presented a ha handsome certificate from the depart ment of war records.
 News reaches here that the annual Friends meeting is to be held in the house at Peach Lake, N. Y, Sunday. Aug. 10. at 0 clock. Dr. O. Edward Janney of Baltimore. Ebert Russell of Swarthmore. Pa, and other speakers will be present. i
 An Eastford young woman% Miss Susan Vanwert, lost a diamond fron her ring. which was later foun1 in Mrs: Joseph Gurley's dooryards| Mrs. gravel and in picking it up found it to be the missing sparkler.
 A South Coventry girl, Miss Ruby is on her way to San Fran cisco to join Rev. Char1esiP. Eillie and family and take passage {pn the China Miss Higgins is under contract to teach three years in Shanghai.
 The running of trains by telephone on the New Haven division between Devens and Waterford-N New London started in Wednesday morning All the towers were, notified by the chief -rain despatcher Tuesday that the ines were inspected and found to be 0. K.
 Thursday Mrs. Frank A. Mitchell of Norwich. a member of the state board of charities. And Charles P. Kellogg of /secfetary of the board. made a qufrtefly visit to the Norwich state hospltalY for the insane and to the state harm for women at East
 Judge Joel H. Reed of Stafford has handed down decision in favor of the fof F'enwickf in a suit brought by George c, sInghsm of Old Saybrook to recover damages of $2.o0o for loss of a fish jHouse torn down six years ago by the sheriff of the borough as unsightlyF
 Episcopa1ians here have learned that Rev. Prof. Percy V. Norwood of thef faculty of Berkeley Divinity school, Midd1etown. is to have charge of Christ church cathedral in Hartford In Ar,Sr1Ef ProfQSS0r NnrU0nd