Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-18
VARIOUS MATTERS

Parks n town, large dllu SIHdli, pNONSQ grateful refuges during Tuesdays heat.
 Doors and windows stick during this rnuggy weather but so far there has been little mold.
 Druggists here who have soda foun- tains and ices had one of their busiest days Tuesday.
 The thermometer at the wauregan corner registered 94 degrees during Tuesday afternoon.
 pr. Alfred Richards office will be closed until Sept. '. adv.
 Among dahlia growers of Groton bor- ough H. A. Wheaton holds first place with about s5 varieties.
 A Pennington correspondent notes that Harold Wells has been spending his va cation at Westerly, R. l.
 This years exhibit of fruit and vege- tables at the county fair in Norwich ought to beat out all records.
 The railroads in Connecticut are hav- ing the best season ever known. Their passenger travel is enormous.
 leading Norwich fruit and produce wholesaler is distributing an average of 1000 punches of bananas weekly.
 Men from this state have left for Cleveland, O., to attend a two-days' meet ing of the Society of American Florists.
 It is announced that Rev. F. W. Tholen of Preston City is to preach at the Bap- tist church in Stafford Sunday morning next.
 Heat and hurnidity/ are beginning to tell on the sick, infants and the aged, physicians having more to do than in the weeks past.
 The flag on the Norwich city hall was at half staff Tuesday until after the fu- neral services for George W. Rouse, at his death a city constable.
 Norwich friends learned Tuesday that steamer Leopoldina, on which Joseph c. Bland is a passenger. did not reach Havre until Sunday, the 18th.
 Tobacco raisers of the state are in for big profits, selling their crop this year at the rate of 55 cents pound. Last year the average price was AZ cents.
 Veteran members of the Odd Fellows have received notice of the annual sum mer outing to be held at Wilsox's shore house at Savin Rock Saturday, Aug. 21, at noon.
 Noank, an engineer rn the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad, has spent a day with Edward Burne Clarke in Saybrook.
 Plumbers and electricians are at work this week in the new residence on Wash ington street. near Maple Grove avenue, being erected for NJ. H. Hourigan ot Hourigan Brothers.
 At present the IS or 20 men employed at the Lester & Wasley plant on Frank lin street, Norwich. are builling on an average two envelope machines month, =rfT,r b11Cf CIar 1o+Y
 Prof. and Mrs. S. Miles Gordy of Elizabeth, N. J., are visiting at Saybrook for the balance of the month. MT. Gordy was formerly principal of Stafford Springs schools, and later at Saybrook.
 The United States civil service conlruis- sion announces an examination on Oct 1 for electrical draftsman for vacancies in the office of chief of engineers, war de- partment, and in places requiring similar qualifications.
 Extra strictly fresh fish at Oig.ed's wharf, new arrival daily. Low prices- adv
 According to the United States govern ment report, there are something like 100 millionaires in Connecticut, out of the 10000 in the nation, of whom Is live in Hartford and F each in Bridgeport and New Haven.
 Paintings by the late R. c. Miner will be shown with those of his daughter-in- law, Mrs. George Maynard Miner, when her studio in Waterford is open to the public from to Saturdays and Sun days during this month.
 Be patient if the telephone service prove faulty for a day or two Manager J. Nelson Weymouth of the Norwich ex- change had reports Tuesday of 2S com plete lines and 40 stations disabled due to Monday nights storm.
 Of interest to New Haven railroad em- pleyes is the item that a birthday cake with 69 candles featured luncheon that the children of former President Charles s. Mellen arranged for him at Council Grove in Stockbridge, Mass, Monday.
 At Willington recently the three Hughes sisters, former residents, were guests at Hillside; they are Mrs H. o. Huntingdon of Mansfield Center, Mrs. S. F. Dennick of South Coventry and Mrs. E. E. Reddis of Denver, Col.
 Although A. ". Buchanan of the state board of education comes to Norwich weekly as usual to issue working certif catas to children, there is not the big rush of wartime vacations due to dull ness in the voolen and silk mills
 Motorists passing up and down Broad way are adnliring the handsome phlox in the gardens at the Habekotte- -Rurlburt residence, that at the home of the Misses Williams and the massed effects in the garden at Nr. and Mrs. George W. Car rolls
 The new telephone directory shows in the Norwich district a total of 3.ee5 sta tions, as compared with 3,75o in the last directory, a gain of 215, and the num- Der would higher if the S. N, E. com pany were not so hampered by shortage of equipment.
 Local dealers benefit by the fact that two steamships belonging to the United Fruit Steamship company, the Pastores ana the Fivfves, have arrived from the west Indies with 1S.000 stems of banan- as, the largest number ever landed in New York in one day.
 encouraging news comes to Connecti- cut that the demand for American ma chinery has been growing at an abnor- maj rate during the first six months of the present year The total export figures for these six months exceed the total of the entire preceding year.
 A show which Connecticut florists rare. ly miss is the public exhibit at the New York Botanical gardens, where over soc varieties of dahlias are coming ranidlv into bloom at either side of what is known as the Station plaza, close to fine New York Central station in RronY Park.