Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-27

hdS DeeH gwen d COdl Ol Oll lO CONtI the dust, due to the continued dry 
 The bell in the Central Baptist church tower pealed at 8 o'clock We'd nesday morning to signal the Sunday school picnic.
 Misses Mary and Annie Crofton of Union street, New London, are enter taining friends at their Browning beach cottage.
 The annual convention of the Con- necticut Federation of Labor will be held in K. G. E. hall, Waterbury, Sep tember 9. 10. Il and 12.
 When hot and thirsty Williams Root Beer will cool, refresh and invigorate you. Make some now.-adv
 Mystic division. A. O. H., will as- sist in the joint picnic given by the New London and Norwich divisions in Richards grove on July 4.
 The board walk on West beach at Groton Long Point is about half com pleted. This will be one of the fa- vorite walks of summer visitors
 Five children have left the county home since school closed, and three have been sent there, making the total in Miss Jessie Gibson's care at present IS.
 Among bills approved on Tuesday by Governor Baldwin were S5405.4 A for Norwich State hospital for May, and $S6,00O for the armories at Danbury, Willimantic, Branford and Bridgeport.
 There was filed in the secretary of states office at Hartford on Wednes- day by the Storing and Leasing com pany of Norwich a certificate of a re- duction in capital stock from S25,0OO to $15,00O.
 Eastern Point cottagers learn that the price of milk will be raised in Groton after the first of July to nine cents a quart or five cents a pint. It is said the dry weather is responsible for the raise.
 Deacon B. G. Smith of Norwich died suddenly Friday at the home of his son. He had been a visitor in Essex at different times and his friends hear of his death with deep regret,-Mid- dletown Press.
 Groton Long Point Beach Plots. Fronting board walk 1-2 mile long, Jas. Jay Smith Co.,. Shannon Bldg.-adv.
 Mrs. Harriet H. Hoslam. 72, who 1ied from heart disease Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Mann, in Everett. Mass, was a native of Griswold. Burial was in Franklin Mass, on Tuesday.
 Eyangelistic meetings will be held this CThursday) evening at the home of $. E. Slocum, in Meriden The speaker will be Rev. Charles T. Potter of Norwich, who held a meeting there Wednesday evening.
 It is a coincidence this summer. when robins and bluebirds are reduced in numbers, that farmers are com blaming loudly of the inroads of cut worms, of which robins and bluebirds eat great quantities.
 s. B. Treadwel1, secretary of the committee arranging for the monster parade of the state firemen to be held in Danbury. September 12. has extend- ed an invitation to Gov. Simeon E. Baldwin and staff to attend.
 The necrology of Trinity college. Hartford, Tuesday, commemorated a former Norwich rector, Rev. Edward Octavus Flagg, sometime of the class of lS4S, DID,, LID, died at New York August 23. 1911, aged S7.
 Mrs. H. M. Pollock, who efficiently supervised the distribution work for the City Beautiful association at Pres ton and Laurel Hill schools, has re- turned for enrolment a carefully pre- pared list of pupils at Laurel Hill school
 Excursion to Vermont and to Mon treaL Que, from Norwich. Fare one way for round trip. Good going July and g. returning July 5, 1912. See flyers for particulars.-adv
 Milk producers hereabouts who have not yet signed the contracts sent out by the Providence Dairy company last April, are receiving notice that tbav will be allowed butter prices for mil, sent the past month, about g cents per can of ten quarts.
 Scotts lighter has again been at work at the Groton dock near the N. l.. $. E. Co., in an attempt to re- more the old piles which so badly in terfere with the landing of the steam CT Chelsea. The steamer has not stop ped there since last week.
 Local passengers on trains to and from New York watch with much in terest the progress of the work under way between Stamford and South Norwalk toward the extension of the electrical system eastward from it's present terminus near Stamford. the rear of the Falls fire station on Tuesday morning, a freight car at- tached to a train of cars was pushed off the track After some trouble the brakemen and conductor succeeded in getting 1t back on the tracks again.
 At Lake Pleasant Tuesday, Rev. A. P. Blinn of Norwich married Rev. G. Tabor Thompson. 55, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. John W. Wheeler, 76, widow of the sewing machine millionaire of Orange who died May 2. 1910, leav- ing $L299,S95. Both are Spiritualists
 Edna Louise. daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Edwin T. Smith of Hebron, and Nathan Henry Gellert of Key West Florida, were married at the home ot Capt, and Mrs. Watrous, in Key West Tuesday evening, Jeae IS, by Rev, c. T. Stout, an Episcopal rector of that city.
 At Brown university the past week Rodney Williams Hewitt of Lebanon received the degree of bachelor of phil.