Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-08-07
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
The Greene camp meeting attracted
Eastern Connecticut visitors on Sum
day.
Stonington's-. special election to de-
eide one office, a tie for burgess, will
cost the borough the sum of.$40.
Red MEN are looking forward to the
Great Council Convention Of the Or
der which will be held in Rockville
Oct 4.
Miss Pauline -Baclzus zand Miss Mil
dred z. Wells, WiIlimantic, graduates,
will have the seventh. and third grades
in the same school.
Boat owners find that these are tho
days to exercise care lest the contents
of their craft and even the boats
themselves be found lacking.
Miss Ellen Boggemes, of the Wilt
mantle Normal school, will next year
teach in the fourth grade of the West
District school at Rockville.
To select a suitable site for flying,
Percival H. Spencer, a Hartford avia-
tor, is making a cruise up the Sound
and will visit Eastern Point and Fish
ers Island.
Detective w. ]. Burns, Mrs. Burns,
and their daughter and son. are at the
Mohican hotel, New London, for a
few days, on their way to Newport
and the White Mountains.
The state telephone directories, new
in size and form and binding. went
into effect on Sunday morning, bring
ing with them the new toll service to
Jewett City and Colchester.
Pleasure Beach tennis players have
issued a challenge to the Old Lyme
tennis team and at the courts at the
beach the matches will be played off
this week, probably on Wednesday.
The annual outing of the Past Camp
Commanders association, Division of
Connecticut, Sons of Veterans, at
Savin Rock, Saturday, with 5 attend
The day lily is a flower that the
botanists find chiefly in southern New
England and along the cross country
shore line trolley lines the bright nod
ding heads may he frequently noted.
Mrs. Sumner Root received many
calls and congratulations when she
! celebrated her Tooth birthday anniver-
sary at her home in SomeTs Thursday.
health.
Colchester relatives attended the fu-
neral of Dr.. James L. Sullivan. held
on Friday in Bridgeport. Rev. Timothy
E. Sullivan, brother of the deceased,
celebrated the mass, assisted by %
priests.
Saturday was a day that augured
more of the wet weather of July, but
the wind veered during the night. At
the shore q slight shower at 2 o'clock
| on Sunday afternoon was the only
sign Of rain.
Sheriff ]. H. Tubbs, who was badly
injured when a motorcycle ran into
him in New London a month ago, is
able to be out and attending to bus
mess, though he still feels the effects
of the accident.
Among the August vacationists at
MCnonote inn, Fishers Island, are Mr..
and Mrs. Hiram Percy Maxim of Pros
pect avenue, Hartford, the former the
author of DefenseIess America and in
ventOr of the siIencer.
Small bluefish, the so-caIIed SNAP
perS,' are swarming in the HOuSatOnic
mouth at StTatford breaIIWater and
they may be expected shortly in wa
ters nearer home. The numbers fore
cast big run of larger bIuefsh later,
Excursion to Montreal, via the
Central Vermont railway, August II
and II, final return limit August %.
Only $1,000 for the round trip. See
flyers for particulars.-adv.
George I. Chesbro, Norwich agent for
the state free employment bureau, Wis
iting dozen towns in the eastern end
Of the state one day last week, was
| unable to find a single man to take
jobs as farnhands- at $50 month and
board.
George Auburn, who was taken i'll
az Auburn, N. Y, on his way back to
this city on a motorcycle trip to Mag
ara Falls, is getting better, his mother,
who went there, sends word home. 1t
was thought he had typhoid fever, but
this has been averted.
At Allen Latham's address at the
beekeepers' meeting at Storrs on Pro-
ducing Comb Honey Without Sep
arators, he illustrated his address with
a line of his own manufacture and the
bee enthusiasts spent over an hour
discussing the Norwich mans theories.
The Connecticut beekeepers have
decided that the October gath ering, in
stead of meeting in the old senate
| chamber at Hartford according to GUS
tom, would meet, as invited by DR..
Gates, in joint session with the Nfassa-
| chUsetts association at Springfield this
fal.
The Connecticut Adventist camp
meetings will open in the Durham
grove, SOuthington, on Aug. &c, and the
services will continue until Sept. 8,
which will include one week Of the
meetings and two Sundays, the same
as has been the case for several years
past.
Among those enrolled for the last
camp at Plattsourg are Frank w.
| Hamilton, Groton: Arthur b. Lapsley
and Russell Perkins, Pomfret Center;
| Marshall Dawson, Storrs; Charles ].
Hartman, Putnam; John H. Larned,
Stafford Springs; Clifford Cornwall,
| Mystic.
The Salvation Army had a rally in
Rose alley on Sunday evening and it's
members were supplemented by mem
bers Of the Gospel Mission. But pass
| ing trolley cars and automobiles on
| one side and a switching engine on the