Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
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VARIOUS MATTERS

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burden.
Trolley trips late into the night have
served TO cool overheated residents
this week.
ufaeturers of electric fans cannot keep
up with their orders.
Stevens studio will be closed the
week of July 10.-adv.
Mrs W. G. Haseiden has assumed
the leadership of the vested choir of
Trinity NJ. E. church.
The Bozrah church voted to hold six
fellowship meetings during the year,
or one with each church.
Many informal family outings were
taken Friday by boat and trolley, and
others are scheduled for today.
The Jas. Jay Smith Co. report the
sale of over 80 plots at Groton Long
| Point during the past two weeks.-adv.
which several local religious workers
are interested, opens Sunday morning.
As a result of showers in towns
about Norwich, there was grateful re-
lief Friday from the terrific heat wave.
The Watch Hill eaoino opened Fri
day night for the year. 1t viii be run
this season as last year by Steward
Farrell.
Huckleberries are beirg brought to
market, but, like everything else, the
crop is being affected by the extreme
heae and drouth
There was no session of the city
court on Friday morning, no arrests
having been made to require the at
tention of the court.
Employees of factories who are hav-
ing vacation this week are convinced
that it could not have come in
more favorable time.
H. C. Gearen. section foreman at
Midway, finished his work there Friday
and viii soon go to Brockton, where he
has purchased farm
E. II. Hail. president Hall Yarn Mfg.
Co., has purchased a cottage at Groton
Long Point. Several we'll known Nor
wich people bought plots there last
weekday.
The tenth annual session of the
summer school of the Connecticut ag-
ricUltural college at Storrs began on
| Wednesday with an enrolment of
about forty.
Stories are coming in of the pranks
of the lightning in Thursdays storm.
Near Mansfield Depot it ran into
arm and burned the nose of a horse
standing in a stall.
There was a change in the tempera-
ture on Friday which was thoroughly
| enjoyed. While the thermometer went
up to 90. the air was much better and
few complaints were heard.
Cards received from local people
attending the Silver Bay conference
tell of hot weather this week, though
was Association day at the confer
ence.
The senate Thursday refused to
abolish the dairy and food commits
sion. The commissioner is Herbert
+. Potter. New Haven. salary $4,000,
and Tyler Cruttenden of Norwich. dep
uty, salary $500.
The Connecticut company has men
at work making repairs to the brick
pavement, east of Franklin square.
Many of those inside the rails had
| become badly worn or broken and new
ones are being put in to take their
| place.
| Local alumni of Wesleyan have re-
| ceived the new catalogue, showing two
! thousand living graduates, nearly one
| thousand more that have passed on,
| together with LOO nom graduates and
| the 400 honorary alumni, or some 5000
| names in all.
At the Central Baptist church Sun
i Gay morning ReE. p G. Wright VIII
speak upon THE Extra Mile" His
eN eTjng's address will DE the second
in the series on Great Americans
William LLOYD Garrison being the
| subject.-adv
| County Commissioners Williams and
| Moves Were at New London Friday
| and transacted routine business. Com
| missioned Smith of Groton, elected to
fill out the unexpired term of Com
| missioner Chadwick. did not sit with
| the board as he had not yet received
| his papers.
| On Thursday the planet Venus was
| at her greatest angle from the sun,
| setting three hours later than it. Due
| to the increased distance from US,
| in brightness, gaining 40 per cent dur
| ing this month. 1t is at maximum
| brilliancy on August 9.
| me total amount OIL money raised by
| the Connecticut branches of the G. T.
| S. of the Episcopal church during the
| past year was S2,2S937 Missions
| s61S.1S; parochial objects s253.37, phil
| anthropic objects s2JS.15; endowment
| fund s6S.13; diocesan expenses s293.S4 !;
| vacation house $z37.14.
| Now that the strawberry season is
| ending, his neighbors beIieYe that
| Louis Lent of Bolton holds the rec
| ord for eastern Connecticut crops.
| From his 1900 plants he has been
taking twenty bushels of berries daily
| to the Hartford market, getting from
| Is to 1sc a basket wholesale
OF interest to number in Norwich
| sOcietN is tie news note from New
| York that Stewart Waller, who is to
| marry Miss Audrey Townsend Sackett
| on July 20 at the home of her parents
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Sackett, al
the Pequot. gave a farewell bachelor
| dinner Friday night at Delmonico's.
Because of cholera in Italy, the rev
| enue cutter practice ship Itasca with
| 80 cadets from the revenue cutter
| school at New London, aboard. proba-
| bly, will not touch at Naples. Al
| Funchal Madeira island, Thursday, al
| were reported well. The cruise ends
| September 5. at GARDENERS bay, L.
There was a pleasant afternoon par