Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
VARIOUS MATTERS

NofWfen, IuSeuays Suiy ", iSlfs VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 7.5s this | evening.
 The moon Is in its last quarter at TIP a. m. tomorrow, the 11th.
 |. Elderberry shrubs about the coun-
 tryside are hanging low with blossoms
 just now.
 Several local motor parties have vis- ited Cromwell to see the wonderful
 rose display at Persons.
 Some farmers who had planned to put Tn a lot of buckwheat this year | are not to do as seed is so high. l All along the route to Ocean Beach, 1 New London home garden plots are conspicuously marked by wooden | signs.
 This week there are nearly 124o pa tients at the Norwich State Hospital l There are nearly 100 men at the State 1 Farm for Ifebriases.
 | The summer committee on pro- gramme at Trinity Methodist church 1 includes J. C. Macpherson, Guy B. l Dolbeare and William Grove.
 Court snipsic. No; s2, F. Of A. of
 rolls with dues fully paid all those | who are i'll who go to the front. The Connecticut Chiropodists so- ciety held it's quarterly meeting Sun day afternoon at the New Shore ham hotel, Morris Cove, New Haven. The oyster industry of the state is now in fine condition and the beds in the sound prove a profitable invest ment to the state in the returns firm the tax on them.
 Wednesday the Progressive Mission ary club of the Central Baptist church J. M. Burdick, at Best View. leaving on the e.15 car from the square. Dealers from Connecticut have left to attend the sem, annual convention at Grand Rapids. Mich, of furniture men from all parts of the country, where buyers go to book their or ders.
 The ministers of Connecticut are be- ing asked by the committee of food conservation to assist in bringing the importance of the Hoover pledge to the attention of the housewives of the state.
 The outing of Broadway Congrega- tional Sunday school will be held on Wednesday, July 11th. via 9.45 a. m trolley for Ocean Beach If rainy. excursion will take place next fair day.-adV.
 John J. McCabe. formerly of Glens Falls, N. Y. has become vice president and general manager of the Groton Iron Works. formerly the Re- ert Palmer & Son Co, shipbuilders with nl7r n N
 Gun clubs hereabouts learn that a 1 week from next Saturday the annual registered state tournament of the i Connecticut Trapshooters' association | will be held at the traps of the Pah- | quioque Gun club, Danbury.
 The body of William H. Walls who | was killed by a train at Midway, on l Thursday, was forwarded to the home i of his sisters of East Waterford. Pa. l The funeral was held there Monday. with burial in the family lot
 Thirey- five local chapters of the American Red Cross have been formed | in Connecticut since the declaration of i war with Germany. and over 120O new chapters have been formed in the ] United States since February l.
 Religious workers here have been notified that the summer school at i field for Sunday school workers | will be held from July 25 to August l. l The general conference will open Au- gust and continue for three weeks
 Two big wreckers were out along l the Shore Line Sunday picking up most Of the passenger cars which have l been used as hunks by the National l fuardsnnen between New Haven and 1 New London for the past two months.
 Sixteen choir boys of Christ Epis- copal church at Westerly are on a ''-Neks vacation with Rev. William F. W Hams and Robert Valentine at the choir boys of Christ Episcopal church, Norwich.
 Throughout the month the planet Venus will move eastward and south ward through the constellation Cancer and into Leo. It will pass the bright 1 star Regulus July 26. The two objects will then form an interesting field in 1 The telescope.
 The length of the day diminished from Is hours 1 minutes to 14 hours ,2 minutes during the present month 1 It is toward the latter part Of August however, that the acceleration of the nights increase will begin to become most noticeable.
 Mir. and Mrs. Joseph F. Foran of New Haven announce the marriage of Miss Atala Whaley, of Westerly, R. [. and William D. Wendell of New Haven. which took place at their apartments at the Taft, New Haven. Tuesday, July 3.
 A Norwich man stated Monday that I. P. O'Connor, the famous nationiaI- st leader and editor, who Is in Wash ngton in the interests of the cause 'f Irish in independence. spoke In Breed 1al about SC years ago, in favor of he Land Lea gue.
 The total operating revenues of the New Haven railroads for May were If SsS G17 a l