Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-12
VARIOUS MATTERS

: DabolFS Almanac predicts no e wave, beginning today (Tuesday). -f A number of the Norwich grocer !. received a limited supply of susa d Monday.
 Monday was St. Susanna's day ant 3 today August 18th. St. Clara is com 8 mevno-ated.
 T Berry pickers generally report tha
 thu present season is the best one ir
 many years
 fI There is talk of sanitarium being ] opened in Mystic. One or two sites 7 have been considered as suitable places.
 I A number of local citizens, forced find that they are reducing without any effort.
 Wild carrot continues to be permit ted to flourish in fields and along the wayside, in disregard of the state law
 against the weed
 I Plans are completed for the first an- nuaI canoe carnival which will be held at Crystal lake. Holland Country next 1 Saturday afternoon.
 | The grape crop, cultivated and wild, was never bigger hereabouts. an az 1 gravation when sugar for canning is 1 not easily obainable.
 | Once more the shore fishermen are i having hard luck. Owing to the strike
 of the railroad men, no shipments of l fish or Holsters can be sent by ex- press.
 In spite of the rainy season Thames l vile pond, opposite the old boarding house, is reduced to stagnart pool. which ought to breed mosquitoes by 1 the million.
 Residents on and near Forest street. Norwich have been wondering who owns a pet crow which has been around that section The bird has cellu1oid ring on it's leg.
 Friday next, the Feast of the As sumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a holy day of obligation. masses at St. Patrick's Church will be at B. and o'clock. the last a high mass
 At Lasata, the Uncasville Summer home of Mrs Charles L. Hubbard. of Norwich, the hydrangea borders are in bloom and excite admiring com ment on the part of all who pass that way. I
 Arrangene nents for the ~t~.> *air at East Berlin are completed and man ! agers claim it will be the largest Ialr | they have ever held. The amusement | will be on a larger scale as also the | exhibits. close Aug. 18th. which in ordinary l years would mean a rush of visitors to l Connecticut, but transportation con l ditions will hold up country visiting | this season.
 Because Friday next is a holy day of |
 
 abstinence from eating meat. among Catholics. The vigil of the feast, | Thursday, is a fast day for those obliged to fast.
 The Norwich Street Department must be convinced that drivers here do not believe in signs. Although Church street is closed during road repairs, a score of drivers had to be ordered back, during Monday.
 At Willimantic Camp Ground, it was would be occupied. The number open is but sixty nine. with the announce !. nent of the railroad enaployes, strike, many cottagers left for their homes.
 A young woman of Norwich ances try, Miss Esther Batchelder who was graduated from the Connecticut Wou1- en's College in June. IS analysing chemist for the Naugatuck Malleable Iron Works of Naugatuck.
 The Lafayette Day National Com mittee has announced the progress of plans for the country wide cele- 7 nration of the birthday of Lafayette 5eptember 6. and State organizations will now complete their plans.
 Franklin Emerson Smith, for fifty < years in the drug business in Brook l; yn, N. T.. died at the home of his ! laughter at Gr>ton. Cop-. Fridav He | vas son of Dr. F. B. Smith and was I -~eduated from Amherst College int :, se5 (r Connecticut people who desire to a make few honest dollars are al- . pulling semi political wires in S 'rder to- obtain the appointment of of il lc:sl canvassers for the coming Fed raj census which will begin January Milk producers learn that Provi- {. ence retail milk distributors are dis \ mayed over the railroad strike situa- ~ ion and declare that further curtail- 1ent of train service may seriously | Meet the transportation of their sup p ly. a Detective Sergeant Charles P. Hano- !, iond located Prid~eport woman who a; scaped from the East Lyme farm. '. Frs. Annie Bishan. and locked her mp to - wait the arrival of a messenger from se state farm. She was found hv the Y fhcer working at Black Point Man 1 g' Mrs. Harry L. Andrew of New Ha- N, en was elected president of the An ~, -ew Family Association at the re- .. nion held last week at the c. W An N -ew summer home at Glastbury. the ~ ssion being the thirty first annual -, rent since the association was or - anized. M Since the war time prohibition act W ent into effect, on July 1, there have zen but five cases before Judge John N Fisk in Rockville police court. and hs rec of these were intoxication cases. Cs efore prohibition went into effect = ,ckville's eighteen saloons did big ~ isiness.
 to W. Arthur Countryman. jr.. clerk of N, c House of Representatives, said ", onday that there may be some to later in the week con- rning possible plans for the legis- tive reunion. If the event is held will proba biy be at Momauguin, ns fore September 14. " John Mccarthy, lineman for the in lore Line Electric Railway Co.,. has CT ceived the praise and commendation the receivers of the Groton Iron m orks,. for his bravery recently. in , scuing Robert Wood, brother line an. from death by electrocution at e Groton Iron Works. A communication fron1 the Reuevo-l