Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-11
VARIOUS MATTERS

The Norwich district M E. preach CTS meeting will be held at Jewett City next Monday and Tuesday.
 Persons riding through the country notice the great number of blossoms on the blackberry vines indicating a big yield.
 day, June 12th. Flowers, ice cream, candy and popcorn for sale.-adv.
 Teachers and supervisors are re- ceiving notification of the Catholic Ed ucational Association convention to be held at St. Paul June 2S to July 1.
 This year June 24th, St. Johns day, comes on Thursday and will be cele- brated on the following Sunday. the 27th, by many of the Masonic lodges.
 Amateur astronomers noted that yesterday, June 10, at 10.O9 a. m., Venus and the moon were in coujunc- ton; Venus south degrees, 3S min utes.
 The relative humidity in the middle O4 the day will hereafter be included in the weather reports furnished daily by the weather bureau to the news papers.
 Conductor John Mclean of the Shore Line is planning to purchase the Will liam Dawes property on the Boston Post road near the Shore Line hotel, Saybrook.
 The closing exercises of the Ledyard schools are to be held at Ledyard Center on the afternoon of Wednes- day, June 16, at 2 o'clock. There will be basket picnic at noon.
 The State W. c. T. U. has acknow- ledged toward the free will offering a total of s65, including from Central Village $3, Scotland s5, Thompson $40. Mystic $6. Westbrook S1.05.
 M- and Mrs. N. P. Coleman of South Coventry announce the marriage of their daughter, Dorothy, and Alfred George Crdckmore. son of Mir. and Mrs. James Crickmore, of East Windsor Hill.
 At midnight Wednesday night the shad fishermen drew up their nets out Of the Connecticut river for the last time in the season of 1915, ending what has been generally considered a disap- pointing year.
 A sewing contest participated in by pupils of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the five district schools of Salem was held at the Main street school. Laurence Spencer and Violet Rogers were the winners.
 Remember Fairgrounds day, Satur- day, June 12th. Donation boxes, ball game, folk dancing, Tubbs' band-adv The New London w. c. T. U. all- day meeting is to be held in two weeks at the cottage of Mrs. Frank A. Com stock at Ocean Beach, when aprons to be sold at the county fair at Nor wich in the fall will be collected. The South church, New Britain, has voted to join with the First church in | inviting the state conference of Con- gregational churches to hold it's next session in New Britain. The confer ence will be held in October, 1916. The tennis courts of the Mystic Country club will again be in use this 1 summer, and it is probable that a tour | nament will be held and the usual cup clubs may be invited to take part.
 The following contributions have been made to general missions by St James church. Poquetanuck: Offer ings, $1S.51; Sunday school, S3.86; Young Peoples Aid, $5; total $38.37.
 Frederick H. Sykes, president of the Connecticut College for Women, has II. Alice Ida Wood of Vassar college as professor of English at Connecticut college and resident fellow of Black stone hall.
 The executive committee of the Con nectfcut council of the national asso- citation of organists held a meeting at Meriden Monday evening to prepare for the gathering to be held at the Asylum Hill Congregational church, Hartford, June 14.
 The annual outing of Comfort cir cle of the Kings Daughters was held Thursday at the Neptune Park cottage of the leader, Mrs. A T. Utley, twenty enjoying the excellent dinner at noon The Norwich members left for home about 5.30 o'clock.
 The body of Benjamin D. Luce, who has Norwich relatives and who was long connected with the Mantle Men haden Fish and Guano company of Mantle. whose death occurred Sunday at Port Arthur. Tex, will arrive at his former home today (F'riday).
 The quarterly meeting of the Con necticut State Optical society was held Tuesday at the plant of the American Optical company at Southbridge, Mass Following business meeting of the society, luncheon was served in the dining room of 'he company.
 At recent meeting of the State Pharmaceutical associatiou's commit tee in charge of the annual convention to be held at Woodmont, final ar engagements for the event were made The convention will be in session We'd nesday and Thursday, June 23 and 24
 The circular just issued by the Con- necticut Society of Colonial Danes announcing the results of it's high school and grammar school prize essay contests states that 260 essays were re- ceived, showing that large number of schools competed, scattered widely throughout the state.
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