Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-02
VARIOUS MATTERS

i llliS 9NellluS. There was comparatively little first of May moving in Norwich.
 Local Spanish war veterans renera- bered that Thursday was the Fist an niversary of Dewey's victory at Manila bay. Come and hear Miss C. Jordan at Slater Hall tonight-adv.
 Automobile parties and others com ing to town stop to. admire the beau tiful magnolia tree in the Buckingham Memorial grounds.
 The Darling house at. Oswegatchie ! has been secured by the New London Y. WIG. A. for a girls camp and will be open from June. to September. May day was dear to British -Ameri- can residents here as being the birth day of the gallant Duke of Connaught, who Thursday entered upon his roth year.
 There was the celebration of the noly communion at Trinity Episcopal church Thursday, St. Philip and St 1 James day, the rector. Rev. J. Eldred Brown, officiating.
 l Norwich dealers noticed that pro- spective vacationists made haste to buy travelling bags, suit cases and the l like. to. escape the luxury tax which 1 went into effect Thursday.
 County Commissioner George H Bradford of Montville is to be in Ston- ington next week to pass on the qual- i ifications of II persons who are askins for licenses to run automobiles
 The Connecticut Ghad season opened Thursday. The shad season for the past two years has been good anG fishermen say that there is no reason to expect poor run this year.
 Norwich representatives of the Sal vation Army are preparing for the army endeavor to raise S13,000,00 il this country in, g drive which will last for one week and will begin May 19.
 N. F. A. Boys GIee Club concert ir Slater hall tonight-adv
 The buyer for a Norwich firm, re- turning from New York this week gave the tip to housewives that the prices of rugs have advanced and are due to go even higher before summer
 The mountain type of locomotive just received by the New Haven roa6 are built higher than those now in use are equipped with automatic stoker. and are from 125 to 130 tons in weight Monday, May ,. number of new trains will be returned to service or the New York. New Haven and Hart ford railroad, the majority of them be ing trains that were discontinued las fall. :! The fact was noted Thursday b. Hartford papers that Mrs. Caroline E Buell., president of the State w. c. T U., who has been i'll ten days has re turned to her office at No. 756 Mail I street, Hartford.
 VI Bump. Miss Grace Comstock and Mis- Louise Congdon are the canvassers fo the Victory loan campaign at Elan ders, Mantle Manufacturing compan, and Golden Spur district.
 ! At Slater museum, Norwich. Dr. R D. Hill has placed temporarily in tn museum some ivory Chinese carve, chessmen. These with curios loanet by Winslow T. Williams are in tn cases in the upper gallery
 The papers noted Thursday that Jo seph E. Willard, United States ambas sador to Spain. was born in Washing ton. D. G.. 54 years ago May 1st. H is a cousin of Mrs. H. H. Farnham o
 Washington street. Norwich.
 New London is to have anothe wholesale and retail ice company
 formed under the firm name of tn City Ice company. the members bein Max Osgood of- Essex. M N Abram and Ezekiel ;Spitz of that city. , From Rockville George Barraclougf designer for the Hockanum Mills com
 pany for the past II years, left Wed
 nesday for Philadelphia, where he wi
 be designer for the Hamden milll
 manufacturers of fine worsteds.
 New York papers noted that Mir:
 Cragin, widow of Dr. Edward B. Ora
 gin, has sold her four story and base
 ment dwelling, 21 by 100. at 10 Wes
 50th street. Manhattan Mrs. Cragi
 was Miss Mary Willard of Colcheste,
 The 5000 peach trees at Kitemau
 orchards are a beautiful sight thi
 week. being in full bloom. NVhethe the cold snap will affect the fruit as t
 size or quality. or causing it to dro
 off, Mir Browning of course cannot de
 termine.
 The attention of farmers who ar
 interested in sheep raising has bee
 called to tha field day and sheep shear
 ing contest to be held by the ConneC
 ticut Sheep Breeders associatio1 {
 the farm of William s. Leete, Guilfor,
 Saturday, May 3.
 The United States civil service con mission announces for May 27 an ey
 animation for patternmaher for me
 A vacancy in the bureau of standard
 department of commerce. Washing to D. C., at $1,620 a year, VII be fiiIC - from this examination.
 The planet Mercury}will be visible . = the morning sky for a few days befol V and after May 6, on which date q reaches it's greatest distance from u s sun-26 degrees 36 minutes. It is for af hof ri
 about half hour before.
 N As inventory announced Thursday the estate of James D. Lynch, Ocea Beach property owner. who died A New York May II, 1917, shows tot estate of $312,295. His sisters. Mary / N E. Louise and Emily F. Lynch, all 129 East Fist street, receive S99, ,5 A each.
 # Brooklyn, Conn. relatives hear tn pr. Flavel S. Luther. whose resign; S tion as president of Trinity college b comes effective July 1, and Mrs. Luth Il expect to leave for Pasadena, Cal, Y soon afte commencement as they G & conveniently close their home at liar 4 ford.
 A Somers correspondent notes tn % MT. and Mrs. Nelson Welch and the N dau shter, Elizabeth. have come fro n Montana where MT Welch has be,
 engaged in wheat raising, to visit NJ Welchs brother, Clifford j. Parsor
 They expect now to locate in the V ? cinity of Somers.
 The historic Webb house in Wet
 ersfield, in which George Washingt,
 was entertained and in which an all
 ance between the governments of tF
 country and France was formed, h
 been sold by Wallace Nutting of Frar ingham, Mass, to the Connecticut s '6 ciety of Colonial Danes.
 The Woman's Foreign AIissiona
 society of Trinity Methodist chur