Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-19
17ee 1922 -A A!..|l|I:A.
Norwich, friday. May ls. 1899.
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 7.a2 o'clock this evening
 Suburban granges are holding straw berry suppers.
 Norwich alumni learn that Wesleyan commencement comes June 15-l9-
 Regular meeting K. of .. tonight, at oclock-adv
 Sunday next is communion Sunday fer the Rosary society of St. Patricks par ish.
 A big forest fire at Elliott was put out after burning over close to t0O acres of fine timber land. ] The planet Mercury will be most faV- orably situated for being seen just after sunset, as evening star, May 23rd
 The white and purple wistaria at the | Anderson residence, on Church street. l is particularly beautiful this season.
 A Warrenville resident, Mrs. IL A. | Mathewson is having an adoiIlor tilA1e to her cottage at Pleasant View Beacn' R. I.
 Mir. and Mrs David Banks of New Work have been for a short time, at their summer place, Red House Farm, m Goshen.
 H P Anidon of Thompson is using 2 nair of threa year old short horn
 steers which he is raising, to do -'s
 garden work.
 William Scott, son of John Scott of
 Clark's Corners, has enlisted in the unit
 ed States army and is now stationed al
 Fishers Island
 Indicating that the publios fancy IS
 turning toward vacation days, dealers
 are having increased sales of trunks and
 travelling bags.
 Food sale in Pendleton's store Satur-
 day May 20, by the Alphas.-adv. At Hampton, Austin Pearl has moved the building which was used fer the post office for the past eight years back
 to his house lot
 5 Fruit men get the tip that this years
 Georgia peach crop is estimated at lO'- GOO cars and that the first shipments : will start north soon l This (Friday) evening the Old Lyme g branch. American Red Cross, is to give T a reception in Memorial hall fo- the 6 public health nurse, Miss Williams. The Federal Aid project, No. ], at 6 Colchester received its last batch of ce-
 ment Wednesday afternoon. The road
 will be officially opened for traffic on
 Mad 30th.
 L The good soaking rain for which farm
 CTS have been wishing came Thursday, d working miracles with grass and foliage. e Promised warmer weather will now be y acceptable.
 j. Frank Shippee of North Stonington, l. has purchased a tract of timber from [. Charles Marble, and Malcolm E. Thomp- = son is to move his steam mill to the lot
 and saw the timber. -- Fletcher Post, No. 4, American le' d zion, meets tonight at 7.SO, o'clock, stand Ie ard time adv.
 r An anniversary requiem high mass for ', George P. Madden sung in St. Patrick II church Thursday at o'clock by Rev
 M H. May was attended by relatives 's and family and business friends -ss At the mid-week family gathering oi U the Central Baptist church Thursday |. tributes to mothers were paid. Pauf' 's hymn on love- I Cor. 13 was the scrip U ture lesson, Rev. pr. David A. Pitt lead
 ing the meeting.
 The catch of shad along the connec = ticut shore towns is increasing. Severa 5 of the crews land a dozen each night
 The catch this season is not only dis a couraging but financial loss to every 1t crew who invested in the industry. n- News comes to state trappers that al 1- the result of increased fall business beinl le booked by the manufacturing furriere h. four varieties of pelts are the aetna Is contenders for leadership in activity ly These are wolf. raccoon, beaver an he muskrat.
 SC Mrs Anna E. Rathbun, 80 widow C II Capt. Latham Rathbun, died at he Ii- home in Noank, Wednesday after fe' IT days illness, following paralytic shocl
 She was born in Springs, L. L, Oct. 2'
 1S41, and had been resident of Noan
 for TO years.
 ' The Mystic community chorus gay
 A.. rrJL.. ~. at the Methodist church For the pa. 'lo four months the chorus has held weei ly rehearsals in preparation for this COT ne cert under the direction of Charles l ny Geer of Norwich. !. Miss Katharine Ludington Of Lynn is formerly first regional director of u -1S National League of Women Voters, WE
 elected national treasurer at the recel
 convention held in Baltimore. Her plat
 as regional director will be filled i try Mrs Robert w. De Normandie of Bosto he The United States civil service con ST. mission announces an examination fl les photo negative cutter, either sex 20 65 years of age, in the Photographic C ice flee, navy department, Washington, ng s1,000 a year. Appointees may be a
 lowed the increase granted by congre
 of $20 month.
 A passenger train from Hartford a +o irving at Saybrook Junction about II or m, enroute to New London and retur will be in service in a few weeks, 1t 'A' reported. The Hartford and Nsw Lo don express train will follow shortly sf oIe CT, but may not be put on until t It latter part of June. ~, Relatives who have been at St. Fra ~ cis' hospital, Hartford, to see John ille O'Neil, of Division street, Norwich, foul ., se him greatly improved, following the I 1al moval of cataracts from both eyes I see. Thomas H. Gallivan, formerly of Nf re- wich, is promising to bring Mir ONe l a home at the weekend nat Poppy week will be May 22-3O hcn elusive. May 2S is, however, designat ooi, as national Poppy day The founder the Poppy day is Madame B. Guer has known as the poppy lady of Franc
 The money raised from the sale Of pr [, pies will go to the widows and orpha Int of devastated France. sOn