Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 13, 1918, Page 10

Your $ Choice The A Sale of . 75 DRESSES ALL UP-TO-THE-MINUTE IN STYLE Developed in Serge, Jersey, Crepe-de-Chine, Satin, Taffeta ? and Georgette Crepe Sizes to 44 15. oSampleofitg CLARK’S FALLS Great Quantities of Laurel Being Gath- ered and Sent to New York—Five Men from Westerly Picking It by the Cartioad, Miss Julia Fleming resumed her school duties in this district Monday after spending the Easter vacation at k e in Grafton, Mass. She was accompanied by Dorothy M. Collins. Ruthless Picking of Laurel. rian men from Westerly are ! cne of A. M. Clark's tene-} s. They have been busy gather- ing mountain laurel for decorating purposes, breaking off the tips that ould be in blossom. J. D. Mac has delivered eeveral two-| loads at the Westerly depot for: t to New York. Mountain}i s the state flower of Connecti- | Not only its glossy green leavea, its pink and white blooms arej y attractive. is very plentiful 1 this part of the state, but residents | ere don't want it exterminated. While some owners of land make no objec tion to the picking of laurel, others are not as willing té part with it, and | lave ordered the men off their prem- ises. In one instance a man empha- sized his words with a shotgun. Mr. and Mrs. Irving C. Eccleston were callers on relatives here Wed nesday on their way home from West- | erly to West Ashwillett, ] Corp.. Thomas Callahan of <Camp| Devens was at his home here recently. Take Possession of Farm. Mr. Bonnar and sister and the lat- ter's husband, Mr. Williamson, of CASTORIA InUse For Oer 30 Years Always bears b 257 Signatare of Westerly, have taken possession of tie farm which Mr. Bonnar -bought of Johu ‘B. Perry. Mr. Bonnar and Mr. Williamson continue to work at West- erly, going by automobile. Mr, and Mrs. Mario Host are now with the latter’s parents, just nmorth of this village. Mrs. Maine was in West- erly Wednesday and was accompanied home by the newlyweds. ATTAWAUGAN News Received of Safe Arrival of Boys of Battery D. Mrs. George Colby visited Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rollinson several days this week. George Colby and John Hemminway of Phoenix called on friends here on Sunday. Mrs. Ironhorn and Mrs. Bert Chase and child were in Norwich Tuesday. Blmer C. Wood is ill. Mrs. Louis Morgan of Turner Falls her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nason, over the week end. rd Caffery, Jr., of Dayville is ng his grandmother. ferbert Thyng has returned home from Chester, Pa., where she has been 1 winter. Louis Aldrich of Jewett City called on friends here last week. There was a dance at” the Social hall Saturday evening. Safely Across. Word has been received here of the safe arrival overseas of Odelard Obin, Arthur Shepard, Walter Rollinson Ovid Jarvis, Edwin Heselton, Edgar Mathieu, and James Stockton, of this place whom are members of Battery D, that left Fort Terry two weeks ago. East Haddam.—The pupils of the Pine Brook school, which is taught by Miss Mary Cavanaugh, have been en- rolled in junior members of the Red Cross society for the year 1918, with 100 per cent. membership. The chil- dren have shown their patriotism by doing this and should be proud to think their school is the first in town to receive this honor. t AM GLAD YQu HAVE 17, BUT, DIONT THINK YCU wWOouLD \ notice, SH 7 That is what we are here to do and you won’t have to waitif you trade here. Come to us for quick and satisfactory EA & R COMPLETE. | s '\ There Are Articles of Furniture that we do not carry in‘stock, but it isn’t likely that you will have need for them. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred we can fill your requirements on a moment’s S - ‘Ordnance Department’ Provides Cars for Field Use. Among the standard motor vehicles being provided by the Ordnance De- partment are tht following: " The ammunition truck, which has a steel body designed to accommodate packing boxes of any type of ammu- nition mounted on a four wheel drive truck chassis. .The equipment repair truck, making use of tht same type of chassis, has bins and drawers fo: spare parts and material for repair- ing personnel equipment, rifles and machine guns, leather equipment, etc. The artillery repair truck has a four- whtel drive chassis and a small ma- chineshop body with equipmeént con- sisting of a lathe, drill press, bench grinder, electric drill, welding outfit, air riveting hammer, milling attach- ment, blacksmith outfit, and othed tools. Electric power is supplied by a gasoline-driven gtnerator. The 23%-ton artillery’ tractor weighs about 5,000 pounds and is capable of making 12 miiles an hour under fa- vorable road conditions, The 5-ton artillery - traétor, weighing 9,00¢ pounds and capable of a speed of 6 miles an hour, will handle a load of 10,000 pounds. It is intended for use. with 4.7 inch gun and 6-inch howitzer material. - A load of 18.000 pounds sis the maximum for the 10-ton artillery tractor, which will make about 4% miles an hour on high speed. The 15-ton artillery tractor and the 120-horsepower artillery tractor will be supplied in limittd numbers. They are of the track-laying ‘type similaf to those used by the TFrench and British Governments and are for heavy loads which are not subdivided for transportation. Other standard motor equipment consists ‘of the -real and fire-control truck with a four wheel drive truck chassis_and rear wheels replaced by caterpi§ar . tracks; reconnaissance car, a 1-ton truck capable of a speed of from 30 to 40 miles an hour; the light repair truck, weighing about 2,400 pounds; the 1lz-ton trailer for anticraft guns; the 3-inch field gun { trailer, which is utilized for hauling { ammunition as well as the 3-inch gun materiel. Tanks and other armored land ve- ! hicles are designed, procured, and maintained by the Ordnance Depart- ment. There has been a constant effort to keep the variety of vehicles and parts to a mihimum. Only one size of tire is used on all the heavier trucks ani trailers. this size also being used on similar vehicles by the Quartermaster Corps, Signal Corps, and Engineers. The same magneto | d on all types of ordnance vehicl All types of ordnance truck bodies are inter- changeable on all truck cha is- sued to the Artiller: Course Prepared to Train Men foi Technical Employment. A “war emergency course to train selected men for machine-shop occu- pations, blacksmithing. sheet-metal working, and pipe fitting has been prepared by the Federal Board for Vocational Education and will be dis- tributed to the schools throughout the. country. It is known as builetin No. 8. The board is acting with tht War Department in preparing these courses of study and in dealing with the State authorities in charge of the school work. Australian Farmers May Put Cattle on Wheat Land. Recently there has bten considerable discussion through the press and at public meetings in Australia concern- ing the advisability of producing more beef cattle ahd sowing less acreage to wheat, according to a report to the Dtpartment of Commerce. New Card Record to Expedite Pay of Men in Service. There is being prepared in The Ad- jutant General’s office a new “pay card” which will be kept by the ptr- sonnel officer and will show the pay status of the man at all times. Should a man be transferred or detached [rom his ‘company he will carry his card with him. This is expected to_elimi- nate the many causes for delayed payments of men so transferred, and to do away with many of the annoy- anees that have heretofore existed. Raw Cotton from United States Goes to Spain. The War Trade Board has granted lictnses for raw cotton to Spain in quantities sufficient to load several Spanish vessels. This action provides cotton necessary to fill the norman re- quirements of the Spanish mills. Under the agreement with Spain that nation permits frte export to the allies of certain commodities in return SERIUS KINEY TROUBL Government Inspector In Rochester Praises “FRUIT-A-TIVES” MR, 89 North Union St., Rochester, N.Y! “For five long years, I was afflicted with Stomach, Liver and Kidney Trouble, which developed inlo serious Bladder Trouble. During that time, I am safe in saying I tried over 50 different remedies without relief. 1 saw & testimonial of, I think, & Montreal man about ‘Fruit-a-tives’ and concluded fo make one miore trial. By the time the sample box was finished I found quite an' im- provement ; and when I had finished a50c. box, there was a grand improve- ‘ment far beyond my expectations. To ,make a long story short, I believe “‘Fruit-a-tives’” or Fruit Liver Tablets the best Stomach, Liver and Bladder Medicine the world has ever luced?, LAS i R. B, O°FLYNN, Government Concrete Inspector. | BOc. & box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25¢. . At dexletsior from FRUIT-A TIVES Limited, OGDENSBURG, N, Y. ns Throughout the United States and on the Battle Fronts § 0 b 3 | may : Department of Agriculture ; = & A for which the Uhited’ States' permits so far as consistent with its. con- servation policies, the export. to Sps of necessary supplies of 'eotw‘n'm‘ other commodities to cover gtnuine. Spanish requirements. < Weekly Examinations to Fill in Civil Service. % So urgent is the Government’'s need for bookkeepers that civil service .ex- aminations to fill positions of this character will be held throughout the United States each Tuesday until fur- ther notice. Women as well as men are éligible. 5 Two classes of examinations are an- nounced. A grammar-school ‘education or its equiyalent is required of ap- licants for either class, with _ the urther stipulation. that those . who wish to take the bookeeper-typewriter exanmination must have had at least six months’ experience in bookkeeping. and those who would undertake the clerk-bookkeeper examination, one year's experience in clerical work,: six months of which must haye béen in bookkeeping, The vacancies “to be filled from {he register obtained from these examinations are in the depart- mental service at ‘Washington and offer entrance salaries- of $1,0000 a year, These examinations are open mot only to all citizens of the United States but also to subjects of allied nations who are . otherwise: -qualified for the positions offered. A national school poster competition has been put under way by the National War iSavings Committee. Prizes of war Savings stamps are to awarded for the best' posters dealing with war-savings stamps dnd cer- tificatts, designed by pupils of public schools and art schols,The contest: wiil close May 15. A The Norwegian Government has ap- propriated $§7900,000 to - assist ‘in- tensive ag-Q.ultural development. Of this amotnt, $4,500,000 is to main- tain low ma um prices for cattle feed and fertilizer, New Japanese concerns numbering over 100 are reported as having en- tered business at Shanghai during 1917. The Japanese population is rapidly increasing, now being about 14,000, A standard system of inspection by which Federal food administrators keep a check on_ commercial bankers is being worked out by the .and tae Positions Food Administration. [The following notes are from the Official Review of the War, issued by the Committee on Public Informa- tion: ] The annual pay of the Army now exceeds $500,000,000. Production of 10,000 new .automo- bile trucks is in: progress for the Army. The Navy ration in 1917 cost $0.48, as against $0.37684 in 1916. r l4-inch guns weigh nearly 95 tons and are over 98 feet long, costing $118,000. Our 35,000-ton cruiser, capable of 35 knots, will be the fastest in the world. About 80 000 officers and men are en- gaged in coast patrol work of . the American troops permanently took over a part of the firing line as an American sector in January, 1918, The Navy now has in its possession a stock of supplies sufficient for av- erage requirements for one year. More ‘than 70,000 acres of land -in this country has ‘been planted “wita castorbean plants to produce oil for aircraft. During 12 months the -Army hos- pitals increased from 7 to 63 in num-. ber and from 5,000 to 58,400 beds;30,- 000 more beds are being added. The disbursements and outstanding obligations of the Navy during the first year of the war are estimated at $1,881,000,000. Tht total naval appro- priations, real and pending, are $3,- 333,171,6635. There are now four times as many vessels in naval service as a year ago. The estimated pay of officers and men in tire Navy for the first year of war was $125,000,000. The air personnel in the first year of war increased from 65 officers and 1,129 men to one hundred times that number. Eleven kinds*of school have been installed. Several hundred submarine chasers, built since the war, have been deliver- ed to the Navy by 31 private concerns. ‘and 6 navy yards; many of these boats have crossed the Atlantic, some in severe weather. Through a card . catalogue system 109 487 men have been transferred. out of Army divisions into technical units to function according to . individpal educational, occupational, and moili- tary qualifications. During the first year of war the Army” paid £60000,000 for horse- drawn_ vehicles and, harness: miore than $50,000 000 for horses, mules, and harness. TFxpenditures for the fiscal vear ending June 30, 1913, for fuel and forage are estimated at more than $500,000,000. To Tebruary 20, the Director Gen- eral of Military Railways had, placed orders for railway supplies valued at $142,000,000 and with an .aggregate weight of 754,000 long tons: the Gen- eral Engineer Depot, to February 1 issued 0 orders for material valued at’ $202,000,000. Among the purchases of _the Quartermaster’s, Department are. 61,- 000,000 pounds of prunes. and dried beans; 273,000,000 cans of .tomatoes, condensed milk, and. baked beans; 40 000,000 yards of mosquito bar; 75,- 000,000 yards of olive drab: 20,000,- 000 woolen blankets: 31000,000 pairs of wolen drawers; 50,000 000 pairg of heavy stockings; 11,000,000 wool coats, The Ordnance program includes the purchase of 23000,000 hand grenpades, 725,000 automatic pistols, 250,000 re- volvers, 23,000 000 projectiles for heavy artillery, 427,246,000 pounds of ex- plosives, 240,000 machine guns, and 2,484,000 rifles. ¥ Congress has authorized $2,034,000, 000, of which sum $1,135000,000 has been’ appropriated, for. the United States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation; on, March 1, $353,- 24 .37 of this sum had been ex- pended. The Emergency Fleet Corporation had requisitioned March 1, 425 steel vessels and contracted for 720 steel vessels, making ‘a total of 1,145 steel ships, of an aggrezate ‘dead- weikht tonnage of 8.164,508 ,tons; it had let contracts for 490 wooden ves- sels, agsregating approximately 1,- 715,000 dead-weight tons; it had. re- paired and put in operation 788,000 dead-weight. tonnage seized from Ger- many and Austria. On March & the building program. of the Emergency Ileet Corporation was heing. carried on in 151 plants. : MT. HOPE _ Charles Southworth has returned from Willimantic after spending a few days in the hospital for treatment. Mrs. Adele Ford spent Sunday: with her sister, Mrs. Jennie Bacon, return- in;,f;[to Norwick Monday. § Miss Mary Brown of New Londo} and Miss Katherine Fletcher’ of Smn: Island were visitors at Mrs. Jennie Bacon’s last week. . - Trank Young. of Braoklyn has. re- gurned after spending a few days at ome. 9 SR Arthur Burdick’ will be out. e rond with his new car n' a fon gare SPECIAL =~ Ladies’ Department FOR TODAY ONLY " We have just received a big lot of samples in Goats and Suits which we will offer at reduced prices. MILLINERY SATURDAY SPECIAL A Big Assortment of Ladies’ Trimmed Hats at - $3.00 White Star Clothing Co. 147-153 MAIN STREET A WORD TO MEN ABOUT CLOTHES XPERIENCE has taught the public to look with suspicion upon clothing which comes from inknown and hidden origins— par- ticularly with wool growing scarcer—prices going higher —the temptation to cheapen and adulterate becoming stronger and stronger. The clothesmaker who has no reputation at stake—no fixed pledges to bind him— may decide it is more profit- able to give way to the pres- sure than to resist it, An unlabeled garment is an evasion of responsibility. On the other hand, in affix- ing their label to a garment, the Kirschbaum clothes- makers say, “For this gar- ment and for every process in its. making, we assume full responsibility. Upon its ability to satisfy the wearer we stand or fall.” Your certain protection, and ours, is a label which identifies the garment as coming from a maker whose name is a guarantee of all- wool, and the excellence of workmanship that belongs . with all-wool—the Kirsch- baum label. Kirschbaum Clothes in New Spring Styles Priced at $20, $25, $30, $35, $30 ' White Star Clo. House