Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-06-07

The court of common pleas in SEES
sion at New London Tuesday, heard
the case of Annie NJ. Fox. VS.. Eliza
beth Caters and sister. to establish
the ownership of real estate in Water
ford.
A Groton correspondent writes:
The cottage at Eastern Point occu-
pied by the family of Morton F. Plant
previous to the building of Branford
house, will be occupied the coming
summer by parties from Norwich.
Daisy tea and entertainment, Uni
versaiist ladies. Buckingham Memoir
ial, tonight. and o'clock. 25c.-adv.
To combat the chestnut tree blight,
il is said that a wash made of lime,
paris green and glue is effective. An
results is one made of soft soap, wash
ing soda. paris green and plaster of
paris.
Local students have been notified
thai the Connecticut Chautauqua as
seu1bly will be held on the Plainville
camp meeting grounds. July % to Au-
gust l. On the last day of the as
sembly DR. Booker T. Washington will
make an address.
A Norwich Free Academy graduate.
Fred O. Verplanck. now superintend-
ent of schools at South Manchester, is
to be one of the speakers at the big
convention of the American Institute
OF Instruction in Providence June 20
to July /. inclusive.
Mrs Lizzie Ellis left Noank Mon
day for Prince Edward Island, where
she VIII spend the next two months.
Mrs. Ellis visited her husband at the
Norwich State hospital before her de-
psrture. He recognized her and in
quired for his friends.
Rev ]. W. Rae. who recently re-
signed tho general secretaryship of
Sunday school work under the Con-
necticut Sunday School association,
his health and will become pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Bedford,
N. Y.
The resolution amending the charter
of the Groton and Stonington Street
Railway company to permit them to
build an extension of 3 IL miles be-
tween Mystic and Old Mystic. having
passed the house in conference with
the senate, construction work will be-
gin at once
1t is noted by the June White Rib
bon Banner that the Norwich union
has kept the purity department before
the public by giving monthly lectures
to mothers and their daughters, three
in number-one of their members, pr
Lucille James, preparing and giving
them herself.
That every member Of the order OF
Eiks shall be taxed the sum of SO
cents in two per capita assessments OF
25 cents each for the purpose of erect
ing a new national home, is one OF
the propositions TO be submitted at the
forty seventh annual convention al
Atlantic City in July.
Eben Learned and family moved
from Norwich to their Ocean Beach
home today. Mr.. Learned solved the
moving problem nicely. He engaged
Buick delivery trick with seats
| along the side and moved his house
hold effects, his family and himseli
all at once--New London Day.
Either this month, or at the begin
ming of the next college year. the Yale
Academic faculty. Joining with thai
of the Scientific school, will take VI
the matter of permitting the bes'
/ scholars in the preparatory schools
| including public high schools. to en-
ter those two departments without ex-
| amina tons.
Bv a new Connecticut law. those
| or more month shall not be admit
| ted to a soldiers home Anyone
| wounded in the service is to be paiC
| the maximum amount. No one shall
| be entitled to a pension under the &C
who is in receipt of an income of $1,00t
| or more a year.
! House bill 1 has been reported ia
vora5ly. This provides that sol
| dier's service of 90 DAYS and less thai
six months the pension shall be ST
| a month between six and min,
months, $40 a month"; more than min
months and less than year, s25
| month: for a service of one year o
| more, $50 a month.
| At the diocesan convention of tn
| Episcopal church of Connecticut, t
be held in Waterbury June 10. it i
| probable that a suffra gan bishop vii
| be elected as an assistant to Bshol
| Brewsters. The election of a suffra
gan bishop does not carry with
the right of succession to the bishopri
as in the case of bishop coadjutor
Today. June I, the planet Venus
| exactly as high in the sky rs the sur
| ard follows it by three hours an
| eight minutes. That is. if one look
| at the sun at any hour during the da
| and then wait for three hours an
eight minutes, the planet at the expir
| alton of the time will be seen exact
ly the same place in the sky that tn
| sun occupied at first.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. F'ento
| quietly observed their 50th weddin
anniversary at their home in Mon
son, Mass, on Monday. NJ. Fento
is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Roderic
Fenton and was born in Wellington
Conn, March Is, 1899. Mrs. Fento
was Miss Louisa A. Thompson tn
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie
| Thompson of Wales, Mass
| The draft from the supreme counc
| of the Royal Arcanum for the amour
' II th4 esSttssstc ~ he late WilliaI