Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-05
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
The rain came gently. just as it was
needed.
The pension commissioners met on
Wednesday.
In spite of few hot days, July,
1909, averaged the coolest and the dry
est in the last ten years.
Norwich relatives will go to Groton
this afternoon to attend the funeral
of Capt. Christopher G. Newbury.
The County Pomona grange. No. 6,
is to hold an open grange meeting at
Richards grove on Saturday, August
IA.
The fact that there is no oyster set
at Greenport this season, will increase
the value of the Long Island sound
set.
At the Bendett place, Mohegan, the
| season is at it's height, the house be-
ing filled with boarders from New
York.
Farmers in and about Poquetanuck
are having their gardens badly dam
aged by deer, which nibble beans, peas
| and beets.
Shriners have received notification
of the annual sheep roast and summer
outing of Pyramid Temple. Mobiles of
the Mystic Shrine, which will be held
at Stratford on August rs.
Friends have received post cards
| from Willard A Lucas of Poquetanuck,
who has reached Lansing on his trip
through Michigan. He is to spend
| Sunday next at Pine Lake.
Those who watch for meteors this
! month are sure to be rewarded. About
the 10th is usually the time Of maxi
mum display, but scattered meteors
may be seen as late as August 20.
Miss Alice A. Slater, department
president of the Woman's Relief corps
Of Connecticut, left Hartford Tuesday
for Salt Lake City, where the national
convention Of the organization is to
be held.
| The members of the Hull Family
association, descendants of Daniel and
Lucretia Hull of Durham, met at the
lake in Bristol Wednesday for their
annual reunion and business meeting.
The twentieth annual state conven-
| ton of the Patriotic Order, Sons of
America, was held at Meriden Tues
day and Wednesday, with a large at
tendance of delegates from various
parts of the state. The state president,
Albert A. May of Meriden, presided.
The state committee of socialists
met in Ansonia, Sunday. and exoner-
ated Samuel Beardsley of Shelton,
the secretary and treasurer of the
committee. who was accused of mis-
appropriating the funds of the party,
by paying bills amounting to $3.50,
when no bills had been rendered.
OF former Norwich residents the
| Stafford Press says: Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Stuhlbach spent Sunday in New
York. While absent Mr.. Stuhlbach pur-
chased a jewelry store at Port Jer-
Wis, N. Y, and will remove to that
city after closing out his stock here.
As a result of the complaint made
to the railroad commissioners by the
milkmen at Yantic, Lebanon and
Franklin and other points along the
Central Vermont railway, the railroad
company has arranged to handle the
milk temporarily until the matter is
settled.
Miss Alice S. Costello, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. D. D. Costello of Hart
ford, and Henry L. Simonds of Nor
witch were married at st. Joseph's ca
thedral, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock
by Rev. Thomas S. Duggan. Mr.. and
Mrs. Simonds will live at No. SO Cap
itol avenue, Hartford.
Notices are being sent out by w.
c. T. U. members for the annual field
meeting of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union of New London,
Tolland and Windham counties, to be
held on the Willimantic camp ground.
Friday afternoon, August 10. The Rev.
w. A. MacIntyre of Rockville will be
the principal speakers.
Last Thursday, Lyme farmer
while moving a bayfield, ran his ma
chine into a nest of Hungarian part
rides. The mother bird was cut in
two. Out of the seventeen eggs in
the nest sixteen escaped injury. T hese
the farmer took to his barnyard and
placed under a hen. On Sunday sew
eral of these eggs Matched.
The Connecticut Pathological soci-
ETY. will hold a big field meeting at
the Barnes Bros Durham peach or
chards on Friday. These orchards
cover $50 acres, on which are some
$1,000 trees bearing a fine crop of
peaches this season. Every peach
grower in the state has been invited
to attend.
The National Convention of Organ
lists assembled at Ocean Grove, N. j.,
on Tuesday announced a plan to en-
courage the installation of organs in
town halls and public auditoriums in
the smaller cities throughout the
country and to give municipal concerts
for a small admission fee.
Connecticut delegates are starting