Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-20
Olijtle DuilglIll.
VARIOUS MATTERS

The annual family dinner of the
 Bill family of Ledyard has been decid- ed on for August 27.
 Value of System for Steady Produc- | tion" will be discussed. The first stirring breezes since last Saturday tempered Tuesdays heat and
 made fairly comfortable day. Among recent Massachusetts auto mobilists to Norwich and New London has been George Clark of Springfield. yet parted with that $5 bill he prom ised for a specimen of the gypsy moth.
 The August rainfall is two inches below normal up to the present time, the United States weather bureau states.
 The camp house committee of Gales Ferry has been at the Willimantic camp ground making arrangements to open the Gales Ferry house.
 Dairy Commissioner Potter said Tuesday that the adulteration of milk with water is more general in the state now than for many years.
 number of dairymen from Norwich and vicinity are planning to attend the field meeting at the farm of John D. Avery in North Stonington today.
 The city fathers of New London are somewhat enthusiastic, some of them, over holding a duplicate of their big outing at East Lyme last summer.
 Best Methods of Closing" will be the topic for discussion at the meeting of the Connecticut Underwriters asso- citation in Hartford, Sept 12.
 The postoffices are already noticing an important increase in the number of parcels post packages since the exten- sion of the service went into effect.
 Dredging in the Mystic river is keep ing the bridges there open much more than usual, thereby delaying sometimes the Groton and Stonington trolleys.
 Along the Rockwell street path to the park entrance the dahlias are coming into flower nicely, and at the gate the rose bed shows some beautiful August blooms.
 George Wakeman, S6. who died in MOodus Saturday night, married for his first wife Virginia Buikeley, daugh- ter of Daniel and Cynthia Bulkeley of Colchester
 GIenville W. Phillips, employed as pianist at the Davis theater, has re- turned to his duties after weeks va cation at his home at 103 Montauk avenue, New London.
 The Backus hospital has about three times the number of patients that it usually las under treatment at this nf m oN1n z n cases in the institution.
 Best s3.5o glasses for s195, properly fitted. Burnham's. 227 Main street. Adv.
 Henry c. Rowe, 62, New Haven's Oyster King whose summer home is on the Thames, married Etta E. Mac Milan, 27 though she looks younger) in Providence Saturday, a despatch said
 At the lake in Mohegan park now there is a fleet of four rowboats and a canoe. all privately owned. The own CTS of two of the boats have a center- board and sail attachment
 The peach crop of this section is excellent, but the dry weather is hurt ing the fruit. In Glastonbury in the last ten days J. H. Hale figures that the lack of rain has cost him 1000 a day.
 Bulletin No. 177 on the tent cater pillar, which is the chief leaf-eating enemy of the orchard, giving it's atten- tion chiefly to apple trees, was issued i by the Connecticut Agricultural station Tuesday.
 James Ryan. the middle aged trolley i passenger who suffered a fractured i skull on a Falls car a week ago last | Sunday, is improving at the Backus 1 hospital, and may be able to leave in a few days.
 The state supervising agents began i a series of meetings, conferences and !! lectures at Trinity college, Hartford, 1 Tuesday, under the auspices of the | state board of education, to continue | until August 26.,
 Excursion to Montreal. Aug 20 and 21, via the Central Vermont railway | Fare for the round trip $10. Tickets l good to reach starting point until Sept. 1 }, 1913. See flyers for further partic- | llars.-adv.
 Rev. Richard F. Moore, D. D., recent i y appointed to the pastorate of the ] Church of the Sacred Heart Bridge port made vacant by the death of atneT sweeney, preaCned hlS last ser i mon at his New Britain church Sum- day
 The Chamber of Commerce of Wa | terbury is sending out a handsome booklet containing interesting facts i about that city, list of it's members and a history of the slogan, showing { that Waterbury Has Something on Every body"
 Invitations are out for the wedding l of Miss Marguerite Brewster Hull | daughter of Major Hadlai A. Hull. to Leon Campbell BuzzeIl East Lyme, on Saturday evening, Sept s. at o'clock, !, at 72 Vauxhall street, New London, | the brides home.
 The automobile department of the ing on the supplement to the automo- bile register, which will be issued in September. It will contain list of all the licenses issued since the publica- ton of the 1913 list in June.
 The certificate of organization of the Ocean Navigation company of New London has been filed. The company will begin business with a capital of $1 900, all in cash. The officers are Herbert F. Eggert, president; James A. McNelus, vice president: Byron A. Zones, secretary and treasurer.
 Friends of Miss Alice Pierson, who was engaged, with her sister, Miss Emily, in the cause of woman suffrage in this vicinity last fall, will be in tereSted to learn that since her gradu- ation at Mt. Holyoke she has been or