Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-14
VARIOUS MATTERS

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VARIOUS MATTERS
Peach growers are looking forward
to a banner year. and the harvestsrs
Of apples are also happy.
The annual reunion of the Fighting
Fourteenth Connecticut regiment will
be held at Hartford, Saturday. Sept.
Is.
Wesleyan university, Midd1etown
gets a bequest of $1,000 in the will OF
Elizabeth vandeveer. fled Friday in
Brooklyn.
The Buddington family held re
union at Poquonnoc last week, attend
ed by nearly all the members of the
family in this county.
The Durham family reunion will De
held in Meriden at Terrace Garden next
Wednesday. Everyone by the name ri
Durham will be welcome.
The temperance societies of the state
are electing delegates to the conven-
ton of the c. 7. A. u. of Connecticut
Al Danbury on Aug. % and 20.
Norwich people who have been camp
ing at Bushy Point report good black
be unusually scarce this season.
General Secretary Starkey and
Physical Director Pease of the Y. M.
c. A. are expected home today, having
spent the first two weeks of the month
at Silver Bay, N Y.
The Society of Master House Paint
ers and Decorators of Connecticut, 100
strong, held it's annual banquet and
outing at the Tabard inn. New Haven,
Saturday afternoon and evening.
The 5Sth year of the Berkeley Divin-
ity school opens at Middletown on
Tuesday, Sept. Is. Eleven of the Is
undergraduates are expected to return
and the faculty remains unchanged.
Don't forget the daily excursion to
Watch Hill and Pleasant View Via
Westerly trolley. Leaves Square daily
at S.45 a. m. Round trip 70 cents.
Tickets at Madden's cigar store on the
Square.-adv
At Willimantic Saturday afternoon
the civil service examination for fourth
class postmaster at Scotland failed to
attract any applicants. The salary is
too small for the present incumbent,
James H. Johnson.
At the Owls field day at New Haven
Saturday there will be parade prizes
for the largest visiting nest, the best
app caring nest and the nest that comes
the longest distance. The athletic
awards number so.
Many Connecticut attorneys plan 10
attend the annual convention of the
Bar association to be held in
Boston ON Aug. 20, 80 and 81, the first
time the convention has been held in
Boston in 20 wears,
The accounting and selling depart
ments of the National Biscuit compa-
ny, eastern division from Maine to the
ing at ROTOR Point. L. l., on Saturday,
going over by steamer from New Ha
Ven.
Saturday afternoon at 4.30 O'Clock
the marriage of ]. Alex Kitchener and
Miss Maude E. Garter took place at
No. Spring street. the ceremony be-
ing performed by Rev. J. H. Dennis,
pastor of the Mt. Calvary Baptist
church.
q. Navigators are notified in Notice to
Mariners of a change of buoyage at
the western entrance to Nara gansett
bay. The fog bell on the Plum Beach
station will hereafter strike two strokes
with a silent interval of so seconds
and repeat.
The Danielson council of the Frater-
nal Benefit league is planning to have
a field day Aug. 26 at Willow Grove,
and it is probable that Moosup, Put
nam, Jewett City and Norwich coun-
CHS will join with them to make the
event a successful one.
In New. London the police have been
asked to investigate a fire. believed to
have been caused by boys, who satu-
rated the back porch steps of Arthur
Keefe's house at 81 Waller street and
set a match to it. Neighbors put the
blaze out. after $50 damage had been
done.
Mrs. Franklin H. Brown entertained
a family party at Redfern, Gales Ferry,
on Friday, the guests being her broth
er. Joseph Phillips, and her sister, Mrs.
Harvey P. Aldrich. with Mrs. Aldrich's
daughter. Mrs. Crowell and grand
daughter. Dorothy Crowel, all of Nor
witch.
In Waterbury a dozen young men
have given up tennis. converted the
courts into rogue courts and organ
lied Waterbury's first rogue associa-
ton. Some of them are very good
players and a tournament with the
Meriden association is planned in Sep
TENDER.
The gross operating revenue of the
New Haven road for 1911 was $62 153,-
433, for S1910 s60693,666 the operating
expenses for 1911, $40.s9S.632, for 1910,
$3S,6S9.216; the net income being. for
1911, $2I,254,S01, and for 1910, $22,004,-
$50. The gain is pleasing to the stock
holders.
More and more cities are coming to
appreciate the substantial benefits of
the day nursery in the way of social
betterment. Middletown is one of the
latest Connecticut cities to have a
nursery, and after eight months it now
has an average of Is babies daily and
is thriving.
Commissioner E. Hart Geer of Had
lyme, chairman of the state fish and
game commission, two weeks ago got
a rusted nail in the fore finger of his
right hand and blood poisoning set IN.
He now carries his hand in a sling and
it has considerably intarfered with the
discharge of duties.
Division No. 1. A. O. H.. of New
London. met SUNDAY afternoon Whan a