Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 23, 1918, Page 6

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Norwich, Conn STAMPING OUT OF nch material. about 1 VICE IN PHILADELPHIA Subject of Confel Daniels and Lieut. Col. Hatch, Washington, April 22 —What been done toward stamping out vice in Philedelphia to provide wholesene cavironment for the thou rnes s st and bluejac t tuat city confermoa etary here today he @ of mz in» corps, taile~ th and C taking hia, but over will reing in their aid and Il Ame; boys of 16 years and permanently em- ! 1 in the United States Noys’ in order that they may spend their spare time in working on farms of productive employment Y SUFFER SKIN TORTURES When a post- cardwilibring fres samples CUTICURA SOAP andOintment @ tich give quick relief and point to speedy heal- meni. Bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water and follow ‘with a 7 /i (-~ < gentle appii- cation oi Caticura Ointment. This relisves itching, burning eczemas, rashes, etc, and points to speedy healment in most cases of severe roubles when it sc_s.r;lcd noth- iny weuld do any good. The mission of Cutire:ra is nat v t0 scothc and heal bust (o prevent skin troubles by kee; he pores {re~ frozm impuri. miv daily use 13 the toitet. Sampie Tech free by Mail. With 32.p, book oe the siey, Aidos p_:ti aed. “Sueicyra, Drot “osor. s rolled back {o meet The skirt is ze 16 years requires The 3-4 yards ‘at tion mailed address on receipt of 10 cents nce Between Sec'y has na. of ma- »ne_ in and was the subject of a between Dan’zls and Lieutenant Col- de- Y to represent the navy el the navy has ! e poiicing t upon own ens of Philadel- encourage- ot Wilson has called upon and in other forms | Monday mornins, ‘| small doses of lavender and ether, and o ¢{ missioner, a paving and influential po- jters. iin East of Gun Club—Unexpected Death of Charles B. Knight — —Former County Home Girl at Norwich Committed to State School—Patriotic Meeting Planned. An adjourned session of the superior court for Washington county came in at Westerly Monday, Judge Doran pre- siding. The first case called for trial was a trespass and ejectment brought by Salvatore Fiore against Antonio Taskers. The jury impanelled for the trial ‘of the case is David T. Talbot, Charles H. Crandall of Westerly; Her- bert W. Card, Hubert J. Wells, (fore- men), of South Kingstown: Hoyward W. Bateman, Squire Spink, William E. Nutting, North Kingstown; Orville M. Meserve, John S. Knowles, Rich- mond; Joseph M. Hoxie, Charlestown; Frank E. Crumb, Hopkinto: William E. Chamelin, Exeter. Verdict was rendered for defendant. The case of Abbie Bliven against Minnje C Bliven was next to be heard by the eowt and jury. This is an ap- peal from the probate court of Charlestown, in. which the mother secks to recover children that are in the custody of her mother-in-law. The testimony was not ended when the court adjourned to 10.30 Tuesday morning. The annual meeting of the Narra- gansett Gun club was held Sunday af- ternoon at the Noose Neck Inn, Bast Greenwich, and officers were elected as follows: Owen T. Deady, of Wy oming, president: Henry H. Robinson. of Westerly, vice president; J. Albert Beandette, of Arctic Centre, secretar: Charles E. Morrill, of Anthony, trea urer- Louis J. Reuter, of Westerly, field captain; Henry Congdon, of Arc- tic, color sergean: Nathan Read, J. Beaudette, C. Morrill, Hen Congdon, L. J. Reuter and John Sher- man, contest committe&. It was voted to subscribe to a $100 Liberty bond. There will be a regis- tered shoot on the third Sunday in Septeraber, and $100 was appropriated for prizes.” The club will receive from the Interstate associati watch valued at $23 fered as additional pr The club will hold regular shoot on the third Sunday of each month, beginning Mz 19. Four new members were admit- ted. Nellie F. Brown, 33, wife of Denis Brown was found dead in bed. early Monday morning, at her home No. 40 1-2 Oak ‘street. She had been under a nervous strain for several days, but was in apparent good health when she retired Sunday night. Accordinz to Mr. Brown she was alive at 3 o’clock but he found her dead at 5.15. She had been taking it is believed that an overdose cavsed death. Besides her husband Mrs. Brown is survived bv two sons. An- other son was drowned in the Pawca- tuck river several vears ago. Judge Frank H. Hammill. of Bris tol, sneaker of the Rhode Island house | representatives. has announced .-he will not be a candidate for renomina- tion. He is a candidate for jury com- sition created-by one of the last acts nasseq by the embly in the clos- hour. Henrv T. Bodwell of Crans- ton, has withdrawn from the contest for nomination to be congressman, but | will seek reelection as representative and be a candidate for speaker of the house. ing Charles B. Knirht, 67. died suddenly Sunday nicht at his home in Stillman avenue. He had not been in the best of health for some time but was not considered as sick as he was able to continue his usual work. Sunday af- ternoon he worked cleaning up his cel- lar. and soon thereafter became quite ill and a physician was summoned. Mr. Knieht failed to improve and gradually failed fo the end. Mr, Knight was an industrious and faithful workman wherever he was emploved and respected by his manv acquaintances. e was one of the old- est members of the Rhode Island Ones and a member of the Westerlv Veter- an Firemen's dssociation. He leaves 1 widow, two sons and two daugh- Ruth Sisson, a former resident of Machanic street in Pawcatuck, lated her probation and i the Industrial School for Girls in Mi Mletown. Conn. She w4 : placcd in the New London countv home, at Preston five yeers ago, became unruly and fi- nally took unauthorized leave. She was then committed to the industrial school. About a year ago she was given probation and employment and a home secured for her with a family Greenwich, Conn Recently two of her sisters visited her and wi entertained ar the home where she was employed, over night. In the morning the three son sisters had disappeared. Miss Clive, probation of- ficer of the industrial school, located Ruth Sisson. at her former home in Pawcatuck and, with the assistance of Deputy S secured posses- | sion of the girl and escorted her back to the state institution. Elliott R. Thorpe, who enlisted in| the Fifth company, Westerly, Coast Artillery corps, and who has been at- | tending the third officers’ training | camp at Tort Oglethorpe, Ga., is home | on a ten days’ leave. He has been ap- pointed an instructor sergeant or can- didate officer in line for commission, and will probably be assigned to some southern camp. His brother Walter is now some- where in France, having been sent overseas soon after reporting at Camp Devens. Walter was a sergeant in the | Fifth company, C. A. at the out- break of the war, and when federalized he was rejected by reason of defective teeth and discharged. At considerable expense, he had this defect remedied and twice tried to join the army, with his earned rank. but this was denied. He was finally drafted, and he urged that the rank taken from him be re- stored, but without avail, and he went over there as a private. William A. Hogg, 33, died suddenly about as he was to be operated upon for tonsilitis, or a throat trouble, at his home. 34 Summer street. He has been suffering from the ailment for some time, and when his house was afire several weeks ago he went out in the severe cold. thinly clad, and| aggravated the throat trouble. Mon-| day morning Drs. Payne and Pagan were to perform the operation. Mr. Hogg had taken only three whiffs of the anaesthetic when he suddenly died, following a convulsion. The real cause of death was not declared, but it may have been due to a weakened heart, Mr. Hogg resided with his mother, Elizabeth Hogg. and daughter. Eliza- beth E. Hogg. Besides his mother and sister, he is survived by a younger brother, John A, now in the national army. His mother was in the Brad- ford railroad wreck and was pierced by so many splinters of wood that #he was almost a veritable human pin- cushion. This accident, the fire at her | me, the departure of her voung ! on to the military service, and no the death of her oldest son. all within & comparatively brief period, Mrs. Hogg had an overflowing cup of deso- lation. Mr. Hogz was employed as store- feeper at the plant of C. B. Cottrell & Sons company and was a member of Franklin,lodge, F. and A. M, and Narragansett lodge of Odd Fellows. As ‘an outcome of the address re- cently delivered by B. Talmadge Root of Boston, representing the national committee of churches on the moral aims of the war, there will be a pairi- otic_mass meeting in Westerly Sun- day evening, May 8. Rev. S. Stewart Kinley is chairman and Rev. John G. Dutton secretary of the local commit- tee, and all denominations are repre- sented in the movement. These com- mittees have been appointed: Ira B. Crandall, M. Augensichso and Thomas J. Lenihan. committee on place of meeting: Willarq H. Bacon and Max Novogrosk, committee .on banquet; George B. Utter and Louis Solomon, committee on publicity. The speakers assigned to Westerly are President J. H. -T. Main of Grinnell college and Rev. Walter 1. Sperry of Boston. On ‘the trip from Cuttyhunk, bound to Westerly, Saturday morning, Capt. Frank H. Robinson, abo#rd tug West- erly, sighted a dismasted schooner, the Eliza Jane, laden with 1000 bushels of oysters. The schooner had been aban- doned and the Westerly made fast to the craft and towed her into New Bedforq harbor. It was subsequently learned that the schooner had been in collision with a submarine tender of the Lake company of Bridgeport, that the captain of the schooner, Schroeder, had been injured and taken to Bridge- port, and that his only shipmate, Cisca, went with _him. The Eliza Jane is owned in Waquoit, Mass. The cargo is insured and the Westerly Towboat company will claim substantial sal- vage. . Local Laconics. Mrs. Everett Clarke of Lincoln ave- nue, who was operated on in the Rhode Island hospitdl a week ago. is making gradual and very favorable improvement. Capt. Robert M. Freestone, formerly of the Fifth company, who has been at the coast artillery school at Fort i Monroe, has been discharged from ac- tive service by reason of physical dis- ability. The members of Local No. 1, West- erly, International Hod Carriers’, Com- mon and Building Laborers’ union have asked contractors for an increase of 10 per cent. in wages, from $3 to $3.30, for an eight hour day. The members purchased $1,200 in' Liberty bonds on Saturday. Miss Emily Smith, formerly of Paw- catuck, daughter of.James G. Smith, now of New Haven is soon to go over- eas as a Red Cross nurse, having passed satisfactory examination. She s a graduate of St. Michael's and the West Broad street schools and of St. Raphael hospital, New Haven. STONINGTON Annual Meeting of Cemetery Associa- tion—Borough Brevities. At the annual meetinz of the Ston- ington Cemetery associat®on George H. Robinson was elected president, Chas . States, clerk and treasurer, and Charles P. Williams, Charles B. States and George H. Robinson directors. The association is a close corporation and now it is planned to reorganize o that the property will pass directly under the management of the lot own ers or their representatives, Stonington Pointers. Charles E. Shackley will aitend a meeting of the executive committee of Ne Connecticut State Firemen's 0- ciation in Hartford next Wednesday. Stonington High school baseball team will have a practice game today with a team of trolley carmen McCaffery state normal | ket Eighty-seventh Birthday Celebrated— Men’s Club Hears Mrs. Whittlesey—LaFrance Fire Bought. George Truck The names of the Mystic boys in the Eleventh division draft called to go to Fort Slocum May 1 are John Farretti, Walter Hachs muel Deyole and Romulus Brodeur. Eighty-seventh Birthday. Miss Mary zabeth Brown cele- brated her 87th birthday at her home on Denison avenue on April 13 and received calls from her relatives and friends. Miss Brown is in particularly good health. Buy Fire Truck, John Fribbanceg Conrad Kretzer and William I.. Maine, the executive com- mittee for the Mystic fire district. have purchased for the district a LaFrance fire truck to be placed in the Mystic Hook and Lader company to match the LaFrance engine which was re- cently purchased for the district and is in the B. F. Hoxie engine rooms and which has proven so satisfactory. | The cost of the truck was $7,000, with a six_cylinder engine, chemical tank and 270 ladders. The committee visit- ed places where these trucks have been used and found them most satisfac- tory. Men's Club Meets, The meeting of the Men's club was held in Community hall Monday even- in3. The speaker was George Whittle- sey of New London, and his subject was Looking Backward, after which Prof. Frederick D. Losey, director of organization of the International Fo- rum association, Inc., of New York city, spoke briefly on Constructive Democracy, after which refreshments were served and a smoker enjoyed. Social and Personal. Miss Louise Gray has returned%to i"ew York after a few dags’ visit in Geneva Rathbun has returned ilford after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren . Rathbun. E Miss Ruth Abell has returned from a visit in Providence. Miss Gladys Wilcox has returned from a visit in Boston Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gillfillan have returned to New Britain after a visit with Mrs. John H. Hoxie. Tuke McKone, U. S, N. R., has re- turned to Newport after a furlough with his brother, William McKone, Mr. and Mrs. John Hirst have re- turned from a visit in Providence. Dr. 'W. S. Smith of Wallingford is spending a few days with his family on High street. Mrs. Sarah Spink is visiting her il ter, Mrs. Colin 'Wilson, in Water- Club Entertained. Mrs. G. Albert Thompson entertain- ed the Monday club on Monday after- There Get a i 37-47 Main Street, Norwich “Makes Cooking Easy” Shea @ Burke noon at her home on New London ubject of the program was iters and was in charge of Miss Geneva Rathbun. WHERE THE FIRST AMERICAN SOLDIERS FELL French Lérraine, “the Most Beautiful Burial Ground in Europe.” | (Special tn The | Washington, D. C., comm 1 first Ame; Pershing, fell; nicati geogr: bullet “I entered the as a war ¢ a magical ene vellow book wh | earried by and the jgbout my ¥, place of birth magazine and residence at kome and in Paris safely p. It T t innumer: 1d ushered me e gendarmes and sentinels on the way to Compiegne and Rheims, even to froni-line trenches in Champagne: now it brought me to Nancy. in northeastern Trance, the most heautiful town in the republic, capital of historic Lor- raine. “A famous Lorraine “the Frenchman most ground in the world mud-hole and mpagne is all chal but Torra is an enchanting land, with harmonious hill and fern-borderz] streame rushinz to the Rhine. The quain illages whic tha German cnslaught des like Christmas humblest vegetable patch i garden. “But there are tombs in everv flow- er-strewn field, for no region on earth has suffered more than fire and sword. All the races T.orraine since mans. When th ferest with h word from h of wrope have covet victorious army he might cross the frontier and a triumphant entrv into Naney was but following the fontsteps of earlier harhor who have swept is a little over flve mlles from the front. and is,bombarded hy the Boches’ most powerful guns. the 380 millimeter which have a twent mile range. The shells come mainly at night, when there can be no warn- ing. In daylight French aeroplanes hover guard over the city fo watch for the distant white cloud which heralds the oncoming shell. The toc- sin sounds the alarm and the 100 000 inhabitants scurry to the cellars. On every house with a cellar a great cross is painted, the dounte cross of anci- ent Lorraine, Few veovle have left town. Trains are running: shops are op: Naney has her work to do and keeps at it doggedly. Also, she houses and feeds ominuos as the sound of those Ti- call having gone away. graph Mrs. Harri Adam: distinguisheq 3 { gives a graphic picture of Fr | raine, tt of s znd noble trees | dows i ple_Tushed in with little children, o have crept over the fields in terror from their can- | uonaded homes still nearer the Cer- man line. The number increases. ! “Few cities in Burope are -chi- tecturally beautiful as the ancient | capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, the Land of Lothair, named after a grand- son of Charlemagne, united with | France in 1766. Each of a hunderd | ates and facades is worthy a pilgrim- to Nancy. The stained glass win- were broken and mended with Three houses across the street Yet the park near-by picture of peace. Shafts of anted through the chestnut trees and a black-Tobed priest sat on a bench in the shadow telling his beads. er was a ru the “I motored to the barracks on the | skirts of the city, where the re- from the Hun-destroyed vil- re housed I found as many n in one room--grandmother, mo- and ¢ iren. With food and stove supplied, this was luxury com- ed with life in their ruined village, | h the shortage of coal th those bleak bar- in e old women make sandbags for trenches. One told me she had The children attend ol. the boys learning trades, the domestic science, that they may the made 80 in g day gir look out for themselves later on, as most of them are orphans. An Ameri- can fund in Paris hoped to send a Christmas present this vear to every one of these 2000 homeless children. T asked t n to sing and 50 sad-eyed little S od up and piped, “Aux morts pour la Patrie” 1 could not keep back the tears. “I talked with a young woman who was very ill and learned she had been at work in a munition factory in an- other part of France. I have seen as many as 6000 women in one of these vast arsenals. and frail girls ving weights which only strong men should lift. Yet I glory with m in their The women France have us the way. ined women have never before rolled unflin- who a bandage face chingly the most grewsome wounds in their hospital service; to release men for the trenches they perform the most menial task such as removing town garbage. ervice and Un This is the keynote of France. “I left the children playing in the great open square of the barracks and motored back to town. My automo- bile was driven by a soldier-chauffeur. I had just remarked that this was the most perfect weather I had known in France when the tocsin shrilled its warning. The soldier stopped the car, jumped off and helped us out and we all bolted for the nearest house with the big Lorraine cross. An old man opened the door and many other peo- 1s. We had bare- y reached the cellar steps when the first crash came. “I have mnever heard anything as '\a.niu shells,. each crushing out homes and human beings. There were of us in the cellar our aged host and the soldier the only men. One little boy held a dog in his arms and a girl of ten grasped a cage with a pet can- ary. “We sat on boxes. There was light, and over in one corner I s a keg and a sack, evidently contain- ing water and food; and a pickax. How, 1 wondered, could we dig our way out with that one pickax, should the house be struck! - There was an agonized expression some of the women were ' not with them. Madam Hir- man tried to lighten the strain by telling how her baby girl had wakened, as they carried her down to the cel- lar the night of the last bombardment looked about and said, sleepily core! The bad Boche!” “By my wrist watch the shells fell every seven minutes. The bombard- ment-lasted three-quarters of an hour. and We remained in the cellar for some time after the last crash, which sounded much nearer than the others. We wanted to be sure the French guns had temporarily silenced the foe. In the post-office, later, I had a near view of a shell of the 380-a mamoth affair; a little larger, but not as point- ed nor as graceful in outline as the French 370 on exhibition beside it. “When we reached the street, boys were already flying kites, hoping to rival the planes overhead. Lorraines children have become accustomed to bombardments. Once 90 shells came in one day. And, too. there are some- times shells dropped by the wicked Taubes, Wwhich dodge like hawks among the aircraft of the tri-color. “From a plateau beyond Nancy one can see on the horizon the cathedral spires of Metz, capital of lost Lorraine. In plain view are-the German villages near the frontier—the frontier since 1870. “The Boche,” said our host, “is on whose children En- only. a few minutes away by aero- planes. “In plain view from this plateau are the trenches in the vicinity of the Rhine-Marne Canal, where in the early morning of November 3. the Germans raided a salient held by Am- erican soldiers. and our first blood sacrifice was made in the front-line trenches in France. EVERY_MAN OF DRAFT AGE HAD VOLUNTEERED Evidence of Patriotism of Young Men of Hastings-on-the-Hudson. Hastings on Hudson, N. Y., April 22. —The village of Hastings has rioc more men to give to the Colors. Neighbor- ing . villages, in bidding goodbye to their quota of drafted men today noticed the absence of recruits from Hastings brought forth the reply that there wer no more men to give be- cayse every man of draft age had al- ready volunteered, even those who would have been taken in the June the faces of | Are You Wasting Good Coal in an old, burned out, troublesome range when a new Glenwood - would save from 100 to 500 lbs. in every ton? Just figure the saving in dollars for one year and then for fiveé or ten years, and you will quickly see why it will pay now as never before to trade. that old stove for an up-to-the-minute Glenwood. are hundreds of models to choose from at ‘fair.' prices. Glenwood and let it pay for itself in the coal it saves. C. 0. Murphy 259 Central Ave., Norwich { condition, Complete Gas Range attached to the end of Coal Range A NEGRO LYNCHED NEAR MONROE, LA. Clyde Williams Was Under Indictment for Attempted Murder of a White Man Monroe La., April 22.—Clyde Wil- liams, negro, indicated by the Oua- chita Parish grand jury Saturday on charges of shooting with intent to murdér C. L. Thomas, Missouri Paci- fic station agent at Fawndale, La., several weeks ago. was taken from a deputy sheriff at MeClain Plantation ten miles south of Monroe, early to- day by about a dozen masked men and hanged to a tree. Williams was being brought here from Fawndale for trial. Won't Attempt to Dictate. All we expect General Fech to at present, is to hold th: luns. are willing to let him talz ais time to give 'em what's c:iming ‘em.—Marion Star. do, Wa own to In reply to a New Year message from Prince Alexander of Serbia President Wilson says that “in giving its as- sistance to Serbia the Government of the United States of America was in- fluenced as much, by the desire to hel: an oppressed nation as by the wish to carry out our plans for the com- | plete breaking down of' the Prussian military autocracy.” Important to all Women Readers of this Paper Thousdnds upon thousands of women have kidney or bladder trouble and never suspect it. Women’s complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy they may cause the other organs to ecome diseased. You may suffer pain in headache and los Poor health makes you nervous, irritable and may be despondent; it makes any one so. 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