Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-04
WreB1Ilistin> Norwich, Wednesday, June 4, 1919
VARIOUS MATTERS

A number of artists from New York have joined the summer colony at Mystic.
 Motor parties have begun taking ev- ening trips to Gales Ferry to watch the crews at practice.
 Snowballs, syringas, deutzia and other white flowers will be in blos som in abundance for Children's Day decorating.
 The planet Mercury will be in the evening sky the last week in this month but so close to the sun that it cannot be well seen.
 In the garden of the Eliza Hunting ton Memorial Home on Washington street old fashioned corn flowers, pop. pies and lilies are in bloom.
 The traffic officer at the bank cor ner at mid day Tuesday could not be made to believe that actual summer does not begin until June 21.
 Tho Parent Teachers meeting at East Lyme Thursday evening is to be addressed by Mrs. Zoe Meade, of Nor wich, home economics director.
 According to the records. May was warmer than usual The mean tenn perature this May was 59.S' degrees while the normal for the month is 51.S.
 A number from Norwich will go to Pawcatuck today, for the annual con- vention of the New London County w. c. T. U. at the Congregational church.
 A New Haven paper mentions that former Norwich residents, MT. and Mrs. C. c. Elwell, have gone to their summer home at Indian Neck, Bran ford.
 At Meriden delegates to the number of 800 from 75 of the 225 local unions met Monday for the 34th annual con- vention of the Connecticut Federation of Labor.
 A daily boat now leaves Providence for Block island. at 9.2o o'clock in the morning, stopping at Newport at noon. The Providence boat made it's first trip Sunday, June 1. Four of the sewing classes ended the season by May basket parties at the United Workers house and one class was given party at the home Of Miss Cogswell on Lincoln avenue. Eighty three barrels of fish were shipped from Noank Saturday night that they might be iE Fulton market for the early Monday morning sales Seventyfive of these were sugar bar rels.
 Farm Bureau managers are in New Haven attending a three-day confer ence of county agents and agricultural extension workers of the state being held at the Hotel Garde, beginning Monday.
 The New London Masonic club has leased the Stoddard house on Hunt | ington street. New London, furnished, for the period of one year, with priv ilege of extension and with privilege of purchase.
 At the annual meeting of the Union ] Liberty League of Connecticut in Mer- iden, Sunday, Otto J. Scheutz, of Hart | ford. was reelected president of the | organization. A campaign against pro- hibition was mapped out. Tuesdays heat made a big run on the ice supply in Norwich. The three | local dealers harvested practically no | local crop and the one equipped to | supply his customers obtained his sup ply from Massachusetts. John H. Whiteley of Groton has re- ported to Providence police that his pocket was picked Saturday morn ing while in the Pocasset cemetery His leather bill fold containing sS and British passport was stolen. MT. and Mrs. Charles E. Fliven of Waterford recently gave a reception in honor of the marriage on May 18th, of their daughter, Florence and Ernest T. Gauthier of the U. S. N. R. F., sta toned at the Submarine Base. At recent meeting of members of ] the class of 1914, Norwich Free Academy held at the home of the sec retary Miss Ruth Crawford, on Sum mer street, plans were discussed for a reunion at the coming commencement. About sixty soldiers resident at the | State Soldiers Home at Noroton par | ticipated in the services Memorial 1 Day at the cemetery of the Home, more than forty of whom took, what was to them. the long and weary | march.
 A correspondent notes that it is quite remarkable how well the sched- ule of the Groton and Stonington cleo tric line is maintained in Groton these days of strenuous work along the line | from the town hall as far as Trails | Corner.
 The beautiful residence on Wash ington street. long the home of the late Dr. L. B. Amy, is now occupied by It's new owner, John McWilliams and his family, who moved from 12: Prospect street and are occupying the entire house.
 ] The Connecticut Agricultural Sta 1 tion in New Haven has just issued ar interesting report on the tests o1 foods and Of drugs found in the Con.
 necticut market. In all more thar c1oo samples of foods were tested dur ing the year.
 Thomas l.. Haynes, chairman of the
 War Savings committee, has received
 a report that Old Lyme stands seventh
 in the state in the sales for War Say
 ings and Thrift Stamps for January
 February, March, April and leads this
 county in per capita sale for April. Assignments before Judge Gardine1
 Greene in the superior court, Rock
 vile, include: Tuesday. June 10, A. J
 Mclntire against the Hartford Storagt
 Battery Company: Frederick Bumhan
 against H. Seplowitz; Marshall E
 Charter and others against Emma c
 Becker.
 Supervisor Daniel Kane of Deer
 River who has charge of the worl
 for the state was in Groton borough
 at the week end. making arrangement:
 to relay that strip of Thames stree
 from the ferry to the station. It vii
 be torn up and relaid with crushed stone and tarvia.
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