Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-23
VARIOUS MATTERS

July 2Sd is the feast day of Saint Apol- linaris!
 Stevens Studio will be closed until Aug. 4th.-adv
 There is a promise of increase in the sugar supply the Connecticut Agricul-. tural College at Storrs reports.
 In two days at Noank this week. liar " Mitchell dug four barrels of quahaugs which he shipped to New York.
 One enterprising Norwich store is aid ing customers and making profit by pro viding stout paper shopping bags at a nickel each.
 Lester Clark has sold his property at Holland known as the William Anderson place to Frank Blankowski, who lived on the Shippee place.
 The classes of Fl and '72 of the New Britain Normal School will hold a reun1 ion at the Normal School building in New Britain, July 29.
 Mrs. James Fallow, Jr.. and family of South Manchester have rented a cot tage at Bolton Lake and will spend the next two weeks there.
 The painters working on the Norwich county court house were busy touching up the main entrance facing Union square during Thursday.
 While Miss Kathleen 4. Dowd, super intendent of nurses at Backus hospital, Norwich, is having fortnight's vaca- tion, Miss Rose Durr is in charge.
 Live and boiled hard crabs, Holsters, long clans, choice lot of fresh fish, at Powers Bros.'-adv.
 State Agent A. w Buchanan of Mans field Center met fully a score of children applying for working certificates during his weekly visit to Norwich Thursday.
 The members of the Mystic Boy Scouts who have been at Camp Wakeha, the Boy Scout camp at Gardner Lake, for the last two weeks, returned home Wednes- day
 Clerks in local stores notice among their customers these days members of cottage and camping parties from Gard ner Lake and other popular summer re- sorts.
 The national grange is to hold nine days convention in Boston, beginning Nov. 10, with Patrons of Husbandry from all the New England states repre- sented.
 The members of the vested choir of Christ Episcopal church, Norwich, have been holding two rehearsals weekly dur ing the season under direction of Organ ist Ibbotson.
 Hilda Dorothy Perkins. daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Clarence Perkins of Weque- tequock, has returned from the Backus hospital in Norwich, after a successful minor operation.
 There will be big rummage sale on Bath street, held by the Woman's Aid Society of the Swedish church, Saturday, July 24th.-adv.
 Thus far this season the bathing cos tunes at Watch Hill have been safely conservative and the police department has not been called upon to regulate the beach costumes worn.
 Although everybody does not know about it. there is a pretty little body of water called Norwich Pond, within easy motoring distance from this city, near Hamburg in the town of Lyme.
 Mir and Mrs Ernest L. McCutcheon of Hartford, and Mrs. McCutcheon's sis ter Miss Florence J. Morgan of Mid dletown, are members of a camping par ty in the Pines, near Browns crossing, Gales Ferry.
 A blackfsh caught at Saybrook Point by Captain Edward Hills measures twen- ty-fve inches, weighs eleven pounds and is a remarkably fine specimen. It is the largest blackfsh caught on that part of the shore in years.
 Heads of departments here have been notified that meetings of the housefur- nishings, china, and glassware buyers of the Dry Goods Union will be held Tues day and Wednesday of next week at 432 Fourth avenue, New York.
 As late as this week the Norwich post office has received shipments of four or five hundred chicks by parcel post, the young broilers travelling in boxes of about 100. During the season chicks have come from as far away as Ohio.
 A party of Girl Scouts from the Cen traI Baptist church, in charge of Miss Kilborn, left Norwich Thursday after noon for camp at Rogers Lake, Lyme where there will be several hundred girls in camp under direction of the Y. w. C. A.
 number of Connecticut republicans plan to attend the exercises to be held at Northampton, Mass. next Tuesday af- ternoon when Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts will be officially noti- fled of his nomination for the vice pres idency.
 Reductions in crude drugs extended over a much wider area this week. Nor wich druggists learned Thursday. Essen tial oils dropped again, with the excep- tion fo a fe wscarce products including wormseed. Vegetable oils also were weaker in price.
 Norwich teachers have received cards from the Connecticut State Teachers Association at Hartford relative to the campaign to be conducted throughout the state for better salaries, better tenure more state aid and improvement in tho teachers pension law Episcopalians in Norwich learn that nc action relative to removing Berkeley Di i vinity school from Middletown will bC taken until the return of Bishop Chaun cey B. Brewster from Europe, according to Rt Rev. E. Campion Acheson, bishoI suffragan of Connecticut. The formal opening of the Epwortl | League Institute was held Tuesday morn 1 ing at Wesleyan University when classe Tn Bible study and mission work were be gun. There are about 200 delegates rep resenting leagues from various Methods churches throughout the eastern states | Milliners who have been in New Yorl 1 scouting for fall styles are told tha plumage is not going to have everythin, | its own way in the trimming of fall hats i as some of the newer models shown mak 1 a more notable use of flowers and frui i than is usual for that period of tn year.
 The United States civil service com mission announces for Aug. 3 an exami nation for automobile mechanics help CT, man or woman, age above IS, for vacancy in the bureau of mines, depart