Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-31
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 The present summer has proven Block Island to be high up in the popularity column with summer vacationists.
 br. Curtis Bernard will open his ofice Tuesday naorning.-adv.
 J, H. Sessions & Son. trunk hardware manufacturers of Bristol, is completing two large additions to the factory.
 Jocl Cook, the oldest inhabitant ef Cheshire, died Sunday. He was born n Wailingford 5s years and months aga.
 Bridreport ranks twentieth among the cities of the United States in amount es postal savings deposits on hand at the end of the fiscal year. June 30, 1920.
 Connecticut markets handled heavy supply of produce during last week, with an increase of native products balancing a shortage of shipped-in fruits and vege- tables.
 Major General Clarence R. Edwards, who led the boys in France, was the guest of honor at the first annual outing of the Y-D association at Double Beach on Saturday.
 The annual election in the borough of woodmont was held Saturday. There was one ticket in the field, that being of the old board of borough officers, which was reelected.
 Big cargo Block Island fish just ar rived, Osgeod's wharf; low prices.-adv.
 The scarcity of labor is the reeA an swer to the shortage of coal. This wat the explanation for the present situation given by several men prominent in coal production work.
 The thirty-ninth annual reunion of the Hotchkiss Family Association was held at Grange hall, Cheshire, on Wednesday Aug. 25, and was attended by over 1sS members and friends.
 John F. Pickett of Ansonia, the newly elected state commander of the Amerf can Legion, was the guest Sunday oi Thomas J. Bannigan of Hartford, state adjutant of the legion.
 Thirty -four million pounds of sugal will be available for commercial can ners and preservers during the hvs
 months from June 1 to October 31, ac cording to the department of justice.
 Disclosing an unquestionable trend to- wards the republican party. figures made public by Registrar of Voters Andrew G Nystrom show an increase in the repub lican caucus registration in Hartford. If you have any household goods fol
 sale or want to buy, see King first. c. J B.
 When the selectmen of Bristol holt their session to make voters for the fal election, the time will undoubtedly have to be extended because of the extrs number of applications already on file. From more than s,ooo, 900 at the tim. the armistice was signed, the United States army now has dropped to 216,4T: men, not including field clerks ana nurses Of this number Is 754 are off cers.
 ] Connecticut school superintendents with the opening of school only a few days, away, are still reporting "entir' force not hired yet" Some school sys tems are yet lacking half of their teach ing force.
 Consideration of housing conditions ir Connecticut will occupy a large share O the attention of the senates specia committee on reconstruction and pre- duction which is holding hearings il Boston this week
 Thieves seem to be putting on a bole front in Union City and of the thres burglaries which have taken place with in the past few days, two occurred il broad daylight and the thieves all man aged to make a clean getaway. The members of the Young Ladies' So daIity of St Patrick's Parish will pleas meet at the home of Miss Abbie Bren nan, on Saehem street this evening q 7.5o. Per order of the president-adv Ex-serviee men and women of th, state are called to affiliate themselves with the American Legion and thus con tinue their service of patriotism in thu first message of John F. Pickett of An sonia, the new state commander. Because of the exceedingly large croI of tobacco and the number of tobaecs farmers, the Vernon town school com mittee has extended the opening O school for about five days to aid thu farmers in getting in their crop.
 The oldest member present at the an nual reunion of the descendants O George Smith, who settled in New Ha i ven in 1e36, which was held in Burling I ton last week was Newton Smith O New Britain, who is 83 years old.
 Arthur Anderson. son of MT. and Mrs Victor Anderson, broke his right leg be
 low the knee Friday evening while slid ing into second base in a Factory leagu game of baseball between the Sunni i and Storrs teams at East Hampton. Owing to the enormous volume of wori that has accrued during and since thu war, Commander Evangeline Booth hal l found it necessary, in order to cope witt the new conditions, to reorganize tn, Salvation Army forces under her com
 mand.
 The Saybrook power house of tn Shore Line Electric Company has gon | into disuse since the discontinuance 0
 the trolley in the towns between Nes Haven and Flanders. It is one of tn several plants built to supply power fo 1 the road.
 Resumption of winter activities in tn. Connecticut State guard will start thil year with a series of rife and revolve matches on the state range at East Ha ven Saturday, Oct. 2, between teams rep
 resenting the different regiments in tn state guard.
 The reward of $500 offered by Sam uel F. CrowelFs family of Hartfor shortly after his disappearance from tn Vail Sanatorium at Enfield, for his re turn, dead or alive, will it is believed be given to Arthur Fifer and Fran
 Wackford the boys who found the body The converted yacht Siwash, now be
 ing used by the bureau of navigation 0
 the United States department of com merce to enforce navigation laws, vii
 go to New Haven harbor to investigat
 several minor complaints of thefts 0