Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-06
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Horace Johnson foretold the holiday disturbance" correctly. More warm and ssltry weather is promised for the middA of the week. The annual reunion of the North family was held in Norfolk Monday. Monday mornings rain spoiled the plans for many family and neighbor- hood outings.
 All crops are looking well and with so much rain growers anticipate good harvest.
 As far as possible, freight service on the New Haven road was suspended, to give employees the holiday.
 Gilbert K. Burr of New London is a patient at Lawrence hospital with se- rious injuries as the result of a fall from naymow.
 The s6th annual reunion of the Scott Family association was held Monday at the home of Charles F. Loomis, Jr., in Wateftown. The first money to come from the yard of dimes" recently sent out is Mrs. K. B. Sibley of Danielson. During July the planet Jupiter rose 1 at f1.30 p. m. on the 1st and will rise at 9.30 p. m. on the 31st and is very fevorably placed for observation. A number of Eastern Connecticut teachers left Monday to take a course in teachers training at the Connecti- cut Agricultural College at Storrs. Visitors to the Backus hospital find the patients enjoying the new porch to the women's ward, built recently under the direction Of Supt. F. l.. Hutchins. Mr and Mrs. Frank Gersten of New York have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Minnie Gers ten, to Banjamin Elgart of Colchester. The choir boys of Christ Episcopal church, Westerly, have returned home after spending a week in the bungalow of the Norwich choir boys at Pleasant View.
 The ehildren's playground in the rear of the Congregational parsonage at North Stonington will open for the season at o'clock this (Tuesday) af- ternoon.
 The Duchess of Manchester and Miss Isabelle May Of Washington, D. C., who last year spent the summer at the Pequot. have engaged an apartment at lt-S SdStAO 1OE LCII udyS.
 The Old Homestead, the slightly cot tage at Crescent Beach owned by Mrs Avery Smith of Broad street. Norwich, has been leased for the second season by a family from Hartford.
 The July White Ribbon Banner an- nounces that the tri-county field day will be held on the Willimautic camp ground on Friday, Aug. Is, with yrHk AI $AeSf ArA. attractions.
 A New Haven paper says of a former Norwich resident: Mrs. Valentine turned from a three weeks stay in Brooklyn, where A. A. Whitely. her stepfather, died.
 Henry Elionsky. who planned to swim from the Battery to Coney Isl- and Sunday, did not attempt the task, as he could not procure a boat to fol- low him. He will try next Sunday to wriggle the journey with hands and feet shackled.
 A former Norwich girl, Ethel Vera Woodward. daughter of Rev. W. D. Woodward pastor of the Quarryville M. E. church, was graduated last week from Hartford business college. She had the highest honors in English and was class editor.
 The women of Pine Grove Mantle, have formed society for the benefit Of the grove. Socials and dances will be given weekly and the funds will all be used to beautify the place Last year the women contributed $100 as the result of their sociafs.
 A former Norwich Free Academy teach@, F. s. Baldwin, manager of the New York state insurance fund estab- lished under the workmen's compensa- ton act, has. announced that the first nine months of operation of the fund shows a surplus of $307, to be distributed in dividends