Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-16

You are sure of having good laugh
in IS Bells" August 2S.2adv.
Registrars of voters are now prac-
tically through their yearly duties.
Travellers through Colchester COM
ment on the neat appearance of Ba-
con academy, which has just been
newly painted.
More than one farmer in this vicin
ity is depending on a good rain soon
to fill his wells and springs, and give
new life to his crops.
The annual reunion of the Twenty
third regiment Connecticut volunteers
will be held at Savin Rock next
Thursday, August 10.
The annual picnic of the Barber
family association will be held at
Cooks grove, one mile east of Har-
winton Center, on wednesday. August
is, 1908.
Z. T. Horn, assistant superintendent
of the Shore line division Of the Con-
solidated road. is reported seriously
i'll, and he has been ordered to go to
the mountains to recuperate.
The 44th reunion of the Twelfth
regiment, Connecticut volunteers, will
take place next Friday at Savin Rock.
Confederate veterans sojourning in
New Haven have been invited.
The Machias, with nearly 200 of the
Connecticut naval militia. anchored in
New London Friday night; Saturday
afternoon she reached New Haven,
where the militia disembarked.
The season of shooting stars is here
and although 1T arrived a day or two
ago people seemed to be more i'm
pressed with the fact Friday evening,
when a splendid display could be seen.
The annual reunion of the Second
Connecticut heav yartillery and Com
panies l, B, and the band of the First
Connecticut heavy artillery will be
held in Torrington on Wednesday,
| September 10.
The Suffield and Thompsonville
bridge was thrown open to the public
for free use Saturday morning at 1904.
A celebration was held at Thompson
vile in the evening because Of the
doing away Of tolls.
A disease that kills chestnut trees
has been discovered in the state. The
first noticeable indication is the with
ering of the treetops and gradual kill
- T. - ~nfI to he Ir1n
to a fungus growth and incurable.
Rev. Rennetts C. Miller, who spoke
on Civic Reform a number of times
in Norwich is to speak on Oliver Wen
dell Holmes in Hartford, August 30,
in commemoration of the hundredth
anniversary Of the birth of Holmes.
1t is expected that $4,000 visitors
from all parts of the state will be
in Meriden today at the biennial meet
ing, known as German day, of the
Connecticut State German alliance.
New London county will be repre-
scented.
North Adams, Mass, will have an
old home week celebration the week
of September 6. On September 8.
Harry A. Garfield, president of Will
liams college, will deliver the princi-
pal address at the Laurel Hill ami
versary exercises.
Not in years has the useless wild
carrot been more abundant than at
the present time. Probably not one in
five hundred knows that the law re-
quires the destruction of the useless
but prolific weed The best way is to
pull the weed and burn it.
Corn at present promises a good
return, with the exception of a few
pieces that were planted late and
never hoed. The early potatoes are
yielding wen, while the late ones are
getting the benefit of late rains and
a large yield is looked for.
The late Rev. James Fl. ODonnell of
Norwalk died almost penniless. He
left an insurance policy of $4,000 and
a small deposit in a savings bank
which will be about enough to pay his
debts. He bequeathed his library to
| st. Thomas seminary, Hartford.
The harvesting season of the tobac-
| co crop is almost here, and despite
the unfavorable conditions of a few
weeks ago. the crop is looking well
and will weigh quite heavy. The re-
cent rains have done much to bring
the crop into it's present condition.
Raymond N. Parish of Oakdale,
who has been mite i'll for several