Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-23
VARIOUS MATTERS

HIS evening. The town of Coventry has Happy Canning club. Having has begun on the grounds about the Backus hospital.
 The days length will begin to de- crease a minute today. June 23rd.
 The peach harvest in Connecticut it is predicted. will be one of the largest on record.
 The office of Dr. Emma Durham will be open June s0.-adv.
 Yesterday might truthfuIly have been called Rose Sunday as the ram bier roses about Norwich are in full bloom.
 Several newly opened rooming houses in Norwich had to turn away applicants over boat race day and the 
 At the EIks' Home the grounds are attractive just now and will be even more so when the hy- drangeas blossom.
 With Fourth of July nearly two weeks away, boys on some of the Norwich streets are already making racket with blank cartridges.
 At the state convention Junior O. U. A. M, in New Britain, Saturday, a member of the auditing committee was E. A. Grover of Norwich.
 Louis Hodge of East Hartford is building a striking looking cottage at the lake in Bolton which will resemble a log cabin. It is on the state road.
 Benjamin Clough, SS, who died on Friday at Rockville, leaves besides his wife, two sons, a daughter, nine grandchildren, and two great-grand- children.
 Argo arrived today, Osgood's wharf, from Block Island, with bonita, mack erel and f1ounders.-adv.
 A meeting has been planned for the Congregational ministers of Holland county and their wives to be held at Talcottville Monday morning, June 30, at 10 o'clock.
 The Camp Fire Girls of the United Congregational church, chaperoned by Mrs. Albert E. Freeman and Miss Grace Rogers are spending two weeks at Groton Long Point.
 Be sure and attend the meeting in town hall Tuesday evening, June A. at D. m., and learn what are our
  and newer education.-adv.
 The home gardeners cucumbers and melons that were started in plots in the house or on an inverted sod ir the cold frame are now ready for the attack of the striped cucumber bee tie.
 The sundry civil appropriation bil reported at Washington Thursday contained only two Connecticut items s34,o00 for Branford and s31 900 fol Mystic to complete work on publi, buildings.
 Teachers from Connecticut will b, at Milwaukee for the annual conven ton of the National Education Asso citation, June 28 to July oth, whei from 12,oa0 to 15,0o0 teachers are ex pected to attend.
 Motorists and others are adnirini the beautiful flowers in the oid-fash toned garden at Mrs. Thomas liar lands, on Sentry Hill, Norwich Town adjoining the family homestead bull in Colonial times.
 There is not a shortage of water il Groton at present. The difficulty i merely in the method of getting it t, l3AC ACSIo. AiC iliatkCA 10 AlON HI Sll hands of engineers and will receiv immediate attention. Members of the Holy Name society l James J. Casey president, receive 1 holy communion at the 730 mass i 1 t. Patrick's church Sunday from Rev J. H. Broderick and his assistan Rev. Peter J. Cuny.
 The patients at Backus hospits were entertained Sunday afternoo ] by Comfort Circle of the King Daughters, who provided a delightfl i concert program by Miss Olive Lin ton, piano, and Miss Elizabeth Lan, violin.
 1 At the fifty-fifth annual oonferenc of the association of Spiritualist held Wednesday at Lake Compeunc Mrs. Kate S. Simpson, of Hartfor 1 was elected president, succeedin Mrs. May Pepper Vanderbilt, de ceased.
 Plans for conducting the child we fare work of the state board of char ties during the coming year were di: cusSed at meeting of the board which Mrs. Frank A. Mitchell, of Nol wich is member, held Friday at u capitol.
 A letter received Saturday by MT Samuel Comstock from her nephe, First Lieut.. Bruce s. McMillan, fife artillery, locates him still in Franc busy in government service and LII certain as to the date of his return America.
 Elmer F. Kenerson, superintende of New London parks, states that u l Cirer nf p1ro ha pleted in two more weeks. The d. partment recently purchased a pun costing s339. and of 300 poun, pressure.
 One of the Norwich boys who
 glad to be home. after years servi
 in France with the 3o1st Engineer
 is Private Henry Boucher, who h f5ust received his discharge at Can
 Devens and is visiting his sister. M,
 H. M. Short, of Union street.
 State Forester W. o. Filley of Ne
 Haven gives notice of the operati, !of law beginning July 1 and whi, provides that all tree surgeons, spr; ficate unless their business Is entire
 confined to the town in which tn have residence.
 The new pay-aS-you-ente troll k cars recently secured by the Come ticut Company and the property of |
 United States Housing Corporatie . were put in service on the Hartfo
 and Rockville trolley line Sund 5 morning. They will take care
 more than sixty passengers. A former favorite lecturer in t
 Peoples Course, Norwich, Profess Caleb T. Winchester, head of the q
 partment of English Literature
 Wesleyan university. was guest at
 banquet Friday night in Fayerwe ther gymnasium, noting his fifty yea
 of service as a professor at Wesley;