Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-07
VARIOUS MATTERS

Farmers are already making com plaint of the numbers and activity of potato bugs.
 Today (wednesday), Friday and Sat- urday are the quarterly Ember days in the Catholic church.
 At Bushnell chapel. Tuesday, at S.s0 ?. m., the woman's prayer meeting was | led by Mrs. Luther Packer. In the superior court at Middletown Monday Judge Allyn L. Brown of Nor wich granted six divorces. James Trotter and family of 215 Vine street, Hartford, have gone to Pleasant View, R. l., for the summer.
 cansert by The Academy orshest.a Friday s'ening at Sla er' Hall.-- adv. It looks now as though there would be an unlimited quantity of flowers for ehildren's Sunday, the 11th.
 Following the rain, native berries should ripen rapidly enough to give the strawberry festival season boost.
 This year St. Johns day, June 24th, falls on Saturday, so that most of the special services will be held the follow ing Sunday.
 Rain and fog during Tuesday held up the automobile traffic from Massachu- setts. by way of the Mohegan Trail to the beaches.
 Nice Holsters, S5c lb. at the Broadway Fish Market, 70 Rroadway.-adv.
 The proposition that plays-ounds be established in Rockville meets with more favor each day. All classes of people arc endorsing the movement.
 Heavily loaded trucks of the Ameri. can Thermos Bottle company, Norwich plant, Indicate daily the big shipments being made from the factory.
 The woman pastor at Liberty Hill Congregational church, Rev. Lydia Har- tig. Is making Improvements on her cot tage at the beach at Saybrook.
 Tho Happy Thought Club at Filing ton, taught by Mrs. E. B. Kiebe Is so- Hciting articles of clothing for the re- lief of the destitute Armenians. Surplus stock choice dahlia bulbs. at sl.00 and s2.0e a dog. w. F. Brown, 46 Palmer street.-adv.
 Receipts on the Thames river toll bridge took a perceptible jump during the month of May over the month of April, the net increase being $2,443. Mrs. Clara Baker and her sister, Miss Helen Hawkins, who have been in Bos- ton during the winter, have returned to l
 W. H. Ludington and family of New Haven, who spent the winter in Der muda, are at Boxwood. Old Lyme, for several weeks before sailing for Europe. The borders of showy poppies at the residence of Mrs. Thomas Harland, Sem try Hill, on Washington street, excite the admiration of all who pass that way.
 Ks-os"re emulsion and nicotine sul- p1alL are what you need to protect r5se bushes. etc. Lee & Osgocd Co.-adv. | Commencement week at Mt. St Jo- seph's Academy, Hamilton Heights, Hartford, opens today Wednesday, and will interest alumnae in eastern Connec- ticut
 A partial list of books in the Otis Li- brary dealing with wild flowers. trees and birds has been prepared by the L. brarian Miss Cash, for the convenience of readers.
 The interest in wireless has greatly increased in Rockville because of the success that Rockville lodge of Elks has had with the outfit installed at the Elks home on Union street.
 Insure your plants, -oye bushes, etc, } aga:nse insects by us,ng nicotine sul- ] rhatc. The Lee & OsTJod Co.-adv. The hostesses at the D. IA. R. museum , at Norwich Town when the museum is . open to the public from 8 to s this aft ernoon will be Mrs. George A. Ashley and Mrs. H. H. Pettis.
 A rattlesnake about five feet long was killed on the Mansfield turnpike near the old pound in Coventry the other . day by a stranger who was driving a horse through the town. Professor L. B. CrandalI of the Con necticut Agricultural College, Storrs, ad- dressed the meeting of Manchester bee. Keepers on bee culture and the care of apiaries at recent meeting.
 At Mystic, MT. and Mrs. Jacob Dick have issued invitations for the 18th an- niversary of their marriage to be cele- hrated at their home, Il Holmes street, Monday evening, Jane 12, at 8 o'clock
 Dr. Higgins wishes to Aan5unce tna. dT-.ns June, July and August, afternoon and evening, office hours for Thursdays ad Sundays will be discontinued--adv In the Lincoln school, South Manches- ter, Miss Florence Gray of Norwich, Q graduate of this years class at the Will limantic Normal schoo' will teach a sec ond grade class when the schools reopen in September.
 To Inquirer: The first Yale-Harvard boat race on the Thames river, at Gales Ferry, was rewed June 2s, 1878, Har- ward winning, 2O:44 3-5. Before that year the regattas had been held at Wor- cester and Springfield
 Eighteen churches will be represented at the Groton Heights Baptist church when the Stonington Union Baptist association is called to order this Wednesday, morning at g o'clock, standard time, by the moderator.
 The cut in wages by the New Haven railroad, effective July 1st, Is uppermost in the minds of employees at present, and they are giving the subject all con- sderatlon, anxiously waiting to hear from their committees what is really In the works.
 Tho Circle O. tho r. nesss Pocahon- tas" remarkable pageant staged by Camp Fl Girls. on Ae4dein- campus, !, Saturday. June 1T, Q. m. Adults 5o e=nts. Chi dren under twp.vs, e5 cents.- sds.
 The cases in the Converse building at Slater hall, which have been attrac- lively filled this year of late have been displaying the work of a young Holland CT. handcarved trays and boxes in wood, . which show careful designing and beauti- full workmanship.
 Referring to the recent concert at Wheeler school. North Stonington, by the Norwich String Quartet. the west erly Sun says: The concert was the sec ond given at Wheeler school by the quartet and it is hoped that their visit may be repeated next year.
 Attempts made during the past sev- eTal years to keep millinery mater.