Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-29
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VARIOUS MATTERS

1 1hSu1OIIdI GA6FC1SoS Will De h6lQ D.
 many of the schools today
 A warm sunny day should bring the
 snowballs out in time for Fridays | decorating.
 I bed of handsome scarlet geraniums
 is growing thriftily in the grounds at
 Masonic temple.
 Charles S. Jamison has been com missioned postmaster at Amston, form erly Turnerville, Conn.
 There are II in the Kings Daugh- | ters' home at Norwich Town all the available rooms being occupied.
 The midyear meeting of the Past Exalted Rulers association of the EIks Is to be held Sunday at New Lon don.
 The body of William E. Brigham was sent on the S.04 train Wednesday to Enfield for burial by Undertaken Gager.
 Wednesday, June II. has been fixed as the date for the exhibition of the 1 New London Manual Training and 1n- 1 dustrial school.
 i Odd Fellows from Norwich attended the meeting of Fairview lodge I. O. 1 O. F., at Groton early in the week and witnessed initiatory degree work. One hundred dozen soft crabs re- ceived today will be sold for 50 cents per dozen. 30 cents per half dozen, while they last. at Powers Bros. s.'-adv. The new firm in Turnerville is build ing a new road to the station and 1 making other improvements besides building additions to the cement mill.
 The name of Henry E. Silcox, First Conn. Heavy artillery, was omitted from the list of soldier dead. He is buried in Comstock cemetery. Mont vile.
 Connecticut members will attend the 18th annual convention of the United Commercial Travellers of New England to be held in Rutland. Vt. June 5, 6 and '.
 The annual Memorial day letter ef the division chaplain. Rev. P. E. Shoe maker, of Southington. of the Connec- ticut division, s. of ". has been sent out to the members.
 The meetings of the Historical so- ciety and the Burial Ground associa- tiOn will be held at the Old Stone church burial ground at East Lyme Memorial day at D. m.
 Highway Commissioner Bennett will give a hearing at his office in the cap itol, Hartford, this morning in connec- tion with the proposed layout in Will limantic known as Columbia avenue.
 Horace Johnson predicts disturb ance of the atmosphere from the 3d to the 5th of the coming month of considerable note-quite a rainfall It will be accompanied with cold wave.
 C. NJ. Shay of the navy yard is obliged to go about with his right arm in a sling. He was cranking his caC and incurred a painful injury. His right forearm was thrown out of joint.
 Members of the Kings Daughters will regret to learn that another son of Mrs. Margaret Bottome founder of the order Rev. Wm. McD. Bottome 61, is dead at his home in Kent Eng land.
 At special town meeting at the town hall in Flanders it was voted to continue the present high school at Mantle as being in the end the most economical and for the best interests of the town in general.
 Secretary Charles D. Hine of the state board of education has sent a circular letter to all the teachers in the state announcing that there will be no summer school at Danbury this year. although a session will be held In 1914.
 The 1,500 girls of the Washington Ivory High school, N. Y, commemo- rated Tuesday the birthday of the father" of the school, the late Pat rick McGowan, a native of Lebanon many prominent men and women be- ing present.
 The district superintendent Rev. G. c. Scrivener, of Norwich, will be at the Lee Methodist church, Holland Sunday evening and will give an ad- dress to the young people. After the service the first quarterly conference will be held
 A recent visitor to Windham county towns, J. A. krohn, known as Colonial Jack, who walked around the fringe of the United States. starting from Port land, Me, Monday, June 1. 1908, and finishing there in July, 1909, has reach ed Middletown.
 Since July 1, 1908, when pensions were established on the New Haven, there has been an increase in pen sions paid amounting in the five years to $434O8. The amount paid for the year which will end June 30 it is es- timated at s146,000.
 The state treasurer, the comptrol- Ter and the tax commissioner met Tuesday afternoon as the state board of equalization. A number of rep resentatives of towns appeared before the board. The report of the board will be issued in about a month.
 The will of the late George B. Eos ter, late of West Hartford, bequeaths to his sisters, Alice Foster and Emma P. Foster, in equal proportion, certain personal property and all his real es- tate in Hebron. Glastonbury and Avon. Charles B. Sloane of Hebron is left $200
 The Progressive Missionary club of tho Central Ra antist chIrcl, r,,ot NMnd