Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-23

 in the larger cities may be expected, officials say, until the present housing shortage, still nationwide, is overcome
 Coffee imports for the fiscal year 1920 increased more than 39S,000,o00 pounds over the total for 1919. it has been an nounced by the Department of Com merce.
 Dr. Alfred Richards office will be clos. ed until Sept 7th.-adv.
 Corporations taxed by the state of Connecticut number 2,162, according to a statement compiled as of August l and made public by Tax Commissioner William H. Blodgett.
 Rev. Ebert E. Gates preached Sun day morning and evening at the Cen traI Baptist Church in the absence of the pastor, Rev. A. F. Purkiss, who is at East Northield, Mass.
 Special meeting of K. of c. Athletic Assn. tonight s:30. Important business. adv.
 Reports received from the Atlantic Tuna club on Block Island show that forty tuna, eight swordfish and sixty bonita were captured by the club mem bers during the past week. The Clinton Beach Improvement AS sociation, an organization for the de-
  Beach, has been formed during the past week by property owners at shore re- sort.
 The Navy Department is conducting series of experiments by which it hopes to solve the problem of directing the movement of battleships by direct ap- plication of wireless telegraph to the steering gear.
 The harvesting of the 1920 tobacco crop is now well under way and by the | looks of things at the present time all of the farmers will be hard at work by i the middle of the week getting the crop under cover. 1 Choice flowers for funerals, also we'd | ding bouquets, Hunts Greenhouses. l Phone 1150.-adv.
 Fishing around Crescent Beach at present is better than ever, according to ! reports of the fishermen. Every day ! there are hundreds of men at the fish i ing rock and many large catches have 1 been reported.
 l Bolton will celebrate it's bi-centennial i September 3, f. 5, and although the l town will not really have attained it's I two hundredth year until October s, the townspeople decided to observe the great event in September.
 | has been engaged as superintendent of | the United Jewish Charities of Hart 1 ford. She succeeds Charles Maresld. who resigned last June after three years of service to study at Ann Arbor, Mich. | The Stafford Worsted Mill, which has 1 been partly running since a week ago Wednesday, will be reopened in full l Monday morning. It had been closed for three weeks. The Phoenix Woolen Company's mills, one in Hydeville and one in Orcutville, are still closed.
 Miss Edith Fordor of Liverpool has reached New York, coming to America to marry Leslie Young of New Haven whom she met while doing war work Miss Fordor is the niece of MT. Doosner | of Liverpool, one of the pioneer motion picture theater owners in England Bids submitted to the Navy Depart ment by the Lake Torpedo Boat Com pany of Bridgeport, and the New Lon don Ship and Engine Company of Gro ton, for construction of six fleet subma- rines to cost about s4,500,000 each were opened by Secretary Daniels The season at Mantle is in full swing and the largest number of people in the history of the beach is now here The demand for reservations during August was so great that many had tc be turned away and were forced to go to some other beach for vacations
 Community sale at Gales Ferry club house Wednesday, Aug. 25, afternoon and evening. Fancy articles, home cooked foods, ice cream, tea, sandwich es, etc. If rainy sale will be held next fair day.-Adv.
 Workmen for the F. E. Patterson O. of Norwich have started the cutting of S0,000 feet of lumber for the Max Pol lacks thread mill to be located near Trails corner on the Poquonnock road Several carloads of material are expect ed to arrive from Pennsylvania soon.
 Special meeting of K. of c. Athletic Assn. tonight S:3o. Important business. l-adv.
 The Spanish prisoner letter" famous as swindle a quarter of a century ago, is being revived, and a number of Connecticut people are receiving the letter urging them to help the prison CT" recover his supposed securities and thus share with him his mythical wealth.
 Conneeticut's total population under the decennial census now being compiled l is approximately 1,343, 465. The state, 1 therefore, stands entitled to. a new rep resentative in congress, and in that 1 event will regain the six-man delegation 1t had in the national house of repre- sentatives a century ago
 The announcement of the selection of l Assistant United States Attorney Gen eral Thomas J. Spellacy as temporary | chairman of the democratic state con vention to be held at New Haven next l month is taken by his friends at a pret 1 ty sure sign that he will not be a candi- | date for the gubernatorial nomination.
 James J. Walsh, internal revenue col | lector for Connecticut, has formally seized the breweries of the Connecticut Breweries Company, Eckhart Brothers. and the Home Brewing Company These plants were closed by William M. Me Cartny, of Boston, supervising prohibi- tion enforcement officer of New England
 Margaret Anderson, 5-years-old daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs M Anderson of Station 8, Wilson, who was struck on Thursday evening by an automobile driven by James A. Turnbull, secretary of the Northern Connecticut Light & Power Company of Thomysonvine, died at the Hartford hospital Friday night
 The next legislature will be asked to to be applied to duching some 22.o00 appropriate $335, 900 to cover two wears acres of salt marsh along the Connecti- cut shore (sone 5000 acres already part- ly drained), after which it is calculated S35,00o a year maintenance will result l in practically putting an end to the mosquito nuisaLce and periol resulting from the swamp fisquite