Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-05
VARIOUS MATTERS

| ing corn suppers.
 The summer residents of Groton Long Point are leaving every day. Cool weather continues favorable to : conserving the Norwich ice supply. After maintaining silence. all week,
 the town clock resumed striking at 10
 a. m. Thursday.
 The law is off on shore bird hunt
 ing, but there is not much hunting in
 Connecticut yet.
 The Lords Point post office and the
 inn there will close for the season on
 Monday. Sept Is.
 Meeting of K. of c. tonight. Election of off1cers.-adv.
 Supervisor Eldridge Smith has an nounced that the Montville public schools will open next Monday.
 The marriage of William Stark of Old Lyme and Miss Florence Hope of i willimantic is to take place Sept. r. The water lilies in Morgans Pond, | below Thamesyille, have been unus- 1 ually numerous and thrifty this sea ! son.
 In the Thames street road rebuild | ing. crushed stone has been distrlb-
 uted as far as the former John Nit | chell property.
 At meeting of the school board held at Mantle. TuesGay evening. the members reached the decision to open the schools Sept. 15.
 Cattle dealers in western Connecticut are receiving high prices for cattle: s150 to s250 is considered a fair price these days for prime cows. When the County Home school, Norwich. opens for the fall term Mon day next. Miss Della St. John will re- turn as teacher in the primary grades Miss Lucy Billings of Stonington and Miss Marjorie Thayer of Durham
 Center returned to Lyme this week to resume their duties as teachers in the school.
 Don't forget the dance tonight in
 Scotland Road hall.-adv.
 At a reunion of Watrous families held at the Mystic Oral school where there was 8 house party over Satur- day and Sunday. about 15o were in at tendance.
 Beginning Sunday next. high mass at 10So and vespers at 3-3o will be resumed at St. Patrick.s church. fol- lowing the summer schedule of low mass and no vespers.
 Bank men here learn that the fifty fifth annual convention of the Ameri- can Bankers association at St Louis Sept. 29 to Oct. will be attended by more than 1000 bankers.
 One of the most important changes this year to the curriculum a t Brown university. where there are Norwich l students, is the creation of a new de- l partment in nautical science.
 Patrolman Richard P. Martin. who i resigned from the police force Of New London this week, did so in order to return to his old trade of bricklayer and mason. which pays better than being q cop.
 The date for the closing of the Watch Hill hotels has not yet been l determined although both may keep open until the middle of September. i Tine hotel season has been one Of the 1 best ever known at the Hill.
 Come out and hear Rev. George La Flash and wife speak at T. H. Pea hody's, Sunday. the 7th, 1o.30 a. m. and ] 2.30 D. m.-adv.
 At Mystic. George H. GriswoId. Jr, has had fine luck with asters this summer and is showing at his home in Bank street some of the finest of these ! flowers to be seen. He has seven va ricties and all are unusually large.
 4 former rector at Grace E.pisco- l pal church. Yantic. Rev. Percy NJ. i Barnes and family. who were at Chap man Peach this summer, have left for Providence Mr. Barnes was rector at St. Johns Episcopal church. Els sex.
 A Groton correspondent mentions that friends and relatives of MT. and Mrs. Michael Piacenza of Baker ave nue were present at the christening of their daughter. Lucy. Sunday. Many went from Norwich and spent the day.
 At the marriage Wednesday even ing Of Miss Nellie T. Howard Of 100 Cliff street. Norwich. and Allen Ray mond Martin of Willimantic. they Clement. the latter being a cousin of the bride.
 Venus passes from the evening to the morning sky the 12th of Septen1- Der. and for two weeks after this date. being near the sun. it will not be nheer4-z hIP unless %riz iS ceptionaly clear when it may be seen twinkling in the twilight or the dawn.
 The Danbury News says: For the accommod ation of the 500 A. O. H. delegates who will attend the conyen- tion it has been necessary to ad- vertise for rooms with private fami- lies. The convention will proba bly, be one of the largest ever held in this city.
 A sailor who would not tell his name has given Secretary Shea of the Knights of Columbus War Work ac- tivities at New London four s bills of the date of 1TS6. Colonial currency of Boston. also a scrap book contain ing items clipped from papers from 1900 to 1850.
 Col. and Mrs. Howard and Mrs. son. Philip NJ Plant of New York. were guests of pr and Mrs. Tracy Farnam at Sea Acre ocean avenue. for over Labor day while returning from Bar Harbor Mrs Hayward was the widow of Morton r. Plant.
 The Academy in Norwich attended sy Mrs. Mary CoggeshslI Seward. so widow of Theodore F. Seward, of East Orange, \. l.. who died early in the week was known as Dr. Websters school and was what is now the res idence of Former Congressman Edwin ". Higgins. on Union street.
 A party of five from the Manches- ter Evening Herald. Thomas F'ergu- son, ". E. Duffy, Frank A. Wilson, formerly of Norwich, Calvin Ke1ner and William McGonigal, motored to in MT. Duffys car. Thursday evening, making the trip down in an hour and twenty-five minutes.
 At Pleasant View when Mrs. Edwin r D. McGinnis of Providence entertained the seasons hostesses aF the benefits for St. Clare chapel at a tea at her