Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-02
VARIOUS MATTERS

| uHittVOS UIn High tides today.
 l Baggagemen are kept hustling.
 August opened with a perfect sum
 mer day.
 Watch Hill hotels are having gooc patronage.
 Travel on the Bar Harbor expresses
 is very heavy.
 l Choice groceries for lunches ant 1 picnics are selling we'll Dog day weather last week increased 1 the demand for gas ranges.
 The number of tent-dwelIers along | the river banks is increasing l Star-gazers are on the watch for | the showers of August meteors.
 The New London County Fair, Nor wich, September 5-7, 1s1O.-adv. The August clearance sales attract ed many buyers to town on Monday. The best moonlight nights this month will be from the 18th to the 23d
 The Big Connecticut Fair, Charter Oak park, Hartford, Sept. 5-9, 1910.- adv.
 The Kibbe family Twill hold it's an nuaI picnic at Crystal lake, Somers, on Wednesday.
 Mohegan park is a favorite site for informal family and neighborhood pie nic dinners or suppers.
 In Connecticut last week there were seven petitions in bankruptcy, with assets of s6,54S and liabilities of S12,- 596.
 Prime canteloupes from Arizona and North Carolina, and Bartlett pears from California have been added to the table supplies.
 Flower growers are having the usual success with portulacca, which is spite of dry weather.s
 A waningford correspondent notes that next Sunday at the Baptist church. Rev. ". T. Thayer of Nor wich will occupy the pulpit.
 Fishers island has an autebus this season, a great improvement over the old time barges and carryalls. Next year number of motor buses may be run.
 Delegates are returning to the state after having attended the annual con- vention of the Good Roads association of America held at Niagara, in ses- sion three days.
 SiIas Whipple the Farmer. from LeffingwelItown brought in on August first the first green corn of the sea son.. with full fourteen rows and as good flavor as the usual September corn.
 In Mondays New York World Find lay Sackett had letter on the South Coventry trolley line, and the modern diversions of the lake resort so near to the grave of the patriot, Nathan Hale.
 New England tourists are leaving for the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre. The first week will be spent at the shrine and the second week in Montreal and Quebec.
 The dances held on Monday and Thursday at Fort Mansfield, Watch Hin last week proved so successful that the company has arranged to have weekly dances every Monday night during the remainder of the summer.
 Rev. George R. Atha of the Groton Baptist church went to Voluntown Sunday and took charge of the serv- ices. The Vo1untown Baptist church has been without regular pastor since the death of the Rev. Eli Dew hurst.
 The improved demand for cars, says the July 20 railway bulletin, especially for box cars and refrigerator cars, re- suited in a decrease of 9,320 from the surplus reported two weeks ago, the total for the July 20 bulletin being 134, ,594.
 The Connecticut company has placed an order for nine new eight-wheel snow blows of very powerful type for service the coming winter. The blows cost about $6,000 apiece so that the total expense involved is about $50, ,000.
 MT and Mrs. George R. Hampstead of "A Pleasant street. Groton, are to celebrate their twenty-ffth wedding anniversary on Friday, August 5, by an informal reception from 4 to II p. m. Norwich friends will be among those in attendance.
 At Lake Pleasant Sunday, the aft ernoon services at 2.3O were conducted Rev. Albert P. Blinn, pastor of the First Spiritual union. Norwich. More than 800 attended this service. Mir. Blinn took the subject of his dis course, "The modern ideal of God.''
 The funeral of Thomas Ryan, for merly of Norwich whose death oc- cured in New London Thursday. was held from the residence of her sister, Mrs. O. P. MulhoIland of 1S3 Campbell avenue, New Haven, Sunday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock and later from St. Lawrence's church, West Haven, at o'clock.
 Gov. and Mrs. Frank B. Weeks will leave the state August for Nan tucket, where they will spend ten days. The governor expects to attend the in- land waterways convention at Provi- don 0