Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 6, 1918, Page 5

MAmfin.toVihlShth_ompfledbmi Light vehicle lamps at 5.39 o'clock this svening, Vital statistics - compiled by Town Clerk Charles S, Holbrook show during the year 1917 there were deaths in Norwich as compared with 582 deaths the year previous. year there were 309 births, 325 mar- 1917 is as follow: B terbury, home of hh fathnr. trong of Peck street. EXEMPTION BOARD HAS "~ RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS New Forms For Filing Out Mobiliza- SUMIg ©e 0 goSBlAIB * sywed NS, ‘move your Skin Trouble 714 births, 322 marriages, 532 deaths and 25 still Dirths. In addition there Aw«mmmm I | et W e A7 Do in Nort- Stonington inspecting January . February .. 59 FEBRUARY MEETING OF _ THE Y. M. C. A. AUXILIARY M.Gnm A. Ashbey Reads Paper ©n What Women Aré Doing in the Wnr. Than Heartache ——r— mrohmmeu.:;uacmr Nothing Se Quickly Mars Beauty as s ‘Tuesday ur;oon at the home of Mrs. Charles Noyes vm.h' a cofi; sized -ttsmz- ape. Secretary Hili opened the meet- ing with Scripture reading and re- ports of the secretary and the treas- urer were.given. The D Myn L s el ne S in the Breed ted between $70 and 375, m a talk ontholull!.l.C.A.' and told of hearing John R. speak recently in New York the t work of the Y. M. C. A. fielg today..-A very mx paper was given by Mrs. Clem'ge Ashbey on ‘Women A.ra Do- we will give back your|the money. We take all the chances—you get all the benefit. Try it anyway, The exemption Mueh ;g - ‘were received from other towns un- der the law of 1905 the following sta- tistics for the year 1917—nine births, 44 marriages, 36 deaths, and no still |, deaths. Corresponding figures for the year 1916 follow: four births, 43 mar- riages, 27 deaths, and no still deaths. No A table showing‘the vital statistics for the town of Norwich for the year instructions” from General Crowder as follows: 1 Dt.lx'itl_\gh the n‘;a day peflu(:“?e- ginning February 23, complete entrain- Devens of ail remain- It is stated that the mercury below ment for Camp lesson to some more careless ones. In many houses, water pipes which were thawed out with’' great Broadway Pharmacy; G. G. Engler, last Prop., Norwich. Saxol Salve is sold in Willimantic by the Wilson Drug Co., and in Putnam by J. F. Donahue. NEENRNNRLE8) - B PrrevsNneate) hflm with your railroad represen tives these schedules should control. Inform your railroad representatives at the earliest possible moment of number of approximate each local board will send. In some MAKING PLANS FOR BIG MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN Farm Bureau Directors Assign Quotas WRITES OF CONDITIONS IN STRICKEN HALIFAX eceived This. Week No. 1, has been making his rounds in sleigh. Inhrufin; Letter The Progressive Missionary club of recital of a poem by Margaret Sang- ster. It was voted to pledge $25 to the Y. W. C. A. toward their efforts for the hostess houses throughout the cantonments. Mrs. Edwin W. Hig- gins spoke of the meed for service in the Red Cross work in this city and the number of women required to ac- 3 {complish all that must be done. suggested that the members of the auxiliary make an effort to give what time they could in this direction and work as a whole for this necessary and noble cause. Toward this end Mrs. Higgins will be in the Red Cross room- Monday marnings to represent the auxilia; Mrs. John Hawkins on ‘Wednesday mornings and Mrs. Wil- liam H. Oat on Friday mornings and by a Norwich Woman, For Towns in County. the Central Baptist church meets this e — week with Miss Sarah Gardiner, of CHEE street. Emest E. Bullard VIOLIN TEACHER Al String !matruments repaired Vielins sold on eesy terms Feor appointments address B E. BULLARD, Bliss Place, Nere $19.90 A fine 15 Jewel 20 year case WALTHAM WATCH. Pay one dol- lar per week. THEPLAUT-CADDENCO, Eltlblllhad 1872 N-rwloh. Conn. cases these men may be sent on ordi- ary trains, in which event you will be| ed by your railroad representa- 2. In preparing mobilization papers A letter received this week iorwich woman suffered the loss of sister, brother and other relatives in the Halifax catastrophe and who is now living in 'a_box car, glimpse of conditions around Rich- mond, a suburb of Halifax since the great The letter whick is dated January zsn.h says in part: Since I wrote to you we have moved into a box ear along side the works at Willow Park. The car was fitted up by the railway department. put two stoves, two double enamel bed steads, six large mattrasses, six pairs of blankets and three tables into it. We get our coal and oil free. So the car is quite comfortable. We get our groceries free, too, but 20 to town to get the order. We are a]lowed fourteen week and ean take the order to any grocer we like. Some of the people get all kinds of furniture and everything that is need- ed in. a thouse, but others, like our- selves, who have no them into will have to wait until we m a friend who s home, mother, four cars df ceal counted on the siding between Midway and Noank awaiting _removal to dif-|twen ferent places. Yesterday's intense cold plmd most. it is necessary to use new forms, ten twenty-nine and ten twenty-nine A and B, which forms together with the phamphlet descriptive - of Form 61 were sent you before Feb- hiruary first. The local board should deliver to the man in charge of the rarty one form ome, twenty-nine A and B, and one of form one thousand ten for #ach man ordered .to report for military duty. The man in charge of the party should deliver these papers 1qnnedlately upon arrival at camp. The local will send by registered mail to the adjutant nt the camp the following named pa- New form ten twenty-nine, or- riginm and duplicate, and for member of the party actually entrain- ed one copy of form ten ten. 3. Every effort should be made to complete your quota from ‘men al- ready classified in class one. To this end expediate the physical examina~ tion of a sufficient number of claks . These examinations may be conducted under the old regulations |~ until the new regulations arrive. In this connection see my number A 3849, du:ex'lr February®second. ance of $445.33 on hand. ing to $263 were ordered paid. following committees were appointed: Board—Vice Pres- ident John D. McCarthy, chairman, C. D. Whitman, Montville; B. T. Avery, Ledyard; C. B. Davis, Franklin; C. J. Abell, Lebanon, County Home Economies Board— Miss Clthe!'ina Luddingwn 0Old Lyme, Miss Cora S. Marsh, New London; Mrs. Frank Palmer, Bozrah; Mrs. J. D. Avery, North Stonington; Miss Louise Howe, Norwich. Finance and Membership—President C. P. Bushnell, chairman; R. W. Per- I Smith, Norwich; one form ten County Agent's There is consolation in the faet that this is mot a Leap Year February, twenty-eight days of it will he about all shivery humapity can stand! At the whist party in the rooms of the K. of C. last week $100 was real- ized. Mrs. M. H. Donahue was chair- man of the committee of -arrange- It is probable that lost time will have to be made up in what would be the summer vacation in schools which are losing sessions because of fuel kins, Norwich; F. N. Taylor, Lebanon; S. New London. Publicity committee — John Yaughn chnimn.n Miss Ethel Sevin, John Humphrey, New Lon- Postmasters in the smailler towns, who have had their work jncreased fifty per cent. since the war began, are now busy with the German alien reg- THere are seven families here in box cars and there are seventeen cars be- ing used by men. men are living in the offices. came here to repair the buildings at the railway shops. The nimber of ranwav men injured was 1,400. and 63 were killed. The ecotton mill is all They are elearing away the to build a lumber supply de- The city is building houses on the exhibition grounds and -the com- mon for the homeless people. have three or four rooms, so the larg- est house one can get is a four room But that is better than the way ple are now. Some fam stfll separated, some in one place and some in another. There are quite a number of construction men here from different places clearing up the debris from the Richmond ruins, There must three or four hundred teams be- sideg all thy men with them, comnany built site the paint works for their This i5 between Kemp Road and Lon- card Road and it looks like a village. They are still getting bodies out of i We got mv sister Emma We did not get Executive committee—President, vice president, secretary, treasurer, chair- men of other committees and P. Le- 0od, New London. ’I‘he publicity committee was thorized to renew the comtract with the Connecticut Farmer. The most important matter taken up for consideration was the coming membership campaign, the preliminary plans being laid Tuesday. The amount of money to be raised through memberships is $3,635. amount is successfully ‘raised it will ure a total of $5.890 from outside Sources, that is. the state, county com- missioner, United States Department of Agriculture, and Conmnecticut Agri- cultural College. The quota for Norwich (town and New London’s quota About a hundred Not a bushel of oysters has been dredged in Narragansett bay by Prov- idence boats for a week which makes the supply short for dealers depending on Providenee markets. cards for men inducted under this call should be withdrawn by local boards £from the other cards made into a separate package, “Men inducted number 11,” and forwarded ,by Board separately to the office of the jprovost marshal industrial index cards are not already repared they should be made at once nd forwarded as above. About ten members of the War Relief committee of the Norwich Red Cross held their February meeting Tuesday afternoon at the home of the chairman, Mrs. W. Tyler Olcott, on Church street. general direct. Main Street, At a joint meeting of the Woman's|R. T. CROSBY SOON Home and Toreign Missiongry secci- eties of the Broadway church Friday a review of “The Life of Mary Slesson of Calabar” is included in the programme. The fact that Lent begins a week from today means less than in ordin- ary vears in the matter of social gay- A war vear has already prac- tically ended all hut the most simple dances and club affairs. VE NORWICH Has Completed His Work As Physical Director at Local Y. M. C. A. When you think of hav- ing your AUTO PAINTED just think of the Falls Auto Co. 51 Sherman Street RELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRES Guaranteed 10,000 Miles city) is $1,500. has been placed at §1,000. town of the county the quota has been | be figured according to populattom. President Bushnell was authorized to attend a conference of farm burean presidents at Hartford today (Wed- County Agent . C. Warner will also attend the conference ,ac- companying Mr. Bushnell The direetors voted to change their meeting day from the first Saturday | in the month to the first Tuesday, and the next meeting which will be the quarterly meeting, will be held on the first Tuesday in "April. ‘The directors present at the meeting Dhysical Director R. T. Crosby of the loeal Y. M. A., completes his at the local association on Tues- houses oppo- shortly and will take up work with the Red Triangle in France . Mr, Crosby came to the local asso- ciation in September of 1816, ‘ollowing the resignation of O. H. Nickerson. Mr, Crosby came here from Knoxville, Tenn., and has done much for the lo- cal association in the line of athletic werk and was very' popular with the gym classes who regret his leaving. Mzr. Crosby has done good work dur- ing his short Stay in the city and his many friends that he has made wish success in his work | p, At New London Sunday next, Jack Rose, formerly, of Norwich, who was connscted with the gumbler thal murder case in New York, will speak, under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association,. The State D A, R. regent, Mrs. John announced that in_the first and second Liberty necticut Daughters have taken $1500,~ 000, a_good showin: only 5372 D. A. R. and Will Stratton. his wife or their four children, nor my . mother, brother or sister Marmn. nor her children You should see chhmond now. It is a hard looking place. on the bridze ahove the North Sta- tion and look clear to Duffus about three quarters of a mile and not of a house. There are only about tvio or three houses on Russell, Young or XKaye streets. stand on Campbell roa@ and look up on the fort and you cannot see a hpuse. All you can see is ruined fopndations. 8o vou can imagine what it looks like. The houses up around the West End and up around Hungry Hill and down You can stand Tozrah—Mrs. Frank Palmer. Franklin—F. S. Armstrong and C. B. him the best of as the state hes Lisbon—James Graham. Sccretary Hill has announced tnat| Montville—C. D. Whitman and W. John M. Swahn, 2 member physical ‘department committee, will conduct thp gym classes temporarily until a permanent director can be se- Mr, Swahn has taken a deep interest in the department and has beent one of the most regular attend- ents at the gymnasium. dust hig first class today. The law concerning auto tail lights, dazzling headlizhts, and proper lights o re left standing, is being enforc- ed to“the Jimi New London—Miss Cora Marsh, North Stonington—Mr. and Mrs, J. in most Connecticut towns, now that the county deputy au- tomobile commissioners are so vigilent. ‘Norwich—C. T. Smith, J. D. MeCar- thy, Miss Ethe]l Sevin and Miss Touige He will con-| 0ld Lyme—Robert Thomas. State Council of Defense an- Preston—E. L. -Inounces that persons desiring to get food to prisoners of war in Germany may address letters to the Young Mer’s Christian Association, Work, 124 Fast 24th street, New %orkA Franklin Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M, ill receive an official visitation from R. E. Henry R. Tisdale. Grand Scribe, on Thursday, Feb. 7, at Masonic Tem- pie, at 7.30. Work in the Mark Mas< ter Degree. Banquet at close of work. L . . kllled that you did not hear ‘Waterford—Mrs. Walter A. Conklin. There were also present at the meet- ing 1. G. Davis. state leader of county agents, and Miss Maud E. Hayes, state home demonstration agent. CHRIST CHURGH PARISH HOLDS ANNUAL ELECTION Gardiner Greens,and W. Tyler Olcott Named Wardens. said you got vyour for ten dollars a ton. That's easy. We had to pay $15.5Q,for hard and $8 for soft. 5,000 10 7,500 SECOND WINTER MEETING OF STATE TEACHERS. At the recent meeting Church parish the following officers for the ensuing year were chosen: 5, Gardimer Greene, W. Ty- ; vestrymen, Daniel F. Me- , Frank W. Hurlbutt, Isaac Jones, Walter B. Crooks, Turner, Gurdon L. Bidwell and Jo- seph C. Worth; clerk, J. Frank Corey; treasurer, Daniel F. McVeil; to convention, BIBLE CLASS SESSION AT LOCAL Y. M. C. A. General Secretary Leads the Study on A Young Man’s Mistake. Tuesday evening at the local Y. M. C. A, the regular session of the Bible class was held in the board room. The general gecretary led the study and the topic was A Young Man's Mistake. The scripture selected was Mark 1 , inclusive, the story of the rich young man who came to Jesus and asked what he should do to inherit 8,000 Miles Why Pay More For Less Gathering to Be Held in Hartford on Feb. 15th and 16th. The gecond winter meeting of the Connecticut State Teachers’ assecia- tion and other state educational organ- izations will be held in Hartford Feb. The officers of the State Teachers ’association follow: President, Clement C. Hyde, Hart: first vice president, Leslie K. Chance, Watertown; second vice presi- Burr, Willimantic; Ella A. Fallon, News has been received here that John O. Rowland, superintendent of the Staate Masonic Home, at Walling- ford, who has been eritically ill since the first of the year, improve, though he is still confined to his bed. is beginning to C. E. LANE THE TIRE MAN- Gardiner Greene W. Tyler Olcott; alternates, William H. Prothero and Frank C. Turner; del- archdeaconry, Ra]ph and Winslow T. Williams;\ au- ditors, Walter B. Crooks and Archa W. ‘The No Sugar sign was hung dut in 2 mumber of Norwich stores Tuesday which to date have been able to pro- vide customers with small qu: of the sweet stuff. It is claimed now that refiners cannot get fuel to refine the raw prodnct. At the Norwich Tuberculosis Sani- tarium Tuesday at 7 o’clock, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was offered by R}sv‘ Peter J'.‘MCuny, of St. Patrick’s Cathotic patien nion was administered. A handsome dent, Hefry T. recording secretary, New Britain; assistant recording sec- retary, M. Rachel Webster, New Ha- ven; corresponding secretary, Samuel P. Willard, Colchester; treasurer, Ed- ward B. Sellew, Middletown; auditor, Louis H. Stanley, Hartford. Executive Committee: Kirschner, New Haven; Fowler, “Shelton; B. Norman Strong, GEORGE G. GRANT Underiaker and Embalmer 32 Providence St., Taftville Prompt attention to day or night calls aprlAMWFawl. Ladies’ Who Wish a Toilet Cream that will keep their complexion ia al- most perfect condition are invited to try the kind we are offering today which containe enough peraxide in it | to make it the ideal Cream. Dunn’s Pharmacy 50 MAIN STREET A SPECIAL MEETING Congregational Church, Incorporated, will be held in the Sunday School room of the clmfch on. Thursday, to vote on 3 proposal to chan name of the Congregational - Church Connecticut, Incorporated.” Notice of this action having been given at the Annual Mee the chumh on Jan. 24th, and on Sunday, 27th, &ndlhaltlo to mnll:ct any ness that may properly come before sald meeting. The following points were brought This young man was wealthy and of good character, and he was anxjous to see Jesus about the most important question that can pos- sibly concern any individual; that his i first mistake was that he thought he 'could win, eternal life by doing some- - | thing;" that a man is not a Christian because he does good, but he does good because he js a Christian; the young man said he had actually kept the commandments from youth he made a rather strong state- ment, and that protably no man has ever genuinely, kept GIRL'S AGE WAS GIVEN AS 16. out in the study: But it is Claimed That Mnr’on Long Telephone §30 The record of the marriage of George . Vars, formerly of Norwich, ‘end Marion Lopg, on file at the office of the town clerk, shows that Vars gave | H his age as 34 and the girl's as 16. o hctflmdmtshkbut%yeusa ! The document also Long is the father London; Bernard 'W. Tinker, Water- , the design for Samuel J. Slaw- poster, which was painted by the famous art- ist, James Montgomery as been placed in some of the Connecticut school buildhgs of the towns, to stim- ulate the sale of thrift stamps: It de- um Unch Sam holding children in Finance Committe: son, Bridgeport; Louis P. Slade, New Britain; Edward J. Graham, Norwich. TWO NEW LONDON FIREMEN IN HOSPITAL. Were Thrown from Apparatus While Responding to Alarm. New London, Conn., Feb. 5. ant Fire Chief C. H. Rose was cut in the head by the fall of a 40-foot ladder, two Iremen are in the hospital with injuries received when they were flung from the skidding hook and lad- der automobile apparatus on the way to the fire, a spectator knocked down by a speeding automobile and the ar- Test of a man caught stealing a rifie were all incidents of a fire late this afternoon that practically destroyed a g house on Montauk of the child and not indicate where that Vars had adopted her in Providence. Long also signed the paper giving his consent to the marriage. arriage rtm-mad Rev. C. Hulwsnhhrmsam_ 5. Vm gave his residence as Waterford and the marriage was therefore reported to the'town clerk there. —_—— INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY Emphasis was placed upon the state- ment that Jesus looked upon the young man and loved him; possibilities in him and that he felt sad because was missing the mark; that ‘he saw the A Worwich visitor in Massachnsetts states that all places of busines} aYe restricted to 9 a. m. as the opening hour and‘ € p..m. as the closing hour, except on specific nights, when they may remain open util 10 p. window lights are m'ohthed Saturday evenings from dusk to clos- that when Jesus said “one thing thou he really meant -that young man failed to put first things first. The term almighty dollar is very Judas eeld his Lord for thirty pieces of silver, and Joseph's brothers sold him for a pautry % The rich young man wanted eternal life but he was not willing to pay the price. Money is probably a greater hindnnce to acceptance of Christ than is the lack of money. The men present entered heartily into the discussion. Regarding the way the gnvemment‘ Victory Leaf is winning favor, of Norwich, said Tuesday o|thal he'ls seHing now over 300 daily. 45 75 per cemt. wheat; per cent. may be of rye, bariey, petate flour, corn flour, or oat- meal, the authorities not interfering in this matter. Mrs. Albert H.-Chase has returned from spending a few days in New in N"'m,_ two-family dwellin; The Sewing club met yesterday af-{ C 0= With a loss of $6,000. ternoon with Mrs. William E. Perry of Broad -street. Miss Isabel Mitchell and her cousin, Miss Margaret Jamison, the pianist, are in New York. Miss Elizabeth Trumbull of Chicage is spending a month’s leave of ab- her home on Perkins Ave- SPECIAL SESSION CALLED FOR MARCH 18 Governor Holcomb Announces Date For Meeting of Legislature. NORWICH MAN ELECTED STATE VICE PRESIDENT. F. E. Peckham Honored by Connecti- sut Vegetable Growers’ Association. Among the officers elected at the of the Gets Position at Y. M. C, A, Ralph Martin is filling the position in the office of the Y, Governor Holcomb on Tuesday an- day, March 19, as the ial session of the leg- e 'u to a;‘wnve purpose. of enac of Norwich, president, and in m.:v Mmm g mu‘?‘ ‘e War Vol n James Grlhun of Lisbon, New London | the elections this year. l’h‘ :e!!lo'n county vice president. | will 1l a % Sour, Gas-filled Stomach. Take a Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablet After Meals. Then Eat What You Like. estion Go Hend Beauty and Good and. Dyspepsia Tablets fi-nn Both. it 1s hoped that as many of the aux- | rumblings, coat! iliary as possible 'm&.;nyake an en’ort ;ighu e - to attend at those the business meeting tea was served by the hostess. Packed House Witnesses Performance ngue; of the mouth drawn, and a ruined You need something in your stom- ¢ T T ach to s the ANNUAL MINSTREL SHOW which m"‘i'c’?;m and to give power to the weak ga.stnc Jjuice. BY TIERNEY CADETS do this They ac;uallymdigmm your f:fl.”fl lf’m' you. Besides, they increase W e _M_a_ry_’- et of gastric juice, just what you need The annual minstrels of the, St.| !0 8et all the good possitle aut of Mary’s Tierney Cadets was given on = Tuesday evening hefofe a packed u eat. You will never have that ¥lump of lead” house at T. A. B. hall. The vouthful | Stomach. Then performers carried their parts well will be digested. and their singing was very good. The | ¥ It will give vim, energy and a rosy You'll feel good all around ition. chorus singing was exceptionally good. | P9 ; The jokes Were witty and there were | YOUF Waistline after every meal and it many local hits. Thomas Aubrey was | Vil make you feel good all over. excellent as Mr. Bones and his sing- Get a 50-cent Box of Stuart’s Dys- ing was_applaudea heartily as was|DePsia Tablets today at any drussist that of John Crimmins. The soloists |0 sbis sang in good voice and were applaud- ed. Fred Cadbray as snm Jim made | CONNECTICUT'S PART 2 hit in his song Long B: The programme was as follows: Overture, Rdgar Caron and John Jou- IN FIRST DRAFT bert; opening chforus, Hall! Hail, the | Forty-seven of Those Called For Ex- Gang’s All Here! entire company; Sailing Away én the Herry Clay, Thomas Aubrey; solo, Homeward amination Claimed Exemption. Just what Connecticut and the other Bound, Ernest Gagnon: They Go Wild | states did in the first draft is indi- Gver Me, Charles Donahue; solo, The ‘World Will Be Jealous of Me, Albert Clark; Long Boy, Fred Carbray; solo, cated in statistics which have heen prepared in the office of the provest marshal general. The chief of these A Long, Long Trail John Joubert; | deductions with respect fo Connectout Smile and Show Dimple, Wilfred Cote; Bound Around With the Mason-Dixon Line, John Crimmins: solo, Somewhers in France is a Lily, Edgar Caron; Mis- | sissippi_Volunteers, Gerald Davigivan; I Calléa Her My Sweetheart, Jolin Crimmins; sketch, Harold Shannon and Angus ‘\{cDona]d finale, What Kind of an American Afe You? and The Star Spangled Banner. Harold Humphrey was the accom- in_particular are: The cost of registration and enrell- ment for each man accepted for ser- vice was $2.39 in Cennecticut as eom- pared with an average of $4.92 for the whole United States. er states was the cost per man less than in_Connecticut. was $1.57 and in North Dakota % In states immediately bordering on Connecticut the cost was Massachu- In only two eth- o | panist and musical director of the | setts, $6.08, Rhode Island, 313.09; New minstrels. He was assisted by Wil- | York, $8.04. liam Dougherty. The end men were Thomas Aubrey, Gerald Dingivan, Charles Donahue, Fred Carbray, Wilfred Cote-and John The soloists were Ernest Gagnon, Albert Clark, John Joubert and Ed- gar Caron. The interlocutor was Alfreq Pineault and his pages were Thomas and John Guinan. A geod sum was realized for the ca- Gets. The coat room was: in charge of Raymond Wozniak and Arthur Guerin. The ticket takers were George Leten- der and Daniel Quinliante. The tick- et booth- was in charge of John O'Neil and John Furlong. dancing, music being furulshed by Swahn’s orchestra. The minstrels will be repeated at Taftville Friday evening. FForty-seven per cent. of those call- ed for examination in this state claim- ed exemption on some grounds.. The average for the whole of the United Crimmins. Slates was a iittle over 50 per cent. Connecticut received first place in the list of those whose claims for.dis- charge from immediate service were granted on grounds of dependency or for other reasons. Ninety per cent .of the claims filed in this state were The average for the entire United States was 78 per cent. Of the ‘Connecticut marrieq men, who were registered 22 per cent. were accepted and the remaining 78 per cent. exempted entirely or given de- ferred classification. the banner place, with 37 per MLQM married registrants actually in Following the minstrel there Was|sorvice = & . Twenty-nine men eut of every 100 called by boards in this state Were certified and are now in service, Thir- those eolled throughout the -entire United States - The head usher was Frantis Shea.|granted. Mississippi has tv-two per SIX BELOW ZERO were declared fit and went to training EARLY THIS MORNING | ©2mPs. In ratio of voluntary enlistments to Tuesday Was One of Coldest Dlys of | draft quotas Connecticut stands quite the Winter. Tuesday was one of the coldest days cf the winter and with a sharp wind, blowing people felt the cold more than on any other so far this season. The mercury at 7 o’clock Tuesday morninz far down the list with a mark of 64, just about the average for the entire Oregon has the hanner position, with 158 actual enlistments i nsome branch of the army to every 100 men drafted. Uniteq States. registered 10 degrees below zero and [JUDGE BARNE ON at noon it was only two degrees above. On Monday evening and all through the night the mercury fell until in va- rious parts of the city it was reported to have reached as low as 18 degrees below. At 3 o'elock this morning the mer- COMMON PLEAS Took Papers Against New ‘London Man. The court of common pleas tried the e ileti i1di is- |case of William Kaplan. against Rob- feraq Ui the Huilefin building regis- | L smith, menager of the H. K. H. B Silk Co., for $1,000 damages for in- TELEPHONE STOCKHOLDERS juries received in an automobile ac- cident last September in New London HOLD ANNUAL MEETING | Monday. Charles B. Dooht(le E.Iected Secretary and Treasurer. 22 g2 John H. Barnes Norwich was on the bench. Kaplan claims that on September 7, he alighted from a troiley?® — car on the right side of the I:tl‘ed at e Corn Williams and Huntinrg- Charles B. Doolittle was elected sec- |the corner of retary and treasurer of the Southefin l\(‘l‘]]]:;;]:eq‘s' New London, one Ccmpany wa A e e e he ammual |cross Wiliiams street intb - Hunting- stockholders meetlng at New Haven [t0% wien the defendant’s automobile, Tuesday. He succeeds Edwin N. und the rear of the car to from the opposite direction, He received serious in- 1 has beep retired on a |struck Lin S : )Cve:l::gh w‘}:olinton J. njamin, who |juries whieh incapacitated him from has been chief clerk to the secretary |his business. ang treasurer, was chosen assistant At the conciusion of the testimony secretary ,and assistant treasurer. |the judge took the papers. These were the only changes in the cfficers. FORECLOSURE SUIT. Are Adwertised Medicings Worthless? There is no more reason {o condemn all advertised medicines than there is Superior Court Action Brought Against | to condemn all physicians or all drug- Niantic Couple by Judge William |gists. Belcher. Fakes there are in ewery pro- fession and in every trade, but they do not last long. Take a medicine like ¥. W. Dart and wife, Maria B. Dart, | [¥dia E. Pinkham's Vegetahle Com- of Niantic are made the defendants 5 | pound, the true test of its merit is the in a suit for foreclosure brought by fz‘;‘ev‘i"‘f‘ vg"o;g"’toyt v;:;?;—::: has bfi: Judge William Belcher ot New Ton- |\ tling Tamen O e e con. don, executor of the estate of James| 4 1o crowine in optlarit u’a& o Phelps’ of Essex. It is claimed that - g in D Y on Dec. 22, 1908, Maria Dart owed the vor, until it is now recosni plaintiff $2,000 on a note which was ggi,”f’m,“’fef_f;;‘;‘ufi the standard rem- guaranteed by a mortgage on property in Niantic. On Sept. 30, 1913, she con- veyed her property to her husband, and the note is still owing. The plai tiff asks for foreclosure of the mort- gage and possession of the property. The suit is returnable before the superior court the first Tuesday in March. Will Lose Sight of Right Eye. Frank Brown, of New London, 37 years old, will lose the sight of His right eve as the result of an accident at the plant of the Reed-Prentice Co., Mongday. Brown was operating an e: ery wheel when a piece of the wheel broke off and struck him in the ye. The eyeball was injured to such an exient that physicians at the Lawrence pitai, to which institntion he was moved, say that the sight is perman- ently impaired A Dutch state loan of _£42,000,000 has been over-subscribed the amount of £10,000,000, -« - BV h mminih - v CUMMINGS & RING Fumeral Directars and Embalmers 322%Mzin Street Chamber of Commerce Building Lady Assistant 'Phone 238-2 THERE !s no ng Bastern Coxnnectlcut equal to letin for business results.