Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-30
VARIOUS MATTERS

oriai Day decorations.
 Holiday travel was fairly heavy yes terday. on both out going gnd in-com- ing trains and trolleys. Minstrel and dance at Palmer hall Fitchyille, Friday evening. May s1.- adv.
 Telepohne your Friday orders as early as possible today. Choice stock of fresh caught fish at Powers Bros adv.
 A iridium. or three-days' devotion, in honor of the Blessed Sacrament will begin at St Patrick's church, Friday evening.
 Dealers say that greeting cards for soldiers and sailors are even bigger sellers than were the old time regula- tion post cards.
 There was demand for the tri- color of France Wednesday, because of the patriotic exercises at the old cem- etery at Norwich Town.
 Old Glory should be displayed at every vantage point today and will have a new and more impressive sig nif1cance than ever before. A big utility box to receive complet- ed work has been loaned for the room of the Woman's League in the Thayer building by Francis J. Leavens. Books on poultry, twenty seven in l number, have been grouped at the Otis Library and listed in the current bull 1 letin for the convenience of readers. l,. Eastern Connecticut members of the l Seventh Day Baptist denomination have been attending the spring con ! ferences in New York and New Jer- sey.
 Several little girls in Red Cross uni form collected contributions from the waiting passengers at the New Haven Road station during Wednesday aft- ernoon.
 It is mentioned by a correspondent that Henry ". Branche, formerly of Norwich, is at Lords Point, from Hartford and is arranging to plant a 1 large garden. Norwich Free Academy students have collected 13 pounds of tinfoil re- cetly and have added it to previous 1 contributions left at the room of the 1 Woman's League.
 Good progress has been made on the I foundation for the new bungalow be ing built by the state at the Tubercu 1 iosis Sanatorium for the superintend ] ent, Dr. Hugh Campbell.
 To The Bulletin's list of soldiers graves to be decorated today should be added the name of Dwight w i flakes, of Colchester, quartermaster oi the 18th Regiment, who died June 8 l 1916.
 Rockville more than doubled its 1 quota in the second Red Cross drive 1 finishing with a total of $40,452.51. The 1 quota for the Rockville territory which covered Holland county was Il $2e,eoo.
 Wednesday afternoon, the newly ap- pointed county commissioner, George
 E. Fellows, of Norwich, paid his frs
 official visit to the County Hons
 school and was greatly interested il
 the pupils Memorial exercises.
 The past season has been an extr;
 long one for the Employment Bureau
 of the United Workers, continuinf
 from October 1st to May 1st, an ad
 ditionai month. Even now, Red Cros
 work is being given out weekly to fivl
 or six women.
 Land owners who have Iaure
 shrubs growing on their property con tinue to complain of Yandals wh'
 gather the branches, breaking then l off with utter disregard for the right of the owners and the life and appear
 ance of the shrubs.
 The New London Tierney temper
 ance cadets have offered to the Stat ft Council of Defense, the services of tn Cadet organization, in any capacit l which the organization may best serv l the interest of the state of Connection in the present war.
 9l A rummage sale held Monday in tn
 Breed building for which the commit 4 tee was Miss M. J. Leach, Miss Edit
 Maynard, Miss Marietta A. Boyen' cleared s44.75, which is to be used fc
 the work of Queen Esther circle, ( Trinity Methodist church. On his regular Wednesday visit t
 the Norwich State Tuberculos
 Sanatorium for the service of morn
 ing prayer Wednesday, at 1030 Re i Richard R. Graham, of Christ chuFc gave the patients a most interestin brief address on Memorial Day, yes el terday.
 When in Norwich Wednesday, A. V | Buchanan, agent of the state boar J of education, examined eleven appl
 cants, two children having workin h certificates transferred, two being re : jected on the educational test, two g under IA, and five receiving their cel
 tifcates.
 !. The twentieth annual reunion the aIu1nnae of Mount St Joser iSeminary, Hartford, which has Nol r, 1 wicf1 members, is to be held at Il s l Academy. Hamilton Heights, MemS t rial day. As measure of wartin teconomy no individual invitations ha' . been issued this year. Z To raise funds so that all pupils f | the kndergartens at Hobart Avenl ii and Laurel Hill schools, taught 1 ,f Miss Helen B. Royce and Miss Ann = Taft, may enroll in the Junior R.
 fCross, the children have just he :, sales of their own work, blotte1 markers, -wipers, etc, making ov . s6 at each school
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 Roseiike Apple Blossom.
 The Bulletin has received from
 lPreston correspondent a very pret
 Iapple blossom picked from a tr
 (which has fruit upon it about the sii