Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-02
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Many of the holiday guests left town on Tuesday.
 There is g. demand at the libraries for books on Italy and Japan in par 1 dcular.
 About the country, apple and cherry trees begin to show the effect of the tent caterpillars' destruction.
 The subject of the grange meeting at Coventry Thursday evening is to be Smal Fruits on the Farm. The women's prayer meeting at the Central Baptist church was led by Mrs. F. D. Vergason Tuesday afternoon. Episcopal rectors from eastern Con- necticut will be in Hartford Thursday for tho conference Of church clubs. Somerset lodge works the third de- gree tonight at 7.3o.-adv. During June the planet Mercury will be in the western evening sky for a few days, setting about an hour after the sun.
 Ernest Merrill, the new pastor of the IOnRT0RdL1OIld1 dI coventry , and Miss Wilder of Shrewsbury, Mass, will be married June at Miss Wilders 8 home.
 Newport, R. L, papers state that Dr. Harry Jennings Knapp, who is a Nor wich boy, has been elected president
 of the medical board of the Newport
 hospital.
 Botantst note that horse chestnut i ,-IsO
 than usual and that the blossoms have
 remained on the trees for an excep-
 tionally long period.
 In the town court at Manchester
 Monday morning John Christianson of
 South Coventry, who forgot to light
 his automobile lights Saturday night, was fined $5 and costs.
 At present there are over 250 pupils,
 taught by four Sisters, in St. Joseph S
 Polish school, Cliff street. It is eX-
 pected that another teacher will be re-
 Quired for the coming school year.
 Connecticut women have been using W. c. T. U. posters more or less for
 ask each local union to make special efforts to observe June 24th as Poster
 day.
 AAcJOI 4o4Ah 11s JOLIlSIOA O4 NEW Britain, major of the
 Putnam Phalanx of Hartford, has been
 in New London making arrangements for the visit of the phalanx June IT and IS.
 During the patriotic services at Trinity Methodist church Sunday in honor of the veterans of the Civil war Prof. J. H. George played a beautiful | cornet solo, o Rest in the Lord, at the morning service.
 A former Norwich clergyman, Rev R. R. Parker, curate of Christ church Hartford, has received word of the death of his great-nephew, Lieut.. R H. P. Howard, attached to the Second East Surrey regiment. Silas Whipple, the farmer, of Lef- fingwell, brought in the first native strawberries Tuesday. He also show ed two stalks of rhubarb 2S inches ir length, four inches in circumference and weighing one pound each. 4 member of the senior class at Yale is Joseph Albert Vachon, born in Dan- ielson, May 27, 2887. He prepared fol 1 school. He will enter the ministry His address is 1S6 South Main street Putnam.
 l WydtSTpury papers III the 1lSI Ol teachers for the coming year, note the l reappointment of vice principal James E. Grafton, of the high school at a 1 salary of $2,000 and the increase of $5C 1 in the salary of Miss Millie D. Mur-
 pry. both of Norwich Almost 100 members of the New London Christian Endeavor union and 1 friends of the movement assembled ir the Mantle Baptist church, where the l spring meeting of the New London | Christian Endeavor union was held Monday, with morning and afternoon sessions.
 The appropriations made for the work of the Colonial Danes of Con- l necticut the coming year included $30C for the use of the committee on old homes, $40O for the committee on his toric landmarks, $250 for the patriotic ! work, and s175 for the prize essay
 committee.
 the class day exercises of Barnard college, New York, June 8. One of the members of the class is Miss Beulah Weldon of New Rochelle, daughter ot MT. and Mrs. Henry J. Weldon, for merly of Norwich, a Crescent Beach summer resident.
 One of the most distinguished of the faculty of the Connecticut College for
 Women will be Maturin M. Dondo, in- structor in romance languages at Co.,
 lumbia university, who is to be assist
 ant professor of romance languages at
 the new college. MT. Dondo was born in Lorient, France. Only Three Years Old. Groton Long Point has a s2oo0o Venetian Yacht Iarbor, club house 75 new cottages, running water. cleo