Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-29
VARIOUS MATTERS

l. l Children will be busied out Of school hours today. gathering wild flower1 for tomorrow.s needs. Norwich barber shops VIII close at noon on Memorial day Adv. Local Hebrews VIII celebrate the feast of! 6hevous beginning Saturday evening.
 Attorney Richard F. Freeman Of New London is to speak on Memorial day at Voluntown.
 Delegates from connscticut are in Of the undertakers. The current Smart Set has a poem. l Bring You All Have. by Witter bynner, formerly of Norwich Everybody is going to the Grexel Club dance tonight at Miller adv. banks and libraries Saturday. there will be extra activity today.
 A regular dinner today at the Wau- regan house for 50 cents, rom l1.so to 2 o'clock.--adv. s
 At Coventry church the candidate for next Sunday will be Rev. N. A. Dougherty of Cambrdige, Mass.
 It is expected that the rebuilding of the board walk at Ocean Beach will be completed by Saturday night.
 Memorial day exercises will be held this year at the Ashford Center Con- gregatfonal church at 1.so p. m.
 coloniel theatre today. War Is He'll reels. Natnre-coiored Same q. and a a V A q U
 The profit from the charity ball giv- en in the state armory Easter Monday by St. Mary's parish. New London, was s4S0.59.
 A former Franklin clergyman, Rev. H. A. Beadle, will have part in the Memorial day exercises at Pomfret to- morrow.
 Mrs. Fred Loomis of East Hartford has been entertaining her mother, Mrs. J. H. Buhill. of Chestnut Hill at her bungalow at Coventry lake.
 The state bar examining committee will be in session at the Yale school today for the examination of candi- dates for admission to the bar.
 Mrs. F. s. Allen of Hartford opened her cottage at Crescent Beach Wednes- day. During June she will be there with her sister, Mrs. H. B. Austin
 Services on the rural routes from the postoff1ce will be suspended Saturday, the day being one of the holidays granted by the postoffice department
 The men engaged in hunting the gypsy moth expect to remain at West Woodstock during the summer caring for the trees where the moths have been found
 At Gurleyville, District Superinten- dent Rev. G. c. Scrivener of Norwich will preach this (Friday) evening, af- ter which he will hold the first quar- terly conference.
 Louis P. Greene has returned to his home at Waterford after serving an enlistment in the United States navy, most of which time was spent in southern waters, near Mexico.
 The 18th annual convention of the Holland County Womans Christian Temperance union was held in the Congregational church at Ellington on Wednesday, Mrs. E.. J. Homan, county president, presiding.
 Sale of home made food by the Cleaners Bible class of Central Bap- tist Bible school this afternoon at B Broadway-Adv.
 The official call for the state con- vention of the prohibition party has been issued by order of the slate com mittee. of which Emil L. G. Hohenthal of Manchester is chairman. The con vention will be held in New Britain June 23 and a.
 Among the Announcements in the Senior class statistics at Wellesley is the following. Miss Jessie Evelyn Asher of Willimantic Conn, will be married next fall to MT. Reuben Hen- ri Bowden Of Jacksonville, Fla, a se- nior in Columbia
 Reginald D. Fitzmaurioe was ten- dered a farewell banquet Monday evening at the Connecticut in Water bury by employees of the western di- vision of the New Haven road, which he leaves to become superintendent Of the Providence division. The first observance of Memorial day in the north was in 1866 at Water loo. N. Y., when General Murray had the veterans of his post decorate the graves of their comrades. In 1867 T. C. Campbell of Cincinnati marched his post to the graves and laid wreaths on them.
 The funeral Of Mrs. Caroline M. | Grimes, widow of Richard Grimes. who 1 died Sunday at Quaker Hill, was held | Wednesday from No. Meridian street. l New London. Rev. Frank D. Ludding- | ton of Quaker Hin officiated at ser vices at 2.30 o'clock. Burial was at l Jordan cemetery.