Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-25
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS It is banner year for freight ship ments.
 It is the season of typhoid fever ant | there are cases in many places. The peaches are reported to be rot. ting on the trees out at Durham neal Middletown.
 MT. and Mrs. George Chapman oi Norwich were in Colchester Sunday l attending the funeral of George B Avery.
 Automobilists from Norwich enjoy the run up to Colchester, where they spend a short time and then return to town.
 Morton r. Plant and family left Groton Monday for a weeks cruise or the yacht Iolanda, the objective point being Bar Harbor.
 Many Baptists will gather at the 1 Stonington Union Sabbath school an- l nual convention. which is to be held in Stonington today.
 The trains and trolleys were crowd | ed Monday with men, women and chil- dren returning home from the Willi- mantle Camp meeting. The town clerks will soon be busy issuing the hunters licenses, required by law after Sept. 1. Hunting prom ises to be good this fall.
 Recent registrations at the Pleasant View house from Norwich were Mir. and Mrs. T. B. Leahy, T. J. Leahy, Miss Agnes Leahy, J. S. McNamara.
 Dr. Hanford will be at his office on Wednesday and Saturday only of this week, regular office hours. Next week will resume my regular office hours adv.
 The Pequot colony at New London is uneasy over a report which indicates that a first class siren is to be in stalled at the new Southwest ledge light.
 ut al llSlS III ANglllE nav v had a successful season this year. and never before have they spread them selves over so much of the adjoin- ing territory.
 Vegetables and fruit in this section of the country are ready for the mar ket, but the quantity shipped into the state is growing less because the local season is here.
 The Bindloss family association of which T. Palmer Bindloss of New London is president, will hold it's an- nual reunion at Richards grove on Fri day. August 27.
 An automobile party to Norwich Tuesday from Bozrah included Mir. and Mrs Charles H. Gager, Sr., of Bozrah anad pr. and Mrs. E. G. Fox and son Kenneth of Wethersfield.
 Little Fernando Sylvia, who has been spending several months on a farm near Norwich, is spending a few days in Stonington as the guest of Charles -Davis.-New London Day.
 The almanac brings to notice the fact that these are the first days of the open season for hay fever, or rag weed fever' as it was first called. Lay in an extra stock of handkerchiefs against the golden rod.
 The convention of State Regents, Royal Arcanum, will be held at Bridgeport, Sept. F. and the various councils are now choosing delegates. The sheep roast at Compounce Sept. F also promises to be well attended.
 The pountry show at the Connecticut fair is going to be a unique thing. There will be a reproduction of a country estate and it will be stocked with the finest collection of fowls of many kinds that can be procured.
 Schooner Howard A. Hunt. which has been engaged in the Virginia wood trade. has been purchased by the Gilbert Transporta ton company and will be taken to the company's yard at Mystic where she will be rebuilt.
 The members of the Bill family from far and wide will gather today in Led yard for the annual Bill dinner. Sen ator William I. Allyn has completed all arrangements for an occasion that promises to be fully as successful as ever.
 The non-magnetic auxiliary brigan- tine Carnegie, which sailed from New York Saturday, put into New London Monday for repairs to her machinery made necessary by a slight accident on the Sound. Her equipment excited much interest in the whaling city.
 A new and important change in the coming years course at one high school is the introduction of the phon- ograph as the means of teaching lan- guages. This is at Windsor Locks, and is the first trial in this part of the country.
 Down at Stonington the gypsy moth scouts, under direction of George H. Hollister, are now on the last lap, in taking the bands from the trees and burning them by the roadside, All signs of the pests and the elm tree beetle are gone.
 Many former pupils at the Uncas- vile district school will have a reunion at the school next Friday. There are many in New London and Norwich who will attend being pupils of Lucy F. Allyn and Thomas Latham, who taught school there for many years.