Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-07

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 Late stayers at the beaches nnd the evenings raw and chilly.
 Sundays rain greatly benefited peach orchards hereabouts.
 The holiday rush began early with | the Restaurants and hotels.
 Farmers are getting tired of carting water for their stock to drink.
 Booklets for fall excursions to the mountains and to southern battle fields are reaching town. l Monday was anniversary day of the battle of Groton Heights and the burn | ing of New London. Yardstick souvenirs and squeakins balloons were numerous Monday eve ming, when the crowds returned from the fair grounds.
 The Swedish Epworth league has been holding a convention in the Hart ford Swedish Methodist church of all New England states, ending Monday. St Patriek's parochial school opens this CTuesday) morning. following mass at o'clock, at which the pupils will assist.
 Delegates from eastern Connecticut are attending the fifth triennial con- 1 gress of the general society of May flower descendants, whic hopened at Plymouth Sunday.
 Constable Charles H. Card of Groton and Sheriff Manuel J. Martin took Charley White of Groton back to the Norwich hospital at Breswsters Neck, Saturday.
 The steamer Danielson has been talk en off the run between Newport and Block Island. until December 1, when she will replace the New Shoreham.
 The steamer New Shoreham made her last trip from Block Island to Stonington Monday afternoon The steamer has carried a good passenger list on all her trips this summer.
 Tn Connecticut last month, four per sons ended their lives by shooting. two by carbolic acid, two by hanging and asphyxiation. and one each by the knife and by poison other than car bolic acid.
 Rosie Curren. the infant daughter of Samuel Curren of New London, died early Sunday morning in the Memo rial hospital. Burial was in the He- brew cemetery in Waterford Sunday afternoon.
 The state executive committee of the Zionist societies of Connecticut held meeting Sunday at the Hebrew school in New Britain and planned to start schools in all the larger cities of the state.
 Coincident with the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Congregational church in that village. it Is probable that Mansfield Center will have a Home week celebration in October, 1910.
 By invitation of the circles of The Kings Daughters and oSns of the New Haven city union, the fourteneth an- nual convention will be held in New Haven. October 13 and 14, in Plym- outh church.
 The blue and white flag of Portugal fluttered in the breeze throughout Newport Sunday, at the annual out ing of the New England branches of the Portuguese Fraternity of the Unit ed States. Union lodge of New Lon don was represented at the conven- tion.
 The Connecticut military archives in the state library have been recently enriched by the addition of sixteen manuscript volumes and an index covering the period from 1757 to 17SS, so that the military records of the state are practically complete from 1878 to 17SS.
 The body of Miss Delight Presses. who died last week at her home in New York. was brought to New Lon- don on the 4.05 express Saturday aft ernoon and was buried in the Quaker town cemetery in Ledyard. Death was caused by meningitis. She leaves brother in Providence and one in New York.
 Dr. Philip B. Hadley of the Rhode Island experiment station has declared that the prevalence of the blackhead disease among turkeys, which is deci- mating the flocks, is due largely to the English sparrows. These imported feathered pests, he says, have the dis ease, and play an important part in it's transmission from one poultry farm to another.
 It will be suggested by Census Di- rector Durand to the farmers that the work of securing accurate returns at the coming census of agriculture. which will be taken April Is, 1910. at the same time as the count of popu- lation, will be greatly facilitated if the farmers will keep or provide some sort of written record of their farm opera tions during the year 1909.