Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-13
VARIOUS MATTERS
New moon at 11:44 ?, m.

fourteen hours.
 Dr. Alfred Richards office will be closed until Sept. 7.-adv.
 Connecticut manufacrurers learn that satin is to have a great vogue for Fall and Winter gowns
 Waldo Thomas of Central Village is a guest of Sprague Gallup at Wamphas- sett Point. stcnington.
 Mrs ". ". Tufts and son Jack, who have spent the month at Slocun, R. L, have left to visit friends in Danielson.
 It is undrstood in railroad circles that Pullman rates will probably be increased 50 per cent by means of surcharge.
 A snapping turtle was killed at Union on L. NJ. Reeds farm the other day wdeighed twelve pounds and eight ounc- es
 William Jones of Mystic had his arm burned by alcohol while on board a boat at Block Island on which he was work ing.
 Bonita maekerel, special 200 h., and many other kinds, Osgood's wharf.-adv.
 It is announced that Rev. George H. Strouse of Norwich will preach at the East Thompson Baptist church Sunday next
 A committee is arranging for produc- ing a pageant in connection with the 275th anniversary of the City of New London next May.
 Forty of the largest type of mogul freight locomotives are to be deliver ed to the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad about August 25.
 Anna B. Wilson of New London and James D. Williams and Israel ". Dob son of Groton, have sold to Roman Pot kay building lot at Eastern Point.
 Bluefsh are running off Saybrook. This is the earliest they have appeared in recent years. The fishermen down that way are hoping for an old-time run.
 Tomorrow (Saturday) the vigil of the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. is a fasting day for those Catholics who are under obligation to fast
 Methodists from this section will at tend Willimantic camp meeting and Ep4 worth League Institute which opens Sat urday. August 14th, with social in the tabernacle.
 Ye Old Time Carnival Live again the good old days on St. Johns rectory grounds, Plainield, Aug. F, 13. 14.- adv.
 The Stonington Mirror mentions that a former Norwich resident, Mrs. H. W. Branche of Hartford is spending the week with her family at the Annex, Lords Point
 Encouraging news came to Norwich druggists Thursday that the general movement of prices in the chemical drug and dyestuff markets continues toward lower levels.
 Agents of the New York, New Haven R ua- lfninary instructions relative to the in- crease in rates which is to take effect Thursday, August 26.
 At West Woodstock. in the home of MT. and Mrs. John Piechuta, three of the five children have their birthday on the same date and were given a triple birthday party Sunday.
 Home chapter of Kings Daughters pie nic Horton's Cove, Tuesday, Aug IT. Leave Franklin square 9.45. Basket lunch. adv.
 Rev. Erit B. Schmitt of Ansonia, former rector of Trinity Episcopal church, Norwich, is spending vacation in Stonington borough with his family, at the Schmitt summer home.
 The reunion held at the home of Chas R. Thompson in Melrose, Mass, Thurs day, near the original homestead, mark ed the 2ooth anniversary of the land ing of the Thompson family in America.
 The marriage of Miss Etta A. Wight of Lisbon and Thomas H. Delany, which took place in Norwich at o'clock Tues day afternoon. was witnessed by MT and Mrs. George Gagnon of High Street, Westerly.
 A late issue of The Children's Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York is a charmingly instructive story, Two Little Flax Plants, by Miss Winifred E. Howe. of the Museuf staff, formerly of Norwich.
 Mdme. Victoria J. Plante, POS Main street, will sell her lingerie and corset samples at cost price, Friday and Sat urday this week.-adv.
 The Mystic station of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad was bulglarized Tuesday night, but the uplnd- CT obtained was about dollar in pen nies and transportation request, valu- ed at s4.5e.
 The Eleventh Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, will hold its annual reunion in Rockville September IS, having ac- cepted the invitation of Julius H. Newell the president adjutant of Burpee Post No. Il, G. A. R., of Rockville
 
 about Norwich Thursday showed figures two degrees higher than those of We'd nesday, or about Ss degrees, there was more vitality to the air, when the sun came out after a gloomy morning
 Friday, October 8, is the date selected for the first meeting of selectmen i1 towns having population of 5000 and over fer the admitting of new electors This meeting may be adjourned from time to time until Friday, October Is.
 More extra choice Noank swordfish, strictly live blue, choice maekerel, floun- der steak, lat and porgies, long clams and shrimp, at Powers Bros.-adv.
 The United States civil service commis. sion announces an examination on Sept for assistant plant pathologist in su. gar plant investigations for a vacany in the Bureau of Plant Industry, De partment of Agriculture, Washington, D C., at $2.o4o to s2,2So year.
 Ernest and Howard E. Thorp, who with their father William H. Thorn re- gently purchased the historic Potter farm partly located In Hopkinton, and partly in North Stonington, have thirty acres or more under cultivation this season The farm includes about 40 acres.
 Sugar, which has recently gone al high as 70 cents a pound retail and ofteT difficult to get at that price. will prob ably be selling around IS to 20 cents 8 pound within another month, it was pre- dicted Thursday. The retail price a present is from 5 cents to 27 cents a pound.
 Lack of nurses for the training classe. may delay the proposed opening on Sep teInber l of the Salvation Army's "Peol Mans Hospital at RoxburY Boston