Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-22
VARIOUS MATTERS

July 22nd is the feast day of St. Mary Magdalen.
 Friday night will be Neighbors' night at North Stonington grange.
 Amateur astronomers hereabouts will scan the skies for what is claimed to be a new comet
 The value of fish is it's freshness Try Powers Bros.-ady.
 At the Macfarlane auction of antiques in willimantic Tuesday, a pair of brass andirons brought s25.
 Coaling up is in progress at the former Marlin-Rockwell plant, now owned by the J. B. Martin Company.
 At Holland, Miss May Perrin of Youngstown O., is the guest of her sis ter, Mrs. Harry R. Bartlett.
 Although the change is not especially noticeable, the length of the day has de creased an even half hour.
 It is estimated that the yield of hay in surrounding towns will more than double the crop of last year.
 The only patient dismissed at Law renee hospital, New London, Tuesday, was Mrs. Ray Litzen, of Leonard Bridge.
 Buyers from Connecticut stores are in New York for the opening of certain lines of 1921 summer cloths, which be- gan Wednesday.
 Big cargo Block Island fish at Os- goods wharf including swordfsh and salmon on sale until 10 o'clock evenings. adv.
 Thieves smashed the receptacles of the pay toilets at Ocean Beach Monday eve ming and removed whatever money was deposited in them.
 So far Norwich merchants are notic- ing no effects of the closing of eastern Connecticut woolen mills. Trade in ev- cry line is keeping up we'll
 Gardens in Preston are yielding fine, plump gooseberries, which English-born residents are always glad to see. The berries sell at 2oc a basket
 Some of the most beautiful red ram bier and Dorothy Perkins roses in Nor wich have been those along the divid- ing fence at the Elks' Home.
 Blueberries are very abundant in the woods in the Poquonnoc section. They are very large and the boys and girls sell them for p cents a quart.
 Members of the W. c. T. U. remem- bered that Anna A. Gordon, president of the National W. C. T. U. was born in Boston 67 years ago Wednesday, July Fist
 Trinity Methodist Sunday school will hold the annual picnic Wednesday, July 18th, leaving Norwich by the Nelseco for Ocean Beach.-adv.
 In St. Philips Episcopal church, Put nam, this (Thursday) afternoon at 2.30, Miss Mary J. Nichols of the New London archdeaconry will address the Woman's auxiliary.
 Advanced railroad and steamboat fares do not seem to check the tide of travel from the city to suburban towns, where summer boarders are more numerous than ever
 There will be big rummage sale on Bath street. held by the Womans Aid society of the Sewdish church, Saturday. July 24th.-adv.
 This (Thursday) evening, at the Cen tral Baptist church. prayer and praise on the Sermon on the Mount; Matt chapter 7th.
 Thomas Dolan, foreman of the Sil- berhertz tobacco plantation at Ellington, put his men at work Wednesday pick ing from a piece of shade-grown of about fifteen acres.
 The Danbury News says of former Norwich resident: William o. Sears. chief despatcher in the Central New England railroad headquarters. returned Tuesday after vacation of two weeks.
 The fact that a 2O-foot man-eating shark has been caught off the Jersey coast will lead those who claimed they saw a shark off Ocean Beach to be con- vinced that their eyes were not deceived.
 Notices have been received by colored people in Norwich of a plan to organize clubs for colored women. A meeting is to be held in New Haven Friday, July 9, at St. Luke's parish house, to plan the organization
 Plenty more Noank Sword. eastern sal mon, fresh caught mackerel, not frozen, Noank fiat, founder steak extra fine large buffers. long and round clams Holsters, at Powers Bros-adv.
 Schooner ". Talbot Dodge, Capt Henry Langworthy. came into Noank after two weeks cruise after sword fish. on Georges banks and Nantucket shoals. Thirtythree large fish were caught which were sold on Block Island
 The recently sown grass is coming up well in the little plots. front and rear, of the Greenberger Block, on Franklin street. Cement steps have been built at the rear doors and the ne wowner is put ting the property in first class condition
 The United States civil service com mission announces for Aug. A an exam ination for assistant in nematology. male or female, age above 21, for a va cancy in the Bureau of Plant Industry. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
 Early blight endangers the Connecticut potato crop. The cause is stated to be recent heavy and continuous rains bv 2 cut department of agriculture. Evidence of the blight is apparent in Holland county.
 Dr. J. T. Tonks of Old Lyme, who died Thursday at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston, was buried in Westbrook beside his wife. Dr. Tonks had a large practice in Old Lyme until his health gave out a year ago. He leaves one daughter, Gladys.
 The Harding Coolidge posters which were mailed by the office of Will H. Hays, chairman of the republican na- tional committee. July 1, were received in Connecticut Tuesday about three weeks after they were supposed to have left New York
 Mlchael kovalinski, a former resident Of New London, is under arrest at New Haven, where he was taken into custody for the New London police for the theft or S1ol5 from Aantelomon Meronsky or that city. July 14th, while Pantelo- mon was asleep.
 The Westerly Sun says that two men escaped from the Norwich state hospi- tai Friday and the Westerly police have been furnished with descriptions of the men and asked to be on the lookout for them. They are Carl Weed of Norwalk