Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-18
VARIOUS MATTERS


anee and are working on the early
peas.
Next Saturday viii be ST. Sebas-
tian's. day observed by italians about
the state.
School children have been asked to
unite in observance Of May IS as
Peace day.
Chilly as it seems, wild pinks are
in bloom on the railroad banks below
Laurel Hill.
The Bulletin has been favored~with
Washington, D. G. post cards from
Mrs. L. A. Sparks.
will 20 to Springfield Mass, for the
music festival. May 20-22.
Owners of apple orchards are CIV
ing trees their second spraying this
week, now that the blossoms are off.
Monday afternoon The Father Lights
of the Central Baptist church met
with Miss Elizabeth SEWN, No 81
Treadway avenue.
A jitney service hastheen established
IN the borough of Groton, proving
popular. especially tospeopEe living be-
low Poquonoc road.
Major Isaac Bfomley's cottage at
Eastern point has been opened for the
summer and several members of the
family have already arrived.
Only two weeks remain before the
Yale oarsmen come to the Thames to
spend little more than three weeks
in training for the annual races with
Harvard, June 25th.
1Ers r1har+;ra L<aIsay ~ r{ip+r,,
president elect of the Woman's Relief
corps, has appointed Mrs. Elizabeth
Spicer of New London press CORES
pondent for the state.
Examinations will be held this week
of the members of large class of
children of st. Patrick's parish, who
will receive their first holy communion
on Saturday, May goth.
The last week was not a profitable
one for the shad fishermen of Con-
necticut- Not one crew reached the
100 mark during the week and the ma
jority landed not over so.
Friday a party went out from
Groton with James l.. Hubbard of
Norwich in the yacht Nightingale and
returned with q good catch of cod,
among them several large fish
Donald G. Mitchell, a Salem sum
mer resident, was elected a member
of the executive committee of the
Memorial hospital at a meeting held
in New London Saturday afternoon.
Entertainment and Bazaar at Ger
man Lutheran church, May goth, 1915,
Z p. m. Admission free. All welcome
ADV.
The executive committee of the
PflfT1oYr7 xx-Ii no yi,aI,
members met at Hartford Monday ev-
ening to consider plans for the an
nual excursion on Bunker Hill day,
June II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Burt of
Groton. formerly of Norwich, have
been at their cottage at Pleasure
Beach, where they are having repairs
made preparatory to moving them for
the summer.
A Bristol correspondent writes:
Miller Card, a former resident who
has been engaged in poultry work at
Storrs college, will return to this city,
and will be employed by the Wallace
Barnes company.
At a meeting of the state tubercu-
| losis commission at the capitol Mon
| day the contract for Is, 900 dozen of
eggs for the four state sanatoriums
| was awarded to New Haven man at
"a cents dozen.
The Young Woman's Christian asso-
citation has issued a warning to girls
of the East not to go to California
expecting to find employment, unless
they have plenty of money, as there
is great risk of disappointment.
Hear Miss Marjorie Dorman, anti
| suffrage speaker in Town hall, We'd
va - i
mission free.-adv.
A number Of veterans from Norwich
will go to Willimantic today (Tues-
day. for the annual reunion of the
Twenty-First regiment, Connecticut
Army hall There are Las members
living.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Congdon of
Mantle were given surprise Friday
evening by relatives and friends in
honor of their twenty-1fth wedding
anniversary. Miss Bertha Barnard in
behalf of the visitors presented Mr..
and Mrs. Congdon a set Of silver
spoons.
Among the authors who have given
manuscripts to be sold for the Bel
gian suffers at the sale arranged by
William Henry Bishop, who has a
summer residence at Brooklyn, Conn,
and Miss Julie NJ. Lippmann former
ly Of Norwich.
Industrial workers have been mott
fed that an exhibit of the most ap-
proved methods of training young men
and women for places in industrial
life will be q. feature of the convention
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers to be held at the Waldorf,
New York. May 25.
The saengerfest of the Northeastern
Federation Of German-American Sing
ing Societies Of America is to be held
at the Thirteenth Regiment armory,
Brooklyn, from May 20 to June g 1t
is estimated that from 5000 to 1000
singers from this state and other
states will attend.
Commodore Morton F. Plant has
sold the Thelma to Frederick Van
| derbilt. The TheIrna was used by Mr..
Plant as a, tender to the Elena when
the schooner yacht was doing SO
much racing. The Thelma was built
for Commodore Plant after he dis
posed of the Iolanda.