Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-01
VARIOUS MATTERS

| It is daybreak now at 2.s5.
 Block Island hotels have full book, | ings for August.
 Fall millinery conceits are appear I ing in the shops.
 | Old-fa shioned Rose of Sharon trees
 are in full bloom. This is Lammas, or the old Eng fish Loaf-mas day.
 MarshmalIow roasts are popular with the shore parties More rafts are needed at Ocean beach, the bathers declare. Oiled roads on Fishers island have proved most satisfactory this season
 the feast of St. Ignatius LoyoIa, the
 founder of the Society of Jesus.
 After Saturdays showers Sunday
 was, sparkling day, with plenty of ozone to revive wilted humanity.
 A meeting of the Connecticut league Ol poultry ASSOCIATIONS was nelQ FTl- day in Hotel Garde in New Haven.
 Excursionists from this section are attending the annual camp meetings of the Spiritualists being held at Lake Pleasant, Mass.
 In Fridays Hartford Times, Rev. James Coote of Burnside, formerly of Norwich had some verses, entitled Suburban Delights"
 The officers and employees of the custom houses of Connecticut and Springfield, Mass, had an outing at Savin Rock on Saturday.
 It is noticeable through the woods that strong, healthy chestnut trees are dying from the effects of some pest, the leaves turning brown.
 The annual session of the Patriotic Order Sons of America will be held on Tuesday in Hartford at the home of he state president F. s. Cushman.
 From the gospel for the day. Matt. vi: 31-37. Rev. Joseph E. Mccarthy preached at St. Patrick's church yes terday, choosing the text, "He hath done all things welI.''
 Bayberry bushes are loaded with berries, promising good tallow crop, and a Brooklyn, Conn, woman makes pin money by manufacturing bay yberry tallow candles, for use in churches.
 Announcement has been made that a six per cent. increase in wages has been granted employees in the build ing and bridges department of the
  to be effective at once.
 If the recommendation of the coun- gil of the Federation of Churches is adopted there will be in the churches 0n the first Sunday in September, the lay before Labor day, services devoted 70 discussion of moral and spiritual ssues involved in the labor question.
 The current issue of the Voter notes hat County Organizer and Mrs Err | lest Allison Smith are in Cambridge, l Mass. where they have taken a house | 1t 49 Oxford street MT. Smith is | tudying public speaking in the Har- ard summer school. They will return | August 20
 A Bristol correspondent writes: Frank Parsons, the former trolley |
  ution undergoing treatment for a | evere nervous difficulty, is better. His hind is not yet in good shape, but | here are indications that he will even ually recover.
 Members of Connecticut companies, Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias, eft Saturday morning for Springfield, Iass., where the members boarded pecial train for Milwaukee to take art in the convention in that city, which will last from the first to the enth of August.
 At a meeting of the Jersey Breed rs' association, held at the capitol, it Fas voted to purchase cup, valued t s10O to be competed for at Con- ecticut fairs by members of the as- The scale of points is to be | etermined by the money value of the remiums won and by the number ompeting.
 William H. H. Thompson, one of the ldest employees of the New England Navigation company, died suddenly at is home in New York Thursday night 'om diabetes MT. Thompson had a scord of 35 years continuous service s an officer of the Fall River line on le Bristol, Providence, Plymouth, Pu- tan and Priscilla
 Secretary of State Matthew H. ogers has requested the superintend- nts of all trolley lines in Conencticut | ) have their conductors instructed to sport all drivers of automobiles who Q not lower the speed of their ma hines to three miles an hour when | assing a street car that is being