Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-14
VARIOUS MATTERS

today. Fruit growers do not like these foggy which are especially bad TOT l the cherry crop.
 Masses of wild pinEs are in bloom l along the railroad banks on the Nor wich -Groten division.
 On account of scarcity of labor it is difficult for gardeners to secure any one to do blowing and planting.
 Don't forget Dang Jazz Band dance at Pulaski hill next Thursday night adv.
 The Epworth league of Trinity Meth- odist church has set May F as the date for the banquet for its members. Monday afternoon the Farther Lights of the Central Baptist church met with Miss Ethel Adams of Gardner's court.
 At Mantle, Major Mcintyre of Put nam, who owns a cottage on Bread way, is having a fireplace and chin1- ney built.
 The handsome Boston vines on the Otis library were given their first spring pruning yesterday by Janitor Hugh Morelar1d.
 Delegates from Connecticut branch es will attend the annual meeting of the Sunshine society in New York to- day at the Hotel McAlpin.
 A former Norwich man, Rev. Prof. Benjamin W. Bacon, of Yale university was the speaker at the public rally in Middletown town hall Monday night.
 According to Henry F. Marendaz, re- cruiting agent for the British govern ment in Connecticut, the draft of Brit ish subjects is only about two weeks away.
 Tomorrow, May 18th, is the ami versary of the Civil war battle in 1864 at Resaca, Ga. when four Nor wich men of the Fifth regiment were reported wounded.
 Don't forget the entertainment (war tableaux with music) at Osgood Me moria1 parish house tomorrow night adv.
 Old fashioned grandmothers' gar dens about town are gay just now with pink and white towering almond forget-me -nots, bleeding hearts and other quaint blooms.
 In Plaindeld, at St. Paure Episcopal church, Rev. J. D. Hull, rector. the Venerable Archdeacon J. E1dred Brown ! of Norwich was the special preacher al i the Sunday evening service. Mrs. Patrick H. Hartman has pur- chased the house 43 Greene avenue owned and formerly occupied by MT and Mrs Daniel S. Havi1and, now of Hudson, Mass, and will occupy ii shortly.
 The planet Jupiter is rapidly near ing the sun in the western evening sky, setting about two hours later early In the month, and by the last of the month will be too near the sur ] to be seen.
 The high tension line which is to connect the Shore Line railway with the Groton shipyard is nearly com plete. It is of permanent construction and takes the shortest cuts over hills and through the woods.
 Most Connecticut towns will pay especial attention to the proclamation | of President Woodrow Wilson asking all to fly the Italian flag Friday, May 24, the anniversary of the entrance 0! Italy into the world war. The international convention of tht Kings Daughters and Sons which be i gan Thursday at Philadelphia, and a which Mrs. Louis o. Potter of Nor wich as state president is represent ing Connecticut, closes today (Tues day).
 The Peck library is once more opel
 to the public as well as to students o
 the Norwich Free Academy after be
 ing closed for five months. The Slate
 museum will be open Sunday after
 moons from to o'clock, beginnin
 May 18th.
 A resident of Union street suggest
 that the City Beautiful committe
 might try in some way to camouf1ag
 the unsightly open lot on that stree
 south of the Forbes property befor
 any more visiting delegates to Nor
 wich get a look at it.
 Members of the State W. c. T. [
 have recently contributed for war re
 lief for Armenian and Syrian worl $10 from a friend; Meriden, for 1oc; Red Cross, $40; French orphan fun,
 South Wilmington, $37.10; Portland s36.50; Bridgeport, L. T. L., $15. If the oyster grower of Connecticl
 does not get a "set" within the ne1
 two years, there will not be enoug
 oysters in Long Island sound to mal
 a stew, one of the noted oyster me states, explaining that pollution fro
 the rivers is the cause of the decrea& in spawning.
 When nearly 1000 delegates reprt senting 100 towns in Connecticut we,
 present at Hartford Saturday at Il Connecticut war conference, from th
 county 51 were in attendance from ! towns, from Holland county 65 from : towns and from Windham county . from s towns.
 Mfr. and Mrs. Martin L. Keefe
 Waterbury have received a cable ii
 forming them of the safe arrival
 France of their son, Martin J., pr
 vate in the United States mari |. corps, who volunteered in Decembe U Private Keefe is brother of Re
 William A. Keefe of Plainfield.
 By a confusion of names in T
 Dictagraph column, the record
 Horace E. Rogers, who died 20 yea
 ago, was taken for that of Hora
 Rogers of Norwich Town, an honor
 member of Sedgwick post, G. A. l
 who served with the three months m
 under Capt Edward Harland and W
 honorably discharged.