Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-26
VARIOUS MATTERS

o RAoAAASS VI tHe ionS-QeSlreu raln. A number from here were in Willi-,
 mantle Thursday for the silver jubilee celebration of the state normal school The Manchester Business Mems as- | sociatien voted to hold the annual out- ing of the association at Ocean Beach.
 The Lake house at Gardner Lake has been opened arid is now ready to en- tertain automobile parties and tran sient guests.-adv
 Mrs. Caroline Ravens of Old Say brook, who died Wednesday after an illness Of three years, was born in Old Lyme 76 years ago.
 Thursday was another day of dis- comfiture, humidity added to the high temperature, making the maximum of 96 degrees seem much higher.
 Prof. A. l.. McGrath. for the past
 two years principal of the Mantle
 schools, left Wednesday for Stafford
 Springs. where he will go into bus
 iness
 The annual meeting of the state
 board of agriculture is to be held next
 Tuesday at 11.30 at the capitol Gov
 ernor Simeon E. Baldwin, who is pres ident of the board. will preside.
 George S. Elliot of Willimantic was
 one of eight delegates chosen by the Connecticut Association of Insurance Agents to the national convention to
 be held in August at Minneapolis.
 Thursday night. 1T graduates from for. their homes in various parts of
 the country after week vacation at
 the Oswegatchie House, Waterford.
 
 graduating exercises in St. Augustine's
 church, the sermon Of the evening was
 delivered by Rev. William A. Keefe
 of Plainfield. formerly a curate at the church.
 The East Lyme sealer of weights and
 measures. Raymond c. Beckwith. has inspected all the scales in the public places of the town and had to con- demn several as not being up to the standard.
 Miss Edith Huff, who completed her work at the Willimantic Normal school this week. will arrive in Lyme today (Friday). The school garden work un- der the instruction of Miss Huff will begin Monday, June 29th.
 The school at Westchester bridge closed Tuesday with the annual pie
 nic. Alois Sykora, who won second prize in the town of Colchester for the egg mass contest, also received s as first prize from East Hampton grange. Secretary of State Albert Phillips expects the returns from the auto mobile department for the fiscal year ending September 30 will amount to 1 $400,000. This figure, if reached, will
 be an increase of $130,o0o over last l year. | Groton Long Point plots are sold for $195 upwards on easy monthly | payments. Tents or bungalows can
 be erected when first payment is made
 James Jay Smith Co.. New London l adv.
 The executive committee of the Con l necticut State Firemen's association ! made arrangements, at meeting in l Hartford Tuesday, for the thirty first | annual convention of the association i to be held at Greenwich, August 26
 and 27.
 1 It is expected that the usual num-
 Der, 125 to 150. naval and military l veterans of the Civil war, will at
 tend today the thirty sixth annual re-
 union and banquet of the Army and ! Navy Club of Connecticut at The IGriswold, Eastern Point.
 ] the Kings Daughters. held Wednes- day at Ivoryton. was attended by Mrs l William H. Daley, state president, l and Mrs. Walter D. Garfield state l treasurer both of Norwich The trip
 was made in Mrs. Canfeld's car. l A Bridgeport patient Dr. William H. Bunnei1, was committed to the State hospital at Norwich Wednesday | night at the request of his family af- | ter the disclosures that he had been ! making out prescriptions for morphine l and cocaine in an illegal manner Emily F. Steele. widow of B. Frank Steele, died at her home in Spring I field, Mass. Wednesday, Mrs. Steele was born in Coventry. Ct. January ', 1S45, the daughter of Joseph Porter l and Laura Loomis On July 26, 1869, she married MT. Steele of Bolton. Mrs. Henry Ferguson of Hartford offered $18 in prizes to the school chil- dren on Fishers Island who gathered l the most egg masses of the tent cat erpillar. The three boys who carried of the s5, s3 and $2 destroyed F, ,165 | masses. which represented 3o4.125 cat.
 erpillars.
 Miss Florence o'13rien. daughter of MT. and Mrs. Michael O'Brien of Gro- | ton, and c. M. Largergren are to be 1 church, New London, Saturday. Mir Largergren is employed as a design l CT. After their marriage they will re- | side in New London.
 | Men and women prominent in soo4al welfare work in this state will meet
 in Bridgeport Tuesday next for the | purpose of making plans for the State ] Charities conference that will be held in Stamford next spring. The meeting | will be that of the executive com | mittee of the conference |