Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-24

ford have taken the Reverie cottage at Ocean beach for the summer. Maryland strawberries are arriving in market at prices to encourage | church societies to held strawberry suppers.
 Grand Army officials are making their annual feqtest. that .eir partic- l ular day, May 30. be called Memorial day, not Decoration day. Passengers on the Worcester trains notice the banks along the railroaS below Plainfeld, which are covered with long-stersmed violets. Farmers had comparatively easy day Sunday. the first Sunday in weeks as the ground was moist enough after the showers to prevent woodland fires The chestnut bark disease has been discovered in seven sections across the Rhode Island border. and prompt measures are being taken to prevent it's spread.
 There is to be baptism of five can- didates in the river at PoquonnJc Bridge next Sunday by Rev. Osmer G. Buddington of the Poquonnoo Br dge Baptist church.
 F | NJ. Charming street. New London, is to close his town house and take up his abode at Neptune park for the sum- mer, on the 5th of June.
 The permanent commission on paro- chial archives of the Ciocese of Con necticut is to hold it's meeting in the comptroller's office at the state capi- tol on Friday afternoon.
 Mrs. Herbert S. Owens. formerly of the Eastern Point colony, was the lady presentation of the silver service to the battleshjO Utah, on Saturday.
 Local rife shots have received pro grammes of the Memorial day shoot by the New Haven Gun club, when many prizes are offered. There are ten events with several special gun events.
 F.. IT.. Starkweather of Danielson came here on Tuesday and took his good rest here and appears to have suffered no ill effects from the long drive.
 In accordance with a circular letter issued by Rt. Rev. Bishop Milan. a Novena in honor of the Holy Ghost will begin Friday evening in the Cath ollie churches. and will be continued until Whit Sunday.
 Iris and other spring flowers are in bloom in the old fashioned garden at the Sweet place. on Thames street which every season is kept with such order and care that it is a real beauty spot in that section.
 It will interest local descendants of Groton patriots to know that the graves of soldiers in both the South and Starr cemeteries have been mark ed by the committee with small flags, that the decorating of all on McTl, rial day may be assured.
 Supt. J. B. Stanton of the West Chelsea school has arranged for the repeating of the Maypole dance at the Mt. Pleasant street school. following the school session, at f o'clock this at- ternoon. It will be public affair and no doubt many will attend.
 The entertainment fer Founder S day. which was to lave taken place today, Wednesday. May 24. at Rock Nook home, is indefinitely postponed, on account of illness among the chill dren Abby D. Allen, chairman en- tertainment ccmmittee.-adv.
 The first of June Ralph B. Colt, son of Mrs. James B. Colt. will resign the deputy insurance commissionership of North Carolina to become actuary for the Greensboro Mutual of GreensboIo O, NJ c. He left Norwich in 1893 for New York and then went to Texas.
 Petec Kelley of Hopkinton, Mass, was bound over to the September term of the superior court under bonds of s1.0O0 Monday afternoon by Justice of the Peace Charles A. Gallup on a charge of larceny of game fowl iron. the farm of F. H. Gavitt in Water ford.
 With a setting hen it's lone occupant the house or the Bloomingdale road, Quaker Hill. owned by Mrs. Margaret Ames. burned to the ground early Sunday morning. The fire broke out about ? o'clock andits origin is a mystery. Mrs. Ames is in Ireland on a visit.
 Turn societies throughout the state will celebrate on Thursday the cen tenary of the establishment O. the first 'rur1 Platz Gan open field for the prac- tice of gyn.astics) by Friedrich Lud- wig Jahn in May. 1911, on the Tiasen- heide, at that time in the outskirts of Berlin. Germany.
 At the state meeting of the wo- mems Universalist Missionary society held in St Paul's church, Meriden, on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Cobb, wife of Rev. J. F. Cobb of Norwich, pre- sided; also reading one f the four papers, her theme being The Decisive Hour fir Foreign Missions.
 Comnen cement exercises at Trinity college will begin on Saturday. June 24 with the annual Trinity Wesleyan baseball game. In the evening the annual senior dramatic will be given. the bill being Her Uncle's Will in which Thomas c. Brown. son of Rev. and Mrs. J. Eldred Brown of Norwich, has leading part.
 The 1911 luncheon at New Haven May 31 in honor of Mrs Sara T. Kin ney of Hartford, president general of the National Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution. is being pleasantly anticipated by the Daughters from all over the state, who have been bidden to the affair, as well as Mrs. Kinney herself. who always looks forward to these social gatherings.
 Each of the observation trains for the boat race this year will have three more cars tran heretofore, the number
 Drink for vour ,esIt6Swilliams, Root