Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-01
VARIOUS MATTERS

i VARIOUS MATTERS | It is daybreak now at 2.o5.
 Light vehicle lamps at 7.45 this
 evening.
 Foggy mornings are predicted for
 several days.
 The length of the day has increased
 an even six hours.
 The last of the May baskets were hung last evening.
 This is the feast day of St. Nacomede in the church calendar.
 Regular meeting of the K. of c. this evenirg.-adv.
 This is the first day of the first
 month of the summer season ], The best moonlight nights in June will be from the Sd to the 5th. above freezing, earty Thursday morn ! ing.
 i The casino on the si1ore of Jake /: wangumbaug. South Coventry, opened for the season "Wednesday. ] In the ranks of the Boy Scouts in ] the New London Memorial day parade was troop of 1R from Quaker Hili. feet at Broadway Congregational church was The Service of Church to State.
 Farmers say that notwithstanding the rains of late the ground Is still dry just beneath the surface, the wind having dried up the moisture.
 The First school district of Groton has asked for $1, 900 more this year than before, to be used in salaries. and other districts have asked an increase.
 A nation wide campaign for a gen. eral observance of Patriotic Sunday July 1 has been decided upon by ma tional denominational Sunday school leaders. .
 The families of Dr. Benjamin T. Til ton. Adams Batcheller- A. Henry Mosle arrived at their cottages at Black Point for the summer.
 At the annual meeting of the New Republic Tuesday. June 9th. the speak CTS will include Dr. Benjamin W. Ba- con. formerly of Norwich.
 When the Progressive Missionary club of the Central Baptist church met in the church Thursday afternoon Rev and Mrs. F. H. Rose spoke on their work in the Philippines
 Clark G. voorhees of Lyme has been in New York attending the funeral of his mother. Mrs. Mary Greenwood Voorhees, S6. Mrs. Voorhees, built summer home at Lyme a few years ago.
 The first short calendar session of the June term of the TollSI,d county superior court will be held this morn ing at Rockville. Judge William l.. Bennett of New Haven will be on the bench.
 Eastern Connecticut students write i home that the senior spread and dance i at Harvard university will be held 1 hall. The class day exercises will be | held Tuesday. June 19.
 The last social evening for the sea- son of the Holy Name society of St | Faatsiel.'s parish. Alexander Jordan, | president. was held recently in the as- | sembly hall of the parish school, cards l and 9. smoker being enjoyed.
 School authorities ;n every Connecti- ] cut town and city will receive before l tonight copies of bulletins outlining | the purposes Of Registratio day. next l Tuesday. for distribution to all the | teachers in their communities.
 For the social part of their meeting next week New London lodge If EiNs will enjoy a program furnished by the l E1ks who are attached to the subma | rine base and a. feast is to be provid- ed under the direction of Timothy Toolin, chef at the base.
 Col. William Conant Church, ate ed itor of the Army and Navy Journal a native of Mansfield, Conn, who died May g, left an estate worth at least s175,eoo. according to petition for probate of his will filed in the surro- gates court at New York.
 An omitted line Thursday cut off the statement of the authorities at the Norwich state hospital that they had known nothing of Mrs. Mary Barnes Tyler since her discharge Oct. 20, 1903, until they read the newspaper notice of her suicide May 29th.
 A large number attended the golden wedding of MT. and Mrs John w. Edgerton of Vernon Center Wednes- daE. Mir. Tdgerton was bcr,: in Tol- land and lived there until five years ago, when he sold his farm and moved 10 his new home in Vernon Center.
 The war department is to promulgate making exemptions from he selective draft of men employed in nunition factories and other Indus he nation by remaining at their work han joining the United States army.
 The Kentucky poet and humorist, J. Lampson, who died sud- lenly in New York Wednesday, had a He was entertained in September, 1902. by MT. and Mrs. Percy Palmer