Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 18, 1918, Page 2

GUY WIRE and whea they broke into CREATES DANGER €ONE|[quid a blaze. which Buzz, Until Curr=nt Is Shut Off Fire | Demer's Store Resuits. Wy o, ‘store s on|is about $200, chiefly due to smoke, g R e o The glass in the front door was brok- ‘wire fell across trolley |en In entrance to the s K and ‘An poticernan o ibuted as feed wire, &fl 4 ey on Railroad street and part of Main [he notified headquarters, and they tel- Because of the early hour, no- |ephoned to Norwich, and had the cur- body was injured; but it 1s thought fent turned off. An electrician named that the heavy current was the cause and John Keagan pulled the of the fire in the store of John De- |broken wire from the trolley wire as did _about $400 damage. {soon as they were sure-that/the cur- rn Unjon Telegraph com- (rent had been turned off. T‘l‘trl: ‘was from shortly after one, while ‘was discovered at-2 o'clock: ife, with the o 3 thn guy wife, e mmflng of . the trolley aflircult 'was probably the cause this fire, t smaller pole, used as an anchor, in ‘the rear of ’s store street, a distance of about 150 |of At _about 1 o'clock this -wire and fell acroes the &roiley feed The broken end landed on the f of Demer's store, while the In the wire let part of the wire and touch the fire ping in front d street. smmediate- visible. wire touched, the hydrant. t is burned off,.and several saw it when the wire was it say that it was nearly red At least one hydrant was thawed PERSONAL TAX STATISTICS Town Has Total of 3728 Men—Tot Exemptions 871 . Personal tax Collector Matthew P. Healy has combpiled his figures for 1918, In all, there are 3728 men in the city between ,the ages of 13 and 60, 355 of whom dre not in the city. A total of §71 men are exempted, active army and navy, 170; active fire- men, 44: students, 6; ex-members the army and navy, 143; ex-firemen, the wire crossed the trolley [189. There are 2,621 men, between the ral strands of it are burned [ages of 18 and 45, who are subject to off, showing that the currcnt was very | wilitary duty, ¥ strong: but a trolley men said Sup- T day that a wealker current is carried DESERTER CHOPPED WOOD the night than during the day. e F the broken end of the wire Joseph N. Wilson, Missing From tin roof of the Demer stare, it sent the current down a pipe the r, and also connected with electric lizht wires, for the fuses Blown out. This heavy current heated the wire or the pipe, started things smonldering, ~ for an heur later, 2 o'clock, a fire ~ ‘wan reported in the Demer stora. The engine company was ealled up, e Camp_Vail, Arrested at Hampton. - Joseph N, Wilson was, arrested. on Sunday afternoon at Sherif Fitts of Hampton, on tho {charge of being a deserter from the ¥. . army. He bad been missing from Camp Vail for four weeks and some of the time has been chopping wood on a farm in Hampion. He was a res- ident of this city before he cnlisted. He was brought to the police station Sunday afternoon. WEDDING Carlson—McKinley, = Miss Mabel. McKinlgy and Private David A. Carlsen were married at the aome of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. William F. McKixnley, at 408 Ash strest, Saturday morning. witnessed The céremony’ which was only by relatives was performed by Murray’s Re E. Carisur of Forestville fa- Boston Store! E ther of the:groom. Mr. and Mrs, Carl- mmmc’ CONN ison will spend their honeymoon in Boston, after which Mr. Csrisor: will return to the signal corps a: Comp Devens, of which he member, ~ Store Closed Al Day Teday while Mrs. Carlson will return to this tity o live. bt Hatless Visitor Excited Hartford. the Hartforg Th John C. Earstow of this ity sitracted guite a lttie at- tention in the Haxtford statiop when {he was seen without a hat. Mr. Ber- {stow [explained tnat eleven years &go he decided not to wear a hat any more to try to prevent Lis hair from falling cut. How seecosst be seen by his aby. 3p 3 |Succesds Norwich Man as Freight George T. Mirg] of this city has inted agent. at the local e of the Central Vermont © place of F. R. Wil- turn to Norwioh. , Who is to £\ jeon, | The B . My Cn. |, _oooe % Decizion for Plaintiff, | b e Ve may 0. A decision’ was_rendered in favor o of the plaintif?? by Justice of the Peace {Curtis Dean, Saturday morning, in the |case of the Willlthantic Lumber and Coal company vs. William C. Morris and Nick P. Bartis. The case was over a bill of $36. Tyo plaintift was award- ed the bill nn. costs; amounting to $49.90. The caso was appealed. The case of Hyman Rotblatt vs the firm of Wliliam C. Merris and Nick P. Bartis was continued until March 16, ¥ ‘Brief Mention, Homer Harrington of Camp Devens was home over Sunday: The meeting of the United Charities will be held at W, C. T. U. hall this (Monday) evening. The ‘electric clocks operated by the These Are E}?ck, owing to the grotind wire in this y. The north side of Main street, be- o tween Lincoln Square and Bank street % D is being cleaned of ice by the city men. The jce on the south side will remain until early in 4he summer, as the buildings keep the sun from shining near the curb. a ~ AND BARGAINS b o ~ ARE FOUND ~ IN EVERY - DEPARTMENT COLCHESTER Conductor Marshall J. Parker and Son L Lincoln’s ~ Furniture Store For South Carolina—Borough Has Lightless Night. | ‘Main and Union Streets _ WILLIMANSTIC Timothy O’'Brien left Thursday for New York. Conductor Marshall J. Porter and son each have left for Columbia, S. C., where they will visit Mr. Porter's oldest son, Harpld, who is stationed at Jackson. THey expéct to be gome ten days. Earle and Fred Holmes, Miss Al- ma Odin and Miss Ruth Snow were in Norwich Friday evening attending the play at the Davis theatre. Mrs. Frank A. Doane is visiting her nieces in New Haven. On Brief Furlough. Mrs. Edna -May Munson and ehfl- dren have gone to New York for a few days. They are guests of Dr. Edwin Monson who is home for & short furlough. Roland Brown has left for a few days’ visit with his sister, Mrs. Jas. Sherlock, in Old Lyme. Wooster lodge, F. and A M., held a regnlar communication Friday ev- ening in Masonic hall. John Treadway of Greta Neck, L. L, DR. F. C. JACKSON DENTIST e R R atte aad Removed to 715 Main St. Willimantio | }iss Nellie: Gerhardt have- returned from a few days' visit with relatives Hours—9 a. m. t0 8 p. o, Fhone 44 in Providence. . g i On :mum olm 1nmohtrvubledcm the ne between this place and Fast THOMAS H.| Hampton, the borough was in dak- ness Friday night. Mrs. Nathanie] Clark of Salem was a recent guest of her brother, Thomas S. Clark: ~ - ; Phone 285-3 'DANIEL F. KILLOUREY BROS. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND_EM- BALMERS Willimantie, Conn. (Lady Assistant) Work of Bbard of Relief Delayed— Pastor Taking: Vaoation—Old Cal- endars Useful. The board of relief ha had very little to do in the way of dering epard Funeral Director & Embalmer appeals. Their meetings are held uj 2 North St, Willimantic | ;o0 " Wiides, who is living in Tel. connection | Providence, R. I, this winter 1s shut oft from aftanding to e duties any BARELE E, GILBERT. . A gy digeame. 1 family. As soon as his resignation is RIRECTOR received AND EMBALMER.|some one in hi © Jewett City. R T o Y ey 86 Union St -Phone 290 JAY M. SHEPARD Succeeding Elmore & Sh - s place. Mr. Powell has been taking a short 2 o'clock bY | Dani Su v v u.bes‘hvnve been ill.: Soms e been unable- to school and older ones to at- to regular duties, probably on ac- count of continue severe cold Leonard Smith, D. C. Flah- erty, Miss Ida Reynolds and C. H. Bosworth ace reported to be improv- ing. 3 Box Reaches Frange. Mrs, LaJess recently received a lot- ter from her son, who is in the En- M‘ F\l‘c*p.fl.. a wt n France. reports rival of a small box which was sent to him before Christmas. I Collector W. A. Weld is receiving personal, taxes now, and will be ready to receive property taxes probably about the first of April. He f5 to dis- tribute coples of an appeal to tax- payers that promp payment of taxes s not only advisable, but necessary. Making Old Calendars Do. 1912 calendars are good for - this year after February. Merchants are bot distributing new ores very much. BALLOUVILLE Thick lce on ‘Reservoir—Address on Lineoln—School Pupils Give Enter- tainment—Washington Birthday So- cial Planned. Thursday evening a Pray. At its close Mr. Pray the company with selections on new Sonora. Mrs. Thomas Allshaw of this plaee underwent a successful operation at St. Vincent's hospital, Worcester on Friday. Her daughter, Iva, and sis- ter-in-law, Mrs. A. B. Simmons, vis* ited her the next day. Miss Ellen Pray is spending a‘ week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. .- as the schools in Newington, ‘where the teaches are Garfleldizing. A' number from this village attend- ed the High School Senior play at ielson. Crossed Ice With Sled. Ice was so thick on Ballot®iHle res- ervpir that George Berbue with horse and sled hauled across a load of wood. Lincoln's birthday was also the na- tal anniversary of Joseph E. Pray, son | of Joseph L. Pray, of this village. Lincoln Sermon. Rev. W. D. Woodward spoke yes- terday on the religious side of Abra- ham Lincoln. An offering was tak- en for the Freemen's Aid soclety of the M. E. church. Pulips’ Entertainment. There was giver at | ths Catholic church ar enjoyable entertainment by the students of the village schools. {The children evinced the fine drill given by the teachers. Good music was. interspersed. After The Star Spangled Banner had been sung the ifollowing programme was rendered: Exercises, Flags of other nations; recitation by Dorothy Wallen, Socks For John Randall; Tiny Totts’ Wand drill; costume song, Claire Gorman; cornet solo, Donald Gorman; eostume song, Ida Fountaine; Independence !B@n Clair= Gorman; Butterfly, dance sonz, Hattle Hymn of .the Republic; Three Bears Up to Dateé; song, by Margarot. Kilday; chorus, Silent I Night; éxercise,” Seldiers, Sailors and Nurses, Harold . Bloomingberg and pupils; cornet solo and America, by Donald Gorman. Social at\Clubhouse. Thb last social before Lent. was held at the club house Saturday ev- ening. Monday evening 2 number went to Attawaugan to ‘attend the masquerade ball. — On’the same even. ing the -moi - -meeting was _held, sual reports read. A list of revised to date has been poste Ready to Sell Thrift-Stamps. There is some sale of thrift stamps at ‘the post office. but Postmaster Pray would be pleased to see more engag- ed in this patriotic effo and will gladly give information to prospective pm—c{-‘uers. Line up, boys, and help your“boys and others win the war for democracy! ; Washington Social. Next Friday evening there will be a public Washinzton Birthday social given at the Methodist church in At- tawaugan. Exercises of a _varied character are planned, including a talk by the pastor, Rev. W. D. Wood- ward on A Visit to Mount Vernon and the Tomb of Washington. Birthday Celebration. Mrs. Samuel Armington celebrated her seventy-fourth birthday Sunday. A number of friends extended con- bratulations, and she received a show- er of postal cards. / i To Attend Worcester Meating: | Rev. W, D. Woédward goes today to Worcester to attend the first in a series of trans-continental missionary meetings. Bishop E. H. Hughes has asked the pastors and laymen to at- tend as far as possible. The meeting is to be addressed by Dr. S. Earl Tay- lor, Dr. Frank Mason North, Dr, Fred B. Fisher and others, including Bishops Hughes and Lewis, and Ralph 8. Cushman, last named pastor in Danielson for five years. PLAINFIELD 8t. Paul's Episcopal Mission Pre- sented Gifts By Watertown Friends and Others, A The, Watertown correspondent _of The Waterbury American writes: The current number of the Living church contains an account of the raily’ and roll call held on the evening of Mon- , Feb, 4, at St. Paul's Episcopal Mission, - Plainfield. Deaconess _Caro- line L. Sanford, who is well known to many here, as she is a granddaugh- ter of the Rev. William H, Lewis, D. D., rector for many years of Christ church, is a worker at that mission, of which the Rev. John B. Hull is minis- ter-in:charge. The rally was held to signalize the completion of five vears of successful growth and to launch a go-forward moyement for the nect five years.. Among the gifts to this mis- sion, reported for the past year, are a pulpit ang lectern from Christ church, a sterling silver flagon from Mrs.'An- nle McLean Buckingham and a silver chalice from Deaconess Sanford. NORTH STFRLING Moth Scouts Find a Few Nests—Lo- cal Dancer Wins Prize at Sterling Center Sosial, X Mrs, Thomas H. Dann and son CHf- ford, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gaske]l of Pawtucket, Thomas H. Dann of Nor- wich, 15{ and Mrs. Louis Main and baby Moosup visited Raymond Wood last Sunday. The government bug hunters were here' last week. They found a few clusters of eggs. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Crowell will leave here Monday, the 18th,.for a trip to Wilmington, - Dancer Wins Pri A’ number-of young peop ceived the first prize dressed lady. Mr, and Mrs. H, H. Crowell and Geo. C. Spooner mMotored to Providence -on the -selectmen will appoint | Friday. Raymond Lewis has finished work at tha dye plant at Packerville, cottage - |furnished music. ing was held at the home of Joseph L. |charge of the whist was: Thomas Sul- pleased |livan, John Clabby. Charles F. Charon, his {Amie - Gordon, George Lacrolx, Walter Milner, Prue Brennan, R. J. Jodoin, Mrs. Bibeault, Mrs. Jahn O Leary of Chile and adjacent countries. bles, With -Books of Thrift for Prizes—Academy Students ish Five Days’ lplflhuf’!!flna—’.'t New Member for Fire Company. ous to. ance of hundred iven this -five tableg t a5 eish Mrs, A. J. Jordon; gentlemen’s first, Anthony “Woods; for: whist, Mrs. Misgs Aldea Lemoine; third, Mrs. Hen. ry Bibeault; fourth! Pratte; fifth, Fléurdina Charo tieman's first prize, Joseph- second, Henr] Bibeault; third,. Mar tin Stapleton; non players, Miss gen Mrs. John O!Leary, in Stamps; Miss Mary Louide® Blais. The prizes were donated by St..Jean Baptiste society, Council St. Marie, %le t. , and fMcers of the St, Jean Society gave the use Rosary Soclety, Counci Jodoin, Anne's soclety, Children’of Mar; Rev: J. V. B. Belanger. ~The of the hall gratls. £ At the conclusion of whist ¥e them. bers of the Live Wire club held a so cial. Miss N. V. Mi and Miss Aloise Ro; The followin; Misses Anna Y. acted as Morrisette and Ida Charon. Retreat for Academy Students. - The students at the Academy of the Holy Family recently concluded u five days’ retreat which was conducted by Rev. Father Stanton of the Jesult Or- der, New York city. The special exer- cisés were held in the Academy chapel. Instructive sermons were preached by Vather Stanton. Birthday Party. At the home of his aunt, Mrs. Alex. ander Dupont, George Cadderette re- cently entertalned seventeen young There wers vocal and instrumental solos by the At 1030 a lunch ywas served . friends on his birtiMay.. uests. by Mrs. Dupont, assisted by Misses Caderette, of Grosvenordale. Elected to Fire Company. At a meeting of the Baltic town building, the following new mem. bers’ were elected by ballot to fill va. cancies caused members leaving town: Robert Hines. Arthur Jones, George Morin ang I L. Buteau. The members of the Rosary society. held a largely attended meeting at So- Gality hall Sunday afternoon at 3.1 o'clock. - The southbound cars were well pa. tronized Saturday by local people who went to Norwich to. take advantage of the Dollar Day sale. Extra cars were run to Baltic to accommodate th crowd and were packed during the day and evening. _Sunday morning about 615 a husky knight of the foad, uf the Peeping Tom type, appeared on Little Flats in ques! of food. He gently knocked on th door of a house; bit failed to summons the slumbering householder, The hobo repeated his call in a more boisterous the house down the stairs at a Dan ‘When he saw who his Patoh clip. early morning visitor was this tram) ‘g0t something—but not in the line of breakfast. 4 * Hurry Call for Red Cross 'Work. . The Red Cross room is o be open today (Monday). The workers are-be- Ling requested io return sl Anjshed bandages as early as possible as an urgent call is issued for early ship ment of the articles. . Social and Personal. Miss Mary Twomey of Willimanti was a guest Sunday of Miss Kathryn McCabe at the Holy Family Academy. s Mary Driscoll of Colchester spent Saturday with Miss Renelda Miss Hines, M her home in Bristol. Pooch Charon has bought a new touring car. Gus Swanson”is visiting friends in; camp. Columbia. David Radcliffe of Plainfield, former- ly of Baltic, spent Saturday with his friends in_town. George Bell was in Boston on busi. ness Saturday. Miss Doris_Authler of Fitchville was a guest of Baltic friends Sunday. yn and Mrs, Crawshaw and daugh- ter, week-end Firth. William H. Butesu is in Boston on business. ! “Mrs, Bdward Farrell is ill at her home in High street. Miss Louise lderbert spent Sunday with Providence friends. Baltic young people attended a so cial at Scotland evening, Principal Floyq Tiffney ' passed the week-end with Boston friends. Samuel Jettie was in Providence on Saturday on business, \ John Kelley of the Shetucket Worst ed Mills is in Washington, D. C, on business. -Five Degrees Below Zero. After a few days of pleasant w ther the mercury shot downward ear- ly Sunday morning. At 645 in the evening it showed § below zero. Mrs. W. C. Hubler, who has spending a few days with Miss in Hartford. SERVICES FOR AMERICANS « LOST WITH TUSCANIA Were Held in New York Yesterday— Tolegrams Received From Many Leading Men. New York, Feb. 17.-~Memorial l«i vices for the American soldiers an British sallors who lost their lives ‘Wwhen the transport Tuscania was tor- pedoed, were held here today. Tele- grams were received from many!lead. ing men, including Secretary of th Navy Daniels, Eari Rending, British high commissioner and cial am. bassedor to the United =States, Governor Whitman. “The brive men who gave ‘war which emphasizes the country and other countries the .lib. erties it won with the bloed of the men of the revolution, in his telegram. + Earl Reading's message sald Tuscania victims “died for tha caus “Mr. Daniels sai of iibert’and democracy as truly as if they had fallen on the fleld of bat- tle.” o altended| ‘Reports from Chile indicate that a thegmasquerade hall'at Sterling Cen- | proposition has been submitted to the p |ter Saturday evening. Miss Mildred | Chillan government for the establish- | St. John in a Red Cross costume re- |ment in that country of = extensive as the best|manufacturing works- for the produc- ‘|tion of explosives, arms, and other military . r the manuf: irements and also | The Jast in the serles of whists an® 45 was conducted in St. Jean's hall for the benefit of St. Mary’s church previ- the largest steng- » One werg oceupied. 'Prizes “consisting of books of Thrift Stamps were awarded the following: Ladlies’ first prize for 45, ladies’ first award tbeault, Sr.;’ second, Miss Marsilla K bin: nna Eibeault, Loretta Buteau, $5 gold coin; 4 Thrift ilner's orchestra The committee. in Sr,, scorers: ibeault, Alice Cronin, Margaret Sullivan, Mary B. Donnelly, Doris Holmes, Margaret Charon, Ilda % Fire company held in their room in the . W. F. Cotter; who has been spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. M. H, Donahoe, has returned to Sadie, of New Bedford spent the with Mr. "and Mrs Leonard odd hall Saturday ar- Jjory Barber, has returned to her homé and their lives at the sinking of the Tuscania, bring home to us all the tragedies of sacrifice America is making to preserve for tais ffor | constructive to do than ure of other products of [and writefool letters for publication the general character required by the|on the subject of farmers and farm- Corporal /Fred E. Mil 8t. Augustine—Vital Need ! —Union -Patriotic Service, | Corporal Fred E. Miller, Q. M. C, 7 [ tells in the following letter to his wife of a little trip which he and two other Killingly boys, Lester-E. Bhippeo and Henry V. Myers, all at Camp Joseph, Jackson, Fla:, 'made on Feb. 1 i ~Yesterday Shippee, Myers, four other tellows and myself taok advmdh:;e o an excursion- to -the > n America, St. Augustine, We left campy at 830 a. m. and took the train from Jacksonville ae 9.30; the is apout 40 miles and we arrived at the 3 at 11 a, m. We then took a trip around the city.s E The streets are very narrew, hardly wide enmough ‘to allow one auto t pass through, and the buildings are very old and quaint. , First we -saw the wonderful Ponce De Leon hotel, which cost two million dollars to v:xrlgq::‘:d it sure looks )t! ' There is'a garden in e eaton hich s tho_moat benutl: ful T have ever seen, with all tropical plants and flowers and a large foln- tain in.the middle; a plazza surrounds It and at night the Mghts, which 31; of many colors, make it very pretty. There are famnilies staving there who are paying $250 per day. The hotet is only open during January, Kebruary and March. Then we saw the old slave market where the Spaniards ~used to sell slaves; this {s a platform with a roof and the sidef all open and here thou- eands of men’ and women have been sold for slaves to the highest bjdder. All the buildings® arg made of small seashells mixed with a kind of cement and look 4 good deal like our cement buildings except more rough. The city is not so very large bacause it is 50 congested. . We saw the' oldest house in the United States, - This was_used by the monks as a monastery and inside there were many ‘of the things which they uded. Just outside the door was a well which is icalled the wishing well and they say thet anyone looking down It and wishing will get his wish. After this we visited an orange grove and saw trees with ripe oranges, srape fruit and tangerines, a wonder- ful sight. : Probably the most interesting thing I saw was the Spring of Youth, which : | we. studied about in school. ‘I drank a glass of water from this spring, 50 now, according to the old belief, I will remain young. It is not mueh to look at—only an ordinary well about three or four feet deep and the sides made of stone. Just in front of this is a large ¢ross made of stone and flat on_the ‘ground; they say that Ponce De Leon put it there to estab- lish_religion in Amaeyica. We went from'here to the old Span- ish fort that Pone De Leon built. It is built of the seashells and is very large, the walls are from six to twelve feet thick and very strong. There is a wide moat all around it =0 that when that was filled with water the soldiers could pot =et in, The whle fort fs built in the form f a square with a larSe, open court In the center. All around this are the walls two stories 'high where the prisoners weve kept and where the soldiers lived. There is a dungeon w is reached by a long Dassage, and there is no aif or light. They old ‘us that a man' could not dive in | there over two hours, and I belteve it; for when they turned off an electric fan and the lights I thought that I would suffocate. You can-see all over the city from theé walls. and there are the old guns that the Spaniards used. The front looks out upon the sea. re used to be walls all around the ciy, but these have been torn down, and we could only see the city gate, which is still standing. In the afternoon we went out on a dock and saw some porpoises, or sea cows, as they call them, playing in the water; they would jump completely out_sometimes. We stopped -in a_ park where the slave market was a while and listened to a band concert which they were having, and then started ~back for 5 e t P manner and brougkt the gentleman of c FARM HELP DEMAND. The Big Problem Which Land Owners and Crop Producers Are Trying to Solve. Unless some means is found for pro- viding farm labor for ‘the farmers of Windham county during the growing season of 1818, the production of the farms of its 15 towns will show a startling reduction from the figures for 1917. Brilliant “essayists may sit in their studies and spend hours in an attempt to prove that the farmer isn’t doing his whole ‘duty in-the war, but in so doing they are merely using up their own time and bringing down upon themselyes the disdain of the men who are striving, while there is yet- time, to develop some plan under which pro- duction can be increased, not de- creased, in this part of the state. This is a time for action, not letter writing. There is a man in the town of Brooklyn today who has 500 bush- els of potatoes for sale at $1.60 a bushel. Every bushel of them cost him more than he is offering them for in open market; yet he has been un- able to sel] them. s any man with an ounes of brains, though he be able to use that amount of brains to write a half- column® letter to the editor, believe that this farmer can be induced to extend himself in raising another big crop of potatoes during 19182 Does any man believe that a farmer, though he work from daylight to dark, through the long days of spring and summer, is going to be able to do what the counfry expects him to do, unless he can have assistance in the form of farm labor? He isn't in a position to offer farm laborers $5.a day, and this sum is no more than what woodchoppers have been regularly earning in Windham county towns during the present win- ter. He isn't in a position to attract weavers from their looms, before which they are earning from 325 to 330 & week, for a place on 2 farm at $40 or even $50-a month. The farmer s not in a position to offer farm laborers an elght hour day, a social club in which to spend their evenings or a motion picture show at night, The best he can do is to offer all the money that the farming propo- sition will allow, offer it to men who know that the life is hard, the hours long and the pay comparatively small. And what he offers them he ofers at his own risk. No one is guaranteeing him any fixed price for his products. There is no cost plus percentage plan for the farmer. He is asked, and ex- pected, to go out and hire men for from 25 to 50 per cent. less than they can earn elsewhere, § working much ehorter hours, and’ produce —enou f00d to keep the- high priced workers well fed and even eneugh to feed the men who have nothing better or more to sit down d the Windham county that will be up to demands and expectations, unless some means is found for providing them with help, *One hundred columns: of letter The time to get at the riting won’t change ‘this fact: m_labor problem is rigpt now, and\.the man who does something to solve it is go- ing to be a real benefactor to many, many thousands of people. The farm- ers of Windham county are as loyal and patriotic today as on the day whén General Israel Hutnam. left his- plow in the town of Brooklyn to answer his country’s call to duty, and any man who says otherwise steps away outside the facts. All me;;l are ultll;nigl s speed up farm work, an o get it the public won't get tHe crops. “is_the help to if they don't OLD FURNACE LAND —_— May Be Purchased by Sdbscription for the Town. At A. P. Woodward's store there is a eubscription blank upon which are written the names of a sons' who' have agreed mber of per- 0 contribute certaln sums toward a fund for the purchase of a tract of land at the Old tawn. Furnace, this lJand to be given to the The land includes the grove where picnics were held by Sunday schools and other organizations for a number that came into possession of the town a few years ago. Norwich Man A Washington party is to be given at the Congresational church pext Fri- day evening. The party will include the giving of parts of a Shapespearean play, six boys participating, a farce in which seven young women will have parts and a musical contribution by Charles D. Geer of Norwich, who also will conduct the singing of some num- of years and adjoins a tract 'to Conduct Singing. Patriotic Service. There was a union patriotio service at the Baptist church Sunday evening, members of local patriotic societies at- tending. John A. Serster of Providlence visit- ed _friends in Danielson over Sunday. Very little hard~coal is ‘coming into Danielsbn and the difficulty of getting it appears as great as it has been for the past two months. ‘In ‘some sections of the town the order confining dogs is again being disfegarded and the animals are being allowed to run about the street. Death of Charles K. Griffiths. Charles K. Griffiths, who died recent- ly in Foxboro, ‘Mass., formerly was a resident of Danielson and vicinity. Miss -Charlotte Embleton of Putmam was a visitor in Danielson Saturday. Members of Killingly grange wereat Putnam Saturday afternoon-to attend the Pomona meeting. GIVEN MILITARY BURIAL. (Comrades from Fort Terry Pay Last Honors to Private William H. Pike at Brooklyn Funeral. The funeral of Private William H. Pike, who—died at Fort Terry, at Brooklyn, heid was Episcopal church. at 1 Triinty Sunday - afternoon o'clock.* Rev. W. H. Heighman cor ducted the service. The church was crowded. The musical numbers at the service wer sung by Miss Ella A. Bur- bank of Danielson. Withee and eixteen members of the Danielson company from Fort Terry attended the service, Evergreen cemetery, Central where a committal service was_ton- Captain F. E. Burial was -in Village, ducted by Rev. E. E. Blake. D. D, of Brooklyn. Full military honors were paid Private Pike, a firing squad firing three rounds and a bugler sounding Taps. as bearers. funeral directo; Members of the company acted L. E. Ketnedy was the WOMAN PASSENGER KILLED, DRIVER INJURED, AT CROSSING Mrs. Henry Marchesseault and Orrin Alvord in Ford Car Struck by Boat Train -at Dayvi oré cemmercial and industrial c@fmunity |ing. Mrs, Henry Marchesseault was in- stantly- killed and Orrin Alvord very dangerously just before 10 frightful grade crossing accident at Main street, Dayville. ‘ Mrs. Marchesseault and Mr.' Alvord were driving over the crossing in a Ford touring car when the machine was ‘struck by the southbound New London boat train, which was run- ning late and making high through the village, at which it is not scheduled to stop. The terrific impact of the big loco- motive against the light automobile smashed the little machine to bits and catapulted Mrs. Marchesseéault out of the machine nearly 100 feet against the brick wall of the, north side of the -passenger station. a flash, Mr. Alvord was thrown near- ly as far, his body. which was inside the top, torn off the-car, bringing up against a big telephone pole near the north end of the station. to be cut to permit the removal of the injured man, who was taken into the Kennedy house and Dr. J. N. Perreault of Danielson summoned. Alyord was cut about the head and his back was consciousness unable to tell how the aceident hap- pened and he could not even remem- ber who was with him. At the time there was some difficulty in identifying Mrs. Marchesseault. Later Mr.' Alvord was removed to| his home in Marchesseault also was resident. Sun- day afternoon it was said that there was, little change in his which was regarded as critical. News of the accident spread almost with the fatal crash, of which there was at least one witness, and in a short time a crowd had gathered about the crossing a: had sped on fo Danielson, mude its first stop after leavi nam, the engine crew having failed to note’ the accident, and it wa$ said A1 not learn of it until the train reached Plainfield. Picces of. the automobile were scat- tered about the crossing and station, and one of the railroad gates, against | which the car was thrown, was snap- ped off near the ground. While the crossing is protected By gates during the day time, there was no gateman on duty at the time of the accident d the crossing was without protec- injured Saturday night, o'clock, in another speed and for ‘a -distance of Her life was crushed out in The top had injured. He regained fter a time, But was Dayvyille, where Mrs. condition, The train vhere it station. Patrolman George Alvord, father of the injured driver of the car, was on duty in Dayville at the time of thel accident, and he and William Valen- tine of Hartford were the men who t away the automobile top in which, oung Alvord was entangled after the It was said Sunday afternoon that Alvord was driving Mrs. Marchesseault to Church street, Brooklyn, where she was hurrying to eare for her niece, Mrs. Henry Weaver. Alvord was tak- ing Mrs. Marcehsseault as an act of courtesy, available. His car had been Jaid up since early in the winter and he had gottert It out and tuned it up Saturday after- moon for his first spin of the year. no other machine being After the body of Mrs, Marchesseault Farmers cannot produce crops inlhad been.viewed hv Coroper A G. BII How This Fine Mother Depends on / Father John's Medicire —For Colds, Coughs and Body Building "No Alcohol or Dangerous Drugs. “For the last four years wherfever any of our s colds we. gave them Father John's Medicine,” MWhitinsyille, Mass. “We have used it been greatly benofited by taking Father John's Medicine for building.” Crowded with nourishment Ing elements, Father John’s Medicine i or a von children, have had writed Klaus Zandstra of for all of the children cfi“ they have ids and body- and warmth-giving, -strength-build-- s also_guaranteed free from alcohel rous drugs, and is, therefore, a safe, reliable family medicine. it was taken in charge by Undertaker L. E, Kennedy Bx?d brought to his roonfs in Danielson. ‘An examination showed that Mrs. Marchesseault's fore- head was crushed, that there were two severe scaip wounds and that her\jaw and right arm were broken. Mrs. Marchesseault's age was given Sunday as 53. She had been a resi- dent in Danielson and Dayville for a long period of years and is survived by the following ehildren: Mrs. Daniel Page, -Danielson; Samuel, Raymond, Leo, 'Arthur and Miss Louise. Mrs, Louis Light of Woonsocket, formerly of-Danielson, is a sister. Mr. Alvord is married and has two children. He is 29 years of age. The accident horrified all the people of Dayville and Danielson, and again brought to mind the series of fatall, grade crossing accidents that Have | happened in Dayyille in the past few years, . Elks to -Celebrate Anniversary—K. of C. Ball Committee Named—Al- bert Lambert Sent to Jail for Theft —Surplus Milk Theme of Address by Richard Pattee—Suspicious Dog at ‘Woodstock. Forty registrants will appear before the exemption board here today for examination. . Scores of Ells and their friends will gather here this evening for the ob. servance by Putnam lodge pf the gol- den anniversary of the organization of their order. Children of .the schools in Putram will return to their studies today af- ter a week’s vacation, giving to con- |} serve fuel. b boat train- Saturday evening knew.|‘ nothing of the fatal accident at the | Main street crossing in:Dayville until after the train renched Danielson and oints south. 2 Mrg. Chariotte Champlin is visiting friends in Worcester. Fifth Heatless Day. Today brings anothér Garfield Mon- day to the people of this city, the fifth of a series that may not-ehd until late in March, Low Death Rate. Notwithstanding the severity of the weather, the death rate here during the winter has been lower per thous- and of the population than during the milder winters of recent years. Second ity in Family. Mrs. Henry Marchesseauit, Dayville, who was killed in a grade crossing ac- cident in that city Saturday evening, was a sister of one of the victims of an automobile accident that occurred at Mechaniesville on a Sunday after- noon a few years ago when a machine was backed through a fence and fell to the railroad track, many feet be- low. Working For War Fund. Salyation Army workers here are en- gaged in an endeavor to swell contri- butions to the fund of $1,000,000 that the army is going to raise to carry on it work in the battle areas of France, where huts are to be built and a num- ber of officers maintained to carry on the work of salvation. Directs Liberty Chorus. - .Miss Ruth Elliott has been named as, directress=of the Liberty chorus that has been organized and rehear- sals_commenced in Grosvenordale. Wednesday of this week will bring to taxpayers their last opportunity to appear before the hoard of relief, the members of which have been holding. sessions, throughout the month of Feb- ruary. ¢ K. of C. Ball Committee. The foliowing is the membership of the committee of Cargill council, K. of C., to arrange for the annual post- Eastér ball: Arthur L. Duvert, secre- tary; Cyril Remillard, Jr, treasurer; Frank X. Lucier, Napoleon. Jette, Frank H. Cordier, Bernard McGarry, Armand Montville, Joseph Bonin, Sent to Jail For Theft. Albert Lambert, 24, was sentenced by Judge M. H. Gelssler sitting at a session of the ofty court Salurday morning to serve 30 days in jail, on a charge of theft. Lambert was left in charge of the Vandale bowline alleys one day last week and when the pro- prietor returned $7.50 was missing: Lambert disappeared from his usval haunts here for a counle of days and upon his return was arrested. He told Judge Gelssler that he had bl t Passengers who left this city on the |Nalf dozen sheep. of Windham county. nam Woolen company, was inj: Saturday by an automobile, whilé he was in the highway near the mill where he was embloyed. King was taken to the Day Kimball. hospital. that he had a broken leg and that his face and nose were badly bruised. Cir- cumstances of the accident were being investigated Sunday. uled for Tuesday evening, postponed to allow me heeh drinking or he-would~not have taken the money a good time in Webster. Lambert has previously served sentences at Brooklyn jail nature, which he spent’on for offences of s minor SURPLUS MILK Discussed by Richard Pattee at Cham- ber of Commerce Rooms. _In addressing milk producers, at the rooms of the chamber of commerce here, Richard Pattee. secretaty of the New Bnglona Milk Producers’ associa- tion, discussed the matter of surplus milk, a problem that is giving milk producers something to think about. The prices that city dealers are ask- ng for milk this winter has resulted n a reduced demand and consumption of the product. Shortage of sugar also has been the means of reducing the demand for milk, for there is muc less ice cream being manufactured an there has been a great reduction in the uantity of milk needed" to supply soda fountains. 1t is possible that the summer, With’ The extension agricultural school that is to be continued for four days will open at Agricultural hall in Weod- stock Tuesdav, Suspicious Dog 8hot at Woodstock. Woodstock is having another ex- [Derfence with the dog question. A re- Iport from there Saturday was to the | cffect that a dog, believed to be suffef- ng from rabiés, had been shot, after iaving bitten two other dogs and 8 ong period of confinement for the TN LEG BROKEN Saturday Night. Georze King. an employe of the Put- jured ot night when he was struck It was found Hand Caught in Machine. Jerry Hall, an employe at the Ta- tem wood working shop here, was in- ureq. Saturday when he caught his hand in a machine about which he was working. He went to the Day Kimball hospital for treatment, re- maining until Sunday. Union Service. A union service was held Sunday at the Methodist church. - On: account of the large number in attendance .the ' session "of the Sunday school of the | Congregational 20, church was held at Parent-Teachers' Meeting. At the Parent-Teachers' meeting, given by the The' trade scheol s to be cooking and sewing Junior Winter Chautauqua Meeting Miss Dorothy Powell of Swarthmore, he Febsuary meeting of the Junior Winter Chautauqua club. The subject o fthe meeting is to be Cleanliness, Health, Prosperity and Happiness, and following will ‘have special parts: Kenneth Bughee, Neighbor Mine; Vie- tor Lapointe, The Secret; Edith Child, How Can the Juniors Keep Their Health as Goog as it Should Be, and What Are Some Enemies to Health? Agnes Tatro, Who Pays the Blills. The Junior Alumni meeting_sched- has been bers and oth- ers to attend the FEritish war rally at the Bradley theater. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Dr. F C. Jackson CROWN ARD BRIDGE ' 203 Main Street, Office Hours: 9a m to8p. m Dr. D. J. Coyle 'DENTISTS WORK, PLATE WORK AND EXTRACTING Noewich, Conni. Teleghpu If tests prove that’ ithe dog was mad, it means another George King Struck By Automobile an increased supply of sugar and an * increased demand for milk, as is al- ways the case, will take care of the eurplus, but for the next few weeks the surplus milk will present a ‘dis- posal problem that will require some.- study. open to the public at the high schoel ’ Friday evening of this week, a play,, Love and Tea, wills be students. open for inspection and visitors will | have an opportunity to observe the work of the classes, as well as the general work of the members of the school. Pa., will be here tomorrow to conduct |