Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-07

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Norwich. "Wednesday, July 2. 1909.
| VARIOUS MATTERS
Students are leaving for summer
schools.
The wheels Of business vii start
again today.
Miss Lizzie Bill Of New York is vis-
iting relatives in town.
Cool for the season." Dabolrs alma
nae promises for a day or two,
The celebration meant a revival Of
old-time hospitality and sociability.
The Bulletin is indebted to e. M.
Barstow for late Nome. Alaska, pa
pers.
Most Of the trains have been run
ming in two sections, SO heavy was
holiday trafic.
The first chiquet, the favorite sea
trout. is being caught by fishermen
of the shore towns.
Scores of catchpenny devices Were
about the streets on Tuesday as well
as Monday. bait for the unwary.
Judge and Mrs. Charles Post of
Guiiford are guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Post of West Thames street.
The fifth biennial meeting Of the
Bartlett Family union was held Mon
day at the town hall. East Windsor
Rain was unwelcome for Tuesday
evenings water carnival, but the
lawns and gardens did not object to
1t.
An old print Of the harbor, dated
lS49, and photo dated 1885 have been
attracting attention in the window of
Cranston & Co.
Norwich and Lake Champlain con-
stituted the special attractions in this
section of the country Monday.-New
Haven Journal-C Courier.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Shortell
who died in Norwich Sunday, was
held at the home of her son, William
Shortell, in Willimantic. Burial was in
New Haven.
Emerson Douglass, son Of Samuel
and Minny White, died Sunday in
Providence. The funeral was held on
Tuesday afternoon, burial is to be in
Packerville.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Backus of Prov
idence, Mr.. and Mrs. George Backus
of Worcester, and Charles Webb have
been spending the holidays with their
nieces, the Misses Osgecd, of Rockwell
terrace.
Recentn visitors from Willimatic in
clude Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Casey. Elsie
Casey, Arthur Casey, Jerome B. Bald
win, Jennie Baldwin, Mrs. Belle Rig
gleman, DR.. Owen O'Neil and Miss
Agnes O'Neil.
In the list of those who attended the
2O0th celebration of Norwich in 1859.
Mrs. Olive A. Bishop of Bozrah. was
credited to Norwich Town, and Eleaz-
err B. Spicer, also of Bozrah, was CIV
en- as residing in Yantic.
1t is noted in The Churchman that
number Of the Episcopal clergy of
eastern Connecticut have already
availed themselves of the opportunity
to borrow books from the General The
illogical library. of Boston.
Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock the
funeral of Miss Emily Park was held
from the home Of her niece, Mrs. Liz
zie Brown, at Noank, with burial in
Lower Mystic cemetery. Aunt Emil
ly' died Friday night, aged 81.
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The White Ribbon Banner for July
states that. on Temperance day on the
| willimantic camp ground. Friday, Au-
gust 10, Mrs. Deborah Knox Living
stone, state president of the Rhode
Island w. c. T. U, will be the princi-
pal speaker.
An interesting reunion Of the Rock
well family took place at the Waure-
gan this, DIR. John A. Rockwell, Alfred
and Warren Rockwell and son of Har-
riman Tenn, DIR. John A. Rockwell.
Jr., Of Cambridge, and Mrs. Edward
Cole of New York, formerly Miss Mary
Rockwell. and son, being present.
The new one-cent piece bearing the
head Of President Lincoln will be is
sued by the treasury department from
the mint at Philadelphia beginning on
August next. BY that time it is ex-
pected that a Sufficient supply Of these
coins will have been coined to meet
all demands.
Concerning the project to sterilize
mouthpieces Of telephone instruments
in order to avoid contagion, General
Manager Sykes states that as matter
Of fact public station mouthpieces are
being sterilized from time to time by
inspectors. As to private Telephones
Everybody should loek after his own
apparatus.
During his stay in Norwich. Judge
Simeon Baldwin of New Haven was
interested in looking UP the home of
his ancestor, John Baldwin, found
err, whose home-lot was on West Town
street, near the river. He was CON
stable in 1896. The little book issued
by Dr. Gul1ivers committee gives his
house as numbered five in the list.
Under the head Of IA Shower of
Roses" Tuesdays New York Tribune's
story of the parade made the follow