Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-09-13
Olle Bulletin.
Norwich, Wednesday. Sept. 10, 1911.
VARIOUS MATTERS

1
A number of the college boys and
girls will leave town this week.
1t is claimed that scallops are to
| be scarce and high this season.
| for sale. Katherine LAM, Shannon
| Bldg.-adv.
At the republican caucus Monday
| night in Preston Michael Nolan was
nominated for constable.
Extra clerks have been employ ed
| this week by the dealers in school
| books and school supplies.
A horse valued at $500 and belonging
| to A. A. Fournier of this city died on
Tuesday evening from colo.
At the recent Adams family reunion
it was voted to hold the next annual
| meeting at Lake Compounce, Bristol.
| The association at Pine Grove, Nj
antic has closed the casino there, and
the official season is over for this year.
A movement has been started by the
state socialists to organize socialist
Boy Scouts and a socialist Sunday
school
Special lunch at Halle club, Wed
nesday. from II to 2. 35c to non club
memhers.-adv.
NJ NJ. Bacon, one of the original
builders at Black Point, died at his
home in Hartford last week Burial
was at Mantle.
This has been a big watermelon
season at the Palmer farm in Water
ford. two carloads of melons having
hpPp already sent fO Norwich
September's mellow weather and
changing foliage always Tempt a num-
Der of city artists to eastern Connec-
ticut towns for sketching trips.
BY peculiar condition it was full
sea just between midnight and morn
ing today, the 18th, so that the time
of high water was marked 600.
Popular automobile trips just now
are to the Hale peach orchards in
Glastonbury, where hundreds of pick
ers are busy harvesting the big yield
of fruit.
William Morgan and Latham Pack
er of Groton during coon hunt in
Ledyard, shot two big fellows weigh
ing about Is pounds apiece.
Dahlia growers have been appraised
that, in spite of adverse conditions,
the State Horticultural society has a
a show in Hartford next Tuesday and
Wednesday,
Year will begin on September %. This
is the year 1872 in the Jewish calen-
dar and services will be held Septem-
Der % and "A.
A representative of the state board
a ta6
each manufacturing center to issue
certificates to children under 16 who
desire to go to work.
Han and Dale is the pretty name of
the SPACE weekly devoted to agricul-
ture and published at Westerly, r. 1.
The first number makes a fine appear
ance and deserves success.
The house on Monument street,
Palmer of Canterbury from Ralph
Denison, is being remodeled and other
wise put in shape for occupancy.
The bill which will permit the issu-
ance of liquor licenses to summer no.
tells upon a written petition from a
majority of the voters in a. olicense
town has become law, Governor
Baldwin having signed it.
"
Lynch. Carrie Wood, Winnie Bartlett
| John Hurlburt and Herbert Rogers are
among the Montyille pupils to attend
| the Norwich Free Academy. which
opens today for the fall term.
Charles w. Pearson OF Norwich, the
| president of the state committee on
| the John Ericsson monIfns,.,, attended
| a meeting at Savin Rock, Saturday, at
| which Sculptor Haag of Chicago sub
| United plans to the committee.
Very Low Colonist Rates via Nickel
| Plate Road-To California, Washing
| ton, oregon and far west, daily, Sept
4th tc Oct. l4th. Finest tourist sleep
ers daily. Write l.. P. Burgess, 312
Postmasters are receiving notifica-
ton that the Postmasters association
| of New England, embracing first, sec
| ond and third class offices, will hold
its semi annual convention and dinner
at the American house. Boston, Octo-
| Der II.
Through the 1nunificance of an I'M
| known giver New London is to have a
new $4,000 contagious disease hospital
| which is also to have an endowment
of $40 000 The building will be erected
| at once in the rear of the Memorial
! hospital.
To kill the ants in kitchens, cellar
or pantry, a newly issued state bulle-
! tin advises: place naphthalene in the
runways or around the edges OF
shelves and corners of rooms where
the ants usually enter and travel
| They are soon driven away
A Longmeadow correspondent has
| the following note Of local interest:
! Miss Clara Wolcott has broken up the
| home in Lawrence, and with the son
| of her brother. the late Rev. William
| f.. Wolcott. will go to Denver to live
| until their nephew is ready for Yale
| The report of the Connecticut agri
cultural experiment station contain
| ing the result of the 1910 tests of gar
| den and field seeds, notes that some oil
| the alfalfa, grass and clover seed test
| ed was purchased from r. f. Ed
redse and J. p Barstow & Co. OF
| Norwich.
George H. Scofeld, veteran of Com
| pany 3, 18th Conn. Vols. and sur
| vivor of Andersonvilie prison. died a
| New London Tuesday. He was a ma
| tive of Stamford. where his body viii
/ be taken for interment. MFR. Scofield
! who was IS years old. is survived b,
his wife and two daughters.
| The geological and natural history
| survey of this state has issued bulletin
i No. 16. entitled. A Guide to the In.
/ sects of Connecticut. 1t consists O.
two parts. general introduction by
| w E Britton and treatise on the