Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-10


 Travel on Monday was heavy in al directions.
 Marshmallow roasts are the popu lar diversions of the beach parties. Grace Memorial Baptist church ha: its excursion to Ocean beach Thurs day.
 It is estimated that there were 4,00( persons at Ocean beach Sunday eve. ming.
 Owners of apple orchards are oblig- ed to keep an eye on their ripenine fruit.
 State farmers are hoping that the plague of grasshoppers in Vermont may not migrate southward. {.
 Too many stray and hungry cats away and left their pets for the neigh bors to feed.
 III Ouo city d HldAh hCL man secured 10000 Lincoln pennies and advertised to give them away in change making.
 Greene, R. l., camp meeting Is att tracting a number of attendants from eastern Connecticut towns near the Rhode Island border.
 State tobacco growers feel that the late crop of tobacco, unless there are early frosts, will be fully up to the average as regards quality and weight.
 It was announced at the Mt Cal vary Baptist church Sunday that plans were on foot to raise $1,000 on the fourth Sunday in October, to clear the church of it's debt.
 Monday, August g, was the thirty first anniversary of the tornado which entailed such loss of life, besides the destruction of much property, in sev- eral Connecticut towns.
 The attention of the members of Norwich lodge, B. P. o. E., No. 430, is called to the leaving time of the trains for the clambake Wednesday: 9.O6, 1O.4O. HAS, and 2.55.-adv.
 The postoffiee department has ap- pointed Winford E. Slater postmaster of the fourth class office at Hop River Holland county, ot succeed H. H. Boynton, who was removed.
 
 laborer, who jumped from a moving East Lyme trolley car two weeks ago, died Saturday at the Memorial hos pital, New London, from a fractured skull.
 Local banking men are receiving mo- tices that the American Bankers as- sociation is to hold it's thirty fifth an- nual convention at the Auditorium. in Chicago, the week beginning Septem- Der 13
 Complaints having been made that there is tampering with letterboxes on rural route No. 7, Postmaster Caru- thers is on the watch for the offend CTS. There is a heavy penalty for such lawlessness.
 The saint commemorated today is St. Laurence, his friend Hippolytus, who buried his body after his cruel martyrdom by being broiled alive on a gridiron, being commemorated on August 13.
 The Pleasant View correspondent of fba yNnrfarIx, C,,,, rr,rf&nc. aks- -..s14 about the Terminal for a few days you can make up your mind it's be- cause the Norwich choir boys have re- turned home.
 Saturday evening all the Watch Hill hotels were full to overflowing The many people who came to the Hill during the evening were obliged to return to Westerly and find apart ments in that city.
 The Dibble Cooley Family associa- ton held it's twelfth annual reunion Friday at Lake House grove, Conga- mond, Southwick, Mass, Members were present from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Texas.
 It is not believed that Connecticut will be represented this year at the national convention of the state boards of pharmacy, which meets at Los An geles, Cal, this month, owing to the being held so far away.
 Postmaster General Hitchcock has ssued an order granting leave of ab- sence for three days to all third and fourth class postmasters in Connecti- eut to enable them to attend the an- lual meeting of the Connecticut League of Postmasters to be held at Hartford, September "A.
 The new road at Groton Long Point, built from the tracks of the iroton and Stonington trolley road md leadinng across the farm to Bluff Point on the southwest shore, is com ,leted The road was built by Will fam Wheeler, manager of the Long Point farm, and is a fine piece of york. There has been an unusual number f grass fires this summer in Connec- icut, owing to the extremely dry weather. Carelessness in the disposi- ion of half-burned cigar or ciga- cite fs responsible for many of these tres. Most of the grass land burned yer will have to be plowed up and eeded again, as the fire destroys the l rass roots. The registry system of the postoffice ! apartment has not proved profitable | nd Postmaster General Hitchcock has ! aken action with a view to making 1