Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-06-13
VARIOUS MATTERS


and s minutes.
Special meeting of K. of C. Friday
night. First degree.-adv.
This has been examination week at
the Norwich Free Academy.
The best moonlight nights in June
are from the 18th to the 18th.
Dancing tonight at Ashland Casino,
Jewett City. Special features,-adv.
Rhode Island will officially welcome
home the men of the 301st Engineers
on the 4th of July
Holders of bonds in the First Liber-
ty loan will on June Is receive more
than s36,65S,000 from the federal gov
eminent in dividends.
Don't forget Rowland's Jazz band
at Parish Hall, Taftville, tonight
adv.
More burglaries and robberies are
committed in Waterbury than in any
other city in the state,'' said Judge
Lucien F. Burpee this week.
The Willimantic Industrial Company
has, filed with the secretary of state
certificate, showing an increase in
capital stock from $4,000 to 100000
Seven pupils were graduated from
the American School for the Deaf at
the exercises held Wednesday eve
ming. Excellent training and ability
were shown by the graduates.
Frank Morrill, of Allston dug out
gold filling from one of his teeth and
pawned it to get whiskey according to
the testimony in the Suffolk divorce
court of his wife, Stella E. Morrill,
Members of the Connecticut Hotel
Association met at Hotel Bond. at
Hartford, Wednesday, and then mo-
tored to Springfield, Mass. to attend
the annual meeting of the association
Through gift from the White Me-
mortal Foundation of Litchfield, the
state park commission has acquired
Kent Falls, known as Fall Brook, in
the north part of Kent. consisting of
200 acres.
Good Shepherd yarns for sweaters
at Womans Exchange. Home made
ice cream served in tea room.-adv.
Noank people are suffering. from a
disease of the eyes. 1t takes the form
of small white spots on the inside of
the eyelid, The spots look like white
blisters and are full of water. The
eyes smart and ache.
Two suicides were recorded at Camp
Devens this week, that of Priv. Bert
NJ. Allen, A company, 5Sth regiment,
c. A. c.. and the other that of Corp.
Joseph P. Mollahan, Machine Gun
company, S6th Infantry.
To the slow. plaintive strains of
Chopin's funeral march, 5000 Hartford
Jews paraded as a demonstration
against pogroms and massacres in
Poland and Rumania. The marchers
included young and old.
Saugatuck, has been arrested by Unit
dlebrooks under an information which
charges he embezzled $500 of the
funds of the post office department.
In Suffield. a pretty home wedding
! took place Wednesday, evening at the
home of Mr.: and Mrs. William Lees,
when their daughter, Miss Helen C.
| Lees was married to James V. Mix,
son of Mrs. Mary Mix of New London
| In the birth registration area of the
United States 1.S53.792 infants were
| born alive in 1917, representing a birth
rate of 24.6 per 1000 of population,
| The total number of deaths in the
same area was 1922. or al per l.
600.
| Wilcox and Thompson fisheries
thank the thousand of customers who
bought fish Thursday at Osgood wharf
and sc lb sale will continue today
adv.
The Middletown county commits
sioners at their bi-weekly meeting re-
! ceiVed an official communication from
the state highway department, report
ing that the state had taken over the
Middletown and Portland highway
bridge.
| In Simsbury dogs played havoc with
| the flock of sheep owned by Senator
George =. Mclean Monday. One sheer
was killed and several were bitten, and
the whole flock was badly frightened
| The sheep were a pasture on the west
of Valley farm.
State Automobile Commissioner
| Robbins Stocked has announced that
his department had purchased COM
plete Photographic apparatus and that
hereafter Chief Inspector Vernon f.
Goodman will secure evidence of au-
tomobile accidents.
| a call to plant memorial trees and
| thus come nearer to the Great Tree
maker has been issued to Christian
| Endeavor Societies throughout the
world by the Rev. Francis E. Clark
| president of the United Society OF
Christian Endeavor.
Although Yale's commencement
programme will not begin until Sat
| urday, when the University Dramatic
| Association will produce Tamburlaine
| in an ampitheater on the campus, the
| advance guard of the guests began ar
| irving Wednesday.
| In 1918 automobile manufacturers
paid a total of $50, 900, 900 in taxes to
the federal government. In the same
period car owners paid 100000 in
motor registration fees to the states
Total automobile taxes for the yea1
are estimated at s150,000.000.
| Notice has been received from
Washington headquarters to the. effect
that all Scent stamped envelopes ano
2-cent postal cards shall be redeemed
upon request, after July l. when the
2-cent envelopes and 1-cent stamped
postal cards will again be in order.
| At Stafford Springs Private Apostle
Nicholson, of the Eighty first (Wild-
| caD Division, is spending a ten-day
furlough on leave from the govern.
| ment hospital at New London. Hi.
left arm is still in a sling, the result
of injuries received at Verdun, Nov
10.
| The crudity of ancient musical in.
| struments as compared to those uset
at the present time was illustrated by
Professor Waldo S. Pratt in his tall
on prehistoric instruments at The
meeting of the Connecticut Musi,
Teachers Association at Hartford OF
Wednesday.
On complaint of the grievance com
mittee of the New Haven county bar
Arnon A. Alling, states attorney o
that county. has presented to the su
perior court an application asking 70
the disbarment of MaXimilian Vol
Hoegen, member of the bar, now a
the Jail in New Haven.