Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-04
VARIOUS MATTERS

These are comfortable days for 1 tourists on summer outings.
 Native cucumbers, cabbage and to- matoes are reaching market.
 The season for receiving pickles | opened last Saturday at Ellington.
 The worden has sailed from New,
 pert for the Thames Naval station.
 The Otis library is particularly well
 supplied with good books for summer
 reading.
 A Noank patient, George Brady, has 1 Norwich.
 The number of persons occupying camps and bungalows at Lantern HilI | is increasing.
 Among the recent guests at the Old Lyme inn were mentioned MT. and Mrs. Thomas Browning, of Norwich. An inposter working in the state is going about offering to tune pia- nos at reduced rates during the sum mer.
 The shrub hydrangeas are beginning
 to bloom and in some local grounds are effectively planted in borders, or
 in contrast to other shrubbery.
 Connecticut men will attend the an-
 nual convention of the New England l Association of paper box manufac- l turers in Boston. August 8 and 9,
 Regular meeting of Knights of Co., lumbus tonight-adv.
 Buyers who are about the state looking for peaches find the quality excellent, but the number very small, | as compared with the big crop of 1915. So much damp weather of late has had noticeable effect on the growth of trees, eIms naples. cherry ana | apple trees, in particular, manifest ing
 the change.
 By request of the Catholic Benevo- lent Legion high mass of requiem for Patrick J. Gleason was sung in St. Patrick's church Thursdag by Rev J.
 Ii. Broderick.
 The summer issue of the White Rib- l bon Banner notes that yards of dimes 1 from New Haven No l; Groton and 1 Newtown have been received by the state treasurer.
 At meeting of Vernon grange this | (Friday) evening the programme will be in charge of the three Graces, Miss Mildred Ellis. Miss Gladys Fislle and | Miss Louise Schwartz.
 Miss Mildred Irene Lay, daughter of JOrn Lay of Waterford and Edward Marshall Gilbert, Of New London wer @ married by Rev. Joseph P Br011n at New London at 5.30 o'clock Wednes-
 day afternoon.
 The Sunday school of the Central Baptist church will continue it's ses-
 sions through the summer, and all it's members who are to be in this viCini- ty have been requested to keep up their attendance.
 New telephone directories. effective Sunday, August 9th. were distributed Thursday. The new book is bound in gray, with blue lettering, and is all most square, giving room for three columns of names to the page,
 That some manufacturers are send ing abroad catalogues and samples by parcel post by mistake when they should be sent under other classes IS revealed in an advice from the post
 office department at Washington. About 2.3O Thursday there was gIee and excitement among children on Main street when a dozen or So of blue and orange balloons, advertising the County sair. were let fly. A few alert kiddies managed to catch a prize.
 The United States Department of Agriculture is encouraging the in creasing practice of New England housewives of gathering old fashioned herbs such as mint, sage, summer l savory, marjoram. dill. balm and fen nel.
 The Rev Edward J. Frederick. who died recently at Port Jervis, V. Y, was for a short time 9 popular assist ant pastor at St. Patrick's church, and in his memory a mass of requiem is to be offered in that church 0n Sat urday.
 During the coming session of the State Teachers Normal Training School at StOrrs college, a reception will be held Wednesday evening of each week. There will be a teachers 1 employment bureau in connection with | the school.
 George L. Chesebro, Norwich agent
 of the State Free Employment Bureau,
 was decidedly peeved Thursday, be- cause he had offered a number of young men work at the shore, paying S30 and $35 per month, which they had refused lazily.
 A Plainville correspondent writes of a former Norwich teacher, Principal Orrin L. Judd, of the local schools is spending his vacation at Mt. Wash ington, New Hampshire. MT. Wash ington is 6.293 feet high, and Mir. Judd has climbed to the top. The long expected blowing up of the wreck of the schooner Ruth, at the entrance of AIewife's cove. Ocean Beach, by a Film company, which has been taking pictures in that city, has
 not materialized, owing to objection l to the proceedings by some of the cot | tagers in the viGinity.
 Since the war began, nothing has l been seen or heard of the City of Norwich, the big sailing craft which once carried a cargo for the Page Boiler Co.,, of Norwich, from New 1 York to China Thursday the City of Norwich was reported at Vladivostok | port on Peter the Great Bay, in Ja- 1 pan Sea.
 There will be no increase in the price of ice in Norwich this season although there is an increase in Wa terbury, Bridgeport. and New Ha- ven. John H. Ford stated Thursday that. as far as he knew, present prices would continue, 20 cents per uuGred wholesale 30 to stores and saloons and