Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-03
IN NORWICH FIFTY YEARS AGO

In Norwich fifty years ago thcJe was , very little Cf interest ch.ouIclcl ,l the Bulletin Of the week o5 -AuG. gSth , The news items consisted mostly of announcements of excursions ct pHri ous organizations and churches, Ley yard seemed to be considerably wrought up over the fact that new road was to be put through the town
 Extracts from the Bulletins files of '71 follows
 August 2S, 1S71.-Roads seem to be the prevailing topic of conversation .n Ledyard, owing to a law ! recently pass ed altering. several of the roads in tie vicinity. Values of land in some places that the proposed road will cross it. Several are already seeking damages and the whole matter is more or less of a nliXup.
 The sultriness of the weather yester- day was considerably relieved by an other deluge of rain and heavy southwest gale that swept over the city. The thermometer registered around 90 degrees ill the morning but rapidly fell during the day. Consider able damage was done in this vicinity to trees shrubbery, etc, the extent of which is unable to be determined.
 August 29, 1S7l-Conductor Downer's S train from New London, Monday morning, ran into a two- horse team at the Franklin crossing and threw the horses down bank among some logs The horses were only slightly injured the wagon reduced to kindling wood and the driver badly frightened.
 A savage fight between several men of Irish origin in front of a saloon in Greeneville on Sunday night, resulted in the serious injury of one man who was brutally beaten on the head with a stone.
 The storm of Sunday did consider ble damage in this section, it enlarged the hole in the concrete walk of the Laurel Hill school, blew down several trees in the East Great Plain section and washed out the roads in various places. It is rumored that a schooner off Mystic foundered in the gale. August 30, 1S71-Columbian Com mandery, K. T. met at their armory yesterday morning and headed by the Third Regiment band marched to the Norwich and Worcester depot and ] took the train for New Haven, where mustered about 50 members.
 1ue t1oH. ". A. buCKlnghdm has l been elected one of the board of direc- 1 tors of the state school for imbeciles i A steam pile-driyer has been for some time lively at work at the navy yard wharf on the Thames and the structure is beginning to assume its | intended imposing proportions
 August 31, 1871.-The fourteenth an- niversary of the Sunday School con- vention connected with the churches of the Stonington Union association was held at Sterling Hill on Wed l nesday. Rev. P. G. Wightman was 1 chosen president, Rev. N. T. Allen, sec retary and Rev. Waldo Tillinghast, as- | sistant secretary.
 Having been appointed by the Con- necticut branch of the Universa i Peace Union at their annual meeting 1 held at Mystic, committee has ap- 1 pealed 10 the public in the case o
 James E. Whipple of the Town O ! Ledyard, who has been incarceratet
 in the New London County Jail fol refusing to pay a military tax
 i Sept. l, 1S11.-The Mcthodists at tn, 1 Willimantic camp ground broke yes
 terday morning and the woods no long. ] CT echo to the voices of prayer anC i praise. The week has been exceeding ly damp but the clouds rolled ava, Wednesday night and the sunshine ant
 cool breeZes Thursday morning did il
 no way lessen the general regret a
 the parting ceremonies.
 There is great need of a work sho]
 at the jail in this city. All the in