Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-15
VARIOUS MATTERS.


 It is not daybreak now until 257.
 Sweet potatoes from the eastern shore of Virginia are reaching mar ket.
 Hardware dealers are profting by demands incident to the canning sea son.
 Some of the elms begin to show evil dences of the destructive work of the beetles.
 Cobwebs on lawns and terraces ap- pear to indicate continued dry, hot weather.
 Wednesday mornings showers were sufficient to freshen up flower beds and turf.
 Round trip Ocean Beach Str. Gardi- ner week days 25c. Crescent Beach, soc. -adv.
 The flag at Buckingham Memorial was at half-staff Wednesday for Jed ediah R. Gay.
 Improvements and repairs are being made to the Holmes block, the former Amasa Hall block, on Franklin street.
 Katydids were heard near by August 6. According to an old saying a frost may be looked for in about six weeks.
 Postoffics in a number of places are complaining that water bugs have destroying stamps by eating off the 'stickum.
 NTrs T,,1io Carro,,+ar orA I,a,. e,,.,, ,,, son, Ernest Ex-Governor of shelton, are visiting Mrs. Carpenters sister in West Wilmington.
 State Swedes who went to the old country at the time of the Olympic games are returning, enthusiastic over the events and their visits.
 Governor Baldwin has appointed Thomas A. Mitchell and J. Frank Yer l rington both of Norwich, policemen at the Norwich State hospital.
 During last week, Norwich had four real estate sales, with total mortgages of $6.200. Last year the number was six, with mortgages of $11,950.
 Special shore dinner at Auditorium ladies and gents cafe. Friday and l Saturday.-adV.
 Secretary Leonard H. Healey of | Woodstock is sending out the hand book of fairs and their dates, issued | by the state board of agriculture for 1912.
 Mike Greenberg, a newsboy, long a | Waterbury character, has been ad- judged insane and will probably be committed to the Norwich State hos pital
 The twelfth annual reunion and picnic of the Daniel and Lucretia l Hull descendants and their friends is to be held at Compounce, Bristol on Saturday.
 Letters and parcels for the mem | bers of the militia engaged in the war | game should be addressed after this l model.N Private -, Company - The Red Army, Seymour. Conn.
 The state board of health and the state dairy and food commissioner have issued a bulletin giving sugges- | tions to producers and dealers for improving the quality of milk. The Pease house at Saybrook Point, where the annual reunion of the Stark family is to be held on Wednesday next is managed this season by Charles Camp. formerly of Norwich.
 Reginald D. Fitzmaurice, the new superintendent of the western divis- 1 ion, is making arrangements for nov ing his family to Waterbury, They have been spending the summer at I (xaIac Earrv
 Excursion to Montreal and return via the Central Vermont railway, only | $500. Tickets on sale August 20, 21, 22; return limit September 6, 1912. Through coaches and sleeping cars to | Montreal-adv.
 Tuesday August 13, was the 65th birthday of Arthur Sherburne Hardy, | ister to Greece. Roumania, Servia, Switzerland and Spain. whose sum p9sF estate is at Woodstock
 The funeral of Henrietta F. Hyde, widow of Samuel Swan, was held at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the South church chapel, Bridgeport Rev. R. L. Swan officiated. Burial was in Mountain Grove cemetery
 Robert c. sherman of Coventry, a graduate of the New Haven normal school, has been engaged as principal of Chapman school, Westbrook, for the coming year. and is to have the 1 supervision of the other schools in the | town.
 Passengers arriving on the Pottsdam at New York Tuesday from Rotter- dam included Sister Pauline, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Patrick Good of Nor wich, who was returning with other Sisters of Charity from Belgium to the convent in Baltic.
 Rev Luther M. Keneston of Preston City, a former pastor of Memorial Congregational church, Baldwinsville Mass, preached at the service in that church Sunday morning. Rev. and | Mrs. Keneston are guests of Mrs Amos P Miller in that town.
 For the first time in the history of the state. according to the bulletin be- ing distributed by the tax commis- sioner, the total grand list of the state with the additions by the board ot equalization exceeds one billion dollars being $1,041, ,234,019. an increase o1 S43,OO0,OOO over last last year.
 The governor has approved requisi- tions of the soldiers hospital board or the comptroller for $10,000 for the care of sick and wounded soldiers marines and sailors of the civil war and for $717.06 for the care of sick and wounded soldiers. sailors and ma rines of the Spanish American war.
 But two petitions in bankruptcy were filed in the state last week, anc these have total liabilities of $12,730 with assets less than half that amount The record varies but few dollars from the figures for the correspond ing week of the previous year. and ii 1 a better showing than for the veal