Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-13
Olae. Bullftin,
VARIOUS MATTERS

Open cars were enjoyed during Sat- urday's fine weather.
 Sunday was the fourth year Mothers day has been observed.
 Some of the crab apple trees are already in full blossom.
 The number of wild strawberries in blossom promises big crop.
 Neosha white tonight in Foresters' hall-adY.
 The New Haven road has ordered 15 new and heavy engines for It's freight service.
 Schooner Magnet of Noank has just taken a cargo of 1900 Block Island codfish to Hartford
 The different volunteer life saving corps along the coast will open the official season on Memorial day.
 The 1etilla of eight submarine tor pedo boats which has been in New London harbor has left for Newport.
 Such was the demand for white car nations for Mothers day that most or the UOFlSlS 0du SOiO Oot tAoRA SNRFAs by Saturday afternoon.
 The most popular stamp and the most popular theater: Royal Gold stamps at Poli's Broadway-adv.
 Joseph Geer, 80, of Ledyard Center, suffered a bad fall last week from the top to the bottom of the cellar stairs at his home Three ribs were broken.
 Local people are receiving souvenir cards from delegates to the first inter national convention of the Kings Daughters being held in Louisville, Ky
 Several from here went to New Lon don Saturday to attend the circus. The. daily expenses of the show reach S5.95D. and so many stormy days have made the management feel solemn.
 Beekeepers are discouraged by so much dark, damp weather, just when the blossoms are available for the honey gatherers. The winter, too, proved hard one for many of the bee colonies.
 Did you know double Royal Gold trading stamps are being given at Polls Broadway theater?-adv.
 Yesterdays driving storm was a surprise, coming after a balmy Satur- day. Roofs leaked, roads were gullied and unnecessary additions were made to pools and puddles in sodden gardens and fields.
 Printed copies of the State Register and Manual for 1912 were left by the printers at the office of the secretary of state Saturday. The supply for general distribution will be furnished the secretary later.
 Through the generosity of Frederick Miller, a wealthy manufacturer, of Newark, N J., every fire engine house in Connecticut will receive copy of the Bible. New and Old Testaments and & book of Psalms,
 A New Haven paper states that the Rev J. J. Smith of St. Francis parish is i'll at the rectory on Ferry street. It was feared up to Saturday that a heavy cold which he has would de- velop into pneumonia.
 Up to Saturday night the service pipe for the city water to be furnished the tuberculosis sanitarium had been distributed to point opposite the former Post house and laid to the brow of the hill below Morgan's pond At the annual meeting of the state Sons of the American Revolution at Hartford Friday the necrology list contained the name of Henry L. Butts, Norwich, who died June 24, 1911. and of Willis F, orcutt of New London,
 Double Royal gold stamps given with every admission both matinees and evenings at Polls Broadway theater.- ] adv.
 Of former Poquetanuck rector a Redding correspondent writes: Rev. William Jepson, former rector of | Christs Episcopal church, is encour- aged by the recovery of his little daughter Grace from scarlet fever.
 Although the May supper of the la : | dies of the Mohegan church was held 1 Thursday evening, when many persons were attending prayer meeting in other churches, a gratifying sum was real ized to be applied toward the church debt.
 All the property owned by the late | Marcus M. Bacon on Black Point East | Thursday in the offices of a Hartford security company. A. Henry Moseley of New York was the successful bid der, his figure being $29,250.
 Rev. J. H. Newland superintendent of the Methodist churches in Norwich district. which district includes all Methodist churches in Connecticut east or the Connecticut river, is in Minne- apolis, Minn. in attendance upon the quadrennial general conference. | When the 5O,OOO employees of the Grand Trunk railway and steamship system ceased labor as a five-minute tribute to the late President Hays drowned when the Titanic went down the great system sacrificed in all 2 total of 25O.000 minutes, or 4,166 hours
 Mrs. Frances E. White of Eas Thompson has just received the chron. ological record of her fathers family the Dodges. Her grandfather owned the land where Ocean View hotel Block Island. stands, his ancestors be i ing among the first settlers of thu Island.
 The Connecticut Daughters of tn American Revolution have placed al order with Speicher, the portrait paint CT of New York for a three -quarte length oil portrait of their honorar, state regent, Mrs. Sara T. Kinney. t, be hung in the Ellsworth home a Windsor.
 Connecticut will make fine showin- at Seattle within a few weeks, fo when the National Electric Light as