Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22
VARIOUS MATTERS

Tomorrow is Pentecost Sunday.
The, moon was in its first quarter
Friday.
Fruit trees do not appear to have
been affected by the frosts early in
the week.
An appreciated improvement is the
newly laid concrete crossing at the
foot of Bath street.
There will be an auction at E. ].
Ayers. North Franklin, Tuesday, June
s, at IL o'clock.-Adv.
Rockville council, K Of c., is to send
seven candidates to Norwich May 80
to take the fourth degree.
Frost has seriously damaged straw
berries and early garden truck in the
low1ands of Vernon and Ellington.
The railroad banks above the navy
yard are beautiful sight now that
the long-stemmed blue violets are
blooming.
The men at the New Haven railroad
station have started plants and seeds
in four flower beds, following their an
nua1 custom.
The annual meeting of the TolIand
County Association of Ministers and
Churches is to be held Wednesday,
May 26, at Somers.
AT the Tolland the Methodist church
Sunday there viii be sermon by the
Rev. G. G. G. Scrivener, of Norwich,
district superintendent.
Friday at o'clock in st. Patrick s
church an anniversary high mass of
requiem for Thomas Carberry was
sung by Rev. J. H. Broderick.
There is to be a reception of new
members and a rosary procession in
ST. Patricks church following vespers
and May devotions Sunday afternoon.
Superintendent Graham has an
nounced that there will be no school
May 81 AS Memorial day comes on
Sunday, the observance of the day will
come Monday.
A corn growing contest is being
started among the boys of Lyme vii
lage under 90 years of age. The win
ners will be given q, three day trip to
New York next fall.
This afternoon the Mothers Jewels
and Home Guards of Trinity Methodist
church are to have a lawn party at
the parsonage. Bad weather will COM
pei holding it at the church.
The historian of the Connecticut So
ciety of Colonial Danes whose an
nua1 meeting will take place Tuesday
in Hartford. is Mrs. John Addison Por-
ter of Pomfret and New Haven.
Ade1ard Girouard Iectured recently
before the Holy Name society of ST.
Johns church, Montville, on the mis-
sions in California. The lecture was
illustrated with stereopticon views.
Miss Alice Helen wa1stedt, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Walstedt, of Crom-
well and Daniel Weyant, Jr., of New
London, were married at the Congre-
gationa1 parsonage at Cromwell by
Rev. Homer w. Hildreth.
Although invited, Manager Daven-
port and Assistant Manager Bland, of
the Wauregan, will be unable to at
tend the meeting of the hotel men,
which will be held at the Stratfield in
Bridgeport, today Saturday.
Supervisors of the local parochial
schools have been notified that schol-
arship examination for the graduates
of the parochial schools of the state
are to be held at Mt. st. Joseph SEM
mary, Hartford. June 20 and 26.
The following will has been filed in
the surrogate court at New York: F'a-
gan, Ann. april 12): personally, SILL
900: $3.50 each to John and Matthew
Gilmore, of Stonington, Conn; 5000 to
Mamie Cahill; residue to nephew,
Christopher Crutce, and his children.
The current Catholic Transcript
says: The retreats of the diocesan
clergy will take place at Keyser Is
land, June TIP, June 14-19. The Rev.
Thomas I. Gasson. S. J., of George
town university, formerly president of
Boston college, will conduct the exer-
cises.
The metal po1ishers' international
unions general election is held this
week in every city and town in the
United States and Canada, at which
president, secretary and treasurer first
vice presidents and a delegate to the
American Federation of Labor are
elected.
Only Three Years Old.
Groton Long Point has a $4,000
Venetian Yacht harbor, club house,
rs new cottages, running water, cleo
trfcity, IL. mile board walk, new
SIS 900 entrance road and bridge, Per-
feet sandy beach and only good peo-
pie. Send for booklet B. Lots SPAS up
on easy payments. Jas. Jay Smith
Co., New London.-adv.