Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-13

Those who have copper beeches in
their grounds are enjoying their beau
ty just now.
Mrs. Sarah Thompson of Ellington,
who is s5 years old, fell Tuesday, sus-
tanning severe bruises.
Several Gales Ferry cottage own
ers are already occupying their sum-
mer homes for the season.
There is "a brisk demand for spray
mixtures to guard against blight, rust,
canker and scale on trees and shrubs.
Every pleasant day finds many Wis
itors at Michigan park The foliage
about the pond is beautiful at pres
ent.
The State Laundrymen's association
of Connecticut is to hold it's annual
convention and banquet in Hartford
next Monday.
Several Norwich people went to New
London Thursday evening to attend
the fair opened by st. Mary's Star of
the Sea parish.
Nathan Hale orchestra of New Lon
don with John B. Crary, tenor. First
Baptist church. this evening, o'clock.
Tickets 90 cents.-adv.
Two automobile parties of New Lon
don ladies, several of them members
of the club, came to town for a lunch
at the Halle club on Thursday.
All about the city there are evil
dences of spring renovations and re-
pairs, carpenters, painters. plumbers
l,
Don't miss the Nathan Hale orches-
ira of New London. Concert at First
Baptist church, Friday evening. Mr..
John B. Crary sings. Tickets 25c--
adv.
George w Maycock. the New Haven
undertaken, who died suddenly Wed
nesday. had a number of aoquaint-
ances and fraternal friends in Nor
witch.
Thursdays Catholic Transcript an
nounced that the Forty Hours devo-
ton would open in the Sacred Heart
church, Norwich Town, on Sunday
next.
The house equipped with telephone
service is prepared to cope with vari-
Gus emergencies that may arise dur
ing the day or night. Are you among
those who have it?-adv.
Another meeting of the New Eng
land conference board, covering the
trolleys of the Connecticut company
in this state, will be held in New Ha-
ven soon. 1t has been asked for by
the men.
Telephone service is a twenty-four-
hour safeguard in the home. You have
only to read the papers to find con-
slant proof of this. Have you provided
telephone protection for your family
and your residence ?-adv.
Robert A. Dean has just purchased
a large tract of land bordering the
oil mill brook between East Lyme and
Waterford. This tract has been pur-
chased from several owners and will
be chiefly available as timber land.
State rubber factories are reducing
time, hanpered by the rise in the price
of rubber Crude rubber is selling at
SO a pound, although for fifty years
the price has averaged considerably
less than 81 a pound Two years ago
it stood at IS cents.
Thet Connecticut probate assembly
held meeting Wednesday morning in
the senate retiring room at the CAPT
toll. The time was occupied with the
reading of papers dealing with sub
jects of interest to judges of probate
and with legal discussions.
Mrs George w. Avery, So of Farm
ington, who died at a sanitarium in
South Orange, N j., Tuesday, was
sister of the late DIR. Robert P. Keep.
of Norwich, and mother of Misses Ma
ry E. Alice Porter and Melanie Avery,
frequent visitors in Norwich.
The deputy collectors in the Con-
necticut internal revenue office are
looking forward to a busy month in
June. The corporation tax becomes
due and must be paid by June 80.
This is the first time this tax has
been collected and the preparation for
the tax has involved much extra work.
Are you in the habit of running over
to a neighbor's to use his telephone7
If so, is 1t always convenient for you
and for your neighbor? Don't you
think that it would be much better for
all concerned if you had a telephone
of your own? Your neighbor evidently
thought so when he ordered one in
stalled.-adV.
1t is announced by Bridgeport pa
pers that q former Voluntown pastor
Rev. Joseph Desaulnier, recently pas
tor of st. Anthony's French Roman
Catholic church in Bridgeport, is dy-
ing in a Canadian hospital, where he
went last fall for a serious surgical
operation performed by a leading sur
geon of the Dominion, who is his per-
sonal friend
Norwich was represented at the an
nua1 meeting of the Connecticut Wo-
mems Universalist Missionary society
in Waterbury on Wednesday. The ex-
ecutive board of the state convention,
of which NJ. n. Whittemore, now of
Lancaster. Mass, continues treasurer,
met at the same time, and decided to
hold the next state convention at New
London September 81.
Of local interest is the following
from the Bridgeport Telegram: Mrs.
K VI. Spalding announces the engage
ment of her daughter, Miss Ethel Cor
nelia Spalding, to Charles A. Jones of