Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-11
VARIOUS MATTERS

uf1Itt000 iuH ' GtfO The summer resorts are tn the heighth of summer hustle. The business men in many towns of the state are arranging for Merchant day outings.
 Refreshing breezes tempered Sum
 days heat, but 1t was another scorch-
 CT, nevertheless.
 The Sheltering Arms service was
 omitted Sunday afternoon because of
 the extrc->.e heat
 The Connecticut company has its plans for the annual Beach day at Ocean beach well under way.
 Fake religious collectors have been working with success in several parts of the state during the past few weeks.
 Miss Grace Frances Clune of Nor wich has been engaged to teach the primary room at Central Village dur ing the coming year.
 Mir. and Mrs. Pierre L. Schellens celebrated their 18th wedding anniver sary at their home on Broad street, Groton, Friday evening.
 
 Flag rock. an old landmark at Hig- ganum, which the visitor rarely fals to have shown him, is to be removed. as the result of street changes.
 Hamilton day at New Britain. which which was magnet for people all over the state. netted the sum of s2 400, the gross receipts being s9,0oo.
 
 the arbitration proceedings at Spring field. Mass, where as in this state the car men are demanding more money.
 The farmers are hustling to get their hay crop cut before a rain sets in. The crop this year in most places ap- pears to be the best for several years.
 The vacation season is under way at the Springfield city library. Each member of the staff has a months vacation. James A. Lowell is in Nor wich.
 Keeping away from the fruit trees is another of the things the national guardsmen must do at Mantle during the encampment, an order to this eff feet having been issued.
 Ex-Lieut.-Gov. Everett J. Lake and Mrs. Lake have left for Watch Hill where Mrs. Lake will stay some time 1 MT. Lake will return to Hartford early l next week.-New Haven Register.
 Things at Watch Hill have calmed | down considerably since the boat race | and Fourth of July crowds have left, | but nearly every cottage which is to l be used this season is now occupied. |
 Rev James Wilson Bi,ler, DID,. pas l tor of the Second Congregational ] church, New London, is in Hanover, l Pa. called there by the death of his | father, a prominent merchant of that l place.
 A meeting of the committee which | the artists of the yearly l picture exhibition at the Lyme library | was held last week. Lewis s. Cohen | was chairman of the hanging com mittee.
 Rev. George H. Murphy of Sulli- l van, Ind, occupied the pulpit of the | Gales Ferry M. E. church on Sunday. | Rev. and Mrs. Murphy are visiting the | latter's mother, Mrs. Richard Latimer | of Gales Ferry.
 Mrs Nelson NJ Whitney of New | Orleans, formerly Miss Marguerite l.. l Palmer of New London, was brought | to the Whitney home on the Pequot, l Friday. She has been seriously i'll | and is still very weak.
 Thirty-hve boys learned to swim in last week under the direc- ton of instructors from the Y. M c. A, assuring the feasibility of the plan which is to be begun in this city un- der Y. M. c. A. auspices.
 Rev. Ernest FN Amy of Coventry and Robert Flocker of Willimantic were the recent guests of Mir arTd Mrs. W. R. DeWolf. They came down the river from Middletown in a canoe and proceeded the next day up beyond 1 Norwich in the same way.
 An excursion train on the Central Vermont railroad, with six cars con aiming people from Three Rivers, | Ma ss., and Stafford Springs, and in- erm ediate points, passed through this l ,ity Saturday for New London, where he steamer Block Island was board I'd.
 Directions for living and sleeping n the open air" is the title of a pam ,hlet being sent out by the National Association for the Study and Proven ion of Tuberculosis to its local rep esentatives in all parts of the United States.
 Unless there is rain soon,' says the ,erry pickers "therelI be no berries or us to pick" Already in some places the raspberry crop is a short me owing to dry weather and the are dying on the bushes 'efore reaching maturity.
 The steamer Midd1etown, bound for Hartford from New York, ran aground n the Connecticut river about two and ne-half miles above Essex Saturday morning. The passengers went on by rain. Fog caused the accident At