Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-03
VARIOUS MATTERS
High tides will prevail today.

High tides will prevail today.
 Light vehicle lamps at 7.55 this l evening.
 l The moon fulls tomorrow, July 4, | Pfckers are beginning to get busy in the strawberry beds in the suburbs. l So far the elms about town are in 1 good condition, undisturbed by bee ties.
 i In spite of the heat Monday. there was much shopping in preparation for 1 the Fourth.
 Holiday travel. added to the regu- I lar vacation traffic started up by the | hot wave, made crowded trains and trolleys Monday.
 | New books at the Otis Library in ciude J. D. Halls Genealogy and Bio- graphy of the Waldos of America, and | the Parker Genealogy.
 In number of places the days of this week are special Flower Days, when blossoms are sent to consump- tives, and sold for their benefit. There is to be total eclipse of the moon, July 4. but it will be invisible in North America. It begins at 2h. 53m. p. m and ends at 6h. 25m D. m The preacher at the Second Con sregationaI church next Sunday will be Rev. William T. Holmes. president of Tougaloo college, You ugaioo, Missis- sippi.
 The coming of so many city board CTS to th> suburbs means cash sales for eggs, milk, vegeta bles and fruit to those farmers who have such supplies to sell.
 Already there are 46o children in the Little Mothers League under the auspices of the Norwich United Work CTS. They are to be instructed in classes of 50.
 By contrast with the slow recruit ing at present. Norwich veterans of the 26th regiment are proud to re- member that, when the call came in 1861, no fewer than S25 volunteered.
 Announcement is made by the high way department that the state high way through Bolton Notch is open to traffic, there having been a detour be- cause of improvements in that road.
 Automobile parties who have visited Hartford within the past two or three days find the roses in Elizabeth Park two weeks late. Just now only about 40 per cent. of the roses are in bloom
 At Ellington, Si1berheiz and Wet stone. who have the largest tobacco
 
 setting about fftythree acres of shade grown tobacco. Sixty hands were em- pIoyed.
 Episcopalian churches are giving notice that an honor roll is being made up of parish members sha enlist. Names of those who have o.unteered were read Sunday from ti.aLy pulpits.
 While loading boiler iron at New Haven. Friday afternoon. Messenger George Cone, who is employed on the express car of the Shore Line Elec- 1 tric Railway company at Saybrook, | broke his leg.
 The Ledyard grange voted to send 1 Miss Hazel Lamb to the canning dem onstration at Storrs for one week, 1 with the understanding that she use her knowledge for instructing any who desire help.
 Latest tabulations by the Ameri- can Red Cross show that Delaware l tributions to the Red Cross War Fund, ! with a rate of s5. Connecticut's con 1 tributions averaged S2.05.
 Last season about ten families where | there were babies were supplied free | ice daily through the efforts of com | nittee of the United Workers. This benevolent work is to be continued | during the present season.
 MT. and Mrs William P. Robertson of Hartford announce the engagement l of their daughter. Miss Hazel Adele 1 Robinson, to Rev. Harold Sumne. Winship. pastor of the Second Con church at Coventry
 Employees of the New Haven road nave been receiving extra pay for the past few days. The money is one third of the back time due the men for work done since the Atkinson -ight-hour law became effective Jan nary 1 of this year.
 The next naturalization session for aliens will be held Tuesday, October }. and all aliens who wish to have heir cases heard at this time must 1le their applications with the clerk If the superior court in this county | rot later than today (Tuesday
 While neighboring cities are bring ng out old fire engines for Fourth of ny pa Parades n;ent 1t t 15 well to g Tsmember gn If Norwich was built in 1769 and that Thief Howard L. Stanton finds that [ is the sixth oldest engine in the United States
 The total amount of nll income axes levied upon corporations doing 'usiness in this state this year is s3. 7e,273.55. an increase of sf54SS4o19t
 v otal number of corporations liable or the income tax this year is 2,995, n increase of 36s
 A Derby item states that State Sen { tor P. B. O'Sullivan and minority eader in the senate at the last ses- ion, has taken possession of his sum l ner home at Woodmont with his fam l ly. Senator O'SulIivan is the son of | I he late Dr. T. J. O'Sullivan of Nor I Fich and married Miss Lawton, of the { Academy faculty. I
 A few days ago. The Bulletins teIe- I raphic page had a notice from Otta- "a that Walter Wilson, of Canterbury, vas in the casualty list. He is the on of MT and Mrs. T. L. Wilson was T the Canadian Expeditionary Corps nd had been missing two years. The 1 arents anxiously await more definite ! ews of him. Monday at Waterbury. there was an T hearing in bankruptcy in g Thich President S. B. Hutchinson of ( he Hutchinson company and counsel I