Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-18

A good thing and easy to take. e
| Bells" August 23.-ady.
The third annual reunion Of the de-
| scendants of C. c. Hall was held al
Cheshire last week.
The Daughters of Liberty through
out Connecticut enjoyed the state pic
mic Saturday at Mansfield grove.
4 Miss Frances Eldredge of Old Mys-
| tic has been engaged TO teach school
at Occum during the coming year.
| The officers are busy perfecting the
| arrangements for the Rockville fair
which comes on September q. % and
1t was decided at a recent meeting
of the Gales Ferry Country club to
hold the annual tennis tournament
next week.
Mrs. Grace Aldrich Crowell will be
one of the vocalists at the midsummer
| fair of ST. Marks Episcopal church
in Mystic this week.
The members of the Kibbe family
will hold their annual reunion and
picnic Wednesday, August 25, at Kib-
be's hotel in Somers.
Nearly all the arrangements are
| completed for the first outing of the
| Holy Name society of st. Mary's
church on next Sunday at the draw
bridge.
Tarvia as a preservative of macad-
am, particularly where there is much
automobile travel, seems to be giving
satisfaction. 1t also reduces the need
of sprinkling.
The local Maennerchor will doubt
less have delegates at the Connecti-
cut Saengerbund, which with the
Saengerfest will be held in Hartford
September IS.
About two weeks ago a grayish cat
! erpilar made its appearance in some
parts of the state. 1t attacks the
! leaves on certain trees, leaving moth
| ing but the skeleton.
| D.
uate of the Connecticut agricultural
college last June, has been appointed
to succeed O. p. Burr at Gilbert farm,
located in Georgetown.
People who have been at North
field will soon be returning to their
| homes, as the general conference
closed Monday night after a session as
large as any in the past decade.
Good progress is being made on the
new storehouse for the C. NJ. Robert
son company in Palmertown. The
walls are already up several feet and
the carpenters will soon be at work.
One farmer was surprised this sea-
son at the non appearance of the po-
tato bug on his vines. He found that
his flock of white leghorns made daily
rounds, and ate up the destroying
bugs.
Norwich telephone users have not
yet discovered that the new Lincoln
cent is as good as nickel when drop
ped in the slot at the pay station, be-
ing slightly larger and heavier than
the ordinary cent.
Charles Noel Flagg of Waterbury
has been notified that Mrs. Lilley, wild
of Gov. Charles L. I.illey, desires he
should paint the portrait of her hus
band to be added to the list of paint
ings of Connecticut governors.
It is stated that the prospects for a
good oyster set this year in Long Is
land sound are not bright. The rea-
sons are not clear, since the temper
ature has been right and no heavy
storms have disturbed the beds.
Tomatoes are coming into the city
in quantities and the prices are rea-
sonable. A generous supply of all
kinds of vegetables is also to be found
in the local stores, except that sweet
corn has not yet been very plentiful.
Monday was to have been the first
day of the harvest of the 1909 to-
! bacco crop, but the splendid soaking
rain that set in has postponed the har-
vest for a week, as the growers wish
for few days quick growth before
cutting
G. A. R. veterans will be interested
| in the booklet issued by the Chicago
& Northwestern railway for the G. A.
r. cncampment just held at Salt Lake
City. 1t contains group portraits from
| life of Civil war commanders, and
many views of Salt Lake City.
The invitations to the laying of the
cornerstone of All Souls church. New
London. Friday afternoon. August "a,
at O'Clock, have been issued by the
| building committee. The pastor, Rev.
Howard Colby Ives who is away on
his annual vacation, will return for
| the ceremony.
A male chorus of nearly 1000 sing
ers picked from the German societies
of the state, sang Monday in Meriden
on German day. They were under the
direction of Prof. John H. Keller. who
was recently elected director of the
Taftville Maennerchor after the death
of Prof John S. Krauss.,
Perjury Case Continued.
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