Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-17
VARIOUS MATTERS

MIS- EQWafu Burge or Poquonoc is picking several quarts of strawberries every day from ever-bearfng vines.
 The three men in the Main street of flee of the New Haven road in Norwich have SIP each coming to them in back pay.
 yacationists who have spent the first half of August on farms in suburban places are returRing to their city homes.
 There are pastures along the Mont vile road which appear carpeted in vel low, so numerous are the ox-eyed daisies this season.
 At the Old Lyme Cemetery Assoeia- ton meeting held in the Parish house last week, George Griswold was re-elect- ed president.
 National roque games today, Rockwell street-adv.
 Eastern Connecticut members of the denomination are attending the Seventh Day Adventists' general conference at Alfred, N Y.
 The Central Baptist church calendar announces that Rev. Ebert E. Gates is to be the preacher for next Sunday morn- ing and evening.
 Both crabs and clans are to be found in numbers at the lower end of Bright d pODul9T sport at Pleasant View.
 Monday ended with hard showers after haze, fitful sunshine and less humidity than on Sunday The mercury kept at about S2 degrees all day.
 A piazza 24xS is being added to the home of Mir. and Mrs. John A Hagberg on Mohegan Hill. A bay window was built on the south side recently.
 The Y. ". c. A. camp at Oswegatchie continues to be popular place for the girls of New London and vicinity to spend vacations and week ends
 There is complaint that Groton's po- lice force might be so distributed in the matter of beats that better protection would be afforded the early morning hours.
 The Y. NJ c. A. boys of Norwich broke camp Sunday at Golden Spur after stay at Quarry Dock. This is their second visit this season to this popular camping site.
 National roque games today, Rockwell street-adv
 A Groton young woman, Miss Ruth Denison has returned from the summer school at New Haven and has been en- gaded to teach in Union, beginning her duties September Sth.
 The new telephone directories for this district were distributed to Norwich subscribers Monday. In addition to the local exchange nineteen nearby exchang- es are listed in the convenient manual.
 About 5000 acres have been bought oy the state park commission to be used for state parks and for the benefit of the public. There are between 20 to 30 of these parks situated in different parts of the state
 Mir. and Mrs. George Brown held a family picnic at Golden Spur the other day Those present included Mrs. Blanche Rowley and four children of Gales Fer ry and Mrs. Mabel Glassbnenner and two children of Norwich.
 Druggists hear that the essential oils show tendency to decline, which may continue throughout the month, but inn provement is expected in September Cod lived oil IS lower on reports of a large catch of cod in Norway
 It will be necessary for children of Mystic who plan to attend high school out of town to secure a certificate from the agent in order that free transpor- tation and free tuition may be obtained Latham Avery has succeeded Charles R. Heath as agent.
 r For the union service of Park and United Congregational churches at the United church, the clergymen announced to preach for the remaining Sundays in August are: August 22, Rev J. H SeI- den, D. D., Norwich 29, Rev. Claude A. Mckay, Brockton, Mass
 Norwich Congregationalists learn that the annual meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- sions will be held in Marietta, Ohio, Oct l2-l5. This promises to be the princi- pal gathering of CongregationaIists dur ing the remainder of the year.
 Announcement has been received in Norwich that Sept. 24th there will be a quiet day for the Episcopal clergy, fol- lowed by day of instruction for the lead CTS of the forward movement in the diocese. This conference will be held at Holy Trinity chr rch, Middletown.
 The midsummer White Ribbon Ban- ner declares: The doctors need edu- eating. Some physicians are writing pre- scriptions for whiskey, as many as 100 or 200 in one month. One such physician said he. should do so as long as he could get three dollars for each pre- scription.
 Lloyd Fraser, whose term of four years enlistment in the U. s. navy ex- pires this month, is expected to arrive at his home in Noank soon. Mir Fraser iS ou d DdItleSnlp visiting the different ports in the south and in Cuba. He en- listed, as Q yeopan and is now a gun ners mate.
 Norwich D. A. R. members have re- ceived from the president-general of the National D. A. R., Mrs. George Maynard Miner, of Waterford, cards announcing that her studio will be open to the pub lie Saturdays and Sundays from 3 to 6 during August, when her paintings will be on view.
 An Ellington boy, Louis Lavitt, who lost several of the fingers from his right hand some time ago by the explo- sion of dynamite, has had another fin ger amputated at St. Francis hospital. Hartford: The finger was stiff but now the lad will be able to use the hand in writing. He has been obliged to use his left hand
 When an audience of 15,eo8 in New York Sunday evening protested against the removal by British authorities of Archbishop Mannix of Australia from the liner Baltic, the speakers included Rev. Michael J. Murphy, a Methodist clergyman Dr. Norman Thomas, a Presbyterian clergyman, and Rev. Father John Talbot Smith, the last named a frequest Norwich visitor.
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