Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-20
VARIOUS MATTERS

 Box kite flying is the popular pastime with boys at Ocean Beach. Huckleberry picking is the occupation of many Norwich children just now. Remember, additions to all water bills | unpaid after July 2o.-adv. At Kitemaug orchards the peaches are
 doing well, while big apple crop is | forecasted.
 At Mystic the Allen Spool and Wood Turning Co. is having storehouse built on its mill property.
 Miss Ethel Rogers of Hebron has been | engaged to teach at the North schocS in Marlborough next year.
 A Save our Scheols'' campaign is to | be conducted under the direction of the State Teachers association. | Sunday at New London Rear Admiral Oscar Fitzallan Stanton of Granite street celebrated his 18th birthday | Grocers in Norwich are prepared to sell housewives sugar for canning in 25- pound lots, at 2s cents per pound. The total number of telephones in service throughout Connecticut is 169,793, | gain of 9.s65 during the past six months.
 So far New England cotton mills, in- cluding those of Connecticut, have not | commenced. buying that commodity in | quantity
 Those benevolent housekeepers who | have been accustomed to contribute jel- | lies, etc, to the hospitals regret the su- gar rationing.
 Last day to pay your water bill without additions. Water office open until p. m. adv.
 | While travel on the Central Vermont railroad is good just now, the big rush to Canada is not looked for by agents much before the first of August.
 Indicating that Norwich people are saving money, one local bank, in two days last week, received in bills alone. not mentioning checks. nearly s42,ooo. The severe winter appears to have had | it's effect on pond lilies, the number growing in Morgan's pond, below Thanlesville, being fewer than last year. old-fashioned hollyhocks are in bloom in the grounds at the Buckingham Me morial. Norwich once the residence of Connecticut's war governor, William A. Buckingham.
 4 report is in calculation that the Say brook car barns of the Shore Line Elec- tric O., which has headquarters in Nor wieh, are to be sold and used as an in dustrial plant.
 Jitney drivers from all over the state have been in conference and plans have been laid to. block the proposed effort of the Connecticut Company to drive them out of business.
 The Connecticut State Teachers asso- citation has sent to all state legislators an appeal for better salaries fer teach CTS, more state aid in education and inn provement in the teachers pension law.
 Mrs. Prudence Gardner of the North Stonington road reached her 190th birth day Sunday. Mrs. Gardner suffered a fracture of the hip twelve years ago, and since that time has been confined to her bed.
 During the Sunday school session at the Central Baptist church Sunday an interesting address was made by Miss Kate Armstrong, missionary from Bur ma, who is a guest of Mrs Charles W. Gale.
 A Noank patient, Robert Portert of Esker Point has returned home from Backus hospital, Norwich, where he has been a patient for some time for blood poisoning. His health is improved, but he is still very weak. | News received by MT. and Mrs Lem uel M. Fielding, of Baltic street, Nor | wicf from their son. L. Osgood Fielding | located him bound for Honolulu, on the | Wyoming, flagship of the Pacific feet or which he is master of arms. | The celestial reservoirs must be vel l filled, judging by the small deluge dur
 ing Sunday night and early Monday morning. The wind continues in. the storm quarter, although there are oc casional bursts of sunshine. 1 A pleasant reading room open to the | 1 d. T, | &I.r cool and comfortable Peck Library, Sla
 ter Hall, where Miss Dorothy Gregson is l in charge during the vaaction of the Ii brarian, Miss Helen Marshall 1 Michael J. Falvey, special agent of the department of commerce, has been ir 1 Rockville for the past week, taking the census of the manufacturers. This is i the annual five year census being taker 1 to get an accurate account of produc. 1 tion.
 The pastor at St Patrick's church, ir
 Mystic, who died Saturday in New Ha- ven, Rev. Michael P. Hart, was for F years a curate at St. Mary's church ir New Britain, during which time he was
 also principal of St. Marys parochia
 school
 Secretary Farley B. Leonard of the
 Rockville Fair Association has just is
 sued the list of horses which have beer named for the stakes for the 1920 Rock. vile fair which will be held at Hyde 1 Park in October. There are sixty horses ] in the five stakes.
 The summer issue of The White Rib bon Banner says: At the county W. c
 T. U. conference in Norwich it was witl
 regret all heard Mrs. Jason Randall o Groton, say that at the coming annua l cont ention she would be obliged to re sign as county president
 The observation car Naugatuck, witi six officials of the New Haven railroad | aboard, arrived in Norwich Monday noon havin gleft New Haven at a. m, ant continuing to Putnam. An inspection was made of conditions in the mechani cal department at the Norwich sta ten.
 In Mystic, Friday, when the Pas Grand Rebekahs of Mystic lodge, enter tained the Thames Past Grand assoeia tion, 33 were present, including mem bers from Norwich, Jewett City, Nev London, Groton and Mystic. The mex session will be held Aug. IS with Mrs George Finch of Groton.
 At Amston Thursday night the stor of the Farmers Cooperative Dairy Go was entered and various articles stolen including some money. The post offic was also entered and f1fty-fiye cents eb tAined. One of the thieves, who wa fussy, helped himself to new pair o lsocks and left his old ones in the store Dahlia sharps opened their eyes Mon day at two new decorative blooms GU by former Patrolman John Irish o Laurel Hill avenue, one the Pride of Cal
 ifornia, in rich tints of red, Sine
 beauty, and the other the pr. Trevis