Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-31
Norwich, Wednesday. May sI. 1sss.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps at 7.4s o'clock this evening.
 May goes out with record of spring weather which could not be improved upon.
 Again this season there is to be summer home for children at Saybrook Point.
 Swamp honeysuclxle was one of the appreciated aids in the Memorial Day decorating.
 open cars, running on the city lines. were appreciated during the heat or Tuesday afternoon.
 Many of the home gardeners improved the holiday by battling with the hrst Iweeds in their plots. Visitors for the holiday saw Norwich at her best, lawn, shrubs and trees being things of beauty just now
 Tuesday at SsO p. m, the woman's prayer meeting at Bushnell chapel was led by Mrs Lucius Brown.
 Bishop John J. Milan of Hartford vis- tied Rockville Sunday and confirmed class of 16O at St. Berpard's church
 After the holiday Tuesday the stores will open up today offering special at fractions for the end of the month sales. l Beginning Sunday last, the evening l to be omitted till the first Sunday in October.
 | Postmaster John P Murphy improv- ed the holiday to have the letter-b boxes about town given 8 new coat of govern ment green
 The shrubs are in bloom at the Elks home on Main street and cannas and ooleus have been planted in the beds in the grounds.
 The hospitality committee now serving at Trinity Methodist church is E. M. Rewbury, Mrs. Emma Bliss. Mrs. Johp Phillips, Louis Mousley.
 Tuesday afternoon the mercury in the Thermometer at Shea's News Bureau, was so ''het up" by the full glare of the sun, that it ran up above the 100 notch.
 At the Mld-Week meeting of the Unit ed Congregational church, Corporation
 Council Edwin W. Higgins Is to explain the new rharter of the city of Norwich.
 Saturday next, the eve of the Feast oi
 Pentecost, is a fasting day for those
 Catholics who are obliged to fast-tha'
 is, those not sick or aged, or engaged ir
 laborious or exhausting occupations.
 One of the Memorial Day visitors whS
 arrived in Norwich in time for Sunday | exercises was Warren Lee Goss, of Ruth
 erford, N. J., who is the guest of MT and Mrs Henry c. Wright, of Franklin
 street.
 The United States civil service com
 mission announces that competitors vii : be examined June 21 and 22 for junio, engineers and deck officer, United State Coast and Geodetic Survey. The salar! is s2,ooo a year.
 Mrs. C. M Perry left Ellington at tn
 weekend with her nephew from Syracuse N. Y, for trip to central and westerl New York, stopping at Utica, Buffal Syracuse and other places Part of tn trip will be by automobile.
 In the mills at Rockville the spinnin : and carding departments were kept run . ming Monday, because of the demand fo ! the work at present. The schools wi |, be in session next Saturday morning t make up for closing Monday. , Many of the summer residents at Crys tai Lake who have erected new cottage
 along the Sandy Beach section of the lak ? have petitloned the Rockville Wiilimar tic Lighting Company for the extensio
 of electric service to their homes.
 Two very handsome volumes on 'Wil
 Flowers of New York" by pr. Homer I House, state botanist, have been present ed the Otis library, Norwich, by u s State Museum of New York. They aI . | QuArto illustrated by Z64 plates Tn co
 ors. accuratetly reproduced. d After the selectmen had worked for V week getting Chelsea parade ready fc !, Memorial Day, it was discouraging Tue l., day night to find the four rubbish r If ceptielas empty while the turf was Ii g tered with papers, peanut shells, wate n melon rinds, etc. ,f The green parrot which visited IT l Qrxiia tin Inc doU
 as a mascot for the force has been clain n ed by Mrs. Hannah Peckham, 21 H " street, who has had the intelligent bil t. thirteen years. The screen door wi ss open and the parrot took Sunday eYel ie ing outing.