Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05
VARIOUS MATTERS.

VARIOUS MATTERS.
 Full moon tonight.
 Road repairs are in progress in the suburbs.
 Cherry trees in sunny places are in bloom.
 Somerset lodge works the Entered Apprentice degree this evening.-adv
 The handsome beds of tulips and pansies in the court house grounds at- tract attention.
 Birds recently reported include the blue headed vireo. swamp sparrows and parula .warblers.
 See Uraliah and Drudy in 'aThe Teaser'' at Spiritual academy tonight and Thursday. 25c.-adv.
 The State Master Plumbers conven- ton and banquet will be held at the Stratfield in Bridgeport on Wednesday next.
 The spring meeting of the Connecti- cut Editorial association is to be held at the Hotel Garde in Hartford Mon- day next.
 The state council, Daughters of Lib erty, will meet at Bridgeport We'd nesday, May 12. The date was chang ed at the last session.
 Italians in Connecticut have been having the annual celebration in honor of St. Sebastian, the patron saint of the town of Mililli, Sicily.
 President Taft has officially recog- nized Louis Junor as vice consul of Switzerland for Connecticut, the rest of New England and New York.
 A number from Norwich will go to Rockville today for the semi-annual meeting of the Congregational Wo- mans Home Missionary society.
 There was an anniversary requiem mass in St. Patricks church on Mon day for Mrs. John Denef and on Tues day ninth anniversary mass for Mrs. James Duggan.
 The White Ribbon Banner calls on superintendents and w. c. T. unions to work for the celebration in the schools of the tenth anniversary of The Hague day, on May IS.
 The Bulletin has received from the William B. Coffee Plumbing Go. of Tacoma, Wash, the elegrantly illus trated Tacoma New Herald annual for 1909 with an invitation to Come to Tacoma, where life is worth while"
 Governor Weeks has secured $11,- 925 from the general treasurer of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. This money is aid from the United States government for soldiers home and has been deposited with the state treasurer.
 Members of the Society of Founders and Patriots have received invitations to attend the meeting of the grand court of the order, to be held in Hart ford, May 13. There will be a recep- ton to the delegates at the Hartford club. and banquet.
 Circulars have been sent out from the offices of the American Flag asso- citation urging the observance of the annual flag day on June A. The or ganization was formed in 1897, to promote reverence for and prevent the decoration of the flag.
 
 There is a project to secure such unoccupied houses as may be in the residential sections of the city as tenn porary quarters for visitors to the big celebration in July. It has been sug- gested that the school buildings also could be utilized for dormitories, as 1t will be vacation time.
 The meteor shower known as the Aquarids. because they radiate from the constellation Aquarius, Is due. As that constellation does not rise before midnight these meteors if any are seen in the evening will appear shoot ing tip from the horizon in the north east. They are visible from the 1st to the 9th of the month.
 A special to The Bulletin on Tues day said: Congressman Higgins to- day received from the postoffice de- partment notice of the establishment of two rural delivery routes in his district: One from the office at North with one carrier, and the other from the office at Brooklyn with one carrier. These routes will be es- tablished On July 1 next.
 Pursuant to orders from the light house department the T. A. Scott Go. has placed on Southwest ledge a tenn porary fixed red post lantern light 22 feet above the water. The light which will burn for five months with out attention, is situated on the south west corner of the lighthouse base. It takes the place of the gas buoy for merly marking the ledge.