Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-19
VARIOUS MATTERS

LlBnl Nen1CtS ldIlliS dl o'o2 V SloSh this evening. The park benches were well patron | ized Sunday afternoon. The cold nights and mornings are spoling the catch of shad in the Con necticut shore towns.
 A party of telephone operators has arrived at Mantle and taken a cot | tage at Crescent Beach.
 l Work began Saturday on the new state gravel road from the Black Hall store to Memorial bridge. The state convention of the Fedora | ton of Women's Clubs is to be held
 in New Haven on May 21, 22 and 23. | The final reports for the Victory loan campaign show that Coventry
 subscribed s7.75o although the quota
 was s560G. store of Lewis B. Brand, Norwich | Town, from II a. m. to l D. m.-adv. ! At present there are 537 men and
 women at the state prison in Weth 1 e-sf1eld. Three prisoners are await l ing death for murder.
 A big land boom has started at
 Pleasant View and many real estate transfers have been made at that re- sort within tire past month. At Moodus District perintendent l Rev. W. H. Bath of Norwich. held the first quarterly conference Of this year
 at the Methodist church Friday eve ming.
 | The D A. R. memorial bubble foun- 1 tain on the Little Plain, Norwich has | been uncovered for the season by di- rection Of Street Commissioner James 1 P. Fox.
 Norwich Epscopalians will read 1 with regret Of the death of Rev. o. II. | Raftery, 65. of Portland, Conn, a fre- Quent Lenten preacher at Trinity and Christ churches.
 Thames tug Aries from Newport picked up at New London the coal l laden scows Irwin and James F. Me 1 Guire, which she lowed to Thames ville and Montyille. respectively. Hugh VI. Sloan of New London has leased the dancing pavilion and pie nic grounds at Station No. [, Water l ford, from A. Leverone. This place will hereafter be known as Woodland Grove.
 l A number of workers have volun- teefed their services to act as collec- tors in Rockville for the Salvation Army Home Service Fund. The men will work in pairs. one service man ana one clVlIlan. Groton correspondent notes that former Norwich resident Mrs. Carrie
 HarveX Of the ferry office, is moving her household goods from the Petit grew house in Thames street to the Allyn house. Groton
 At Groton, Saturday afternoon from l until o'clock, under the auspices of the Y. M: c. A. a community nur- nnonad that ho cb 1P Croton park may be cared for during the absence of their mothers. A Mystic summer visitor, Miss Jen- nie G. Latham. has loaned to the Houston Art League of Houston, Tex, for exhibition a beautiful painting of ] the Connecticut Hills, by Charles. H. Davis, Mystic's famous artist. One of the attractive orchards this
 week Is that at the Bushnell home ! stead below Thamesville, where the l apple blooms are now at their best.
 This is part of the home place of Capt.
 Richard Bushnell. who died in 1727. 1 By new act concerning commit
 meilts to the Connecticut reforma tory,
 youths and young men may be com
 mitted directly to the reformatory from any local court without sending l the cases to the superior court. J. P. Sherrock. for the past six years foreman at the Portland Silk
 O., who resigned to go to the Brain
 erd & Armstrong Co. of New London, was presented a handsome travelling
 bag and fountain peh by his Port land employees.
 This (Monday) afternoon, Archdea- con J. Eadred Brown. rector of Trin- ity church, Norwich. will be in attend
 ance at the meeting of the Mission ary Society at New Haven and will spend Tuesday and Wednesday there at the diocesan convention.
 Tn recent years on Memorial day. a battalion of roldfers has been sent 10 the mainland from Fort H. G.
 Wright to participate in the parade, but this year there are very few men
 on the island owing to the great num-
 Der that has been discharged.
 From Poquonoc Thomas A. Ander-
 son enlisted for immediate service in
 the arm+ of occupation in Germany
 at the New London recruiting station
 Friday and has been sent to Fort Slo- cum to receive some training before being sent with replacement unit.
 There are six fishing steamers at , the Noanll plant of the Groton Iron
 Works, and six more are expected to . arrive this week. These boats are owned by Hays and Anderson of New ! York. Work on them is being do~e under the supervision of Roswell B
 Palmer, Jr.
 The Shore Line Electric Eailwa,
 conpany's employees is the Saybrook
 section kept up their good record ir
 subscribing for tho fifth Liberty loan
 Chairman Y. T. Chapman is passing
 a-our8 tiie Y. T. button to those whf
 subscribed more than once in tho
 Victory loan.
 Postmaster John r. Murphy las re
 ce:ved orders that commencing a
 once, parcel post packages will be re
 ceived for dispa tch to Chile Thcs'
 viii be subject to postal regulation = the rate F cents a pound. They vii i. he sent via New York. New Orlcan and San Francisco.
 The ccrrer at Palmer Bros quil
 mil. Palrertown. has been great! improved b. two lights on the corne
 Of tie mill. donated by the Palmc Bros. Co. This was one of the wors corners in MontviIle as it is impossi s Die to see machines or pedestrian coming from either direction.