Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-07
VARIOUS MATTERS

this week.
The season has opened we'll at Point
O. Woods Beach, East Lyme.
This week the census at Norwich State
Hospital shows 1853 patients.
snowballs, which are usually in bloom
for Memorial Day, are a week late this
year.
Governor NJ H Holcomp's Flag Day
proclamation is posted in the Otis Lii
brary.
At Gilead, Mrs. Clara Hammer is plan
ming a whist party for the benefit of the
Red Cross.
During Sunday afternoon the reading
| room at the Otis Library were in charge
| of Miss Harriet G. Cross.
Renovation, repairs and painting are
in progress at the residence Of Louis P.
Roath, on Warren street
Join our Victor record club. It's not
| an exchange library, you select ~ or
more records and pay 81 or more week
| ly. Come in and select your records to-
day. All records positively brand new
| The Plut-Cadden Co.-adv.
| 1t is noted that Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Burdick of Cross Mills, r. l., have been
| visiting friends in Norwich.
Mr. and Mrs Charles E. Hopkins and
chftdren motored from Plainfield recently
and spent a day at Lords Point
The mercury took a big drop Satur-
day and in many households furnace
fires were started up as night came on.
Although day of steady rain Satur-
day made the merchants blue, gardeners
claimed the moisture was necessary for
| the crops.
The June White Ribbon Banner ack-
nowledges contributions to Banner fund
as follows: Central Village, 81, Putnam
81, New Fairfield 81.
| At the Central Baptist church, Miss
Helen Kilburn, the new pastors assist
| ant and young peoples worker partici-
pated in the meeting Sunday evening.
| Mrs. Mabel Kimber of the C1arks
| Falls union was reelected president of
| the south district of the W. C. T. U.
at the annual meeting held in Westerly.
Next release of record hits for your
| Victrola June 10th. The Plaut-Cadden Co.
! adv.
A Bradford, R. L, correspondent men
tons that ]. Edwin Gardiner was among
| the 400 in attendance at the Odd Fell
lows celebration in Norwich Thursday
| last.
This week the two eurates of st. Pat
census, visiting the West Side, Boswell
| avenue, Broad street and adjacent sec
| tions.
Inability of the state highway depart
ment to procure oil for purposes of dust
laying is responsible for the dusty con.
ditien of the highways in some sections
of the state.
OF local interest is the Newport socet!
item that Poultney Bigelew, who ha:
been visiting his daughter, Mrs. ]
Francis A. Clark at Wrentham House
has returned to New York.
Home grown Strawberries should max
their appearance in the markets shortly
, They are considerably later than usual
owing to the backward season. Lon,
! Island berries are now in the markets.
The Methodist Woman's Home Mis-
+ sionary Society will hold a district meet
ing at Uncasville, June 10th, with morn
ing session at 1915, afternoon at is
and the 10th birthday party at O.
clock.
Miss Sarah Adamson is now in charg
of the visiting nurse work in Mystic
!, Miss Adamson is a graduate of Stoning
ton High school and of the Rhode Islam
Hospital Nurses Training School, Prov
dence.
u
Jams has passed away. Remember hin
with his last Victor record, Tosti'
L Good Bye" The Plaut-Cadden Co.-ad
D., When the Stafford Springs Merchant
u ball team defeated the Clerks nine 10
the other day, the Press says the CleFl
d found it exceedingly hard to dent the d.
livery Of the Merchants moundman,
w. zelz, formerly of Norwich.
Schooner Grace Phillips, formerly owl
ed in Noank, but now owned by Ne
York parties, with a load of 2400 &C
caught on Nantucket shoals, put in
Noank the other day for a supply of ga
oline while on her way up the Sound.
According to a pamphlet published /
the state park commission, it is desire
that the new state park at Madison
used for picnic purposes camping al
\ outdoor life by the people of Connect
and reasonable way.
"a The United States civil service cor
~ mission announces for June an exam
u nation for foreman, IA 900 ton press f
- armor plate and large-calibre guns,
s11.S4 to s13.2S a day, for vacancies
the United States Naval Ordnance Plal
South Charleston, w. Va.
Complete stock on hand of all t
latest hits for your Victrola at T
Plaut-Cadden Co.-adv.
vi On their motor trip across the con
nent, DR.. F. S. Wilcox, superintendent
Norwich State Hospital, Mrs. Wilcox a
their children, Sam and Lucy, We're IL
heard from at Cleveland, June 3, whe
- DR.. Wilcox was due to address a conve
ton of psychological specialists.
yN The old Slater Mill at Pawtucket.
mr. T., where Samuel Slater, great-grandi
inn Their of the late William A Slater,
oh Norwich, built the first cotton weavi
es- machinery in America, is to be turr
Its into textile machine museum by
NV. Pawtucket Chamber of Commerce
mn, Potato crops in Connecticut this y,
zen will be short fifteen per cent. of
en- acreage used for this purpose last We
hill and there are four per cent less cows
vas Connecticut farms today than a v,
re- ago and about twenty per cent. less
Dor, Storrs college press bulletin says
en-, Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Middleton
iao No. $50 Park avenue, New York,
On Stonington, Conn, have announced
engagement of their daughter, Miss M
ECU jory Middleton, to James Douglas c
'as lier, son of James Collier of Motif
nc ham. England. No date has been
for the wedding.
an Roosevelt house, winch the Woma
eles Roosevelt Memorial Association is to
The create on the site OF theodore Roc
velts birthplace, offers three ann
to scholarship prizes for the best essays
cti- the life OF the ex-presldent, the vim
sht to be chosen from successful competit
OBJ. in state contests
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