Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 19, 1918, Page 9

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Y, FEBRUARY 15 1918 . First in War in Peace . First in the “Mouths of Our _ Countrymen! wecks. Twenty men are in the tour- Il:efore it or certify the men as fitted for lindited military service. Forty more Tegistrants will appear before the iocal board today for ex- amination. Elke’ Golden Anniversary. , nament and they will each play 30 games. . Roland H. Gray, who has been criti- lcally ill with pneumonia, was report- ed Monday as so far recovered that {he may be able to be out for a ehort itime later in the week. Jr, saying he was safe. He was a private on the troop ship Tuscania, isunk last week by a submarine off the PUTNAM Engagement of Miss Mary Weaver € Louis M. Ream Announced—Fifteen Men Accepted For Service Monday —Elks Celebrate Golden Annivers- were present. Knitting seemed the order of the day, as it is at mest gatherings at present. Refreshments were served by the hostess at the close of the meeting. Anniversary Social. ’ COLCHESTER Busy at Kid Kurler Plant—Death of | [yiah const. George Westbrock — Supt. J. -A.| Mrs. Annie Phillips Guyer is spend- Young and Family Leave for West- | Ing a month with her parents, Mr. and DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS j [ Mrs. Charles Phillips. She has epent r _ Elks’ hall was filled: Monday eyen-| POTt several months at Camp Taylor, | The. C@E'g,i‘gffim‘;’ c},‘fm DANIELSGN o el BORWICH {110 5 04t o Momaay magn; | " Workless Monday s Dull Day.| i "k IS and o mamber of sur- | Mr. and Mrs. Chacles K. Brown were | LOUSHl, Ky, where Her hushand élhoia an amaiversary socil n e gaetio | LEARNED OF ACCIDENT |fion of | it Monday = e A hore to foin In | visitors in Norwich Saturdey. G ’ i g, fining a man who was charged| Friends in "Thompson and in this ding towns came here to foin in Privats Adelard Barbeau Qualifies to] - Be Interpreter in France—Coroner | ngineer of T W'hil:h Caused Fa- with having committed a breach of city reported the engagement of Miss an observance of the golden annivers- Lenten services were held in St. An- Miss Ajbie E. Miner went to Bloom- chapel to commemorate the $2d awsi- versary of the founding of the A e : field after caring for M Jnlaf v oey- o o the peace, at Goodyear. i ¢ of the ofder. - There was speak- |4reW& church Sunday evening. Belcher_the past two weeks. Mrs.|A Short entertalnment whl beelt Bill Finds That Engincer of Tra ! tality at Dayville Crossing—Coroner ! O Bosimaikend Work. Mary Weaver, daughter of Attorney |ing, a special musical programme and . Weekly Payroll $500. Saran Black is With her no Mee | VCRILE, GteC W socmmmumn. resent Which Killed Auto Passenger Knew | 'nvestigating. The big plant of the Goodyear Cot- |10 Mrs. Charles S.'Weaver, of Put-|refreshments were served. The Columbia Kid Kurler company | Belcher is slowly. recovering from a| sro” fyank Rogers is entertatnimg Nothing of Accident Till Norwich | e L ek e e ton 'company began on government|nam Heights, to Louis M. Ream, son To Promote Corn Growing. is paying out ubaté:ooo : severe macfik o: E‘Il% b her sistore, Mrs, George. GRss € At his office here Monday, Coroner |ty : r fae. ate. T : i Tebk: 5 is paying out about $500 a week - Book Clul 3 Was Reached—Soldiers in France |Arthur G. Bill began his inquest rela- | forken onony, and will incgease its ac_iof the lite Norman B. Ream, multi-| County Agent . W. Glad to Receive The Bulletin. In a letter dated Feb, 1, Somewhere in France, Private Adellaid Barbeau, who is in an infantry regiment, writes of having successfully passed the ex- aminations required of tive to the death in the grade cros: Ing accident at Dayville Saturday night of Mrs. Henry Marchesseault that place. All the members of the train crew appeared. The train was in charge of Conductor John Breen of es in producing tent\ duck until at least 50 per .cent. of its looms are engaged ’5& this way. Althoug the weather has been mild- er recently, -the frost is still deep in the sround and going deeper, as is in- dicateq’ by the freezing™ and breakin milliohaire, who established 2 beau- tiful country estate in Thompson, now the family home. The young Mr. Ream, whose gagement was reported Mondn divorced from his wife in the supe- Ellis announc. ed Monday afternoon mert in coming crop seasons. that arsange- are being completed for holding la serles of meetings ceunty towns to promote the grawing ¢ mpre and better corn during .the Windham their help. They expect to increase they can get ready to accommodate them. Although the plant is small, it has been quite @ help to the towns- people, as there is no other industry the number of employes as soon as| MBst of the books in last year’s book club have been returned to their own- ers. A few are still out and anyome having one has been requested to re- turn it to the owner whose name is in Groton and Mrs. Herman Grainer of Norwich, Hlustrated Lecture, At the Union Baptist chureh mext Sunday evening an illustrated jecture \7ill'be held. A lantern has been pues . = bt - e AnUSIT | the front of the book, lthis mgeflr‘fl chased, together with some stereopti= ,’;, ke V tior court in this city Monday, Feb- iz ton -of ere. wo or three more small con- | have the new list of books ready for|con slides. ¥ pecsons who | [Webster and Emgineer Fred Webb of o another gas main, it was reported|ruary tth, His wife brinsing the suif |other. 1reberes meean iz Tions §n nd | corns could he induced 0 locate here, | cireatation soon. Covering the DOoks | "y Soiage praver. mesting o are o act as interpreters and that he | WoToester. Monday. ‘|against him, which was uncontested |gifferent towns will be sousht in NS toWn wouldtake on new life. | with cloth seemed a good idea iast|week will be held at thé home of Mre. R e g s a2 soat & iy tisnitciat oF the iraih mecer o SR In court. ~She was awarded alimony |making . success of these meetings |, Lok Andrew Tusholell of Torring-|year, and it has been euggested the , with the prospect of Deing ap- s 3 crew wers G 8 s : neet PoIted 'an. interpaeter for some ofn. [48Teed that they kmew mothing of {he OBITUARY of More than $200,000. cer, | Private Barbeau speaks French flu- accident until the train arrived at Norwich, At that city, while at the Charles, Brown. Mr. Ream i8 now in the fiying ser- and the work to be outlined at them. At each of these mestings there will ton was the guest Saturday of his sis- {ter, Mrs. John A. Young, on South plan be followed this vear. A list of members for Julia Coen Thursday evening, Thess meetings have been held at the homes Main street d“d":“gfifl' Jor _jconvenient| of various members of _the de.mnen Vice of the United States. He was|be a supper into which focds made of | 21 s s ; : passing and dates for the same will be | quring the co)d weather and have | ently, it being the language of his par. |Station, Dngineer Webb climbed down| Charles Brown, 63, died at his home gistrant in this district and last |corn will enter to large extent and |, oP" A~ Young and family left Sat- | piaced in the front of each book. ents, and he is otherwise well fitted from his cab and went out t6 make his to_perform the service for which he apparently is in line to be assigned. Private Barbeati writes that at the usual inspection of the big locomotive that hauls the boat . traih. As he passed around the head of the big ma- on the road ieading westward, from Attawaugan crossing. He is survived by hie wife and a daughter. | was identified with the American Bteel- Wire Company’s’ organization gt Worcester. ever opportunity ple to learn how to use corn as wiil be glven to peo- a food to much greater extent than has urday for Westport, where Mr. Youns will ‘be superintendent of schools. Mr. Young has been school superyisor for CHESTNUT HILL proved very hélpful and pleasant. Henry Allen and Roy Johnson were | callers in New London Friday. b . Alesander has moved to _ Danielson worried through anogher | Miss Weaver has been a resident at|heretofore been known in this part of this :u;d Lt 101- fl:e neighboring SRR A 2 Proiy{idey?co. i‘he has made her home aate of his letter the American troops C"ine Hie noticed an automobile curtain |Garfield Monday _vesterday. . Many o‘:u:;mm H_':dmsl at difl]!erem li;\es the country. Speakers on corn grow | ‘0D for several years. Making Better Time—Edmund | for the last few months with her sis- o 1 ver a period. of several vears. 'The 2 se of cor v fn (he MMoe whets llalie Statimed L\;:g: \ix:;l;;t};e"h ad of the boiler and |bopes were expressed that it would be ing and th euse of corn for food 4will were enjoying spring-like weather, that the roads were rapidly drying out and that the weather was 5o bal- my that the men were able to go about without their coats. '.H:h‘nuo lr;le,n(innu with more than satisfaction that the ghost has walked for the first time since the :rmem to which he 1s attacheqd land- in France and that he, with all the men, has received two months’ pay, the first money té' come to them he found that some of the rods on the pilot were bent or {broken, Golng up into the telearaph offic the station to report the matter h Coénductor Breen the trainmen found that a message was ®ieking over the Wire carrying a report of the accident to New Lonodn, and it was then that they Jearned where the accident had taken place, Mr. Bill sald Morday afternoon that the last, for the extra hollday a week is meaning a heavy loss for many bus- iness men, Brooklyn’s Coal Rights’ Admitted. Brooklyn residents whé have called the -attention of the State fuel admin- istration at Hartford to Brooklyn’ seographical relation to Danielson any | fo the fact that Danielson for years has been ‘the only coal markét for Brooklyn, have been assured of a re- family came to Brooklyn from the middle west and resided. in a coun- tryplace at Parrett Hill. Attorney Weaver, who is retired from practice, has been prominently identified with democratic national po- lities in the past and is & personal friend ‘of Vice Président Marshall. ACCEPTED FOR SERVICE. be sent out to the meetings by the Connecticut food commission and by other- organizations. The first,of these meetings is to be held in Brooklyn on Wednesday even- The committee in charge of this meeting is made up of Agent Eillis, Miss Charlotte Ing of next week. County Embleton. county food demonstrator, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Hyde of Can- terbury, Oliver A. Downs apd Mrs. Death of George Westbrook. ‘Word was received here Saturday afternoon of the death of George Westbrook at his home in New York. Mr. Westbrook was well known in this place, having spent his vacation at hig summer home, the Deep River club house, for eeveral years. Edward Driscoll " of Camp Devens iisted his parents on Windham ave- nue over Sunday. Peckham Writes of Cold Weather at Fort Terry. Passenger trains have been nearer schedule time' the past week than since the beginning of the year. Mrs. W. H. Peckham of Willimantic spent Thursday with her sister-in-law, Mrs. A. S. Peckham. Mre. 'C. S, Goodwin of Letanon i 4 ss Carrie Cometock. PIVPLES: COVERED FACE AND NECK c friends here a fow | Samuel Friedman of Bridgeport fras | ogn s % T - | ; 3 Fifteen Men .of Glass | Who Were|Susan G. Williams. at his home on Norwich avenue oved| Mr. and Mrs. Wallate W. Palmer ¥ adjustment under which they will get P . Mr. an: rs. Wallace since they have been in France. I s henue the Inquest today. It | consideration in coal distribution when | ' Examined During Monday—Forty gt MUSTEROLE-QUICK RELIEFNO BLISTER! the accident. His name was known to at least two Dayville men, but they have forgotten it. Scores of people inspeoted the wreck- cd automobile at Dayville during Mon- day. Tt is about as badly battered a machine as one ever looked upon, be- there is any ecoal to be had in Daniel- son. ) Henry C. Hammond of Worcester was a visitor with 4riends in Daniel- son Monday, Captain F. E. Withee and a detach- ment of 16 men from Fort Terry who Summoned For Today. The local exemption board began on Monday the work of giving physical eéxaminations to all of the members of FOOD EXHIBIT. To Be Held at South Woedstock on . Wednesday and Thursday. The following is the arrangement of Rev, Father Joseph F. Ford is spend- Ing a few days in New London. Amasa Warrener of North West- chester was a week end caller in town. David S. Day of Bridgeport was the guest over Sunday of his father, Hon. were in Willimantic Saturday. News from Fort Terry. . Letters received from Edmund Peckham, stationed at Fort Terry, tell of the experiences of the soldiers there during the recent cold ather, while itched, Got So Hard and Red Could Not Sleep With Paine Troubled Two Years. crsaweiens T this Aletel E. S. Day. the island was icebound, as the gov- HEALED Bvcuncm - Class T in this district. There are|he food exhibit -programme at the | 3 R i - 4 = ivate W. 275 & i g ' iss Margaret O'Connell returned to|ernment boat, in spite of ail efforts, - ing torn apart and twisted into a mass|"2VS, been here fo attend, Private W.|about 575 men in this class, but more |school in home economics to be con- | Bast Hartford Sunday evening after g | falled to make her daily trips tor mors| SOAP AND OINTMENT of junk. Moniday morning, than half a hundred of {hem _bave|fucted at. Agricy'tural hall South|gosis visit with her sisters on Pleas- |tham a week. Plum Island is a cold, Orrin Alyord. driver of the car, was |’ 2 ‘ been examined during the Woodstock tomorrow veported Monday afternoon as doing well. His recovery seems certain. Burned While Inspecting Heater. C. A, Hamilton, who has the care of ithe heater in the basement of the Phoenix block, was considerably burn- |ed about the face and head Monday | Fourteen Degrees—and Fuel Short The fuel supply in Danielson con- tinued to be lamentably short Monday, when the morning temperature was down to 14 degrees, not realiy summer weather. N "ROCKVELLE present month. Forty men were summoned to ap- pear Monday and all but three put in an apprearance. Oue of this number 15 were accepted unqualifiedly - for service and the remainder of the cases were referred to the medical advis- and _Thursday. ‘Wednesday—Table 1. Wheat Con- tevation; Table 2, Milk as a Food: Table 3, Children's Food. 1-2 lecture, Food Conservation. Thursday—Table,1, Uses of Pota- foes: Table %, ‘War Desserts; Table 3, -2 lecture, La- Labor Saving Devices. ant street. Left for Columbi Mre. Josephine Holbrook of Collins- ville, who has been the guest .of Mrs. William E. Strong on Hayward ave- nye for two weeks, left Saturday for a'few days' visit in Columbia before breezy spot and guard duty those cold nights was at least not pleasant Woolen clothing sent by the Red Cross was greatly appreciated and helped to make the weather more endurable. Some of the boys walked a mile out from ‘shore the coldest days on the ETRRG L ““When I was about fourteen years of age I began to get pimples and black- heads, and my face and neck were cov- ered. ‘The pimples were red and came to ahead making melook awful. They 3 ? ice, The old-timers there say they| itchedsothatwhenIscratchedtheygot 4 e, it haad. Monts ory board, which held its first meeting | Por Saving.Dévices. returniig home. l‘xaeverTuW anything 1£k? it beim"f. €0 hard and red I tould not sleep with ’ ! d e heater for work Monday afternoon in.Elks' Bull Mond oys from some companies are in the| the pain. | |to_inspect the condition -of the fire. hall i el STAFFORD hospital with measles, others in quar- “I had thetroubleformosttwoyears. = b | When the door opened there was a| J. P. Greene, who I e iean Monday, onother of the Garfleld t bl o & . 2 |Nlash_of flame and pent up gas. which | to" his bed by ilness, is ‘3‘.3%?03?;’3" s rozhseerigb':w;?érm\e&nggi eaxcac:.'x’::e Mondays, found Putmam's business|y... o po0 TECCTELL B0 lp;‘o"c?x‘:—e {‘l‘w‘:: ‘dea;;, G Mml“&’im s.“nmp‘n‘m B Mr. Hamilton received full in the face.| The moderate weather of last week|tions by the locai board: Phiibers | Center closed up and a ban on the sala{ Willlam Park Gives Each Bmploye a e Seat ol e At i & | He was not seriously burned, however, | was very welcome, as it removed much | Auger, Putnam; Joseph A. Billings |0f Smokes and soda fountain drinks,| Thrift Stamp—George Clark, Jr, a = Cuticura Soap and one fifty-cent box - % —_— of the enow and ice, which had been|Dayviile; Hyward Renfrefte, Putnam. |25 it Was also on.drinks of another| Tuscanja Survivor—Plans of = Book MONTVILLE of Cuticura ommm:flldm healed. & THE BULLETIN OVERSEA on_the ‘ground for a long time. Joseph Armand Chapdelaine, Putnam, |nature. The péople of the city have| giup, 1 7 (Signed) Mus% Pleasant. = | b "y | Henry A. Saunders has been con-|Trank Lejris, Webster; Thomas Gal- |1OW, become accustomed to the extra Evening School Thres Nights a Week| View Ave, Bristol, Cann., Oct. 5,47, 1 Welcomed by Killingly Men, Anxious |fied to his house for several days be-|lichant, Danielson; Frank A. Pelle.(holiday a week and while they do not| wyilliam Park has presented each of | - Moeting of Ladies’ Aid Societye Some think that because Cuticara e For Mot Froe Hir cause of a severe cold. . g re, Danielson; Henry Cooper, Good- |Felish it thdy are phillsophieai ~and|pis employes a theift stamp. el 5 . does such wonderful work in seothing TS 8 TU v mes illoria and Rieta Barbhc of fHcr, Grosvensradlé: Hormidas' Guige-|helleve that, Moncass acon Wl be | R i ats of the Owl patrol have] Anniversary Social Planned. e e e e A e Triti i Vesterly dre spending some time at|year; George W. Wade, Fast Killing- |92YS . each earned his dollar and presented e ; r ol Writing fre rs ‘ge 3 illing- Ve o] il N is & { Writiog. m?."‘of’}‘.‘e"fifiléflé r‘;‘-.;:dn:xr; S‘eg"‘:{:‘; of their grandfather, Jated|ly; ‘Albert E. Price, Southbridge: Short Paragraphs. it to the Y. M. C. A, An evening ‘school has been started| adapjedtotoiletuses. Butthatisjust 5 town expresses his thanks for The | O-yiieD SRR last | EDest J. Barrette, North Grosvenor |~ A number of Putnam people have Bulletins that have been sent him, and pleads that the practice be kept up during the waf. “You. cap’t realize Kow £0og it is to get news from home,” he writes, and, further, “I pass the papers along to Healey, Harney, Per- reault, Gagnon and Moran, who are all in'the company with me.” All the men mentioned are Killingly boys. Pinochle Tournament. Anothet pinochle | tournasment has been organized at the Bohemiln: club. Play will start on Thursday "evening of this week and will continue for five week, Fred Burdick cut his foot so that several stitches were required to close the wound. g A Great Consolation. . The more Senators Chamberlain and. Hitcheock talk the decAer #5 the sigh of relief the nation heaves at the thought that somebody else is running the war—Chicago Herald. s e According to the Messaggero, Signor Orlando will appoint: Signor Bissolati & member of the War committee. dale: James Mahoney, Putnam: Clar- ence Lincoln Briggs, Windham; Geo. | Manosh, Augusta, Me, transferred for examination, his home formerly in North Grosvenordale. ~ None of these men will be requirea to fill the quota of the' men who will go to Camp Devens in tbe near fu- ture, mor will any of the other men of Class 1, who are to be examined The medical advisory board was busy.-Monday afternoon with cises of registrants referred to it by the local board. ‘The medical board will cith}- er finally reject the men that appea) been at Dayville to inspect ths auto- mobile that was wrecked in the grade blace on crossing accident Saturday evening. in that Freeman Libby has been appointed ‘board clerk of the medical for this distriet. A short caléndar session of the su- advisory period court is t obe held here a week from Friday to arrange business for the March term of the court. Alferie Cordier has returned Camp Dix, where he is in the service, after spending a short leave home in this city P to at his 8Sugar Party. ‘The grange social committee has planned to have a Vermont sugar par- ty_in Grange hall Friday evening. Mrs, Lottie Hatch Hamilton has re- turned to Milton’s Junction, Wis., after spending five weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Hatch. During January the. work done by the local Red Cross members was as follows: 860 surgical dressings, 18 hes« pital shirts, 12 pajama suits. . Tuscania Survivor, Mr, and Mrs. George Clark received a cablegram from thair enn Ganrsa in the Palmer Memorial school. ' Its purpose is largely for the benefit of forgigners.. It s thought that if they are. given the opportunity to learn, to read and write the Englisp’ language they will get to understand ' America better apd its desire fo aid them. Sessione are held Monday, Wednes day Friday nights. Mrs. Fred Church is the only instructor at presént, but as the class grows it is hoped that another teacher may be added. Aid Society Meets. The Ladies’ Aid sdciety of the Union Baptist church met with Mrs. Julia Coan Wriday afternoon. About - 20 where it is most effective in preventing little skin troubles becoming serious. Saemple Bach Free by Mail. A&-g : “Caticura, Dept. R, Boston.*” Sehywhert. Soup B Gintent & sad She: " LOUIS E. KENNEDY DANIELSON Undertaker and Embalmer Special Attertion to Every Detail " THERE 15 no agverusing mi Bustern Connecticut egual to The letin for ousiness resuits. LaRTirrataseen Vg v aa oo

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