Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-07
BRIEF STATE NEWS

New Haven.-This city is preparing to turn some of it's saloons into oyster kinds.
 Bristol-Aloysius T. Spielman, son of. MT. and Mrs. A Spielman, July 20 was ordained to the priesthood at the cathedral in F'ribourg, Switzerland.
 Milford This town will welcome bration. Aug. g is the date announced and is also the 28Oth anniversary of the founding of the town.
 Manchester-Manag Pentland of the Park Hill Flower Shops received orders one day this week from pron1i- nent New York florists for 1s,ooo gladioh and aster blooms.
 Wethersfied.-Gov Marcus H HoI- comb has appointed S. Frank Smith Of Hartford and F. R. Robbins of Weth- state prison a Weth ersfield and the Connecticut reformatory at Cheshire, as required annually under the stat uteS.
 6ristol.-That the local barbers will soon demand "a minimum wage rate of $25 week plus half of the receipts over s31 taken in by the employer was decided at a recentsme eeting of the bar bers' union. The present minimum rate is s2O week and half of the re- ceipts over $27.
 New Haven. = Reduction in the number of men employed in the cigar trade in this city was announc- ed this week at the office of the cigarmakers' union when it was de- clared that there are about 500 men working here at present. which is 15o less than the number two years ago.
 Milford. A retreat for Catholic women of Connecticut will be held at Eauralton hall. Milford, August 15 to William J. Ennis. S. J.. for several years president of I4oyola college. Baltimore, and lately connected with the Church of St. Ignatius. New York city.
 New designations of three teachers are announced by School Su- perintendent s. H. Holmes, Miss Ella Johnson, who is to become county su- pervisor for the Y. W. C. A; Miss Helene Denfield, teacher of bookkeep- is to teach at the Commercial High school at Passaic' N. J.. and Miss Ava Collins, whose health is poor. Norwalk-A weekly stipend of $50 for pushing a wheelbarrow is pretty good pay for even these days of high men who is carting oyster shells a one of the local plants earned last week Theer are 30 men at work and they get s6e per schooner loaded or g man They are loading about five boats a day, which means about s1o day They work about ten hours day for this pay. Meriden-Rev. Alphonse van Op- pen pastor of St. Laurents church Meriden. has sailed for Rotterda m. and will visit his aged sister and
 brothers in his old home town, | Maastrichtfi which he left in 1875, when ordained to the priesthood, to come to America. His sister is sev- enty-six. years old. one of his other brothers ninety years and the other brother seventy six third broth l CT died during the war.
 Southington.-A record sale of Jer- sey cattle took place the other day at the farm of Edmund Butler. a breeder and importer of cattle at Mount Kisco. N Y The total sale amounted to ] s15s 800 for AS Jerseys. an average of l s3 SO3 for each animal. One bull | Sybyrs Gamboge. brought the record | price of s65, 900. Up to yesterday the 1 top price was paid for Financial Cir ] cle sold last year for $60.000 by the Waterloo Jersey farm at Waterloo Ia | SybyFs Gamboge was bought by L. V. | Walkley of Southington. Of this bulls | get Is were sold yesterday for $44,5 ] an average of s2.9SS each.