Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-11
... VARIOUS MATTERS

,s.e VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at TSP this eve- ming.
 The pink .DorothyAPerIins rambler roses about town are beginning to bloom.
 The store window displays of trunks, bags, suit-cases and the like are now the center of interest.
 The crowds attracted to town by the big show Monday helped business on an otherwise dull day.
 Although the change is scarcely mo- ticeable, by tomorrow the days length will have decreased just fifteen min utes.
 The Progressive Missionary Club of the Central Baptist church is to hold an alI-day outing at Mrs. J. H. Ford's tomorrow.
 The North Stonington Equal Fran chise league met in the vestry of the Congregational church in North Ston- ington' Monday afternoon.
 Motor touring parties from Ten nessee, California, Colorado and other distant points, pass through town daily, bound for points north.
 No matter how rainy it may be these days, the superstitious will want to have the sun shine on Saturday of this week, which is Saint Swithin's day.
 Auto buses for First Baptist Sunday school picnic will leave Ricker's. cor ner, West Side, at 830, and 93O o'clock Tuesday morning if weather is vorable.-adv.
 Fourteen savings banks in Connec- ticut have filed with the bank com missioner lists containing the names of depositors whose accounts have been unclaimed for twenty years.
 A canning demonstration is to be given by Miss M. EsteIle Sprague, of StorTs Agricultural colege, at the home of Benjamin Brundage, in Dan bury, this (Tuesday) afternoon.
 The boys in camp at Fort Terry have begun @ series of ball games, are having swimming lessons. and are entertained by band concerts by the volunteer band of the Coast Artillery Corps stationed at Fort Terry. A Norwich visitor in Waterbury tells of the ardor with which people there seek the shore, although trips to the beach cost them 95c, and their envy
 
 who find the beaches so accessible.
 Norwich friends hear that Charles F Chapman of New York, editor of Mo- tor Boating, has been in St. Paul. Minn., because of the important boat races there. MT Chapman is an aU thority on motor boating in general
 The papers comment upon the fact that although it is the vacation of Rt FThnr1oo- K h ir1,.O opi Western Massachusetts, he confirmed a class of twelve at a special service in the Episcopal church at Lenox, Sunday.
 Miss Catherine E. Boyle visitor for the DioCeoan Board for the Protection of Dependent Children, is in Holland county this week, and was at the Sacred Heart church, Vernon, Sun day, finding Catholic homes for de- pendent children.
 Five fourishing organizations are now maintained at St. James Episco- pal church, Poquetanuck, Rev. L. C.. Sheburne, rector, the Woman's Guild, Young Peoples Aid Society, Good Fellowship Club, Sunshine Girls and Wide Awake Cadets.
 The July White Ribbon Banner lists Willard Memorial offerings received during June: Mill Plain, Putnam, SouthingtOn, Groton, Essex, Seymour New London, East Danbury, Colches- ter, Danbury Central UnionviIIe Stratford and Buell., total $26
 Applications for all the apartments in the new houses on Rockwell street have been received by Secretary John J. Corkery, of the Norwich Housing Company and the new houses on the former Slater property bid fair to be G0n9 llV TlOn711av
 The Navy Department has inaugu- rated a civilian training cruise of four weeks starting Aug. Is and lasting un- til Sept. F, and a call has been issued 10 the owners of the 10000 motor boats between New London and Bar negat Inlet, to enter for the cruise.
 Visitors to Block Island this week Will have chance to see the flagship Wyoming, with Admiral Henry T, Mayo, Commander in Chief of the At lantic fleet; the flagship Arkansas en- gage in a series of nnanoeuvres in the vicinity of Block Island Sound for a week
 Strawberries have been more pIen- tiful in and about Mystic this year than for the past several years and have been selling for less than com- mon. Usually berries in that section
 
 year at that time they were in their height.
 The Catholic Transcript likes the fact that clergymen of all denomina- tions marched in the Norwich Pre- paredness Parade, remarzing that preparedness and brotherIy love and inter -denominational charity were alike eXemplifed, by this section of the, parade"
 The New Haven road, which had to borrow forty passenger coaches from various other railroads of the country in order to accommodate the holiday rush over the Fourth, because of troop trains sent to Mexico, has returned twenty of them. The rest will be re- turned soon.
 The quaint coach in the 101 Ranch parade Monday was that in which the Halle club girls rode during the 25Oth anniversary of Norwich, and was later