Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-28
VARIOUS MATTERS

The papers note that Miss Constance Binney of New York is visiting her mother, Mrs. w. H. Gray in Old Lyme.
 Connecticut records show that there | are now more than twenty-five fac l tories in the state where the blind are i employed.
 ] Midsummer business is keeping up well in the Norwich stores, special bargains being offered in nearly every line of trade.
 | It is estimated that the storm Sat urday afternoon did damage to the amount of nearly $500,O in the north ern parts of the state.
 At Coventry, John Kellum, who re- gently sold his farm has bought a house in Manchester, where he will move with his family. Dance at Palmer hall, Fitchville, Friday evening July 30.-adv. A former pastor, Rev. P. c. Wright, of Hartford, is the preacher for next Sunday morning and evening at the | Central Baptist church. The registrars of Vernon, George W. | Randall and Maurice L. Spurling will meet in Rockville in August to enroll voters for the town caucus. | great attraction for vacationists | Plans for bathing suit masquerades | during August are under way. About twenty-five hundred automo- piles crossed the Lyme state bridge for eastern shores Sunday while double that many visited the shores west 1 Yarnow, boneset, balsam and all the other useful herbs, so carefully gather ed by colonial housewives, are grow ing neglected in suburban fields.
 Selden Clark of Storrs College will return there August l, after two weeks vacation spent with his parents AIr. and Mrs. A. s. Clark, of Haddam Neck.
 Although there are frequent evil denees of the visits of skunks to door yards and poultry farms, killing the animals is forbidden in this, the closed season.
 Two dog days with the temperature below 80 degrees and the dearest of 1 skies have been appreciated. At this rate, Norwich may well become a sum- mer resort.
 There is a splendid crop of tobacco in Ellington, on the Hathaway farm grown by John Chestut for Meyer & Mendelsohn. Some of the leaves meas ure 21 1-2 by F iches.
 Just arrived big cargo strictly fresh Block Island fish. Osgoods wharf, adv.
 One way to prevent the effects of poison ivy, according to the state board of health is to wash the hands as soon as possible after contact with very hot water, using plenty of good soap.
 County farm bureau agents are lplahninge meeting called 'Culling and Canning Demonstrations, and the pur- pose is to assist poultry keepers tc
 cull out the unproftable hens from
 their flock of poultry.
 The state association of county com
 missioners will hold meeting at the county house, New London, Thursday morning. The meeting will be attend
 ed by representatives from all tho
 eight counties in the state. Concerning former Hanover resi-.
 dents an Essex correspondent writes
 Rev. Charles Peck's daughter, Mrs
 Scarlett and her two children have
 returned to New Jersey after a visi - at the Congregational parsonage.
 Highway Commissioner Charles J
 Bennett said this week that while tht
 storm had caused washouts in tht
 valley of the Willimantic river, these
 were nothing more than s)uld be read
 fly repaired by local authorities.
 Rev. Jerome Greer of the Mysti,
 Methodist church starts his vacation
 this week will have four Sunday!
 off during August. Sunday, August 1
 Roy E. Keller of Norwich, county sec V (
 Walter Olson, athletic director at tn,
 Recreation center, is making an effor
 to have the annual field day of tn
 Amateur Athletic Union of this stat . held at South Manchester. Labor Da,
 has been set as the date for the ls:
 meet.
 Important questions affecting tn S clothing industrq will be taken up b. e the Executive Committee of the Ma S tional Association of Clothiers at h luncheon meeting called for Thursda : at the Hotel Brevoort, New York, loca h merchants hear.
 y George D. Seymour, of New Haver y owner of the birthplace of Captai e Nathan Hale at South Coventry Con
 necticut, is constrained to inform tn e public that the house is occupied as $ private residence and not open to tn z, public for inspection. V Albert s. Lynch, of Orange, seeretar y of the Democratic State Central com . mittee, was out riding in his a1tomo is bile Sunday. While on his way hom
 through Montowese his car ran off tn
 road and he was hurled against
 boulder breaking his nose. F. Miss Hope Battey, who was treate ,- for what was supposed to be sleepin
 sickness at Battle Creek, Mich, is { the home of her parents, MT. and MT D Elmer Battey near Moosup pond fe ,f the summer, hoping to return to he n studies in nursing next fall C. As successor to a former Norwic n man, Rev. Elliott B. Barber, who re le signed, Rev. William P. F'arnswortl ,r pastor of the Univers5Iist churc ts Woodsville, N. H., has accepted tt r. call to Danbury Universalist churc ts and will begin his pastorate Sunda re Sept. 5.
 Y The United States Civil service con U mission announces for Aug. 31 an e2
 animation for pharmacologist, ma
 age 9 to 45, for a vacancy in the Put
 lie Health Service, Washington, D. ( IL at $3000 year. The duties will COT of sist of research work in the chemc ee therapy of tuberculosis. ,n At a meeting of the executive con