Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-16
VARIOUS MATTERS

ing. The season of old-fashioned straw berry festivals is beginning.
 Thermometers about Norwich register ed S9 degrees during Tuesday. The prayer meeting at Bushnell chapel Tuesday afternoon was led by Mrs. Lucius Brown.
 Norwich icemen are getting roc this season. l.a.,. - ..- ~J-. SJc and $l.OO a hundred
 State Dairy Commissioner F. H. Paine of Pomfret was in Voluntown recently inspecting dairies.
 Big cargoes of fish arriving daily at Osgood's wharf On account Of big catches lower prices prevaiL-adv
 Native berries the first brought to Mys- tic markets this season were raised on the Davis farm in Old Mystic.
 The Forty Hours Devotion which be- gan Sunday in St. Mary's church, South Coventry, ended Tuesday morning.
 Two trucks of gypsy moth men were through North Stonington the other day spraying trees that were infested with egg clusters.
 The graduating exercises of the dis trict schools in the town of Coventry Will De nelQ fTlQdy at D. HI SAlO town hall in South Coventry. The term and year at St. Joseph's 8 Polish parish school on Cliff street will l end Friday. The graduating exercises will be held in the church Sunday next.
 The State Board of Education in it's summer school at Yale university will 1 conduct a section from July to July i 2S for teachers of continuation classes. l hot | especially fishermen, exercise care while l passing through woodland territory this time of the year that forest fires may be avoided
 At the town meeting in Plainfield to | make appropriation for schools on ac- count of increase in pay demanded by 1 teachers ,an additional appropriation of | $57,000 was voted.
 Everyone wanted to attend the St Veronica T. A. B. dance in Parisf fal | Taftville, Friday evening. Humphries l orchestra--adv.
 l Oliver J. Lyman of Somers, has re- l turned to the home of his parents, MT. l and Mrs. Edward Lyman, after finishing i fis second year at Connecticut Agricult- | ural college at Storrs.
 | Returns for about twenty widows pen | sions in the town of Norwich are received I each month by the county commissioners | George H. Bradford Charles H. Smith and. George E. Fellows.
 Relatives and friends assisted at g memorial mass in St. Patrick's church Tuesday at o'clock, sung by the rector Rev. J. n. Frederick for James B. Shan non and members of his family.
 Visitors to Mohegan park find tha Supt. Edward A. Smiths men have haC to thin the handsome rosebushes, somt having been winter-killed in spite of th' depth of snow about the roots.
 At Storrs college, Earle D. Blevins 2. of Hartford has been elected president o the Press Club. He is a member of tn, College Shakespearean club and is man agerf of basketball for next year.
 The annual competitive scholarship ex animation for leading pupils in parcchia schools will be held at Mount St. Joseph Academy, Hamilton Heights, Hartford Friday and Saturday, June IS and 19.
 A letter received by Mr. and Mrs Lemuel M. Fielding, of Norwich, iron their son. Lemuel Osgood Fielding, To cates him on the flagship Wyoming o the Pacific fleet, on the way to Honolulu At Yale the formal commencement exercises begin Saturday night, when tn Dramatic Association will .presen Shakespeare's Henry " on the campu. Twenty-three classes vii lhave reunions Rockville is to raise $10,000 as it part of the $500, 900 fund for St. Franci. hospital in Hartford. The campaign wi , be in charge of Rev. M. H. May, form CT pastor of St. Andrews church in Co chester.
 At the field day Saturday on Tolan green the points awarded for the bes contest work showed Hicks Memorial Ger ter grammar, 53. This awarded the silve cup to the Hicks Memorial school to kee for the year.
 Silk manufacturers in Connet ticut hear the pleasing announcemer
 that taffeta is beginning to compel strongly with duvetyn and moire fc
 leadership in the early Fall vogue fc
 women's hats.
 Norwich friends of the suffering Se1
 bian children continue charitable effor
 in their behalf, in spite of many otht
 claimants. Donations are sent to 1
 Parker Nevin, treasurer, West 9th St i New York city
 At the recent Windham County w.
 T. U. convention held in Central Villag
 officers elected were: President, Mir
 Maud Potter of Scotland; vice presiden
 Mrs. Jennie Scripture of Willimantic
 treasurer, Mrs. Gallup of Scotland.
 Women who earn pin money by doir
 fancy knitting learn that the comir
 season will be the biggest for knitte
 ties that has ever been experienced by r.
 tailers of mems furnishings, accordir
 to assertions made in New York tn
 week.
 The United States civil service con
 mission announces for July an exan
 ination for preparator in entomloos
 either sex, over IS years of age for VI
 cancies in the Bureau of Entomology, D
 partment of Agriculture, Washington,
 C., at $720 year.
 Shoe men from this state are in Bo
 ton where Monday the opening day of u
 gigantic safe cr shoes by the Associati,
 of Manufacturers of Shoes of Lynn, Mas
 one of the largest shoe centers in t country resulted in disposing of more tn: [" S5o,o0o worth of stock c Due to shortage and losses in sor
 towns wholesale milk producers have b D gun to require deposit of five cents f each milk bottle delivered to groce ,, stores and restaurants, in order to assu ]. a greater percentage of returns. No q '' posit is required of householders. n A Woodstock summer resident, Hal = ilton Holt, is among those who will 2
 company an American Expeditiona y Force" to Europe this summer to cul =, vate international friendship and resto confidence in the United States amo
 the people shocked by our failure to e
 ter the League of Nations
 NURSES WILL TAKE
 STATE EXAMINATION Ton.