Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 8, 1917, Page 7

STEAL A MARCH ON JACK FROST For those unexpected cold snaps that always come before the fur- nace is rumning set up, keep a Heater handy. or the stove is Perfection Oil It gives quick, steady, portable heat. Makes a cold room cozy in no time. Gives eight hours of glowing, com- forting heat for every gallon of fuel. Particularly ' economical when coal and weod are high. Used to give the final touch of comfort in 3,000,000 homes. i The new No. 500 Perfection Heater Wick comes trimmed and burned off, ready for use. Makes re-wicking easy. For best results use So-CO-ny Kerosene. STANDAB.D OlL CO. OF NEW YORK ESCAPED INEBRIATE I8 NABBED BY POLICE William T. Kelley Arrested Seon Af- ter Making His Getaway, Hiam T. Kelley; who escaped from the Norwich state farm for inebriates Wednesday morning, aid not en- as hLe .z orwich car in [ 35,000 of the $7,400 to as nabbed by Kcley wears in a blue Sorwich, but e ear in New Lon- 1 Lis spectacies and aw turned it in- carried ‘it on his arm. John into two spotted him. ley is_a mnsiclan of note and in New Hnoven with his par- knts This is the second time within th he has escaped. from n. - On the last cecasion, ch was in May he went to New York and was caught in New Haven cn his way back. Capital Sfock Reduced. The public utiiitie: ission €Cecided to tak: Tertmisaned i 5 - the Ne: York, New Haven tad Hartford Rail- rcad company for authority to acguire e securities of the New y _and which mount to §17.254 000 and it will give its sanction to the purpose of the pany to acquirs them. h2s been fiied in the ary of state cerdi- pitai steek of the New c2tion ~ compah: €én reduced fiom the s::::.oyl Sl;;. #.500 to $14 067 800. and the number cf shares from 494,035 .to 140,67 TWO HUNDRED HAVE SURRENDERED THEIR STOCK. sl Industrial Improvement Corporation Hag But $2,400 More to Divid: Treasurer Gilpert L. Hewitt has paid cri to those stackholders of the Norwich Industrial Improvement corporation o have surrendered their _stock be divided among them. Over 200 stockholders bave availed themselves of the oppor- tunity te convert their stock into cash, recefving $2.60 a share. The company huving eold all of its real estate, the .8t sale having been made to the merican Thermos Bottle company for $5.000. bave no more assets to be con- yerted into cash. There yet remains $2.400 to pe divided among _those stockholders who have not yet sur- rendered their stock. MONTVILLE HOPES TO GET FULL QUOTA by Foed ‘Eneouraging Reports Made Pledge Canvassers. The reports of the fedsral food ‘Dledge canvassers in, Montville are very pleasing. It will be possible, it is estimated that the town will get the full quota of 450 signers by Saturday evening. The town was delayed in starting the canvass as Lhe window cards did not reach there until Friday. John Humphrey of New London has sent to state headquarters at Hartford 260 additional Hoover pledge cards, se- cured by the school children. Added to the former total of 1.771 this makes 2031 cards turned’in from New Lo don. 5 - Litehfield._Thomas Welch made his scape Tuesdiy morning from _the ail at Litchfield. He had been sent up from Harwinfon for six or weven months. NOTICE 2 meg!oducomwhumemd:emtofpro- dnxam,mueeo mpelled to advance our Electric Power . December 1, 1917, our interim Elec- follows: tric?ow-nhswflbeu First 500 kw. ..:...%.c.0.c.. 6 cents per kw. Next 1,500 kw. . All over 2,000 kw. . . yeo 35 cents per kw.’ 2% cents per kw. Thmntsnfwdmmymedmmyone mmmund.pm on&&&flflfaflhefiralwm pmmnn power connected. THE BOARD OF GAS & ‘each additional horse- ELECTRICAL COMMIS- QQNEIB OF THE CITY OF NORWICH. CONN. MAYOR ALLYN L. BROWN (Campaign Director) The opening meeting of the work- ers in the thirty-five million dollar campaign for Y. M. C. A. war work, 1 be held in ¥. M. C. A. building on v evening of this week. Col Charles W. Gale will preside. Supper will be served at 6.15 sharp, and immediately following the supper, Mayor Allyn L. Brown, the campalgn director, will outline the plans for the workers, and he will be followed by the speaker of the evening, B. H. Mc- Laine, of Seattle, who is a thrilling speaker. Mr. McLaine has just return- ed from Mesopotamia, where he has been at work among the soldiers un- der General Maude. His story will be of intense interest, and those who hear him will be fortunate. The Executive Committee. Organization of the campaisn lead- ers was_affected on Wednesday. Col. Charles W. Gale has been made chair- man of the executive committee, Oliv- er L. Johnson was made treasurer and James L. Case secretary. ~The other members of the exzcutive comumittee are Tmonard O. Smith, Henry A. Tir- rell and Frank B. Ricketson. Maydr Allyn L. Brown was chosen campaign director and General Sec- retary Edwin Hill was made director of the outlying distzats to be covered in the campaign. James C. Macpher- son and Herbert R. Branche were chosen generals, in command of the teams, which are Adistributed among two a@ivisions. v The Team Captains. The divisions and team captains are EDWIN HILL (Di rector Outlying Districts) made up as follow s Division A. General—James C. Macpherson. “Team 1—Herbert B. Cary, captzin. Team 2—Alexander Finlayson, cap- | tain. Téam 3—Harry Peterson, -captain. Team Charles C. Treat, captain Team 5—Mdmund W. Perkins, cap- tain. ' Division B. General—Herbert R. Branche. Team 1—Walter Block, captain. ;I'eam 2—Charles A. Hagberg, cap- tain. Team 3—-Shapherd B Palmer, cap- tain. Team 4—N. Eugene, Smith, captain. Team 5—Charles L. Stewart, tain: Fach of the ten team captalns will select nine men to serve with him, making a total of one hundr:d can- vassers! Taftville a Separate Unit. The Taftville district will de a sep- arate*unit In the campaign and will be headed by F. B. Ricketson /of the executive committee and Gustav Hed- ier as team captain. There will also be twe divisions of boys one hended by J. Harold EI¥ and cap- | JAMES C. MACPHERSON (Gerferal, Diviston AY the other by B. F\ Bruce. They will endeavor to-interest at least one hun- Ared boys in the campaign, to pledge themselves to earn an iribute Defore April fivst -ten Jars each. Ths mflonql» 100,000 h.wyc . earning and E | Y. M. C. A. DRIVE STARTS FRIDAY Opening Meeting of War Fund Teams to be Addressed by B. H. MeLaine, Recently. Rotumed From Mesopotemio—|” BOWELS TONIGHT Col, Charles W. Gale Chairman of Advisory Committee. Special Sermons on Campaign. Norwich - pastors in common with | the pastors throughout the state have { heen requested by Governor Marcus H. Hoicomb to preach at one of their | church services next Sunday a special sermon bearing onthis great work un- dertaken by the Y. M, C. A, | A mess meeting is beilng arranged | for Sunday afternoon at the Davis | theatre and Suffragan Eishop E. Cam- ipion Acheson has been secured as the speaker. Norwich Not Alone in Campaign. Norwich will not be alone in the lo- i cal campaign as a number of the su j rounding towns and villages Fave | joinined- with The Rose undex the | Norwich district. These towns and | villages _are as follows: Taftville, Occum, Baltic, Fanover, | Jewett_City, Plainfieid, Central Vi lage, Wauregan, Moosup, Sterling, | Witchville, ~Bozrahville, ~ Colchester, { Eranklin,’ Voluntown, “Montville and | Preston. i e o o ort i s e 5 C. A. does: . Provides for our soldiers away from home.’ At Ayer alone: The Y. M. C. A. has spent $160,000 at Camp Devens; nine M. C. A. secretaries are in charge of 79 home centers: the Y. M. C. A. “a home A. has erected an auditorium. holding 2,000. Provides the only warm rooms in is operating 11 buildings; the Y. M. C.} HERBERT R. BRANCHE (General, Division B) camps; walting rooms; talls for religious servic Proyides a chance to write home; the Y. M. C. A. in America alone sup- plies free of charge 1,000,000 sheets of paper and 500,000 envelopes every day. Provides music and entertainment; Y. M. C. A. bulldings all"have pianos and Victrolas; Y. N A. engages fa- wcus singer: . A. organizes stereopticon lgctutes and movies; the] Y. M. C. A. has its musical directors to teach mass singing to the men; the ¥. M. C. A. organizes such things as sightseeing trips to interesting places near by the camrs, Provides opportunities for athletios: the Y. M. C. A. organizes games; the ¥. M. C. A. supplies baseball gloves; tasketballs, volley balls, quoits and ever) thing needed for athletics. The Y. M. C. A. does all this free of charge. MRS. W. K. TINGLEY ON WAR FUND COMMITTEE. laboratories; Norwich Woman Appointed at Meeting of Connecticut Nurses in New Haven. The November meeting of the Grad- uste Nurses’ association. the league of rursing education and the Connecticut organization of public heaith nursing was opened in New Haven Tuesday morning at the nurses’ home of Graee rospital, For thc first time in the his- tory -of thes: organizations BAD COLD? TAKE “GASCARETS” FOR THEY’RE FINE! LIVEN YOUR LIVER AND BOWELS AND CLEAR YOUR HEAD. NO HEADACHE, SOUR STOMACH, BAD COLD OR CONSTIPATION BY MORNING. Get a 10-cent b Colds—whether in the head or any part of the body—are quickly over- come by urging the liver to action keeping the bowels free of poi Take Cascarets to-night and vou wake up with a clear head and your cold wiil be gone. Cascarets work while you slcep; they cleanse and re ulate the stomach, remove ‘the sou undigested food and foul gases; ke the e: bile from the liver and carr off the constipated waste matter and now. ipoison from the bowel Remember rid of cold: night to cl 10-cent bo: the quickest way to get is one or two Cascarets at nse the system. Get a at any drug store. Don’t forget the children. They relish this Candy Catha and it is often all that is needed to drive a cold from their little systems. HEALS RUNNING SORES AND CONQUERS PILES Also Stops ltching of Egzema Almost Instantly. “I feel it my duty to write you letter of thanks for your wenderrul Peterson’s Ointment. I had a run- ning sore on my left leg for enc vear. I began to use Peterson’s Ointment three weeks —A. C. Gi T3 rather zet 'a Peterson, than have feller give me a_thousand dollar does me a lot of good to be able i be_of us fellow men. For ) through SON other remedies Seem relieve are speedily red. anple~ and nasty blackheads disappear in a week. Peterson’s 30c December 1st. Ointment after Gf extra business dué to war condi- ticns. Tuesday mornin €xecutive meeting: to 4n open mceting of tr Redfern of Boston, : to classes in nurses’ training schools, gave a very interesting talk on her work, showing several instructive charts. Wednesday morning was devoted to public health work. At this meeting a paper of special interest was read ss Eleanor Richardson, R. duate of W. W. Backus hospi training school, class of 1906, now in charge of infant welfare work in Bridgeport. In the afternoor a joint meeting of the three associations was held in Plymouth church. -The ad- dress of welcome was givan by George Blumer, M. D., dean of Yale medical facult. At this session several papers were read on private duty work, one of which was a paper by Misg Kate Mac- Kenzie, R. N, graduate of . W, Fackus hospital training school, class of 1808, on The Pleasures of a Private Dy S unss At this meeting a war fund commit- was_appointed, Miss Lauder Suth- nd, R. N., of the Hartford hospital, clairman, Miss Margaret Stack, of New Haven, se Mrs, Witter K Tingley, R. N. ich, treas- urer. To this fund every duate nurse in Connecticut is expected -to con- tmbute at least $1. About $50 has al- ready been collected te Read Governor’s Proclamation. A proclamaticn by Ge Marcus H. tlolcomb, calling attention to the Y. M. A. war work campaign, Nov. 11 to 18, apd to the amount apportioned Connecticut of $1,000,000 of the $3 06.000 desired for Y. M. C. A. work among the American troops, the allied es and prisoners of war, was read Rev. James M. Potter at the morn- church at mbumu ten st the fu. be 3 CRECE X8 a tvio- service the M. E. days' meeting was necessary because|Gales Ferry on Sunday. '] ‘I'h_e Pnrteous & Ml_lgfie_l! 30_. A Big, Comprgllensive Money-saving Event In Staple Domestics ONE WHOLE WEEK —of especially low prices on our entire stock of Sheets, Pillow Cases, Sheetings, Bed Coverings, Etc.—embracing such Nationally famous brands as Salem, Pequot and Naumkeag Sheets and Pillow Cases—the best known lines of Domestic and Imported Bed Spreads and Standard American made Bed Comfortables. OCur stock is most complete and was practically all contracted for many months ago. Buying these staple household goods at the prices we quote is like putting away money in a Savings Account, for all indications point to very much higher price levels. At the present time nearly all mills are under Government control and working on Government contracts. As a re- sult merchandise for civilian purposes is very scarce. 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