Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-19

ven, Saturday. July 24.
 In the Catholic churches noyena or
 nine days devotion began Sunday in honor of St. Anne, mother of the Vir-
 gin, venerated as the exemplar of the
 Christian housewife and mother.
 The fifteen yachts of the Springfield
 Yacht club. on their annual cruise,
 spent Sunday at Fenwfck and are to
 visit Gardiners bay and Fishers island
 today.
 The Connecticut State Fair Inc..
 has opened headquarters at Plainville and will immediately begin an active campaign for the first annual fair and
 exposition.
 Hartford papers note that the clerk
 Of the court of common pleas for New London county made his annual set tlement with the comptroller's office on Friday.
 A meeting of the officers of the New London lire department has been calI- ed for Tuesday evening in the City hall, to consider arrangements for the
 entertaining of the state firemen's as-
 sociation in New London in August. The price of beef and mutton has
 taken another stiff jump within the
 past two days and marketmen now
 have to pay d dollar more per hundred pounds as the result of a scarcity of cornfed castle in the west. r-- of of+ from Clinton Seollard, the poet, neat
 booklet containing a reprint of his poem read at the fercentenary cele- fabration of the discovery of Lake Champlain.
 Additions will be made to water bills
 unpaid after July 2Oth.-adv.
 The Mayors association of Connec- ticut will hold it's annual meeting in
 Bridgeport Wednesday, July 21.' The
 members of the association will later
 be the guests of Mayor Henry Lee at Steepiechase island.
 The population at the state prison
 for June is given as follows; Total population, 605; males, 593; females, 12; discharged during the month, 16; died during the month, 1; pardoned during the month, 1; received during the month, p.
 The forty-second annual reunion of the Connecticut Cavalry association will be held in Middletown August IS. Past Department Commander Charles A. Appel of Middletown is president of the association, and Past Depart ment Commander George S. Smith of Mantle is secretary.
 The rumors of war are being heard by Connecticut Greeks, and there is
 much excitement over the present con- dition of affairs. A number of young Greeks, who are liable to military duty left New York for home on Saturday, expecting to be called upon to do mill itary duty upon their arrival. On Thursday evening at her home in Pawtucket, R. l., Florence E., wife of Seth B. Emerson, died in her 4Sth l year. Besides her husband she leaves five children, George B. of Pawtuck- | ct, Frank E. of Athol. Mass, Florence
 L., Oliver w, and Edna May She had a number of friends in Norwich
 The state board of education is sending to town officials copies of the
 new law regarding the town manage
 ment of schools. Under this act the
 school tdistrict system vanished on Thursday except in towns containing boroughs, cities or incorporated dis tricts within their limits.
 The New York, New Haven & Hart
 ford railroad begins this week it's reg ular summer excursion trains covering l all parts of southern New England in all directions The railroad excursion
 season will last through August and will conclude with fall trips to the
 White mountains and to Saratoga.
 Postmasters of the state have re-
 ceived notice from the postofice de- pertinent in Washington that the de- parmtent is now prepared to furnish I the Alaska Yukon Pacific two-sent
 stamps in sheets of 28o without the usual perforations. These are for use | primarily in stamp affixing machines,
 but will be sold to applicants for full
 sheets.
 The state board of managers of the Connecticut Society Of the Sons of l the American Revolution is pleased with the model submitted to them by | Sculptor Webster of New York, which is to mark the spot of the invasion of the British at Compo beach, West port, in HIT. The statue will cost 1 s2,5OO, of which sum the state will pay one-fourth.
 Leopold DeLeeum. past president of ! the Fairview Odd Felloms, Home cor poration, has been appointed chair mans of the Labor day picnic to be held at the home in Groton Monday, Sep l tember 6. The subordinate lodges and the Rebekah lodges in this vicinity l have been asked by Mir. DeLeeuw to | oo,~,r,o fffono 4a o4 k1o