Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 23, 1917, Page 3

NORWICH BULLETIN, NOVEMBER 23, 1917 FRIDAY, INSURANCE INSURANCE FOR EVERYTHING INSURABLE 4. L. LATHROP & SONS 28 Shetucket Street Norwich, Conn. DEFECTIVE FLUES and careless- ness with stoves and furnaces are the cause of many a disastrous fire. . RIGHT NOW see us about the FIRE INSURANCE you need and have your property protected against the hazard that ever threatens your home, store and_stock. ‘We offer skilled service and the pro- tection of sound; high [grade com- panies. ISAAC S. JONES insurance and Real Estate Agent Richards’ Building 97 Main 8t BURGLARY INSURANCE —IN— The Travelers Insurance Co. P. LEARNED & CO. Agency Established May, 1845. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW EDWIN W. HIGGINS Attorney-at-Law Corner Main ana Shetucket Streets Brown & Perkins, Afamp-al-law Over Uncas Nat. Bank. Shetucket St. Entrance stairway near to Thames National Bank. Telephone 38-3 NG AUTO IS MAPPING OUT ROUTE From a Middle Western City to the Atlantic Seaboard. Washington, Nov. 22—A pathfinding dutomobile left a middle western city today to map out a practicable rouic to the Atlantic seaboard as part o/ the programme of the Highways Transport Committee of the Councd of National Lefence tq stimulate ov- “erland traffic snd relieve railroad con- * gestion. Roy D. “ committee, fow week: PATHFINDI €hapin, cha announced the route put to a test for military tra: tion by an army truck train, found ‘satisfactory will be adopic.. the official route for the transfer of the ten thousand trucks, for whicn contracts now are being let by the government, tc points of embarkation for_France. The first truck train to be run will consist of cargo trucks, two for zasolirie. one for baggage and ratiofis, one roliing kitchem, one light repair truck, two motor cycles and an oi- ficers' car, manned by one lieutgnant and 76 men. . Besides relieving the raiiroads of carrying the trucks and affording op- portunity for training drivers it was pointed out that the trucks woufl travel fully loaded with supplies, tak ing another 30,000 or more tons from the already overworked railway limw Plans for relieving congestion at terminal points by utilizing truck trains for short hauls are being worked out by the highways committee. iman of the within a be psen will WAR PORT BOARDS FOR ATLANTIC AND GULF PORTS Planhed by Government to Expedite Shipments to Europe. Washington, Nov. 22— Creation of a war port board for each of the orin- cipal Atlantic and Gulf ports is plan- ned by the government to expedite the_movement of men and materials to Burope. Port congestion, it is es- timated, is costing the transport ser- vice fully thirty per cent. of its efi- ciency. The chairman of the boards would form a general board. The port of New York already has a war board. Others would be named at Boston, timore, Philadelphia, Hampton R New Orleans and Galveston. Four factors enter into the efficient moving of troops and supplies across the ocean—railroad transportation, loading, movement of the vessel and unloading on the other. side. The roads now are holding trains in the interior when it appears their arrival at the docks would complicate load- in€. The pert board probably would work out a pian for diverting trains to ports in which there was the least congestion. A Poor Game Season. ;Owing to the absence of snow, this been an exceptionally poor sea- for big geme hunters in Mon- tana. The total number of deek,s elk, men. women and children killed is inconsiderable—Anaconda Standard. Dont Dire to Aek. In the face of a corn crop larger b more than 66,000,000 bushels than u; ever before raised in the history of American agriculture, have you ven- tured to inguire as to the retail price :J'hi- bag of corn lately?—Manchester on. . Just Like Other Girls Now. Marie Romanoff, oné of the ex- Czar's daughters, is learning steno- grephy now -and we'll bet the little #irl will have more fun sticking her £um undér an office chair than she would under the throme. — Gramd Rapids Express. Children Ory .~ FOR FLETCHER’S CASTORIA . 1647 One of the historic places in Norwich for over two centuries has been the famous ADAMS TAVERN The ftrolley will get you thers from the city ia about fifteen minutes or you can run there in an automobile n-less time. A. A. ADAMS Phone 519 Tener Denou nces Exemntion Action Claims the Application is Unpatriotic—Hermann in Favor of the Move if Necessary to Maintain Baseball—Cfficials Receive Many Messages in Favor and Against Plan. — Chteago, Nov. 22. — \Officers of_the American League were deluged here today with messages, some of them ap- provals, and many of them eriticisms over the announcement by B. B. John- son, president of the league, that ex- emptions for 144 ball players in the league would be asked from the na- tional government. Baseball men were diaided in their opinions of the advisability of the ap- plication. President Tener of the Na- tional League denounced it as unpa- triotic. August Herrmarn, chairman of the National Commission and pres- ident of the Cincinnati National League club, favored the move if nec- essary to maintain baseball at its pres- ent standard. President Johnson today insisted that the ball players and club owners mighc just as well have the test now and know whether they are galng to be able to keep the men. “If the players are drafted indiscriminately, baseball cannot go on,” he said. AETNA BOWLING LEAGUE. White Sox Take Close Match From iants—Red Sox Drop Two. In the Aetna Bowling league Thurs- day evening the Phillies won two games from the Red Sox and _the White Sox took® two from the Giant: The last zame of the White Sox-Gi ants match was a tie and the White Sox don on the roll off. Smith of the ts had high single and high total. The scores: Giants. i 88 ‘101 b 116 479 463 White Sox. 79 90 76 98 87 90 . 82 90 100 98 424 466 Phillies. . 82 . 88 114 85 256 93 94 a4 97 20— 25— 101— 81— 14— 1413 Moott .. Bushnell Hagberg Fillmore Smith 471 Peckham Budnick Hynds Sullivan Follenius 76, — 259 81 85 Condon Burton Boune 1l Clement Malesky Throw Durocher Tyron Burdick Johnson =. — Callahan Bodgue Hill Evans Patterson Flynn Guy Connell Leonard Giftord Nelson Bush . McClure Shannon J. Murphy 2 Maynara | Mellow McVeigh | Applebee Kendall esident of v 92 95 471 442 82 86 69 83 79 399 80 89 84 84 87 a0 82 s 431 the B 88 105 436 82— 103— Red Sox. 93— 78— 92— 84— 86— 441 Palace Bowling League. Team No. 7. ) 17— 71— 85— 89— 85— 263 303 459 1366 277 238 270 244 287 433 1316 238 251 231 251 253 407 1224 102 444 OFFICERS OF NEW YORK SPORTING CLUB ARRESTED It is Alleged That They Accepted Ad- mission Fees for Boxing Bouts. John Weisman- roadway Sport- ing club of Brooklvn. and nine other officers of that organization were ar- rested tonight on the charge of hav ing who \ccepted admission fees from per- witnessed boxing bouts in MARKET FLUCTUATED. Trading Was Primarily Influenced i Forcign Events. New York, stocks today was a flusnced by the cou From an irr ed gener: s, these. ¢ openin but m: ing A 2 te 3 points, | steels yointing the w: The reversal was concurrent with advieos of new Teutonic offensive ders fiuctuated within a radins {of twe points, United States Steel's mininmim of 96 1-S and maximum of { 93 being typical of the movement in| industrials ‘az well as rails. Reading cas the cnly trapsportation issue to dispiay strength, althouzh forfeiting the greater part of its two point zain. Early. activity centered around the another sharp decline in Dict Sceurities DS S & At Etie 1st pr sreculaiive war shares which owe their occasional prominence o pools or pro- | fessional interests. Temporary strength | in motors, Industrial Alcohol and Dis- tillers' Securities occasioned hurried | | short coverings. . Sales of stocks| | emounted to 590.000 shares. | Declaration of the “extra’ éent. dividend on Laeckawanna S and omission of the recent ‘“extra”| quarterly disbursement cn - Brooklyn Union Gas became known after the| close of the market. { September returns of a number of railronds disclosed another large gap between cperating and net revenues, the latter being less by aimost $4,000,- 000 than in the corresponding month I last year. The strength of francs was in strik ing contrast Yo the mew minimum o 8.95 for lires. Local monev rates man- ifested increasing ease, but time rates held firm. Bonds were irregular, with Liberty 4's at §7.20 and the 3.1-2's at 98.90 to 99. Total sales (par value) were $4.5265,000. ¥ United States bonds (old issue) un- changed on call. STOCKS. 3 1-2 per| Steel | Hish Low. Close M Ment Nat Nat Nat orf orth ~ Owens *Bot M Penn R R .. Phila ». Pits co. Coat Cr Coal Pull $PalCar Quiciaiver pr Ry Steel Sp Ray Con Readin, Rep T Royal a a 2y as 2% 18% 18 184 % T4 1 33% AWK % 5% o4k 84K 263 2. 2 1t 13 Ssdssifesd FEEERRRLERERRRLES ! 8 i e firttoni fegeecy !!ii;a!alsaimsi;uiiii:siiis:sia S 9 RPE? ?l'g"g LY g 7 s ks fasalil 700 Sinclair _ i1 1000 South Pacifie 000 Southern Ry 100 Southemn = Ry 6200 Studebaker 100 Studebaker pr 4100 Superior Steel 1200 Teon C_Chem 4300 Texas Co. 4400 Tobacco Prod 55 3358 Scotla Steel Ohio Cities Gas L C. & st Pitts C pr new Pitts & W Va . Piits & W Va pf People's G & € ‘Predy” Steel Car el & Steei pr Duteh New York, Nov. easier; high 5; FITELTEY New York, Nov. 22. — §; quiet; midding 30.10. jpot (cottnt steady, 28.82; 27.50. December ~ 38.81; March 28.01; May 27.80; i, CHICAGO GRAIN| MARKET. Zow. January July The Norwich Storage Battery, Starter and Magneto Co. ‘102 FRANKLIN STREET Storage Batteries Starters Generators H. KELSEY, Manager Magneios Brushes the rooms of the club Saturday nighd. They were released in $1,000 bail and will be arraigned tomorrow. The case is considered a test of the legality of holding boxing bouts in club rooms under the so-called mem bership pian. Drummey Awarded Scholarship. Medford, Mass., Nov. 22.—James J. Drummey, captain and quarterback of the Tuf College football eleven to- day was awarded the scholarship given each vear to the student attaining thej highest standing in athletics and study. Drummey is president of the senior elass. MINOR LEAGUES FACE SERIOUS OUTLOOK NEXT YEAR | Meeting at Louisville Failed to Throw | Any Light on Situation. The annual meeting of the National { associaticn in Louisville appears to | have been quite a “bust” The end of the confefence found minor league conditions in no wise improved from :haos that prevailed throughout seasor and which forced a num- f the smaller minor organizations oposed plan for redistribu- of miror league territory, which voted dcwn, 9 to 2, the great ma- ority of the humbler circuits saw the iiity of light ahead. With this one there seems ‘ittle to be done r case but to close shop during the period of the war at least. These little minor learues believed with the two majors and a certain few otlers of higher classification that ter ritorial reirenchment was absolutely necessary for the life of minor league *ball as a whole. Unfortunately, lacked rproper representation on ional beard to force respect for tion w largely confined to Class AA and Class A and Cass R circiits and personal prejudice, or fear of these defeated and remorf reso’ation. They saw be- hin1the zmendmert an unusually larze 2rritorial erurtidn for such an amend- ment would have left an opening for the prenosed merger of the strongest clubs of the American association and International league into a new, pear major circuit. “Whether or not the -Union league would have solved the present difficul- ties of the two most prominent Class AA organizations, the fact remains that the defeat of the proposition for territoria! _redistribution is likely fo crush the life out of 'the little opera- tors. The closing of .this field will af- fect the more prominant minors just as major league baseball will be af- fected by all minor league depressions. It seems doubtful, indeed, whether the International league will attempt to operate next season. Four of the ~lubs are pretty thoroughly discour- aged over present conditions. These were willing to step aside for their conferes to join hands with the Amer- ican association. It was those Asso- ciated clubs which were to be left out in_the cqld that balked the plan. For very apparent reasons the ma- jor leagues can ill afford to see any of the more prominent minor associations lock up shop. The major leagues have determined upon a common policy of retrenchment. This applies to salary expenses as well as schedules. The major leagues today are pretty well stocked up with players. To get down to a rigid roster limit will require the placing of an unusual number of ath- letes in slower company. The fewer the minor league clubs that operate the preater will be this difficulty. Furthermore, major league baseball in the erd must suffer proportionately with the minor conditions. The Na- tional and American ~ould not long maintain their high standards of play if new material were not bemng ed- ucated. ~ The present stars have but a limited course to run. Once the big fellows lose the clasg which distin- guishes them from the bushers, just so soon will the public resent an inferior article of play at major league prices. Some 60 major league plavers are already enrolted in war service. The number is likely to be doubled or treb. led by spring. This circumstance ma: help to solve the roster problem of the big fellows to a degree, but only mi- nor activities can develop fitting sub- stitutes. Unless the National Commis- sion, acting for the major leabues, can influence the National association to display slightly more sentiment toward the obscure minor leagues organized baseball throughout is bound to suffer. SPORTING NOTES Freddie Yelle and Mel Coogan are going to have another battle Friday night at Newport. They have clashed before and it was action all the time. Benny Leonard is booked tb have another session with Patsy Cline Dec. 12 at Philadelphia. Al McCoy says that he dropped $3,000 betting that O'Dowd would not knock him out in Brooklyn the other ‘Warren Hobbs, the Dartmouth ‘hurdler, who made such a wonderful showing last “winter in_the = Burdie event at the naval meet, is in France the aviation corps. Few people realize that a player by the name of Neeley, Dartmouth’s ertul guard, is the only one-a player in the country today lege ranks. He has been a proposition for his opponents. in col- tough Tt is claimed that Chief Birdie Gard- ner, the old Carlisle football star, the only Indian officer in the servic of the T". S. He is a captain in the National army. Captain_Faulkner of the St. Joseph A. A. of New. Britain, states that the Hardware City club will enter a large team in the coming meet at the arm- ory. St. Mary’s A, A. of New Prit- tain will also enter a team. The only team that seems to be fear- ed by Hayes is Cornell However, the championship team of last vear is badly broken up. Dresser, who fin- ished in fifth place, is the only run- ner of the 1916 combination left to help Coach Moakley. Haub, the Wethersfield boy at Car- negie Tech, is again showing won- derful form'in the running hish jump and expects to make a new record for the events at the Pennsylvania col- lege. Haub holds the state A. A. U. record for this event. ‘Walker, long a in minor league “Mysterious Fred” picturesque figure baseball, is now coach of the Will- iams college football team, and has made good in his new berth. He was also quite a football player himself few years ago Thie Chicago club has been men- tioned in a trade with Washington, but C: Griffith says there is no chance of the White Sox or any other club getting him- to part with Clyde Milan. It is possible that Griff would listen to terms for George Dumont, who scems to be in good demand. While the bulk of. the interest will be manifested in the college run next Saturday, there will be no interest lacking in the 'national senior class country championship at Boston. Indi- cations point to one of the best hill and dale races ever promoted by the Division Athletic Director Melvin Sheppard writes from Camp Shelby that the setting up exercises are doing much to develop the men. - This is what he says: “Psychological research has disclosed the fact that fifteen min- utes of setting up exercises will do more than anything else to make a! soldier ready to fight.” HORSE NOTES. Philadelphia wants cuit date that does Goshen. Grand clash Cir- with a not Ben Ali, 2.03 1-4, the leading ey-winning pacer of the year, ered in $10,410. mon- gath- Lu Princeton with eight tops was .he leading race winner of the Grand Circuit. Henry B. Potter's Safezuard hung up a new record for trotters over the Providence Speedway when he won a heat in 1.00 1-4 last Saturday. From the Pacific coast comes word that Will Durfee is to retire from the turf. Guy Boy, 2.08, was one of the sea- son’s’ busiest trotters, starting in 20 races, winning 14. Cleveland is going to try ice racing in January. The plans are for a two- weeks’ meeting. The Georgia reinsman, George Stiles, drove in 104 races this yearand collected first money 46 times. Ed Allen, after two years on an Obio farm, is back in his old stable at Lexington, Ky. as a public train- er. Of the more than 130 drivers who landed in the money list down the Grand Circuit only #5 wor a race. Harold Childs has engaged to train for the owner of General Watts, 2.06 I HAVE A FEW NEW {TOURING AND RUNA- BOUT CARS FOR IMME- DIATE DELIVERY AT THE OLD PRICE. ALSO ONE NEW SEDAN. W. F. BOGUE Ford Agent 61 North Main Street NORWICH FUR GO, Are open for business with a new line of Furs, Coats, Skins and all kinds of Trimmings for fall and winter. M. BRUCKNER, Prop. Phone 708-12 47 Main Street UNITED TEA IPORTERS CO. are selling Tea and Coffee, Baking Pow- der, Spices, Cocoa and Chocolate at the very lowest price. 3-4, and will locate at the Lexington, Ky., track. Mildred Jay, 2.16 1-4, a winner of races this vear, and only once back of the money in 15 starts, is in foal to Etawah, 2.03. Will Crozier had a very successful season, winning 36 races, 25 second moneys, 20 thirds and 10 fourths. He was outside the change only six times. E. T. Statesbury’s Ebony King, 2.17 1-4, won the championship ribben for trotting _stallions at the New York show. Kentucky Todd, 2.08 3-4, got- ten ready inside of 10 days, was plac- ed third. Miss Harris M., 2.00; and Single G., 2.00, between them accounted for the free-for-all purse fmoney down the Grand Circuit, yet their combined earnings were little more than Roan Hal, 2.00 3-4, picked up in his bril- Iliant campaign over the twice arounds "FIFTEENTH YEAR Attention, Farmers! DOLLARS BONUS For Fattest and Big- gest . Turkey Raised $10.00 Next Best $5.00 Third $5.00 4 ‘The Bulletin proposes to capture the three fattest and largest Turkeys to be offered for_the Thanksgiving market in Windham and New London Counties. They must be natives—hatched and grown in these two counties. The Bulletin will buy the prize birds at the regular market price in addition to the prize to be awarded. The turkeys offered for prize must have feathers off. entrails drawn and wings cut off at first joint. Heads must not be cut off. The first prize of $10.00 to the largest and fattest young turkey; second prize of $5.00 to the second largest and fattest young turkey: third prize of $5.00 to the largest and fattest turkey raised in New London or Windham Counties. The contest is open to any man, The turkeys must be submitted for examination and weighing the Tuesday before Thanksgi these_counties. woman. boy or girl residing in ng at 12 o’clock noon. For the largest and fattest young turkey $10.00 will be awarded in addition to the market price. Rock Nook Home. This turkey will be given to the To the raiser of the second young turkey in size a prize of $5.00 in addition to the market price will be given. This turkey will furnish the Thanksgiving dinner for the Sheltering Arms. To the raiser'of the largest and fattest prize of $5.00 in addition to the market pi over ‘his wi year old a turke i ba go to. the County Home for Children for a Thanksgiving dinmer. The judges will be disinterested persons who will weigh the turkeys at J. E. Stead’s market. All turkeys that are eligible for competition will be purchased at the mark et price, so any turkey raiser who enters a bird in the con- _test is sure of nellin( the bird whether a prize is won or not, GEORGE G. 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