Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-04
VARIOUS MATTERS

The news from Ashford appeared Wednesday under Stafford head.
 Just now theer are 150 patients at Norwich state tuberculosis sanatorium.
 Angus McQuarrie left Noank this week for Omaha, Neb., where he has secured employment.
 Sumac and golden rod along the coun- try roads tell of the approach of au- tumn.
 Showers during Wednesday morning were accompanied by temperature below 70 degrees.
 Tug Aquidneck lowed scow Elizabeth McGuire from New London to Norwich Wednesday morning.
 Manager J. W. Dows of Boxwood, Old Lyme, has purchased one of the Arnott cottages at Towards Beach. Vacation tourists have, no cause to | complain of uncomfortably hot weather | since August began.
 County Agricultural Agent John H. | Fay of Middletown is at Storrs in atten- dance at the Farmers week exercises. During the past year the Norwich | United Workers expended s1,131 in the department of club work. At Old Lyme. blackberries are so abun- 1 dant at the cove that George Mitchell picked 10 quart pail fuE in one hour.
 Daniel Lustig has rented his farm at Hebron to Daniel Sherman of New Yorl@ and he and his family will move to Preston.
 The exterior woodwork is being paint ed at the big plant of the J. B. Martin company, the former Marlin Rockwell building, on Chestnut street, Norwich.
 MT. and Mrs J. Tilden Jewett of Tol-
 land have returned from motor trip to Acushnet, Plymouth and other places in
 the Bay State.
 Francis Slater and Mrs. Mary E. Taft
 of Hebron were married Thursday at the Episcopal rectory by Rev Theodore Mar
 tin, rector of St. Peters church.
 After lapse of II years, the old bunco game in the form of a letter from man
 in Spain asking aid for his lonely daugh-
 ter has reappeared in this state. The grape harvest in this state gives
 promise of being abundant but growers
 say that during the recent humid
 weather green grapes decayed badly.
 A correspondent notes that Merlin D. Johnson, seaman on the submarine R-9,
 stationed at the base, is spending 2o-
 days furlough at his home in New Brit ain.
 J. Abner Geer. a Mystic resident for , many years, has sold his property on High street there and will go to Boston, where he is to make his home with rela- tives.
 In spite of unfavorabIe weather, seven persons visited the D. A. R. mu- l scum at Norwich Town Wednesday after l noon, when Mrs. Wilbur S. filling was hostess.
 The annual women's invitation golf tournament, which opened Monday at the :, Shennecossett Country club. Eastern Point, will close with large ball Fri , day night.
 I Almost everything but the kitchen 1 stove" can now be sent by parcel post to 7 Italy. according to word recently re- . ceived from the postal administration of that country.
 g A. T Miner and L, c. Gadbois, who ! were nominated for councilmen at New t London recently, have accepted the nomi- . nation. Both filed thei racceptances with s the city clerk.
 Schooner James c. Hamlen, owned by
 Rodgers & Webb of Boston, is anchored
 off Fort Trunnbulh awaiting orders. She
 has just delivered a cargo of coal at R Allyns Point.
 a Sewing for the destitute children of Y Europe, under the auspices of the Old l., Lyme branchS American Red Cross, was lt done in the parish house in Lyme We'd 2 nesday afternoon.
 a The wallpaper business has been good r. this summer, when it is ordinarily only n fair, and this is an indication that the {: fall will be as big as dealers can hope :; for under present conditions. Y The United States civil service comnis. EE EE sion announces an examination for nurse s' for filling vacancies in the federal board T. 1 adY1 u dian and public health services ic Tax bills were sent out this week b, V State Commissioner William H. Blodget v which call for s1,S12,O0O from corpora
 tions. This is a loss to the state O
 $5740oo as compared with last year. R Every Tuesday and Thursday after
 noon the ball team of Norwich stat, v hospital puts in some stiff practice oi Y the diamond there. William Donovan z is manager of the team and Paul Whit E is captain.
 The United States department of labo
 report shows that for the first half o
 the present year there were decreases il = the number of persons employed in al ,n industries except woolen, which shows al 5 increase of 3.9 per cent. S. Choice bluefsh, native pickerel, had I'd dock, Noank flat and founder steak n butterfsh, mackerel, steak cod, easterl h. halibut, sea trout, Block Island sword
 bonita. soft crabs, Holsters, long clam
 for steaming, round clans and littl ,h necks at Powers Bros.-adv. yh According 10 the latest statistics, i
 1910 the farmers of Connecticut owne
 livestock, including poultry and bee.
 valued at S14,163,902. Within 10 year ! this figure jumped to $23,472,693, an ir 1 crease of over 50 per cent i, The Rockville fire department will b 1 well represented at a meeting of tn i State Firemens association at New Ha 1 ven Saturday. Chief George B. Milne ( f the Rockville fire department is a cand l date for the office of first vice presiden l Electrical storms and humidity hay 1 kept the five troublemen in Supt J. ! Weymouth's division of the Norwic
 telephone exchange busy from daylight ito dark for the past six weeks. From 4 of to 300 telephones have been out of ordt Ire daily.
 IIu, Norwich Knights TempIar have r 1le ceived word of the big parade of the O - der to be held In Hartford Oct. in eel o- bration of the 18th anniversary of u od institution of Washington commander Ias in that city. It is expected that 2,5t oT1 knights will parade. ,e- An appropriation of SITS ,000 has bet
 made by national headquarters of u . American Red Cross to provide recre
 tional facilities for veterans of the wor
 war studying at training centers of u
 federal board for vocational trainil ss. during the coming year.