Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 12, 1916, Page 2

ax Thread Co. Will Play Sailors. This afternoon the 'American Thread company baseball team will _play a team from the supply ship Bushnell that is gtationed at the submarine base near New London. This team is com- posed of sailors from that ship and in the games they have aiready played they have made quite a reputation for themselves. The game is to be played at oRucre&tlon Park and will start at 3.30. * Saye-Squirrels:Eat-His Peas. Friday afternoon a man came to Mayor D. P. Dunn and complained that the.squirrels were getting so nu- merous in his section.and destroying so many of his pears, that had not as yet, become ripe, that he wanted a permit to kill the animals. As there is a state law governing the shootinz of squirrels the mayor referred the man to the game warden. To Make Unloading Easier. A car loaded with cement got away from the employes of the contracting firm that is bullding the new addition for the American Thread company on Thursday but fortunately no one was injured by the runaway car. The car was being moved to a place that would make the unloading of it an easy mat- ter when it got going down the grade in the company’s yard so fast that it could not be stopped.and it ran off the end of the track and burled its wheels in the dirt. The car.had to be unloaded before it could be brought back to where it started from. This car in the course of its travels struck another car loaded with boxes and started on a journey that took it through the yards to No. 4 mill where it was met by the company’s engine. There was no damage done to_either car but the boxes that were on the lat. ter car were distributed throughout the yards. To Repair Baptist Spire. Work of repafring the spire of the Baptist church that was struck by lightning some time ago will be com- menced in the near future. An expert was in town examining the spire and reported that it could be repaired witt BALDWIN REFRIGERATORS In offering this line of Re- frigerators we feel we have a winner. The quality is the best and the prices low. Investigation of this line will cost you nothing, and might|: be to your advantage. $12.50 and Upwards JAY M. SHEPARD Succeeding Elmore & Shepard FuneralDirectorandEmbalmer | 60-62 North St., Willimantic |» Lady Assistant Tel. connection } HIRAM N. FENN UNDERTAKER and EMBALMER, 62 Church St., Willimantic, Ct. Telephone | Lady Assistant | WHE ¥ YOU WA T to put v e public, the er than through the out being rebuilt consequently the cost of fixing it will not be as great as was first thought. The spire was in- sured. CHILD UNDER SIXTEEN SENT BACK TO COLCHESTER Automobile Party Did Not Linger Af- ter Chief Richmond Found Them The infantile paralysis situation in Willlmantic remained unchanged on Friday. There were no new cases re- ported to the officials and no altera- tion in the condition of the child in Lebanon that has the disease. The attending physician stated that the child has remained in the same con- dition for the last day or two and that it is thelght that it will recover. Friday morning Chief Richmond saw a car bearing a New York reg- istration in which there was a child under sixteen years of age and upon inquiring about the matter he found that the people w ng 13 Col- chester and had just come into town. The chief immediately told them to drive out of the city which they did. In the afternoon Mayor Dunn received a telephone me: from a woman in Wormwood Hill stating that she had a friend come from New York Thur day evening and upon the train were two children from New York that got off at Willimantic. The woman wanted to know what was to be done about the matter. The mayor told her that as it was not known whether the chil- dren stopped in the city or had gone to some of the farms in the surroundi country that noth could be done. The authorities are being called up constantly by people that want to leave the city or by people that are to have visitors at their homes, regard- ing the rules laid down by the health offic in charge have made it known T to lc the city with their ¢ do but they can not rn until _the quarantine has been removed. They have also made it known peor nnot brin: that are under children ixteen y Taxes Tak C collected tax list wh City ready 1915 91 is listed ent Walk. k that will com- Americ ing la made of cement Didn't Obey Tra Joseph Reo ple police t P disobeying the traff was fined $2 SCHOOL BOARD WILL MEET NEXT WEEK For Purpose of Discussing the Open- ing of the ols. County Home. Two Children Selectman E tioned mittal tising columns o letin TRU _ling. to $12.25. Bureau Trunks $15.00. Murray's Boston Store WILLIMARTIC, CONX. For Travel Time This:is travel time and those of us whe have not yet gone are making plans for it. one of the important features of the trip, and for this reason you need a good one. We have an exceptionally good line in both Steamer and regular Trunks, cach one built to stand rough hand- Steamer :Trunks are priced as low as $6.50 and up Regular Trunks are p}iced at $5.50 to $13.50. Wardrobe Trunks $15.50. THE H. C. MURRAY CO. NS The trunk is of course Don’t You Want Good Teeth? Does the.dreadiofsthe dental . chair. cause you to.neglact them? Youineedshave filled, , crowned* or* Rm&?g‘%d“rpfiui an have your teeth ELY WITHOUT PAIN. Gmldqfififli‘eaeéflther Features STRICTLYISANITA LOFFICE ~ STER} L#: WNSTRUMENTS, 12, CHEAN k. LINEN. ~ |~ BEPTIC,DRINKING .CUPS LOWEST/PRICES:CONSISTENTSWITH BEST' WORK iforjconsultation. | “t'w these:sppealitojyou icallforexamination and<estimate, Ne DR.:F. . C.. JACKSON, . Dentist TEANARVASTEWHLLIMANTICSCONN, f:glasmaterSlpim Suntlay;*10-t0 2 4w gy . Phone a8 has been : 5. llams. Miss Josephine Emerson is aged oight, to the temp hom at Putnam, on_the undg that the: are neglected, dependent and deserted. Claude Jacobs, father of the children, was recently sent to the county jail for non-support and the mother, Al- berta J. Jacobs, who has been taking care of the children, hag been sicle and is unable to look out for them. The little_girl has been lving with her grundmother on Vickers street, but it i3 thought that it will be better if she is sent to the home for the time being. A hearing will be held on the petition in the near future. WOULD BE ATHLETES Local Policemen Will Attend Field Day at Pleasure Beach. The Willimantic police force will be represented at the fleld day to be held at Pleasure baech, near Bridgeport on August 2th, by Six members of the force. These men will endeavor to show the police of other cities throughout the state that there are some athletes on the force at Willi- mantic. O cer Enander will enter the | high jump contest and expects to| come out a winner. Officer Grady is| to enter the fat men's 50 yard dash and he is doing a lot of praticing along | this line. Officer Hurley is to er | the scratch 100 yard dash. Allen Mc- Arthur is entered in the 100 yard frec for all and expects to spring a sur- prise. The heavyweight wrestling de- partment will be taken care of by Of- ficer Whiting. Lieutenant Killourey is to enter two events, the shot put and wheelbarrow race, and he ex- pects to be in prime condition on the day of the events. The local men issue a special challenge to the Norwich po- lice for any or all events on the day's program. It is hoped that this chal- lenge will be accepted. Local Mention. Mr. and Mrs. McNerney of Detroit, Mich., are ng in North Windham. P. F. Sulllvan of New York iting friends and relatives’in th John Anderson of Whiti s spending some time as the guest of relatives M 2 A. Carter and daughter have returned to their home in New York after spending some time with he brother, Samuel Chesbro, in t The final meeting of the re | of the town of Windham was ve day afternoon in the office of I L. Young for the purpose of adding names to the caucus list. A number anges were made on the lists. ive list to the republican Albert Beck of this city was in- jured in a motorcycle acc i - day zht that resulted in_a broken rist and minor bruises. While com- ing to this city from Conantville at a hour he reached down to the en- ut off the speed and in so late the machine was overturned, throwing the young man to the ground with considerable force. Although the motoreycle was not injured in the fall, Beck came to this city bile and received m: JEWETT CITY Ladies Picce Quilts and Listen to Suf- frage—Church Services—Six Bass Weighed 15 Pounds—Taftville Team Plays Ashlands Here This Afternoon R Samuel Thatcher's morning subject at the Me church A Lesson for an Ambitic Mother. The evening is charge of the Epworth Lea pidell's morning church the Phillips leac 11 leaves nd tw twentieth of Whi' in the Phillips in seventh J own p FUNERAL. Miss Mary Drake. funeral were he Roux off cervices of Plair John ted ield on Geary, and James DMca- of the on 1 socic home The work was nd 70 blo s Was rep: s were rted on e church kitchen. A ting tallc Woman Suff given by Miss Dap county organizer of De Largest Weighed 5 1-4 Pounds. and Harold Geer went trip th hing f ere on week and landed six teen pounds. T weighed five and one-quarter we est | pounds. Misses Grace and. Methel Stanton Danielson have been guests at their cousins, Miss Bertha Geer. Andrew McNicol, E. H. Hi James Dolan left on T ch, where they . D. J. Turnbull, of Boston F. E. Wil- grapher at the Maynard Land C office for a few weel An additional fire esc: ed to Finn's block on Friday. Taftville Bear Cats Play Here. Today at Ashland k the Ash- land team lines up against the fast Bear Cat team of Taftville. The Bear ts promise to come up strong and clean up the local team. Brickley wiil probably do the twirling for the local Next < hland team the Manhasset mills team of Putnam in Putnam on Saturday and on Sunday they play the North Sci- tuate team in North Scituate, R. I Dogs Are Disappearing. ly a dog poisoner is carry- ing on nefarious business in town. Denni nett and Dennis Griffin have lost thelr dogs, and Edward Walsh suc- ceded In saving his dog by quick orl. At Thames' Past Grands Gathering e was add- team. play Evid Dr. and Mrs, S. H. Holmes, Mrs. Robert Wilde, Miss Ruby Thornton, iss Ida Foster, Mrs. Green and Mrs. Pearl Lewis of Ruthie Rebekah lodge, attended the Thames Past Noble Grand Association, held at Mrs. Herbert Wil- ley’s home in Norwich on Friday. PLAINFIELD Painter Fell When Electricity Went Through Body—Reception for Band Tendered by James Ridings—Frank C. Cooper’s 'Remains Buried Here. The body ofFrank C. Cooper, an en- gineer on the New York New Haven | and Hartford railroad, who was killed 2 'Biina}éfi' Cry LAGEW AR early part of this t to the Evergreen Mr., and his_ sister, dents of Moosup. One of Newton Marshall’s painters, who are painting the interfor of the Samuel Coop s. Sprague are res Lawton Mills c ion, had a nar- row escape from while at work in the No. 1 spinning room Wedne day. He was on a staging and w painting the He grasped iron when copper painting nd came in contact with a running to a humidfier ainter received 550 body. He imme- up and _plung beneath the s the floor between hines. none the worse for S. control the seas he submarine for Mrs. Drake. Mrs. Mary Drake ome of “offey, on A h 0 pay Drake, who was teem by all with whom contact butes from relatives and deceased were very Pillow, and fami nd Mr “red ased, from Ha ster of the ¢ of the Mary’s cemetery, tendered the P number of a >freshmen w » members of - friends. Mr. Ric Aeld Friday for I departure from this has alw been cn rorker for ncement is sretted by ge host of his Scott of Thursday Lemonstead, spent with Mrs. Larrivere e if soapsuds on them. ! timated MOVIE MEN MAKE PICTURES AT PIER Big Film Companies Send Operators to Take Pictures of Bremen’s Land- ing Place. To the accompaniment of the click- ing of motion picture camer owned | some of the most famous film com- panies in the world, number of more than 50 climbed like | vs Fri moving _over the| mework of big bonded ware- Rouse of corrugated iron now in its second day of construction at the state steamship terminal in East New Tondon, and destined for t mmedi- | ate use of the “orwarding | Co., American es of the| rman undersea m the Deuytschlan nous line of ( utment of which vas the pior e T. A. Sc tract ic line torag tt Co., which has the hes of the Tet ercction of the| cture which will re- g cargoes for the Bremen from the a for t More Men on Job. force emple of workers of various ved on the contract mately 100 Tk day, was gmented Frida Car robabiy receiving the er paid_that ndon and the fve makes the attractive. that all The impres- their utmo: 1eTgYy with the that the up- of the stru appear to rise | The motion picture men found | ch to interest them and took many scenes in connection with the L > operation: The companie they rep: are ve eviden fied that the Bremen is to make| New London her port the ope = tors have been instruc to remain | hero til the long-looke for peri- | cope is reported. Then they pre dict | therc will be h to u‘v\nil!] the most spec N Besides the motion car koda apped merrily all day the minal d the prog of tI rd men will arr: May Not Come for Several Days. In a sense one person's specul cn this subject be as good as otner’s but it will probably be duys before the daring undes reiches New London. The c witu the tt Co.. made by Co. lis for ern Forwarding com:pletion of the warchouse Aug. Members of the harbor comm stic over the leasing ave enthu: s E the pier and it is stated portion of Point to the tap penters to the |t is Your Protec ON THE BAR- ON THE BOTTLE The best draught beer and bottled beerare both labeled Ale too-Porter also If your index finger does its part, the “man behind” will do his. and be sure of getting genuine Narragansett. extreme- of the public short- Strange Wireless Calls. Two strange wireless calls for “Tel- on_station, New heard at Hook bet morning, and the to disclose & questioned b; led to the belief tr t be the German subr This could not be verified. The signed his message with the . “D. B. U which is the pri- vate signal of the North German Tloyd steamer Breslau, believed to be I2id up in the port of New Orlean he mysterious caller would say on hat he was on board a coal steamer. Ail German ships before the war used call this of the v, al- shore sta- at the call arine Bre- t 1.50 3 told by the E Telefunken station ciosed. An hour later the sender asked the shore station at Sea Gate to dscer- tain when the Telefunken station would be opencd. TEXAS PRIMARIES A SETBACK FOR WILSON Five Democratic Members of Congress Seeking Renomination feated. Were De- 11, — The recent furnish anything for administra- members of omina- reading Five were seeking re ing to ride to 's coattails wi pronounced critic of ation in T —ex-Gov, a long lead on his riv- it cheerful tion supporter m s still 914, while he ws fi Mexican Governor and the trouble had re anything like its T stage, Colquitt ex- on of the Wilson ad- in writing. administration, he the greatest failure of the Presidency. Its foreign policy has been imbe: Its peal of the Panama Canal tolls ex- ytion in violation of the party gement n egre American 3 Huerta to salute the flag, and ht it back without getting What did it accomplish? lame inst the n Me: a re o but in zn of ter- border. Wil- stood by en- bandits after were being It brought on ng the Texa n have 2g one gang of while people a all over Mexi did the Governor confine his Many observers, both British and enemy, at the western battlefront bear testimony to the efficient manner in POR FLETCHER'S CAST.ORIA- which the British soldiers have lear- ed to manage machine guus in prac- tice. On all sides its accuracy and ra- ™ BRITISH SOLDIERS. XWITH GAS N /-75/(§ USING MACHINE GUN T pldity of fire, is the deadliest weapon known to modern warfare and charg- ing against batteries of machine guns in action is a task for the bravest of soldiers. In defending their lines against the present British and French offensives the Germans have made ef- fective use of machine guns even aft- er their positions had been “searched out” by the terriffic artillery fire. Pic- ture shows two British soldiers wear- ing gas masks operating a machine gun. \ \ 3 o'clock | tion Lag; & < ERE;TGQN 553 B oot <5 nents to the Mexican problem. administration’s anti-trust iaws,” he wrote, “are bare-faced fakes so far as protecting the people from trust op- pression is concerned. I am fully con- virced the national election of 1916 will end the Democratic regime.” Such language as this made Col- quitt persona non grata to the admin- istration, to put it mildly; and in the priunary all that the President could do and all that his numerous Cabinet officers and other prime favorites from Texas could do was done to beat the timorous ex-Governor. The adminis- tration’s first favorite was Congress- man Bob Henry; but when it became evident that he was lagging in the race, the White House changed its mind with usual facility and trans- forred its affections and its support to Senator Culberson. Nevertheless, Col- quitt leads_Culberson by more than 20,000 and Henry is a bad third. In addition, five Democratic Repre- sextatives who bore the distinction of |being fair-haired e at the White es unable to get another term. House found thems across for The result is not without its effect on Capitol Hill. Up there many a n who was planning to go < home and ask for another term on the zround that he had “stood by the President” is now wondering if he would be better off if he could find ancther slogan. New York city has 10,357 saloons, or one to each 515 population. LEGAL NOTICES : Repu_blican Caucus 1n_electors of the Town e requested to meet in 5> Town House Thursday, . 24, 1916, at 7.30 o'clock p. m., for purpose of electing delegates to ¢ Republican State Convention to be in New Haven Sept. oth and_ 6th, tho nomination of candidates s, State Offi tor ngress. Also for the purpose of electing dele-, tes to the Republican Congressional, atorial and Probate Conventions. By order of the Town Committes, H. B. MOWRY, Chairman. Dated at Sterling, Conn., Aug. 10th, 1916. augl2d TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL CHILDRE TOWN OF WINDHAM A1l bids for transportation from the Bricktop and Back Road school dis- tricts have been rejected. ew bids will be received up to 12 ock noon, Aug. 12th, by the under- ned Transvortation’ Committes of School Board, as fallows: Bricktop District— a) the top of Miller Hill foot of Miller Hill in to the Windham Cen= eturn. the eath, school and r ‘b) From the Alhert Bates place on he North Windham road to meet the Miller Hill 'bus and return. (c)_ From the Buckingham place on the North Windham road to meet the Miller Hill 'bus and return. Make a separate bid for each of the above items. Back Road District— (a) From the house of Everett bpel on Back road to the indh 7 nd return, . cluding, treet. of Samuel Chap= at the foot of Successful bidders must plan to ar- rive at the school about 8.45 a, m., and leave soon after the of school, and on the short routes plan to meet tho 'bu yrning and afternoon. They must als the commit- tec of their ability to provide safe and comfortabie transportation, with suffi- cient blankets and stormy wes The right to is reserved by the cor (signed) r. rejéct any or all bids mittee. )N, Chairman, i C. LA Committeé on T Windha: hool Board. NOTICE TO CREDITORS, AT A COURT OF PROBATE HELD at Norwich, within and for the District -, on the 1ith day of August, AYLING, Judge. Jate of Nor- wich, in sald District, deceased. i Ordered, That the Administrator cite, the creditors of said deceased to bring| In _their cla s said estate| within six months from this date by Present posti : Lo that effect, together With @ copy of this order. on'the signa' post nearcst to the place where sald deceased last Gwelt, and in the same Town, and by publishing the same once in a newspaper hiving a circulation in sald District, and maKe return to this Court. NELSON J. AYLING, Judge. The above and foregoing is a true copy of record. Attest: HELEN M. DRESCHER, ssistant Clerle creditors of sald de- ¢ notified to present d estate to_the Roosevelt Ave., Nor- D. 3, within the time above and foregoing WILLIAM H. WILLACY, ‘Administrator. M. J. FIELDS, . . Florist 3y Ward Street : Carnations. Special _Forms Plants. NOTICE.—All ceased are here Lieir claims against undersigned at 1 wich, Conn., R. ¥ limited in the ovder. augl2d