Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-29
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Light vehicle lamps at 7.4s this
 evening.
 l Today, May 2sth. will be exactly 15
 hours long.
 The schools will not be in session here on Memorial day.
 Show windows in certain of the stores have special Memorial day dec- orations.
 Holiday travellers today will hope for an improvement on Mondays rainy
 weather.
 Wednesday, Friday and Saturday are | the spring ernber days in the church calendar.
 A number of public parks and
 suburban inns will open their season l tomorrow.
 Senior grade pupils in most of the schools are already rehearsing for | graduation.
 Because the banks and library will be closed for the holiday, they will do ] extra business today. | Vases filled and flowers furnished l for Decoration day. Maplewood Nurs- l cry Co. Tel. sS6.-adv. Memorial day exercises will be held 1 at Hebron "Wednesday morning The ] Columbia band will play. Though there has been dancing at l Ocean Beach for six weeks, the for mai opening will be on Memorial day The fine now grano1ithic walks be- i ing completed on East Main street will be appreciated by all who travel that way.
 Friday evening District Superinten- dent G.-G. Scrivener is to hold the first quarterly conference at Trinity Methodist church. To accommodate holiday traffic the New Haven railroad has announced special train from Boston to New York for May @ and May 30. Because of the rain Monday evening the meeting of the Vineyard Workers appointed to be held with the Misses Hamilton of Cliff street was post poned.
 A Haddam inventor has devised a plan to successfully combat the U-boat menace and has forwarded the sugges- tion to the navy department, believing they win be accepted.
 Postofice clerks will attend the 18th annual convention of the Connecticut state branch of postoffice clerks in
  delegates will be present.
 Saturday afternoon next. at o'clock Rt- Rev. John J. Milan, D. D., bishop of the Hartford diocese. will administer the sacrament of confirmation to large class in St. Patrick's church.
 Yesterday. May 2sth, was the ami versary of the birth in 1894 of William A. Buckingham. governor of Connecti- cut during the Civil war, who was born at Lebanon. He died In Norwich Feb. 3. 1875
 Next Saturday at 2.s0 p. m. at the childrens rally of the Eastern Con- necticut branch in the parish house of Park church, there is to be stereop- ticon lecture and talk by Miss Ruth Seabury-
 A Hebron correspondent notes that Mrs. Lulu Thompson has received a message from a physician at the tu berculosis hospital in Norwich thAt her son, Everett Thompson, was fail ing fast.
 Strawberries have suffered from the frost of a week ago and one Connecti- cut farmer who dug up an amount of his crop states that the berries showed signs of being badly damaged by the cold spell.
 4 number of Connecticut men of military age have sent in their appli- l cations or have applied personally for the training camps for colored citizens which will be opened at Fort Des MOines, Iowa, June 18th.
 Mrs Eliza Shelden Butler McCook, | v. wife of Rev Dr. John J. McCook | at the family home, No. 396 Main l street, Hartford. She was born in the | house in which she died.
 Those who attend the exercises at | the boulder in Norwich Town at 4.30 | this afternoon in memory of the French | soldiers are to leave the car at the l church, going down past the school l house, to the cemetery entrance.
 Harry K. ThaK's yacht Evelyn has been bought by Senator John M. | O'Connell of Bridgeport chief clerk in | the department of labor at the capitol | from George Costello at Noank, and | will make her ready for use this week 1
 A balcony is being added to the east erly side of the Olcott residence on l Church street. one of the most sub Stdntial Colonial houses in Connect l cut, which stands on the ancestral site of what was once Christ church giebe land.
 Hartford papers mention that fea- ture of the first banquet of the Aetna Life Girls club held at the HotgI | Monday evening was the | dane1ng of the Highland fling by Miss Madiyn Casey, who is the daughter of James J. Casey of Norwich.
 Our Flag is the title of an artistic illustrated booklet issued from the of flee of the secretary of the common wealth, Boston, giving the flags his tory, anniversaries, laws. etiquette etc. II 3 useful manual which Julian R. Dilla- by, formerly of Norwich, assisted in preparing.
 c. H. Motsett, former superinten- 1ent; R. T.. Pierson. former division engineer: $. F. Mckay, former chief