Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-09
VARIOUS MATTERS


 preparedness on an unusual scale l there.
 The Neptune Park cottage of Mrs. Sarah Asher of Norwich has been opened for the season.
 Midsummer bargain sales in the stores brought<large crowds of shop pers to town Saturday.
 Most of the card clubs and similar social organizations have discontinued | meetings for the summer. 1 Cobwebs covered the grass yesterday
 mornig, believed by the weather sharps 1 to mean a period of hot, dry weathe | ". R. Stevens studio will be closed till Wednesday, July II, while he is attending the grand lodge of Elks.- 1 adv.
 1 A handsome crimson rambler on a | trelIis in the grounds at the Caruthers 1 resid dence on Mckinley avenue is in | full bloom.
 l Sundays announcement showed that 1 Connecticut has enlisted just 1,400 men l in the regular army to date, 31 having | joined Saturday.
 I Crows hereabouts are manifesting pro- German traits, pulling up corn to get the kernel until farmers are al~ most diScoura ged.
 That women as well as men intend to do their bit in the line of crop pro- duction is demonstrated by a ride in I any section where there are gardens. The Holy Name society of St Pat ricks parish has requested for We'd nesday a months mind mass for James B. Shannon, the society's first presi- dent.
 Women in this section who make q from njtHAY hfRSwaX h9V- berry tallow will find an extra demand for them this season for decorative purposes.
 At the Union street grounds of the Leavens place the old fashioned hon eysuclSie is in bloom, the perfume of the mass of blossoms being noticeable for a long distance.
 The committee announced for nomi- mating officers for the Mems Brother hood of Trinity Methodist church is Albin Hagstrom. Wilbur E. Baldwin, Dr. J. H. Allen, J. B. Stanton.
 There was a good attendance Satur- requiem high mass for the deceased members of Division No 2. A. 0. H., was sung by Rev. J. H. Broderick.
 By vote Of New London women who had been attending the canning and preserving demonstrations there two days last week by Miss Nellie J. Camp bell of Norwich. the county dernonstra- 1 ton agent, she is to return there Aug. i 29
 There were only seven clear days ! last month, according to the monthly | meteorological summary of the B ock i Island weather bureau station. Six days were partly cloudy and r cloudy, | with rainfall over .01 inch rerocred on II days.
 The Loyal Temperance Legion, of which Mrs. J. J. Fields of Norwich is leader, is making special efforts to raise funds for benevolent purposes. The legion in Willimantic recently | voted s15 toward the support of | French orphan.
 Miss Leah Beckwith. who was in- jured in a fall from the Ellls' float | following the parade at New London Fourth of July. was discharged from Lawrence hospital Saturday. Miss Beckwith impersonated the Goddess of Liberty on the float.
 A J. Mason, third trick towerman at Vernon Junction tower, enlisted in Company c, First Connecticut infantry, during the recruiting campaign in Rockville last week. His place at Yer non Junction tower will be filed tenn porarily by R. G. Jenks.
 Rev Father stanislas MusieI, pastor
  town, has been transferred tC the pas torate of St. Cyril and St Methodius church. Hartford. Before going to Midd.etown. Father AIusieI was in New London for there months.
 The supplies at Trinity Methodist church for August vii be: Aug. ), Rev. E. A. Legg of DanieIson: Aug. 12. Rev. Lyman G. Horton. DD, of Woonsocket; Aug 19. Rev. Frederick C. Baker. of Fall River, Mass; Aug. 26. Camp Meeting Sunday.
 Additional Red Cross contributions from eastern Connecticut Catholic include: Crescent Beach. St seph's, s3s; Jewett City, St. Mary's. sS5. The total from the diocesan churches to date is S24,045.52.
 There is local interest in the fact that Rev. and Mrs. sF'. P. Racheler of attended the ordination of their son Theodore at the North Madi son Congregational church, North Mad lson, last Friday. Rev. F. P. Bacherer made the ordination prayer.
 About 40 members of the Tierney Temperance cadets, accompanied by their director. Miss Margaret Me Cafrey, and led by their color guards, | John and Thomas Guinan, marched to St. Patrick's church at 7.30 Sunday and received holy communion in a body.
 Two hundred New York boys rang ing in ages from 13 to IS years are expected to arrive at Camp Dewey, tomorrow (Tuesday). Upon arriving at New London they will make the trip to the camp in three special cars chartered from the Shore Line Electric railway.
 Coming from Los Angeles to Pitts ourgh to bury his wife, who died Jan. 92d. Dr. Herbert NJ. Bishop, formerly 1f Norwich, reached the home of his brother, Dr. Adam Bishop, in Mantle Sunday noon. He will visit Norwich friends before returning to California l. he middle of September
 On the six Sundays from July 22 to Aug. 26, inclusive, Broadway church E Sunday school will hold an informal loonday service with an exposition of he uniform lesson. in place of the lsual session by classes. Amos A Browning is the leader for J1lly 9 and |