Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-11
Ua1aaitisa,
Norwich, Tuesday. June ii, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Fields in the suburbs are white with daisies.
 Light vehicle lamps at $50 o'clock this evening.
 The first of the seasons run of mackerel appeared in the shore towns Friday.
 Many new flags are being pur- chased in town, to be displayed Fri day next, Flag Day.
 Attractive flower boxes have been placed, at the large windows of the Otis library reading room.
 Protect your garden from blight and bugs. Use Bordeaux mixture, S5c a bottle, at Lee & Osgood'
 In the fields about Mohegan high blackberry vines are covered with blossoms, seeming to promise a big yield.
 Between the robins and the boys, owners of cherry trees are discovering that eternal vigilance must be their slogan just now.
 Several Norwich motor parties wis tied Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Sun day, but found that the roses will not be at their best for two weeks yet.
 A number of the residents of Mont vile are following the English cus- tom and have put up readable signs indicating the names of their farms.
 Householders hereabouts who have m Ia y1H about porches find an unusually large proportion of the trees winter killed
 This weeks meeting of the Progress sive Missionary Club of the Central Baptist church is to be with Mrs. Will liam B. L. Cranston, 56 Summer street.
 In the Norwich district jubilee emy, last week the subscriptions passed the s72.ooO mark. but s1oo,Ooo is the goal.
 At the Porter school, Pennington, where Miss Mabel s. Webb, of Nor wich, is art teacher, commencement exercises were held on the school grounds Saturday.
 It IS OI lOCdl interest IO note Miss Elizabeth W. McMillan Of New Haven has been transferred to the English department of the New Ha- ven public high school.
 The planet Uranus has now passed from Capricornus into Aquarius. It rises about midnight on the 18th. It is about 1 degree north of the fourth magnitude star Iota Aquarii.
 Miss Anna Perkins Barry, teacher of mandolin and mandola. Thursdays, 10 to 3. Room 6, Alice Bldg. Tel. 1862 adv.
 Connecticut supporters learn that l the socialist party has begun na- 1 tion- wide campaign to raise a S1,o00,- 900 fund to promote the election next | fall of congressional candidates. Local exemption boards continue 1 to forward to the office of the adju- 1 tant general the names of men who 1 have failed to file questionnaire and who are now classed as deserters. ! The changes in the uniform require ments of the Connecticut State guard 1 concern the insignia. buttons and oth- 1 CT metal parts. Instead of being ir sun metal they will all be in gilt.
 It was about this time in '63 tha l the Thirteenth regiment. H. W. Birge If Norwich. colonel. was preparing fol 1 the memorable battle of Port Hudson i the climax of which came June IA. | During Monday Miss Mary suln van returned to the room of the Wo
 mans League seven finely knitted sweaters and two pairs of socks tht ] work Of patriotic women of St. Mary parish.
 l In the current White Ribbon Ban ner Mrs. Grace Curtis Platt, 0 Bridgeport, general secretary of L T. L. work. urges all local Loyal Fem perance Legions not to omit lloldin: a summer field day.
 To Inquirer: The Peck Library Slater Memorial, is open every schoo day from S.50 a. m. to 5 p. m.: Sat urdays from g a. m. to 12 n1.. and iron . to p 1n.; on all holidays and dur ing vacations from g. to F m.
 Friends here have been notified tha Mir. and Mrs. David Lester Evan tMartha Hunt Smith Jenkins. former ly of NorWich) have just moved into : beautiful new house, No. 311 Wes Housatonic street, Pittsfeld, Mass. The scarcity of labor is making it self felt in the ice business as well a other branches of trade and in on Connecticut city dealers unable to ge drivers are asking patrons to sen
 boys with small carts to the variou ice stations to get the cakes.
 There has been sent to Mrs. Id Ecc1eston, at the Woman's Leagu room in the Thayer building, seve and a quarter pounds of tinfoil, con tributed by the Harmony club, 4S North Main street, musical organ
 ization, of which Albert H. Marsh director.
 The commencement exercises at NJ
 Holyol1e college which has a mum Der of Norwich almnnae, will be hel this morning at 10.30 o'clock. It wa
 decided to give up the alumnae fet
 this year, which was to have bee
 held Saturday evening after the clas
 banquets.
 At the Norwich State Hospital Mon
 day, Boss Farmer Walter S. Palne
 made his third picking of strawbel ries for the season, getting 3S0 baS
 kets. Last season Mir. Palmer picke over 1000 baskets from the vines, a
 the berries being used. canned, ett at the hospital.