Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-01
< VARIOUS MATTERS

Roses in local gardens are at their best this week.
 The best moonlight nights during July will be from the 18th to the 18th.
 Travel in all directions is growing heavy, as vacationtsts are starting on July outings.
 Farmers will no longer need to complain that there is no hot sun to cure their hay.
 One of the latest additions to the ranks of automobile owners is Prof. Frank L. Farrell.
 Enot will pitch for the All Norwich team at Falls diamond Sunday after noOn.-adv.
 Fully fifty per cent. Of the factories in Connecticut have reported on in dustrial preparedness.
 An odd book recently. acquired by the Peck library is Robert Christy's Proverbs and NIaxims."
 The convention of the Federation of Labor is to be held in Hartford the first week in September.
 Rev. J. M. Collins of White Rock. R. I, will preach tomorrow Sunday at the Sterling Hill Baptist church.
 Dues credited by the White Ribbon Banner include: Stafford, 3 members, S1,5O; Putnam, 30 members $7.5O.
 'fGettysburg'- patriotic. stereop- ticon address by Dr. Slocum at Cen tral Baptist tomorrow night.-adv.
 Many women and children will earn pocket money picking strawberries in Preston and Ledyard rom now on. -
 The postofioe sub-station in the Boston store closed earlier than usual Friday evening, as st6ck-takihg was going on.
 Many out of town visitors will come to Norwich today and tomorrow, to see the decorations already in place for July Fourth.
 A fine new fire escape has been erected on the north side of the Cen tral building in addition to one at the rear of the building. The great Preparedness celebration at Norwich, July Fourth, is an event that will attract the crowds from all Eastern onnecticut.-S1oosup Jour nal
 Bank officers and employees put in long hours Friday. owing to today be- inS the first of the month, the first day of the quarter and of the half year.
 Conductors on the trolley lines are using @ new coupon holder. which is an improvement on those used since the copper zone system first went into effect.
 At the office in the freight yard of the New Haven Roads Main Street station. a border of pansies has made a bright bit of color for a number of weeks.
 Men! Attend the rally at 3.30 tomor- row at Thayer building. SWahn's or chestra and Rev. L. o. Gates.-adV
 The state board of pharmacy is to meet at the capitol next Wednesday to examine fifty applicants who de- sire certificates to practice pharmacy in Connecticut.
 Although it is daybreak today at 2C5 the days are growing shorter, having lost four minutes since June 21st. However, July begins with @ day 15 hours, IA minutes long.
 Notification has been sent out that a convention on church advertising is to be held in New Haven in October with the cooperation of the Publicity club of the Chamber of Commerce.
 The engagement of Miss Bertha Silverman of Hartford to Jack Wet stone of Vernon has been announced They will receive Sunday evening from until 9 o'clock at No. AS Lenox street, Hartford.
 See Brazil, the great Penn State pitcher, at Falls diamond Sunday af- ternOOn.-adv.
 During the summer Trinity Metho- dist church will not be closed, all though the pastor. Rev. F. w. Coleman and his family will spend August at their summer home at Lake Went worth, New Hampshire.
 A Wamphasset Point correspondent writes; MT. and Mrs. John c. Gal lUp Ond son, Sprague, Mrs. Albert B. 8pTague and Mrs. Linnell of MOosup are at their cottage here, coming Fri day. and will remain for the season.
 Several Eastern Connecticut teach CTS will attend the annual conference of the National Educational associa- ton of the United Slaves, which will open today in Madison Square Gar den, New York, to continue until July 8th.
 On Thursday in the ancient burial ground of the Tanning family, at Led yard, John c. Quinlan of Norwich re- set the 225 year old headstone of Jon athan Tanning and the markers to MT Tanning and his wife, finely re-Iettered and restored.
 Mrs. Moves, wife of Judge Walter C.. Moves of New York, will celebrate the completion of the ne wtennis court on the Moves estate at Old Lyme at a tea in honor of her daughters Misses Marian and Katherine Moves this Saturday, afternoon.
 After July 12. of all the five bril- liant worlds in the sky, the single planet Mars will alone be left visible This little planet. however, runs so very rapidly eastward that it will not be overtaken by the sun an dso be-. come a morning star until February 2S, 1917.
 The state penalty tax on an es- tate on which the state tax of mills has not been paid for five years pre- viOus to the death of the owner, has been paid, since the law went in to effect last August, on 232 estates and the total amount received to date is BPS, ,126.95.