Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-06
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Norwich, Tuesday, May 6, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS

| High tides will prevail today.
 The moon is new tonight. the sth. A big tidal wave this week is pre-
 dicted by Horace. Johnson. The best moonlight nights in May l will be from the 17th to the 21st. 1 The N. D. Sevin cottage at Eastern
 Point is being put in order for the sea son.
 l The latest news from Charles H Brown of Warren street located him
 in Africa.
 Norwich friends arc in receipt of
 postal cards from Ovila Seymour al Riverside. Cal.
 1 The Hopkins & Allen factory shut down on Monday morning because of
 trouble with the engine. Rev. c. F. Eldredge of Mantle was
 in Deep River Sunday to occupy the pulpit Of the Baptist church. On the railroad, banks on the Groton division, above and below Fairview, l thousands of long -stemmed violets are in bloom.
 May devotions are held in St. Pat rick's church following the ' o'clock
 mass each morning and on Tuesday evenings.
 The Golf club course and grounds at Fishers Island are being put in readi- ness for the players when they come. The greens are in fine shape.
 A new room for keeping their rec ordS is to be provided at the postoffice
 utilizing space in the basement under the stairs. It will be about IA feet square.
 Local friends have received post
 cards of Norwich, N. T., from John
 Mccormick, who accompanied the Colgate college baseball team to that city on Saturday.
 E. Stanley Clarke of Tenaay, N. J., has rented Off Shore cottage on Bent 1 ley avenue, Ocean Beach, for the sum
 mer. The cottage is one recently built by T. T. Wetmore. Rev. and Mrs. Brewer G. Boardman left Waterford Thursday for Thomp-
 son, where MT. Boardrnan has been engaged as pastor of the Baptist church, preaching Sunday. Shad fishermen at Saybrook Point
 are hauling in six and seven pounders
 right along. Forty five was the largest
 number caught by any of the crew S,
 the rest averaging about 30.
 A former Lisbon pastor, Rev. E. B. Robinson of the Holyoke Mass, Con gregational church, is taking a prom inent stand in the crusade against the illegal sale of liquor in that city.
 Washington papers continue to re- fer to the gay social season of Mrs Henry F. Driscoll of South Coventry, who has just given a big dinner for Vice President and Mrs. Marshall.
 Irving Tribchin of Brooklyn, N. Y, has been appointed front clerk for the coming season at The Griswold hotel at Eastern Point. Mir Tribchin was mail messenger at the hotel last year
 State school superintendents from several New England states met with Secretary Charles D. Hine of. the state board of education last week and discussed the uniform certification of teachers.
 Because of the death of one of their members, Patrick w. Caples, the So- dality postponed the trip which it was to have made Monday evening to play the St. Johns association in series of games.
 Two foremen and six laborers ar rived at Fishers Island Friday to drain the swamps and marshy places to rid the island of mosquitoes. The work men represent the U. s. Irrigation and Draining company.
 A four hundred page book of biog- raphy of graduates was issued last week by Yale university. The new volume provides biographical material regarding nearly all of the 26,7S2 indi- viduals who have been graduated from Yale.
 Local kindergartners are interested in the fact that the international union at it's convention at w ashington, D. C., last week decided to hold it's next convention in Spring field, Mass, instead of at Cleveland, Ohio.
 Ministers in the Southern New Eng land conference of Seventh day Ad- ventists. which includes Rhode Island and Connecticut, will attend the quad rennial general conference of that de- nomination in Washington. D. C., May 15 to June s.
 The state association of Stationary Engineers will gather in Meriden June 26, 27 and 2S, for their 29th annual meeting, and it is expected that fully three hundred members of the associa- ton will be present There are about 45 appointed delegates.
 The Rev. Joseph N Dinand, $. J., president of Holy Cross college. has issued to the alumni of the college the annual statement of the Alumni hall fund The report shows that $2,57250 was contributed last year by members of the Alumni association.
 District Superintendent Scrivener of Norwich when at Sterling Methodist church stated that that church will oe supplied for the present until moro definite arrangements can be made. The former pastor, Rev. s. L. Martin. is located at HEbbardston, Mass.
 The Christian Endeavor societies of New London went to Palmertown on Sunday night and united in a meeting with the Norwich and Montville so- eieties, who had Mrs. Strouthers re- turned missionary and field secretary of the China c. E., to address the gathering.