Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31

VARIOUS MATTERS

If Friday was q correct calendar day for August. it will suit the shore hotel men.
 have left this week for their city
 homes.
 Growers claim that old cabbage was
 ing exceptionally low.
 The sbeautiful rhododendrons in the North Stonington swamps have been a
 wonderful sight this year. July has been a month Of five Eweeks, a fact more pleasing to tenants. than to landlords. Only one hour and twenty minutes to Atlantic Beach via Westerly. Drews concert orchestra, Sunday adv.
 This win be a busy morning in the banks, ending a month and preceding the Saturday half holiday.
 After an operation on his throat in the Backus hospital, Norwich. Herbert Whitford has returned home. Some unusually fine cannas are growing this year at the Wasiey resi- dence on West Thames street A big clambake on the sand across the cove at Ocean Beach is to be held this evening by the guests at Mabrey's Vintage" the latest poem by witter Bynner, nephew of Arthur H. Brewer, of Norwich, is being widely copied and quoted.
 Edgewater cottage at Lords Point
 has as occupants the present week a
 group of Ossaway Camp Fire Girls of Holyoke. Mass.
 Tables and comfortables chairs free for your enjoyment at Atlantic Beach. Drew's concert orchestra Sunday af- ternoon.-adv.
 lots on the Spicer farm in Preston, where some of the finest berries of the season are found.
 One of the August preachers at East ern Point chapel will be Rev. Edward fM. Chapman of the First Congrega- tional church, Lyme. A number of Luther leaguers from eastern Connecticut attended the an- nual picnic of the State Luther league l at Lake Compounce Thursday. Tug Aquidneck has lowed the P. R. R. barge No. 705 from Norwich, where | of coal, to mid-stream in the New
 London harbor.
 In all the Catholic churches of the Milan will be read, recommending a collection Sunday, Aug. 8. for the war sufferers in Poland.
 See Saws, Swings, Ponies, Bathing and Canoeing at Atlantic Beach. D-ew's concert orchestra, Sunday, August 1st-adv.
 Former treasurer of East Lyme, Jo- seph Robinson, who has been at a hos pftal in Hartford several months, re- turned to his home in Flanders this l week, much improved in health.
 There will be the devotion of the Portiuncula in all the Roman Catholic l churches and public chapels of this diocese from noon Sunday, the first day of August. until midnight on Monday Reverend Brothers Sylvan and Jer- ome of St. Johns preparatory college Danyers, Mass, are visiting Connecti-
 cut cities to meet their students and
 will be at the Wauregan, Norwich, l next Monday.
 At Southington, Corporal Knight and Private Wise of the 10th and the 18th United States Coast artillery are mak- ing typographical survey of the country. The men come from Fort Wright, Fishers Island. Thomas Q. Oddo. member of the | firm of A. Oddo & Sons, contractors, London. were married Thursday by
 Rev. Joseph P. Brown at his resi- dence. 199 Huntington street.
  bic, is urging all w. c. T. U. press su-
 periutendents about Connecticut ato keep notebook at hand, in which an accurate account can be kept of all
 reports, notices, etc. of work. It is planned to have the library of
 St. James Episcopal Sunday school at Poquetanuck ready for use the first Sunday in September. Twenty dollars more would enable the rector, Rev. L.. G. Sherburne, to secure the necessary humber of books.
 The Lantern Hin laolin deposit, the land on which it Is found having been
 sold recently to the owners of the siIex
 mine there. is of the quality of clay and has a smooth feeling similar to that of talcuIn powder, in the manu-
 fracture of which it is to be used.
 T. E. Main and w. F. Sheldon, two OI the trustees or the MOOSup Meth odist church, accompanied by Rev. A. H. Withee and Mrs. WitIlee, were in Willimantic Monday to inspect the cot tage lately given to the church by Mrs.
 Alice Wilson. They found the cottage
 in very good repair.
 A church meeting was called at Co., ! lun1bia for Friday afternoon to hear the report of the committee on pulpit sup ply and to see if they would extend a call to Rev. F. M. Hollister of Mystic
 to become the pastor of the Congre- gadonal church. The meeting ad-
 1ourned without reaching any decision. Gospel Mission Open Air Meetinq.
 The Gospel Mission is to hold an all day open air meeting on Sunday on the lawn of T. H. Peabody's home at East Great Plain, instead of in their
 rooms This will be the second an-
 nual meeting the first meeting having invite everybody and have all who