Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-28

Norwich, Thursday. April 2. 1s11 VARIOUS MATTERS Lilacs. towering almond and Jap- anese Quince are in bloom in oId-fash- Strawberry festivals will soon be due: the berries sold two boxes for a quarter on Wednesday. Flower missions in the state begin this week to send blossoms to the New York hospitals and tenements. Norwich escaped the electrical storm which did considerable damage in cen- tral Connecticut late Monday night Of all the greens which the markets
 offer at this season none are more
 popular than are cultivated dande- lions.
 The Stafford Springs Press issues
 this week an attractive supplement. setting forth the industrial achieve
 ments of Stafford.
 In a number of places school cilil-
 dren are preparing for Memorial day by growing potted plants for the use of the Grand Army.
 At this season teachers have been urged to warn pupils of the cruelty of robbing birds nests, pointing out. also. the good done by the birds.
 oystermen in the shore towns are having big rush of work during the few last days till the season ends with the coming of May, the r-less month. 
 A number of Connecticut census enumeraors helped along their lists by working on Sunday, looking up per sons not easily found during the week days.
 Last week to license your dogs One dollar extra next week. Town clerks office open from a. m. to p. m. and every evening this week from 2 to 9.-adv.
 One of the western agricultural ex- pertinent stations has found that ar- pie blossoms in the pink stage can stand cold down to twenty degrees above zero.
 Some persons are so fearful of breaking the bonfire laws that they are leaving piles of rubbish on their premises. which they have a perfect right to burn.
 Comfort circle of The Kings Daugh- ters spent a busy afternoon on We'd nesday, meeting with Mrs. J. H. Allen, 76 Church street. Nine members were in attendance.
 State President Andrew R. Jones of Danbury has called a. meeting of the board of directors of the Connecticut Business Mems association to be held May F in Hartford.
 Connecticut police have been noti- fled to be on the lookout for Charles Flodine of Cromwell, who has been missing from home since April 24. He is about 42 years old.
 Bread and pastry flour is cheaper, 1t is claimed than at any time since last winter: this week the charges on many of the leading brands having been re- duced 25 cents a barrel.
 The Connecticut Manual Arts Teachers' association will meet at New | Haven Saturday for morning and aft 1 ernoon sessions. woodwork and drawing exhibits will be a feature.
 The law provides thirty cents an hour for fighting fires for the fire war den and twenty cents for volunteer help, but for all extra work done in l issuing permits the warden receives 1 no compensation.
 The governor has received a check 1 for s11, ,471.30 from the general treas l urer Of the National Home fer Dis abled Soldiers. the contribution of the 1 United States toward the support of | disa bled soldiers in this state.
 The state board of agriculture, l it's secretary, I. c. Fanton of | westport. is taking up the work of | procuring an oil portrait of it's former | secretary, the late T. S. Gold. to be | placed in the capitol in the room as- signed to the committee on agricul- | ture.
 When the Connecticut probate as- sembly meets at the capitol in Hart ford on Wednesday, May Il. Judge D. | P. Nobbs of Bridgeport will read a l paper and lead a discussion on Pro- bate Jurisdiction and procedure in mat ters concerning incompetents and | minors.
 The Connecticut Saengerbund Is planning a Saeng to be held in under the auspices of the Hartford Saengerbund on June 20 and 21. Twenty-three societies, with a of about seven hundred 1 male voices. will compete. including the Taftvilie society.
 New York, New Haven & Hartford conductors have been notified that a rule has gone into effect ~forbidding employees Of telegraph companies rid ing on passes to retain their seats when any regular passengers are l standing. Conductors have been or dered to enforce the rule.
 The Roman Catholic diocese of Hart ford has never been visited with so | high a percentage of mortality among it's priests as during the seventeen and a half months which have elapsed since the death of Bishop Tisrney. The total of the deaths is fourteen, an average of nearly one a month in ef z14 |