Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-29
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Norwich. Friday, July 20, 1891.
VARIOUS MATTERS
This is almanac day for August.

poned to Aug. 13.
 Several members of the Marble family of Worcester have been at their old homestead in Warrenville.
 The office of Dr. William T. Driscou will be closed until Aug. ninth (9th).- adv.
 Isaac Futtreu of Pomfret Center has sold his farm and has moved with his sons family to the south.
 Rev. Gipsy Smith, Jr-, well known in Norwich, is to preach at the Baptist church in Jewett City Sunday next, July S1st
 At Willimantic Methodist camp ground there is a possibility of the campers having the accommodation of a store | through August
 [, Miss Florence Flewellyn. teacher in | Boston, is with her aunts, the Misses | Flewellyn, at East Thompson. for her summer vacation.
 East Hampton is preparing for her best and biggest Old Home Day and Car nival Day, Saturday, July S0th, with parade at one o'clock
 Fewer city boarders have come to 1 suburban resorts than is usual during | July, it is thought because of the high | fares on the railroads
 There was breeze during Thursday afternoon, but the mercury kept well above 90 degrees most of the day, and i again humanity sweltered.
 A law passed at the last session of the l general assembly provides that women as well as men shall be liable to the annual assessment of S2 this fall.
 Mir and Mrs. Julius Newell of Rock vile celebrated their birthdays recently both being IS years old. One was born on July 14th, the other on the goth.
 A former TaftviIle resident. James L. Harroun. principal of the Natchaug school. Wiuimantic, is spending vaca- ton at the Backus bungalow in Andover
 New arrival of Block Island sword blue. large buffers, sea trout. boiled shrimp and Holsters, salmon and mack erel at Powers Bros.-adv
 To have wholesalers advance the price of refined sugar to six cents a pound does not suit the taste of housewives with the canning season just beginning
 The Western Union Telegraph com pany has announced that the rate tc Germany for ordinary commercial cable messages after Aug. will be reduced siz cents a word.
 [ Mrs. Frank A. Comstock of New Lon. ] . bury, of Norwich, spent several days a the Comstock cottage on Willimanti( camp ground recently.
 Norwich friends learn that MT. anC Mrs. Poultney Bigelow of Malden-on Hudson, who are visiting in Japan, wer' received in private audience July ? b! the Empress of Japan.
 Among independent mills. the genera opinion heard this week in regard to tn American Woolen company opening fo . spring was that the prices named should prove satisfactory to the entire trade. 3 Park and United Congreg-S.ona l churches will hold the closing July ser vice Sunday. the 31st, at the Unitet I church. The congregations will meet il Park church on the Sundays of August
 Farmers hereabouts who complained o : spring and summer rain realize now tha they are better off than those in the cen tral parts of the country, where seriou drouth is threatening the loss of the corr crop.
 1 Mrs. F. R. Inman, owner of the Fair 1 banks park tract of land in Oneco, is t = survey a right of way from the tow. road across the property to the cottag near the station, purchased by Jame Sweet.
 Already the public utilities commission has been notified of twenty-one appeal t taken from their decisions to the superio n court. The commission will be repre- scented by Attorney General Frank E Hea1ey.
 W. A. Johnson, general yardmaster 8 the Midway yards, has left on tw B weeks vacation which he intends spend ing touring the New England states an part of Canada Mrs. Johnson accon panied him.
 Thursday at o'clock in St Patrick church relatives and family friends al tended a requiem high mass for Charlt
 W. Corcoran, sung by the rector, Re
 M. H. May, at the request of the Hol
 Name society.
 Lewis J. Wells, eldest of the nine sor
 of Willis W. Wells Of Watsonville, Cal
 is visiting friends and relatives in Sout
 Woodstock. He was born there but tf
 family went to Colorado in 1908 an
 later to California.
 The United States civil service comni
 sion announces an examination for a.
 ssitant in information, men. age undo
 55, for vacancies in the department
 agriculture, Washington, D. C.. at s1,9
 to $S,Soo 3 year.
 e In the Connecticut Farmers Co-oper u tive league, the directors are for Tola1 l. county: R. A. Sikes, Ellington Dr. ! e Price. Somers William H. Hall, Sou s. Wilmington; Charles Thompson, Melres 1T Oscar Leonard, Holland. l. At New London, Miss Jane Clark, di ., trict secretary of the diocesan bureau f -t lt social service, is in charge of the Su 'I day school for Catholic Italian childre
 the 55 members of which are to have le picnic Wednesday next at the cottage 'A Mrs. A. Leverone, Ocean Beach = Visitors from Norwich to St. Anne
 Beaupre report the greatest crowds ev,
 so that to accommodate the sheIterle
 the church itself is being left open r night. The famous shrine has been t 0' objective of pilgrimages, since 1858. Hu e dreds of thousands have visited it.
 The annual field day of. the Connectic CT State hospital at Middletown was held In the grounds of the institution W7ednesd
 morning Including patients the even lie were witnessed by about 2.O00 perso1
 While the program was in progress, rc
 beer and peanuts were given the patien Cd The superintendent of schools in sor = Manchester F. A. Verplanck. formerly
 Norwich, at the annual meeting of { n district explained the expenditure of 5
 477.s3 for hygiene. spent in paying for
 nurse, the cost of bandages and suppl
 and the pay for two doctors who twice 1i day visit the schools.
 Steamer Cape Cod brought up 2s p;
 scngers to Block Iscand on her Wedn'
 day night trip from New York. T
 steamer leaves Norwich at D. m., sta
 dard time, Tuesday, Thursday and Su
 day, reaches Block Island at 5.30 p. ! and is dnA in NAu Ynrl. at s the fnlln