Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-01
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VARIOUS MATTERS

L Growers of celery are preparing the
ground for their plants.
The best moonlight nights this
Hotel and boarding house managers
are expecting a busy and profitable
month.
Nobody discards Clysmic. .CIysmic
Water on menu means a winning
card. adv.
and humidity, but the evening was
gratefully cool.
For the railroads. the first of August
means the beginning of the active ex-
cursion season.
The New York Yacht club squadron
will remain in New London harbor
over next Sunday.
The seventeenth annual reunion OF
the Fowler family is to be held in
Durham, Wednesday, August 16.
Already some of the college stu
dents have been making ARRANGEMENTS
for rooms for the coming term.
Poultry raisers from this section will
go 20 Storrs today and Wednesday
III tAC meeting OIL lhS
Connecticut Poultry association.
The condition of Manuel Joseph of
New London, conductor on the Shore
line and member of the Elks and other
societies, shows no Improvement
With the opening of this, the eighth
month OF the year, the shortening of
the day becomes noticeable, the days
length having decreased As minutes.
Norwich cottagers have been partic-
lpants in the beach parties and marsh
mallow rOasts which are an enjoyable
feature of social life at Pleasure beach
this season.
Mayors of Connecticut cities are
being requested to appoint delegates
to the fourth congress of the Inter
national Cool Roads association in
Chicago.
More than thirty cottages at Lords
Point are now supplied with running
water from the artesian well. The
quantity is unlimited and the quality
is excellent.
Friends of Miss Elsie Brand receive
most encouraging news of her i'm
provemert at the Springfield hospital
where she recently. underwent sur
gical operation for appendicitis.
August l is Lammas day. or the
feast of St Peters chains; the Anglo
Saxon loafmass or wheat harvest fes-
tival. 1t was Quarter day in Scot
land and Cross quarters day in Eng
land.
Florists are showing some fine asters
and gladioli, which have improved
since the rain, although the growth of
all flowers mas been unsatisfactory,
ha1 n ~,
wrong season.
Nine new corporations, having to-
tai authorized capital stock of 1852, 900
were formed in this state during the
past week. In the corresponding week
last year the number was but eight,
with total capital of $129,50
Hebrews about the state are start
ing petitions to the legislature to have
the annual election date ,n 1911 chang
ed from October 2. as this year Yom
Kippur falls on that date, and Jewish
people will not vote on their holiday.
Eastern Connecticut people are 60
ing to Mortified to attend the general
conference of Christian Workers, for
which several of the leading British
diyines as we'll as American speakers
have been secured. This opens August
and continues until the 10th.
Swedish people remembered Mon
day AS the birthday in 1903 of John
Ericsson, builder of the Monitor. He
died March Z. 1889. Charles Pearson
of Norwich is president of the state
association, which plans to erect a
monument to the distinguished builder.
1t is claimed that one reason mos
quitoes have begun to appear is be-
cause during dry weather cave troughs
have not been cleaned out and now
are filled with twigs and leaves, which
hold water after the showers until it
becomes stagnant. and breeds the
pests
: AT Rev. William T. Thayer's church, 4
the First Baptist. Wallingford. in con-
formftp with the annual custom, Sun
day was Sweet Pea day, when 3,1OG
blossoms from the Gaylord Farm san
itarium were utilized in the decora-
tons Rev and Mrs. Thayer left on
Monday for a vacation in Mortified,
Mass.
In the big barn being built at East
Lyme for M. F. Plant, the basement
is to be finished off to provide accom-
modations for pedigreed sheep, these
being already on the farm. The first
floor, which. like the basemen, will be
of solid construction. will be planned
for young cattle. while the upper story
will accommodate hay and other food
stuffs. The roof will be of asbestos
single.