Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-12
VARIOUS MATTERS

| I tonight
 New Britain has raised $31.ooo to | finance it's Welcome Home celebration. Sales of Thrift Stamps and War 1 Savings Stamps throughout the. New 1 England state for the month Of July Waterford and Stonington which voted for no license last year, have inserted in the town meeting call a clause for a vote on the question next month
 A dance Saturday night in Scotland Road hall.-adv.
 No bids were submitted for the con- struction of 10000 to 20,00o square feet of concrete sidewalk, asked for by the highway committee of the city of Putnam.
 More than 100 members attended a
 reunion of the Carr family at Maple
 Crest farm, Bowens Hill. Coventry.
 R. l.. the home of MT. and Mrs. AL
 fred B. Carr.
 Miss Mary Buckley has opened a
 shampooing and manicuring parlor,
 Room 20. Shannon Bldg. Tel s27.-adv. adv.
 The ninety fifth annual meeting of the Ashford Baptist association will be held at the Baptist church, at Eastford on September 30.
 ready for the long predicted Sep tember hot wave, along came cold and wet spell and broke it up in typi- cal New England fashion.
 Fair price commissioner Robert ScovilIe was authorized the announce fair priced committee for New Haven, Bridgeport and Waterbury.
 The trolley bridge over Palmer s Cove near Groton Long Point is said cars of the Groton and Stonifgton line slow up before passing over it.
 Opportunities for employment were a little less in August than in the month before. according to figures Of the five free employment bureaus of the Labor Department made public Thursday.
 There was no information at the United States marshals office Thurs day as to when William R. Palmer of Oxford. would assume the duties of terfield c. Middlebrooks.
 At least four Connecticut towns, 1 Beacon Falls, Colchester. Haddam, license at the 1918 election, will have no vote the liquor question at the October election this year. 1
 storrs Agricultural college has ar ranged two fair exhibits which will be shown throughout the state this aq- runifi One of these exhibits will he at Woodstock Fair. September 18th and 17th. and at Brooklyn Fair Sep ternber 23rd. 24th and 25th.
 More than s2o.ooo have been sub scribed, chiefly by the manufacturers If the northern end of Windham coun- ty, towards the $25.e0o necessary -o get a like appropriation from the state for the enlargement of the Day K <imbaH hospital of Putnam.
 The United States ordnance corps 1as opened a large school located at Raritan arsenal, New Jersey. for the express purpose of training young nen to become proficient in the various trades that are in demand n the work of tic ordnance corps.
 4 meeting of the State Association Pro ba ton officers will be held at the Cheshire Reformatory September l7. The programme will consist of in ;peetien of the reforma tory followed 1y a call to order by Preside ent George = Erskine who will address tie men \ present.
 New London school teachers to the number Of 125 have signif1ed their of joining the State Teach ers' Retirement association in a body, and the city will pay their dues for the past two years, or since the teachers retirement law went into effect.
 Mrs. E. c. Brown of Providence, now at Pomfret, where she spends the greater part of the summer, gave & R. L. boy $500 for finding and restoring to her hand bag with jewels worth several thousand dol lars which was dropped from her au- tomobile.