Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-26
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 Norwich, Saturday, July 26, 1919
VARIOUS MATTERS

ss. Tie July moon is new tomorrow,
 the 27th. at 1-21 a. m.
 There yrill be no service Sunday af- terncon at the Baptist church in Led x yard.
 i ;Raisers of chicks are finding watch necessary.
 : Merchants and the -townspeople gen 2 orally would ind music even 1n the i.clatter of a nat wheel. siss Crabs are running in big mum bers 1 just now and large catches are being \ made both at weeka paug and Pleasant
 View.
 I Help is very scarce in towns across l the Rhode Island border. Some farm : CTS are offering s day for men for
 having. l- Az new Connecticut law strictly prohibits the attachment of any de- | vice. sign or advertisement to the ] United States or state flag. The novena to St Anne in the Catholic churches will end with the exercises today, the feast day of the mother of the Blessed Virgin. It is reported that the Thompson
 Ecclesiastial society and the public library are mentioned for bequests in | the will of Miss Martha Knight. A party of 10 from Wauregan were | at MT. and Mrs. John Bakers at Elliott l the other day and took about a bushel i of huckleberries home with them. People are mutely paying dime to
 ride in buses from New London to | Ocean Beach, although they would growl if the trolley fare were doubled. One of the results of the trolley ser
 vice being entirely stopped would be 1 that it would cut off the current that | operates the Putnam fire alarm sys- | tenn.
 Announcement has just been made 1 of the marriage of Miss Florence H. ] Bergh of Ellington and Frederick C. | Stegeman of Rockville in East Hart ford June 25.
 A petition has been presented to the selectmen of the town of Groton ask ing that the curve at Trails Corner be taken out and the highway raised about a foot
 CTS Friday that the tip comes from the manufa cturers that all shoes now in stock vii be priced at least $2 higher by. Sept. 1st.
 The clerk of the Windham county superior court. E. M. Warner of Put nam, made his annual settlement at the office of the comptroller at the state capitol Thursday
 It is expected that State School. Su- pervisor and Mrs O. E. Lowell. who left Norwich July 10 for a vacation, will return by Aug. 1st to move their household goods to New Milford. A New York woman who reached Norwich Thursday on her way to visit Poquetanuck relatives did not know of the trolley strike. A jitneur offered cfined. @ The members of St. Mary's Tierney cadets of New London are to hold a dance, to which they will invite St. Ladies Total Abstinence society of Norwich.
 Ashaway is hit hard by the car strike. A truck from Westerly carries the mail back and forth twice a day, reaching there at a. m. and 7.15 D. m. The third mail has been dropped for the present.
 Closing a term of 20 years as a sue cessful Universalist pastor and good citizen of Norwich. Rev. Joseph F. l herd will soon leave to make his home 1 in Windham.
 A strike of the spinners at the Rock Manufacturing Co.,, Rockville.was call ed Thursday morning. with the result that 32 left their work at g o'clock. They ask for BPS the minimum weekly wage.
 Six fresh air children from New York are spending two weeks in Tol land two at the home of Rev and Mrs. B. F. Case. two with MT. and Mrs. I. Tilden Jewett and two with Mrs Walter Nj. Taylor.
 Postmaster John P. Murphy has been instructed that parcel post packa ges, limited to II pounds. may be accepted for transmission to Germany. The rate of postage on such packages is F cents a pound fraction of a pound. A reunion that will bring together many veterans of the Civil war is to be held at Savin Rock Aug. g on the annual meeting of the Fifth regiment, Conn. Vols. to be held on the 57th an niyersary of the battle of Cedar noun tain. < s@ Collector of Internal Revenue James
 
 fact that all corporations organized within the year ending June 30. 1918, are required to fife a capital stock tax return in the Hartford office on or be- fore July 31. 1919.
 The, distinguished alumnus of Nor wiche Free Academy. Poultney Bige- l low, has recovered from 1ockiaw. At Newport Thursday. Col. and Mrs. Rob- the yacht Everglades in honor of NIT. Bigelow, a guest on board.
 A civil service examinat ation for the ofice of state statistical clerk is to be given at the capitol Aug. F. at o'clock College training is an essen tial; together with proficiency on the typewriter An appointment is at present open at the capitol at a salary of $soa.
 The question of getting laundry done at Watch Hill is a serious one. Many women from Westerly are employed, but there is still a shortage of laun- dresses at the resort. and some cot tasers have solved the problem by sending laundry to New York and other cities.
 Congressman Richard P. Freeman of New hondon, representative from the i; Second district, was one of the 100 members of the house at Washington who voted against the prohibition en- 1 forcement bill Tusdzy. 52 republicans and 4s democrats refusing to support 1 the measure.
 The United States civil service com mission announces for Aug. 26 an ex- animation for telephone plant engineer for. men. Vacancies in the signal ser vice at large of the war department will be filled from this examination. At present there are vacancies at Chicago and San Francisco.
 There was interest here Friday in | the requests of Rev. J. NJ. G1eeson of Waterbury, as his command 'sNo | house church mourning em mblems'' was to the late Rev. T. A. Grum bly, -f