Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-17
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 VARIOUS MATTERS
 The moon quartered Sunday, at SIP a. m.
 Light vehicle lamps at s.5s o'clock this evening.
 Temperature as low as 42 degrees was recorded Saturday at Norwich Town.
 pr. Barnard will be out of town Mon- day and Tuesday. Will return Wed nesday.-adv. Local residents who are natives of Massachusetts will have flags out to- day, for the Battle of Bunker Hill. in 1775.
 For two more Sunday afternoons the reading room of the Otis Library will be opened. completing the month of June.
 At a recent Press Day meeting of Thompson W. c. T. u., at the Kings Daughters hall, five new members were admitted.
 Mir. and Mrs. s. L. Barbour of Asy- lum avenue are at Eastern Point, where they have opened their home for the summer.
 The corn problem continues hard for the farmer this year, as seed Is very poor and in many cases is sprouting slowly.
 !. River pirates are at work in the Mystic river near the north, where small articles have been taken from the lobster boats.
 There were g visitors to the read ing room of the Otis Library, Sum- day afternoon. Miss Mildred D. Rog- CTS was in charge.
 My last week in Norwich. Oriental Rugs cleaned and repaired. l.. Seray- darian, il Boswell avenue.-adv
 Over sS2 was realized from a supper held last week in Mantle for the Per shing fund which is to give the boys in France a good time on Fourth of July
 A southern automobile party which went through Norwich Sunday, dis played, in addition to the regulation pennant a service flag with two stars
 With this week the longest days of the year begin-15 hours, IS minutes up to the 20th and Fist, when the sun will show his face for Is hours and 19 minutes.
 A Norwich automobile owner who started running a public service car to- New London Saturday had two of the tires punctured before reaching Allyn Place. a s1oo mishap.
 A fashionable wedding on Ocean avenue Saturday afternoon helped fill the hotels and boarding houses at Ocean Beach with guests, detectives, cha'ufeurs, decorators and caterers assistants.
 The planet Jupiter, which was too close to the sun to be well seen the 1 first of the month was in conjunction with the sun on June 18th and for the next six or seven months will be a | morning star.
 Many of those who had eatalpa l trees, distributed to the school cilil- dren a few years ago by the Porteous ! 6. Mitchell Company, are finding that the severe winter proved too much for the trees. which so far fail to show any signs of life.
 At the public graduating exercises of St. Patrick's school in the church auditory Sunday evening next, the speaker will be Rev. Henry J. Cole man, of Southington. a native of Nor wich and alumnus of the school whose graduating class he will address.
 The petition of the state lawyers to | have the revised statutes in one vol ume instead of the proposed three started by Judge A. McC. Mathew son, of New Haven, formerly oi Thompson. will be forwarded to State Comptroller Morris c. Webster, whe has charge of the work
 Emil NJ Fox. of Norwich, who is state supervisor of bakeries for Nor. wich. Willimantic and New London receives weekly reports for the State Food Commission from every baker iT the three cities, all cheerfully taking up the extra work which the govern. nent authorities demand.
 At Durham during the summer, H o. Clough, former school supervisor in this section, will be one of three il charge of a summer school, with one-half day session each week fo the purpose of carrying on the patri otic work which has been establish ed in the schools throughout the state