Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-18

Norwich, Friday, June 18, 1915.
VARIOUS MATTERS

VAN1OOS NAA END
Soda fountains have done a rush
| business for the past two days.
Don't forget the strawberry supper
at the Bozrah church tonight.-adv.
Thursday morning smart showers
did much to revive the whiting garden
crops.
Saint Marcus and ST, Marcellianus
are conmemmorated in the church
calendar today.
A new form of thieving, that of rob
bling automobiles of their equipment
has started in New London.
A man from Hartford is making re-
pairs to the pumping station at the
state camp grounds at Mantle.
mems cottage at Gales Ferry is in
charge of Fred Smith, of Norwich.
The employees of the pattern shop at
the Ship and Engine Co., at Groton,
are now working IL hours per day in
stead of eight.
In some instances rose bushes are
entirely Stripped of their leaves by
tent caterpillars, leaving the stalks
as pare as II1luNlIlISIs
The Hartford Dental society will be
at the Oswegatchie house on Saturday
for their annual outing. One hundred
are expected to attend.
The Ellington Water company, in
| corporated is having an artesian we'll
driven to supplement the regular sup
| ply in cases of drought.
The scanning department at the
Palmer Brothers quilt mill at Mont
vile shut down Wednesday noon for
the rest Of the day on account of lack
of material.
At o'clock, Thursday morning, in
st. Patricks church, a months mind
high mass of requiem for Mrs.
Catherine Good was sung by Rev. ].
H. Broderiek.
Frederick Bill made happy the chill
dren of the kindergarten and sub-pri-
mary division of the Groton Heights
school Thursday when he presented
each a box of candy.
The old Larned homestead at Thomp
son, in which there is local interest,
since it was last occupied by Miss
Ellen Larned, the historian, has been
sold to a Providence man.
Cochegan camp, No 366.- Modern
Woodmen of America of Montville,
has nearly completed arrangements
for a big meeting next week, when a
class of II will be initiated.
Herbert z. Kip, associate professor
of German at Vanderbilt college
Nashville, Tenn, is to assume the
professorship in German at the
Connecticut College for Women.
Miss Jean Elwood of De KaIb. Ill,
has rented the Fitzhugh cottage at
Neptune park for the summer. The
Fitzhugh family generally spends the
summer at their Montville farm.
Connecticut strawberry growers
state that the berries are notably plen-
tiful on high ground this season, but
on low ground there is more or less
of a scarcity owing to the late frosts.
James A. Way, So of Flanders, died
Thursday after a long illness. He
leaves a widow and one son, Francis
G. Way of Glastonbury. Mr.. Way
was a member Of Bay View lodge, F.
and A. NJ.
A catalogue of the members of the
Yale chapter of the honorary society
Phi Beta Kappa has just been pub
Hshed containing the names of ali the
members since the society was found
ed at Yale.
A former Storrs college lecturer,
Rev. Herbert K. Job, is in Florida this
month taking photographs of bird life
for the Audubon society. He has Theo-
dore Roosevelt fer a companion part
of the time.
The summer meeting of the United
States Daughters of 1912, Connecticut
chapter, is to be held at NTomauguin,
IL
luncheon at 1 o'clock in honor of the
Real Daughters.
Norwich people visited Gales Ferry
Thursday were interested in the mem
bers of the Harvard baseball team,
who stopped off to visit Red Top, on
their way to New York, for the game
with Princeton today.
Theodore A. Sage, SO. died at his
home. 100 Hanover street, Meriden on
Tuesday afternoon after a lingering
illness. The funeral was held at the
home Thursday afternoon. He was
brother of Frederick E. Sage of Nor
Wich.
First Selectman Lorenzo R. Sparrow
of the town Of Tolland went before
the state tax commissioners Tuesday
to see if he could get the town tax
reduced. The state has raised the
tax list $4,000 this year. No decision
has been reached
For destructive cut worms, one
farmer is mixing one half pound white
arsenic Cor powdered acetate of Iead)
and one quart of cheap molasses with
about II pounds Of bran. Place a
spoonful at intervals alongside the
rows of the crop to be protected.
The first meeting of the board of
censors Of the Connecticut State
Dental association for planning the
meeting of 1916 is to be held at 8 D.
m. this evening, at the Thames club,
New London. DR.. A, V. Prentis of
New London, the president, will
preside.
The old pavilion at Bushy Point
which was remodeled into a house a
few years ago which has been
recently repaired by ]. F. Edgcomb. is
ready for occupancy. Mark D.
Stiles, the owner, and his family
expect to arrive in July for the