Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 25, 1917, Page 9

Coast Artillery Boys Ready to Serve Uncle S8am—Hail Storm Broke Win- dows—Mass Celebrated Egr Sol- diers. Miss Rheéa Gingras is spending a vacation of two weeks with relatives at Portland, Maine, and Old Orchard Beach. Collin Campbell, who has been em- ployed by A. P. Woodward as & reg- tered pharmaeist, has resigned and returned to his home town of Web- ster, where he has a position with the Slater Mills company. Miss Mae Bailey is visiting friends in_ Boston this week. Merrill Bennett, whose home is in Dayville, visited here Tuesday from Providence, where he has become a member of a Rhode Island Cevalry unit. Buying Supplies in Boston. Supervisor Horace Turner, Principal Ernest R. Warren and Secretary Sid- ney P. Marland, school officials, were in Boston buying school supplies for the school year that opens in Septem- ber. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chartler are entertaining Miss Georgette Jette at their cottage at Winthrop beach. Mrs. Rosa Warren will have the members of the Ladies’ Aid society of the Baptist church at her home for a meeting this afternoon. 2 Miss Mame Dunn of the operating force at the central telephone satation is having a vacation of two weeks. Talnose Released On Bonds. Albert Talnose has been released from Brooklyn jail under bonds of $1,- 000, posted by Alexander Abraham, an employe of the Jacobs Manufacturing ps Charles Johnson, county sealer of weights and measures, was here from North Grosvenordale, Tuesday, to look after hucksters doing business 2bout town. Members of the Home Guard got a real workout in their weekly drill on Tuesday evening, when the mercury was doing aviation stunts. Celebrated Mass For Soldiers. At the Sacred Heart church in Wayregan Tuesday morning, Rev. J. C. Mathieu celebrated a mass which was attended by the Wauregan mem- bers of the Thirteenth Company, C. A. C., which mobilizes this morning. Regularly licensed public service car owners were Sbjecting Tuesday to the marner in which private cars were used on circus day to compete against them, contrary to law, as the private cars so used are not register- ed for such service. Concert Postponed. The concert to have been given on Davis park on the evening of July 14, but postponed-on account of the storm, is scheduled for Friday evening of this week. John Dowe and Joe Horton, both of this place, are with Rhode Island Mili- tary organizations being mobilized thi week and are to bz with their com panies at Qqonset. They are head- Quarters attaches. Requiem Mass. * At St. James' church Rev. “John Roux M. S. was celebrant of a requiem mass at the funeral of Mrs. Milton Young, who died in a sanita- rium at Norwich. Burial was in Holv Crogs_cemeters. . Lounis E. Kennedy was the funeral director. Mass at Sacred Heart Church At the Sacred Heart church. Wau- regan there was a solemn hizh mass of requiem at the funeral of Mrs. Ma- tilda Diagnauit. Rev. J. C. Mathieu Rev. J. BE. McCarthy and Rev. Lu- dovic Paradis were the officers of the mass. The bearers were Adelard Berthiaume. Arthur Joseph Guertin, Henri Bernier, William Taillon. Hec- tor Leboe: Burial was in th> S cred Heart cemetery. Louis E. Kenne- dy was the funeral director. THIRTEENTH CO. BOYS READY FOR ACTIVE SERVICE They Report This Morning in Armory at Seven o’Clock, From this morning at 7 o'clock will date the Thirteenth Company’s war service in the great strugsle against an inhuman autoeracy. ; At that hor the men of ‘he command will mobilized at the state armory will take up as a daily routine work whose end no one knows. The period when one drill night a week constituted the company’s t ing hours is gone until affer the war. From now on the work will be inten- sive. with something to do every hour of the day. It was believed Tuesday that the company will not leave here before Saturday, but in the meantime the days spent at the armory will be one steady round of drills Orders received Fuesday morning by Captain F. E. Withee the com- pany’s day as follows: eille, 6.30 a. m.; assembly 6.4 ; lice, 7.30: roll call time until 11 a. m., be sounded, the men will he at drill At noen, mess. Roll call, 1 p. m, drill to 4.30, when recall will he sounded: 5 p. m. mess: retreat roll call, 6 p. m.; camp police, 6.15; 9 P. m.. tatto. This sets out a busy day for the Coast Artillerymen. This routine will Be followed all during the time when the men are at the armory, for they ’-n mobilized from 7 a. m., this morn- ng. Captain Withee said Tuesday aft- ernoon that the company’s undis- charged reserves will be taken along when the company leaves fown and that the command as it _leaves here A, F. WOOD “The Local Undertaker” DANIELSON. CONN. Parlors 8 Mecha Straet Official Draft List Not Yet Received— Terrific Electrical Stormm Caused Damage. Hundreds of young men, seething B with anxiety over the possibility ef clogged. s belt:g cflled’to the colors, must be told | In the business section .ll!N?dflI.“ again this morning that no officiai list | were flaoded ufl_ considerable loses Was received here ‘Tuesday and that|were sustained in that way. o there must be at least one more day of delay hefore any action can be | GRANGES TO HOLD ] JOINT FIELD DAY. taken. . —— To many on the draft list, and cer- tain to be called for examination to Quinebaug and Wi i to Make Merry on Aug. 3. 3 $i1 the first quota from this district, ‘he delay is an inconvenience, upset- —_— Mrs. Susie G. Williams, ting their plans for work, and many other things, but there is no Fas sent out notices. as & . the combined fleld day me of | g No. 2, and fficial list is received here. ‘orcester Southwest mona grange, “"I is not possible now to call any of | to be held on Friday, Aus. 3, et the men for examination before the | Bates’ grove, Webster lake. The grove middle of next week. Dozens of in- |is in Thompson and on the Connectieut quiries relative to draft regulations|side, about three and qQne-half miles. continue to be received at the office | from Thompsonville. of the exemption board. Many of the| The program that has been -m ‘nquirers are nnxlm;s, lby "fim:;t a jncl‘ udes :“l;ueb-u game, other su edly hypothetical case, a | singing, 3 degil:?:n of interest to them personally | A dinner is to be served on the bast or of interest to some friend. ket lunch plan, with ice cream and Fach case, however, it was stated, | lemonade provided. will be decided omly after lnvMfi; The following committees have been tion, in accordance with the regul named to arrange for the affair: Ath- tions and the fagls as presented. letics, Harry Wells, Senexet grange, ‘Alfred H. Russ, Quinnatisset grange, Miss Anna Neison, Senexet grange: dancing, Wilbur Stevens, Meadowbrook grange; literary program, Miss Mary Ross, lecturer. Members have been given the priv- flege of inviting friends. eomeanls S Southbridge Here Sunday. . An appalling electrical storm, during | . Thy Dot Av- which the darkness of niEht descended | pom s ruertr teat o et arte The upon the city and surrounding country, | Southbridge team here for a game swept over Putnam Tuesday after-|Sunday afternoon. Either O’Brien or noon, terrifying hundreds of people|Gearin will do the twirling for Put- #nd ceusing exen With Stout | nam, and for Southbridge McLeod of hearts to stand aghast at the wildness | Wepster or House of Bridgeport will of the disturbance. o, hesointen: Blinding lightning flashed out what | ~'phe Putmam players were well sat- looked like a Morse code in the sky, | isfied with the game they played at and the peals of thunder rumhled | Moonsup last Sunday, when they heid over the city like the crash of siege |the fast Moosup team to & 3 to 1 artillery. _ score, and had them stopped without a Sheets of rain swept hither and|pit until the eighth inning, up _to thither by the vigor of the accompany- | uhich time not a Moosup man had ing gale combined with the other phe- | reacned first base, nomena to make as spectacular a storm | " U B0 Dot and Destroyed. as the people of this -city have wit- nessed for many years. Monday af- The Chautauqua tent was blown ternoon’s storm, severa as such storms | Jown and wrecked in the storm on g0, was a miniature affair compared | Tuesday afternoon, the management describing the experience as the worst with that of Tuesday. The big barn on the S. Nikoloff place | in their memory. The tent, valued at on the Pomfret road was struck by |$2,500, was said to be an almost total ‘lightning and burned to the ground |loss. Tuesday night the grounds were Tuesday afternoon. Two horses and a | flooded and men with rubber boots cow died in the fire and 30 tons of | Were salvaging chairs and other equip- newly cut hay were destroyed. An-|ment from the wreck. The Mikado other shaft of lightning struck a big | OPera company’s costumes were prac- .ree near the house, but the house it- | tically ruined in the wreck, but it was self was undamaged. Other places in |managed to give the opera in the Em- Putnam struck by lightning were the | pire theatre Tuesday night The mat- i.0bby block, Cana] street, the Mrs.|inee was cut short, wisely letting the Prank Letters house and Captain Jo- | People home. .f:xh Ryan's house, the damage in COLCHESTER > cases not being large. ses and trees were struck by Knights of Pyth Seat Their Offi- cers—Personals. ‘help for the situation. The exemption board is ready to pro- ceed with its work the minute the %llnebl.u‘ Pomona grange, TERRIFIC STORM, SWEPT OVER PUTNAM. Lightning Flashed Blindly, Striking Places. o shtning and wire service poles were nocked down within the city limits, Front street was flooded under the iailroad bridge, closing that busy thbr- oughfare to traffic, and what is known as the Bradley beefhouse sidetrack was vashed out so that it will have to be partly rebuilt before it is safe for trafmic. Whole sections of the embankment npon which this high siding is built were washed out by the tons of water that poured down off the tracks, the usual runways for surface water being wholly_inadequate to care for such a rush of water. Garden crops. on the strength of early reports, were quite badly dam- aged by the storm, especiall. corn, whole fields of which were leveled by the beating of the downpour of rain ariven before the heavy gale, The storm brole out of the north, hut ere long developed a pinwheel rota- tion right over the heart of the city. The height of the storm was from .13, darkness shut in, untii this period scores of phone lines were put cut of com- sion, in addition to the other damage Gone. As the water mounted higher and higher in Front street uunder the rail- bridge automobiies that tried to run_through the mor> thah two feet| Iouis B Baldwin of Middletown o amater bad 2 tough time of it |guag a visitor here Monday. inally Arthur Pepin stalled his car | ¢ . of Willimantic was calling on 5 in town Monday. There was a large attendance at the meeting of Oliver Woodhouse lodge, 0. 57, K. of P., Tuesday_evening. The ranik of page was conferred on cne candidate also the rank of Knight on one candidate. The folowing offi- cers were installed for the ensuing term by District Deputy John N. Wil- liams of Willimantic: Past chancel- lor commander, H. Kellogs; chan- cellor commander, Dr. J. M. Klein; vice chancelior, Myron R. Abell; pre- late, Willlam Curjenvein: master of work, C. F. McIntosh; master at arms, Isaac Neliber; inner guard, A. F. Ro- per; outer guard, J. A. Thomas; mas- ter for 18 months, A. F. Roper. After the work a lunch was served. Cigars were passed and a social hour was spent. There are several more voung men, who are expected to join soon. During the past six months the lodge has conferred the ranks on ten new members and the members are now trping to get ten more this term. one havinz already been se- cured. The new officers will at once form a degree team and also they will a uniform rank. Personals. ’, i = Colchester Grange held their res- will number 125 enlisted men and|ular meeting in Grange hail Tuesday three officers. The company is well | cvening. over wa rength, so prepared to stand having a_ few men discharged on account of physical disability, It was a matter of comment Tues- day that nothing is being done here to give the boys a send-off, though smaller towns herezbouts that have Charles Elderkin was a visitor in Amston and Hebron Monday. Harry Elgart was calling on friends in_ Norwich Monday. Helen Gilmore, Mrs. Ida Miner, Geo. Gilmore and Arthur Chapman were Norwich callers ‘londa: members in the Thirteenth Company James Horowitz and party were already have given such affairs for|visitors in Hadlyme Monday _with them. A James’ auto. Some members of the company al-| Dr. Edwin B. Crazin returned to Mersick Domestic Water Supply Systems This is a complete home electric pump- ing outfit shipped completely assem- bled shown and is ready to operate as soon as connections are made. All that is necessary to attach the pipe to the well, and screw the plug into an electric light socket. Furnished with 1.6, 1-4, 1-2 or 3-4 H. P. motors and with tanks with working capacity of 43 or 62 galions. A very popular outfit for suburban hemes where electric service is obtain- able, as the cost of operating is very small. Write for Cataleg 17-W -THE- (. 5. MERSICK & C0. ¢ NEW HAVEN, CON ready are expressing appreciation of | New York Monday after a few days comfort bags given them by Daniel-|at his summer home on Broadway. son women and women in surround-| Clayton D. Parton of East Hamp- ing towns. These little bags are all[ton was a Colchester cailer Monday. that their name implies—neat little| Daniel T. Williams ieft town Mon- bazs filled to their utmost capacity |Gay for a few days visit with rela- with things that a soldier always [tives in Bast Hampton. finds of great use in the field, but- .. tons, needles, thread and a score of B = other articles. | Some of the . boys Moosur cherish the comfort bags they have 2 — received with a fondness that should | Militia Boys Leave Town This Morn- be full reward to the donors. ing—Notes of Interest. HAI, Sorw s e Local boys who recently enlisted in Hail stones as large as English wal- | the Thirteenth company, A, at nuts broke scorss of panes of glass in | Danielson, left this Wednesday morn- many buildings about town in the|ing to report for duty _at 7 o'clock. terrific storm of Tuesday afternoon.| They were Napoleon Yates, Lionell On Franklin street near St. James' (Dupuis, Charles Robitaiile, Raymond school a giant tree was blown over by | Thomas, Peter Myers, Frank Dayno. the gzle. The limbs were torn from |They expect to leave soon for Fort trees, poles and wires were blown|Wright and be mustered. into federal down, and large damage done to gar- | service. den crops. The storm was one of the| Rev. W. C. Darby left Tuesday most severe in years. It swept over |morninz for Massachusetts where he all towns in this section. In the bus- | expects to spend a part of his month’s iness section of Danielson the hail|vacation. The remainder will be spent stones lay across the streets in win- |at the Willimantic campground where nows. - Mr. Darby will be a speaker. Adona Dupius, E. E. Dupius, Bea- trice Lafrance and F. W. Daggett mo- tored to Danielson Monday evening and attended the last drill held in the armory. Cement Walk Complete. The work of laying the cement walk and grading the Methodist church lawn was completed Monday evening. This work is a fine im- provement on the church property and also benefits many of the local people as it is in direct line with one of the local theatres. The young mens class of the M. E. church had charge of the affair, doing much of the work themselves. Local farmers report hayving fine “hay weather” at the prefént time. A number have nmearly all their hay in, although fhe scarcity of labor made them a little later tnan usual this year. Russian Prisoners in Sweden. Stockholm, July 24.—Russian ,pris- oners of war occasionally find their way to Sweden from Gérmany. The last group contained eleven ‘whoe reached Sweden via Bernholm. One of them had rowed across the Baltic from near Sassnitz. — e *Yor. FATIMA - A Sensible Cigarette i T BACK ALKS BACK_ If it smokes hot—or makes your mouth taste “tinny”—or if it ever leaves you feeling “over-smoked” ; ¢ = —then try Fatimas. s Thousands of men are choosing Fatimas for taste and comfort—for that balanced Turkish / blend that never calls your attention to the number you smoke. Camfort. Delicious Taste. These make Fatimas sensible. You'll find this true as sure as you try a package. i LygeReMyvadsbasco MYSTIC Young Men Ordered to Report at Na- val Station at Newport—Methodist Church Sunday School Held Picnic. Chief Botswain Mate Fred G. Poole Las received official notice to have the following men appear at the naval base in Newport and will leave this Wednesday morning with the follow- ing: Fred A. Wilson, C. B. M.; George A. Sherburme, C. B. M.; George B. Lewis, seama: Max Raithal, sea- aan; Edward. McKone, seaman; Le- land’ Perkins, seaman; Walter Wolfe, seaman; John Waish, seaman; Ever- ett L. Ulam, seamar Wil son, seaman; Earl W. Tay seaman William J. Payne, seaman. These young men with four- teen printed in Tuesday's Bulletin un- der B. U. M. Burdick, makes 27 voung men to go from the village in a week, and several others are expecting to be called into ‘the navy. With the large number that have already zone Mystic commences to feel a it had done its share toward sending young men inte the terrible conilict. Personals and Notes. Miss Geneva Rathbun_has returned from a visit with Mrs. Edzar Wilfred at Cedar Grove, N. J. Miss Ellen Holmfs has from a visit in Prgvidence. Russell Dickersof of iartford is the guest of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Dicicerson Miss Ella Brightham and M returned s An- GEUDES; THE NEW HEAD OF THE BRITISH NAVY, HAD AMERICAN TRAINING. Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, late con- troller of the navy, the new head of the British navy as first lord of the admiralty, is a railroad man with four years of Ameri experience. He has done notably well everything he has taken hold of since Lord Kitchener set him to work on the British railroads in ‘wartime, and seems to have a genius for administration, an almost infallible eye for competency, a gift of getting the best out of men. He is only 41 years old and was born in India of Scottish parents, who destined him for the army. Developing a bent for en- sineering, he left England at 17 years and came to thé United Stl!e‘lato ac- quire practical experience. [e re- \ained here, at the Homestead steel 1 Balti. rie Moorehead of Boston are at Ce- dar Crest for the summer, Josephine Dickenson has re- turned from a visit in Providence. Picnic at Atlantic Beach. Sunday of the Methodist church was held on Atlantic Beach and a special car left the monument at 9.33. A good time was enjoyed by ali pres- The return trip was made home MacKenzie, and Bergen L Greene were the committee, Yoves has Miss The annual Tuesday at ent. at 6 o'clock. George W. Wallace Mrs. John F. mitted treatment. James Donovan has entered the em- ploy of the Great Atlantic & Pacific store. EN Gledhill and Benjamin F, returned from an rows have trip to Maine. W. C. T. U. Regular Meeting. The W. C. T. U. held their regular meeting on Tuesday afternoon at their rooms on Bank square and a large at- tendance was present. gramme was carried out. Societies to Hold Picnic Order hold its plcnic Beach Thursday of this week The sewing society of ( ter, O, B. S., will hold its annual pic Charity Chapter, Star, will ric with Mrs. L. L. Brooks in Moodt p will be made 1 and the tr Every petent to discourse zgement of a family school Harry to a hospital A literary pro- bride of two weeks knowingly of the trials and cares incidental to the man- SOLDIERS OF CONNECTICUT LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE ORDERED TO NIANTIC CAMP. Will Mobi ze on Wednesday and Be In Camp Sunday. Supreme Dictator. picnic Pittsburgh, Pa., July 24- Ford of Philadelphia freme dictator of the supreme Loyal Order of Moose, at session of the tional convention of the —Orders to Connecticut July 2 s of Hartford, Conn commanding offic National guard organizations not now in federa) s be i ice are that they shall n exe camp in Niantic before Sunday following tomorrow’s mobiliza- g day. Mr. Ford The organizations to be mobilized | preme dictator since the 2 been ad-lgre Troops A and M of New Haven|of Hyman D. Davis of Cleveland in Boston for|ang B and L of Hartford, held the office companies of coast artillery, _Other officers _elected necticut Ambr e company, Vice dictator. Charles Connecticut ~ Signal corps, | San Diego, Cal, and Separate. company of infantry, | William Broen Balt headquarters and band of coast ar The executive eassion lery and First Connecticut Field Hos- | tion was thrown into Bur- autn pital company. Mark Anthony, a dele Orde erning the movement. of | Francisco, gave notice that sc those troops to Niantic have been is- | during the convention he would sued by Lieutenant Colonel Shuttie- |duce a motion to put the order worth, who has instructed the com- |ord as favoring prohibition anders te proceed to eamp as expe. - i . e % E Rockville Pastor Hosigns. out his own transportation problem. Rockville, Conn,, July F e 5= Hartwig, pastor of the West stree: erma Lutheran churck §500,000 for Home Guard. 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