Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 3, 1917, Page 15

NORWICH BULLETIN, NOVEMBER 3, 'SATURDA 1917 +Angy g ¢ e b s T o A i Sl et WA A ys iiead Here Are Qvercoats for Them It usually takes a few stiff blows to rouse a man inio buying a winter overcoat. lieve most men realize now the necessity for purchasing their overcoats, and to the man who has Here you will see, ready to put on, dozens of smart, good looking Overcoats, embracmg all the hest styles the season has brought forth Our prices mean real economy in these times. WE not yet selected his we say, COME TO THE MANHATTAN. in every worth while fabric and design. FEATURE PARTICULARLY However, we be- UPPENHEIMER OVERCOATS $15, $18, $20, $22, $25 to $35 OTHER NECESSITIES FOR THE COLD DAYS TO COME — SWEATER COATS, GLOVES, SHIRTS, HATS, FALL UNDERWEAR HOSIERY, NECKWEAR, SHOES Special Values in Men’s Suits Mvhabidn IRI-I25 MAIN STREET DANIELSON AND DANIELSON Two Hundred and Seven. Women Bought $35250 Worth of Liberty Bonds—Annual Coon Hunt Tonight —Missionary Meeting—Home Guard to Have Basketball -Team — Food Cards Being rally Signed. Mrs. Rienzi Robinson reported Fri- a that 207 women subscribed for Literty bonds in Killingly and that the subscriptions total $35,250. The subscriptions wexe secured b wo- men members of the ILiber Loan committe>. Many other Killingly wo- men made subscriptions that did not pass through the hands of this com- mittee. Rev. W. S. Beard to Speak. Rev. Willlam S. Beard, New York focrmeriy at Willimantic, is to speal on Mobliization, at the Congregationa chuich here Sunday evening. Annual Coon Hunt. Nearly 75 acceptances of Invitations to attend the coon hunt of the Kiil- ingly Hunting and Fishing club had been received up to Friday noon. The club- members go out tonight for the annual -event, which Is to be at Camp ‘Wrippoorwill, the club’'s headquarters, near 014 Killingly pond. Women's Missionary Meeting. There was a large attendance and very intecresting addresses Friday at the Woman's Missionary meeting held at the Raptist church, with delega- tions prezent from many churches in Eastern Connecticut. . The Ladies’ Home Journal patters on sale at The Keystone Store.—adyv. Many had to reminded Friday that the 3-cent postage rate on first class mail matter s now in effect and that letters not having a sufficient amount of postage are being held up. To Speak on Jamaica. W. Irving Buliard will give a talk on Jamatca this afternoon before the members of the Workabit club of the Congregational church. Other inter- esting features are included in the programme for the afternoon. Peter Bassett, who has been men- Uoned as being oreyrseas with the American forces, has written friends that the organization to which he is attached is in England at present. Thomas J. Aylward, Misses Mar- garet and Helen E. Aylward, were'in Providence Friday. Several members of the. 38th Com- pany, Fort Terry, and iocal men from Camp Devens, are expccted here this afternoon on leaves of absence. Mrs. Roy B. Chamberlin. whose hus- band, pastor of a church near Sar- anac ke, is in France ith the Y. M. C. A. organization, is visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. . A. ‘Ito one wheatless day. Jacobs. November 4th will be observed as International Sunday School day in the Baptist church and an effort is being made to have a perfect record of attendance in the Sunday school. Committee on Appropriations. Judge M. A. Shumway, F. A Jacobs and C. H. Truesdell. appointed at the annual town meeting as a commit- tee on appropriations, will report their findings and recommendatio™fs at the adjourned town mceting, schedul- ed for November 12th. A report is that squirrels, In many cases, are suffering from an ailment said to he due from eating chestnuts from trecs that are affected with the blight. Such squirrels are reported as not fit to eat. Leave Brooklyn Farm. Alx and Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald, who -have been residents of Brooklvn for many vears, have come to Daniel- son to make their home. This week ir. Fitzzerald disposed of, by auction, the stock and equipment on his farm, at the foot of Bush Hill. At a meeting of tho town school committee it was voted to authorize some repairs to the interfor of the zraded school ‘huilding. School street. Amonz other things, will be repairing the stairway treads. fixing. the doors and adding some lignts. Home Guard Basketball Team. Some splendid material has been found from which to build a_cracker- jack basketball team in the Danlelson Home Guard Company. It is probable that Sidney P. Marland, a member of the company and well known 2r alf player, will coach the team. Members who are eligiblé are Francis Tetreault, Richard Reeves, Edward Fuller KBrookiyn), Tnselem Meunier and Clare Turner. ~ All of these men have had long and valuable playing experi- ence and probably wiil quickly train down into a first class team. Down to 22 Degrecs. . The temperature dropped to 22 de- grees in Danlelson .Fridav morning, making it the coldest of the fall sea- sor. In the meantime, there are many flelds of potatoes in this vicinity that have not been harvested. TUp in the Westfield section, where the concrete roadway is being Jaid hay was used Thursday night to cover | the sections that had just been put down o protect the surface from frost damage. Tha road will be completed in about two weeks. Supply of Food Cards Delayed. This is the officially. final day for taking pledges for food conservation, but it may be necessary to extend the time in the town of Killingly because of the fact that a-number of the can- vassers have run out-of pledge cards. A part of the supply of these cards inte'sled for Danielson failed to reach here and several hundred more were ordered hy Mrs. Rienzi Robinson to re- place them, but these cahrs had not arrived up to Friday. The canvassers have, on. the whole, found the housewives very willing to co-operate in the food = conservation movement. Some have pledged them- selves to observe in- their families two meatless days each week in addition This will not only help the United States win the war, but as well will reduce. the cost of | living and perhaps improve the health ‘of many. who have been in the habit of eating altogether too well. SEARCH CONTINUES FOR CLAUDE TAYLOR Who _is Wanted For Alleged Holdups in Northeastern Connecticut. Palmer, Mass.. State Officer ‘Thomas Bligh of Pittsfield, Chief of Police Timothy J. Crimmins of Palmer, and state officers from . Conneoticut ' were in Palmer today in search of Claude led the wedding. PUTNAM NEWS PUTNAM Bradley-Bacon Engagement — Me- morial Service for Herbert F. Wat- son, Native of Norwich—Johnson- King Wedding—Mrs. W. J. Bartlett May Return Home Monday—Joseph- ine Rosabelle’s Leg Crushed by a Freight Car. George S. Bradley announced Fri- day afiernoon the engagement of his daughter, Miss Helen C. Bradley, who teaching at West Springfield, Mass., td Stanley Bacon of Scheneotady, Nominated for Alderman. Arthur L. Duvert, clerk in the Isanc Champeau company store, has been nonfinated for alderman by the repub- licans of the third ward. A. A. Bro- deur and Ovila Guertin are nominated as members of the ward committee. Heard Col. Roosevelt. Among those who were at Hartford evening to hear the address Theodore Roosevelt were G, Har- oid Gilpatric, Attorney Arthur S. Mac- donaid, Attorney E. C, Morse, County Commissioner John A. Dady and Mai- colm M. Willey. There were a num- ber of motor parties from this city to the Hartford meeting. At the post office Friday afternoon it was stated that very litt\> difficulty was being experienced with patrons by reason of their not having piaced suf- ficient postage on mail matter. On the other hand, an excess of Stamps s placed on ‘some Tatter. Letters intended for delivery in the Putnam postal district, which includes its R. I D. routes, only require a two-cent stamp, as heretofore. Spoke on Y. M. C. A. Work. Secretary Edwin Hill of the Nor- wich Y. M, C. A. Friday evening a; dressed a gathering of Putnam people, at the rooms of the Chamber of Com- merce, on the assoclation's war work. The temperature dropped to twenty degrees in Putnam Friday morning, making it the coldest of the -fall sea- son Se e for Herbert F. Watson, Putnam friends of the family will =0 to Rutland, Mass., tOMOITOW to at- tend a memorial service for Herbert F. Watson, radio operator, Born in Norwich, who lost his life In the sink- ing of the transport Antilles. The work of widening and curving the corners of Bridge .street will be started Monday by a force working under the direction of the state hizh- way department. Improvements will be made at each end of Bridge street. Telephone poles and man-holes in the street will be relocated in carrying out the improvement work, the expense of which will be borne by the state. This has been the bluest week since the declaration of war for Putnam people, who have relatives in the ser- vice or who will have later. The dis- aster to Italian arms and Friday's an- nouncement that Russia is to quit have brought a depression of spirits, for the program is for the United States to win victory and that, It now seems, means a long and cruel war. WEDDING. Johnson—King. - At the home of Mr., and Mrs. Allie King, Grove street, Friday afternoon, heir daughter. Elsie King, was united in marriage with Earl Johnson. son of Mr. and Mrs, E. E. Johnson, Mechanic street. Rev. Albert E. Stone, pastor of the Baptist church, performed the ceremony. Miss Hazel Johnson. sis- ter of the bridegroom, was bridesmaid, ana Walter \King, brother of the bride, was best man. Only relatives attend. Jurors Drawn. The followinz is a new list of jurors drawn for service at cases to be tried in the superior court for Windham county: Putnam, Eugepe Brousseau, John O. Fox, George W..Baker, George Potvin, Frank H. Cordier, Archie Mac- donald: Windham, George K. Ander- son, Rodericl Young: Ashford, Justin M. ‘Burrill; Brooklyn, Leslie J. Fan- ning; Canterbury, Freeman Christian: Chaplin, Burton M. Welch; Eastford, A. G. Morse: ¥ampton, Willlam C. Oiiver: Killingly, James Kent, Charles ¥. Burgess, Fred C. Leavens, George M. Pilling, Kent A. Darble: Plainfleld, Arthur_W. Davis, Charles T. Burgess, Ciark B. Gallup; Stephen R. Babcock, Francis W. Martin; Pomfret, George Hicks, Ellery Baker, Frank K. Haine Scotland, William M, Burnham: Sterl. ing, Harry C. Barr, Joseph H. Shippee, Robert A. Sherman; Thompson, Bar- ton W. Jacobs: Woodstock, Mowry Ross, Harold C. Hibbard, A. H. Hib- bard, Frani Miiler. Mrs. Bartlett May Return Monday. It is_expected that Mrs. Dorothy Jones Bartlett may arrive at her home here from Washinaton, D. C., some- time Monday, as she is to be released today. Mr. Bartlett left for Washing- ton Friday evening. Suffragists here are very anxlous to welcome Mrs. Bartlett, but it was said ¥riday afternoon that no demonstra- tion had been planned in her honor. There are many details of her ox- perience that Mrs, Bartlett has been unable to commiunicate. on account of restrictions ‘placed about her, and for that reason her friends here are very anxious for Interviews with her, A banquet will be given the = released pickets at Cameron house Sunday night. At the present time suffragists here are awaiting the coming of a speaker who is to visit various towns in this part of the state. It is said that the local organization will be reorzanized 8s a branch of the National Woman's Party. Muych Knitting for -Red_ Cros At the present time the Putnam chapter of the Red Cross has .over $1,000. worth of knitting varn out among members who are working it into garments for the soldler boya. Re ports Friday were that the Kknitting work continues to go along splendidly and that most of the soldiers from Putnam have been supplied with gar- ments. The chapter is also making ready to pack a case of garments that will go to Red Cross headquarters. 5 Class Officers. The following are the newly elected officers of the Drop-in class of ‘the Congregational. church: President, Mrs. G. W. Gilpatric; vice president, Mrs. C. 8. Andem; ‘secretary, Mra. Alice Carpenter; treasurer, Mrs. B. C. Aorse; sunshine committee, Mrg Gene- vieve,'Letters: .finance, Mrs. John Child, Mrs: Harry Prentice: sociel, Mr. A. D. Molntyre, Mrs. John Morse, Mrs H, L. Pease; membership, Miss Taylor, the former bandit, who was|Jennie West Mrs. Annie Brown; vis- paroled recently from Charlestown state prison, where'he was serving a twenty vears sentence for depreda- tions_In this section in April, 1906, ana who is wanted for alleged holdups in Conneeticut. ‘Children C Ty FOR FLETCHER'S A. F. WOOD “Tlu Locll Ul:mdu‘hker" S iting. Miss Anna Sampson, Mrs. Geo. Harrington. JOSEPHINE ROSABELLE - RUN OVER BY FREIGHT Fourteen-year-old_Girl Was Picking Up C in Railroad Yards. ‘While picking up coal along the side tracks in the Putnam railroad Y‘l’fll SASTORILA | i aftsraon. Ity Rae, treigiit car aud had her left leg badly erushed at_the ankle. Some frelght cars that were backing into the sid- ing against other cars standing there caused the accident. The girl was taken in an ambulance to the. ! Kimball hospital where it wa: Our busins THE PAS THE PASNIK CO.-sell for less has prospered on a policy of cash dealing and moderate profits. We believe that this Opposite Woolworth's 5 and 10 Cent Store WHY ARE WE ALWAYS BUSY good faith kept each day by our continued “lower § than anywhere” prices explains our great volume of business—just the same in wartime as in other | days. 2 | LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES | - Fur trimmed Coats .$11.97 o | Black Milton Coats.. $ 897 e 5 Ladies’ Serge Dresses (all wool). ..$ 597 1 Children’s Corduroy Coats... ..$ 197 Ladies’ Fiannel Petticoats. ... 470 i Flannel Rompers .............. S 470 ] Ribbed Heavy Underwear 29¢ ¥ Ladies’ Burson Hose. 19¢ > Bungalow Aprons (rubber belts) . 690 S Bungalow Gingham Aprons. b 47¢ Silk Striped Ladies’ Waists. ... 69 3 NIK CO We take erty Department. same as money in our Cloak and Suit Bonds just. the | | sald that there was hope of saving the foot. The girl lives at 14 Powhat- ton street. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PLAYS STAR SPANGLED BANNER With Dr. Karl Muck Conducting, at Concert in Bo:tun. Boston, Nov. 2. The Star Spansled Banner was played Dby the Boston Eymphony Orchestra, with Dr. Karl Muck conducting, at the afternoon con- -ert here today. In announcing at the opening of the concert that the national anthem would be added:to the programme, Major Henry L. Higginson, the patron of the orchestra, told the audience al- so that Dr. Muck had tendered his resignation conductor. He added that the resignation would be seri- ously considered but expressed the opinfon that the loss of Dr. Muck would be a disaster. The action of Dr. Muck followed agitation resulting from the failure of the orchestra to play the Star Spangled Banner at a recent concert in Providence. In his address toda: Major Higginson said that Dr. Muck and the orchestra had never refused to play the anthem and that they had now compllied with his request to make it a part of the programme. Dr. Muck was applauded liberally as he appeared on the stage and when the Star Spangled Banner was ren- dered ‘as the closing number the au nce manifested its approval with P icnEed Semoekieiion Symphony Hall officials said that the anthem would be a feature of all feature concerts. In announcing that Dr. Muck had 3 tendered his resignation, M ginson made the following s ‘[ have asked Dr. Muck a orchestra to play the Star Banner, and they have conse Lave never refused. Last my earnest request Dr. Muck ed to.remain in charge of the tra_because I considered h to the. continuance of these c He has placed his resigr hands because he does not wis any - personal feeling tows shbuld prejudice the wélfar orchestra. _To lose him wou disaster. Therefore, the m: with me and will have my consideration.” TO REMEDY COAL SHORTA IN WEST AND NORTHEW Industries Board Has Ordered Railroads_to Supply Cars. ‘Washington, Noy. 2.—To reme shortage of commercial coal west and northwest the priority © mittee of the war industries boe day ordered seven western railroa serving coal mines in Utah a ming to supply daily to the: “all or so many of the empts single deck stock cars movin; o, nofthwest owr their lines a be ‘raquired to transport coal rea siipment west or northwest, a ing t0 the direction in which suc are being moved THomaston.—The members of Conpecticut state council _of have received invitations to atten Ropsévelt war rally which will b in Hartford this (Friday) ev [CERTAINGY. QUICK WORK - | JUIT PROMPT without delay. PERFECT If it is service that SERVICE For ninety—nin‘e out of one hundred of your needs you will find just what you want in our stock 'That means SERVICE. 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