Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 20, 1918, Page 5

Hame-Style Cooking H' VEGETABLES - - Phone-Rutnam €32-13 " FRANKLIN ‘SQUARE WHERE ALL CARS STOP Military rist Watches All_With Aluminous Dials “Every Watch Guarariteed SOLDIERS’ ‘and SAILORS’ “COMEORT KITS! $3.50 to $12.00 SIGNET RINGS STERLING SILVER CHAINS For Identification Tags Call and see the find assortment of articles we carry for the SOLDIER and SAILOR Ernest E. Bullard TEACHER All String Tnstruments Répaired Violins Sold’on easy terms Place, Nor- . For E. BULLAR n CUMMINGS & RING Funeral Directors and Embalmers 322 Main Street Chamber of Commerce Building Lady' Assidtant O T2 A T S IO Phone 238-2 Norwich, Saturday, July 20, 1918, VARIOUS MATTERS this evening. good’s.—adv. Farmers are satisfled with this as good corn growing weather. Mid-July vacation travel has been steady though not particularly heavy all week. ¥ A North Stonington cow owned by Mrs. Joseph Jones was run over by a Norwich and Westerly car the other day. Rockville is over the top on war The goal -set savings stamps pledged. 295. The pledges amounted to 36, and numbered 6,348. Do not forget to pay your water bill today.—adv. Veterans here have .been notified that the national encampment of the Grand Army will be held in Portland, Ore., the week commencing Aug. 18. Because of inability to* get ironers, one of the Norwich laundries is to be- gin Monday doing no finished work, taking simply wet wash and rough dry orders. The engagement of Miss Caroline Gulick of Brookline to Chauncey P. Hulbert of Groton was announced Wednesday at Aloah Hive camp, South Fairlee, Vt. St. Vincent de Paul, whose charities are commemorated and repeated by thousands of guilds and chapters in the Catholic church, was honored in the calendar Friday. On account of injuries received by a fall at the beach some time ago, Miss Eva Sherburne has been obliged to give up her duties as director of the Army and Navy club at Ocean Beach. Pay your water bill; ter today.—adv. At the Union church, Rockville, the pulpit supplies during the summer in- iclude: August 18, Rev. C. H. Ric etts, Norwich; August 25, Rev. Levi Rees, Stafford Springs. additions af- Waterbury papers note that Miss Dorothy Buckley of Storrs college, as- sistant state home demonstration lea er, is in Waterbury for a week to a sist in the work of the canning center. The insurance company has come to an agreement with the borough for damage done at the Groton power house by a recent fire. The building is being renovated and a new roof put on. : Thomas Logis, who completed a three year sentence in the state prison Wednesday, was brought to the Nor- wich state hospital for the insane. He has been considered insane for some time. The Stafford Country club golf team was defeated in its third match with the Monson team, which was played on the Stafford links recently. A lun- cheon was given at the clubhouse after the game, Pay your water bill before the ad- ditions ‘go on.—adv. A new department at the Danbury summer school for teachers is the high school department, in which model classesy under superior instructors are demonstrating up-to-date methods of high school teaching. New York & Norwich Hart Transportation Corp. Telephon? 145'0‘ ; Chelsea bo;k. Norwich, Tuesday$, Thursdays and Sundays Leaves New York. Pier 46, East River, Mondays, Wednesdays and days at 5 p. m, F. V. 'KNOUSE, Ageny. City of Norwich Water Works Board of' Water Commissioners. Norwich:-Con., July 1191s. Water rates: for the quarter ending Fri- are due and payable IS at Present pastor of the Preston City at.the office’ July 1, 1918., Office ;0pen from 8.30 a. m. to'3 p. m! Additions will be fade to_all bills remaining uRpaid after July 20. WILLIAM H, M'GUINNISS, Cashier, One ‘patriotic Norwich woman brought to Mrs. John D. Hall at the room of the Woman's league yesterday 60 pairs of socks which she had knitted for the men in the service, generously buying her own wool. Reforms intended to conserve labor and materials and make them avail- able for war purposes are suggested to the automobile dealers of this state in a letter being sent out by the Con- necticut state council of defense. Do not forget the dance tonight at Gardner’s Lake.—adv. Home gardeners are finding few po- tato bugs on their plants this year, but of course they are finding millions of lice, and now one of the gardeners claims that the lice eat the eggs of the potato bugs, which accounts for the scarcity. . The John Champlin farm at Weque- tequock, situated on the Stonington road, has changed ownership twice within the past few months. It has jlately been sold to Denison Gallaudet of East Greenwich, R. I, formerly of Norwich. Rev. F. W. Tholen, gho will occupy the pulpit at Rockville Baptist church tomorrow, preaches as a candidate for the pastorate made vacant by the resignation of Rev. C. W, Turner. He Baptist church, Congressman James P. Glynn has received from .the Woman's Relief corps, department of Connecticut, res- olutions thanking him for the support THAT BOY IN KHAKTI OR BLUE Has he some remembrance fram Sailors’ and soldiers’ ed—Space counts. remembrance that can be used and cherished will be a great pleasure “over here” or “over there.” We appreciate that feeling and have selected some remembrances that your boy will posbess, such be proud to as Military Wrist Watches, Toilet Sets, Comfort Kits, Trench Mirrors, Lockets - and Fountain Pens, Silver Tag Chains, Signet Rings. See our assortment, it is complete, The Plaut-Cadden Co. Jewelers, Estsblished 1872, Norwich, Conn, TREES your . TREES and SHRUBS now for fall planting. ered anywhere. Maplewood Nursery Co. T. H. PEABODY Orders defiv- Phone 986 DENTIST DR. E. J, JONES Suite 46 Sk Take elevdtor S entrance. _gflwn: tucket Street o' ‘medium in Connecticut 0 The Bul- for business resulis. he rendereq in securing the passage of the bill for the increase of pensions to Civil war veterans. erel, eastern salmon, flounder at Powers Bros.'—adv. Passengers going to Groton by auto- mobile appreciate the convenience of not being obliged to go to the ferry- house to purchase tickets. These will be sold to them by Daniel Beckwith who has been assigned to duty at the wharf for that purpose. Finished work returned to the Red Cross room in the Thayer building on Friday included pajamas and hospital shirts from the Fitchville auxiliary and bandages from the Children of Mary of St. Patrick’s church, the lat- ter through Miss Sheridan, _Residents of Coventry, alarmed one night this week by what they feared tmight be a Hun raid, discovered that a citizen had surprised a skunk feast- ing on three chicks which it had killed and was pursuing the thief with re- volver and dog, finally shooting the polecat. After months of gun practice on the U. S. 8. Massachusetts and the Vir- ginia, Christopher G. Allen, son of Dr, and Mrs. J. H. Allen of Norwich, is a qualified trainer and is at Norfolk, Va., for several months, before being ordered to the transport or merchant marine service. Secretary Walter F. Lester of Nor- wich has appealed to the half hundred agents of the New London County Mu- tual Fire Insarance company about the state to take pride in and write regularly to the 11 young agents rep- resented on the company’s service flag at the Norwich office. B Stockholders here are Interested in the fect that because of the inventory of the property of the Danbury & Bethel Street Railway Co. was not gotten up 1n a manner satisfactory to Judge ‘Warner of the superior court, tlie acceptance of the road’s inventory, . ivership, was put over by the court unul a later date. Light vehicle lamps at 7.47 o’clock Soldiers’ comfort kits at Lee & Os- ing grounds which she moved to Kansas. Captain Gardner, her husband, was Rogers and Andrew Gardner. the Father J. P. O'Mahoney, the Knights of Columbus chaplain at Fort Terry. Private Roderick D. Lawless of Bat- “tery C, Sixty-Eighth Coast Artiery a br man wich Battery Sixty-Eighth regiment and is expect- ed to go overseas shortly. He was a member of the former First Company. Coast Artillery of New London and is Fresh long clams, sword fish, mack- | steak | from spending friends in Thompson and Worcester. Newark, N. J, stay at her home on Slater avenue. Marion Cranska have left . PERSONALS " Isracl Rosenweig of Westminster is employed in Norwich Mrs. Delina Pain Thureday for Bristol, Penn. Wilfred Young of Baltic is spending the summer at the home of Mrs. Lydia Place, in North Sterling. Miss Doris Main of Gales Ferry has been visiting Miss Ida Reynolds of Massapeag for a few days. _ Miss Fidelis C. Farrell of Seymour street, Hartford, is the suest of Miss Monica Donovan of Taftville. Mrs. Jennie Swain of Lisbon was a recent visitor at the heme of William A. Rathbun of North Stonington. Andrew Boyens and William Buck- ley of this city are spending a few days mackerel fishing off Cape Cod. Miss Minnie Kenary, of Putnam, is spendimg a week with Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Garner, of Lafayette street. @ Misses Margaret and Mary McConse nell of Ballouville, are guests of their uncle William* place, Norwich. McConnell of Bliss Miss Ellen Carroll of East Hartford has as her guest Miss Loretta, Hig- gins of Norwich, a classmate at Con- necticut college. Mrs. Richard Marks and son, Jo- seph of Norwich are visiting at the home of Mrs. James O’Connor, 177 Bank street, Waterbury. Miss Alice Stowell Bishop of New London has gome to an_ artists’ col- ony, Oqunquet, Maine, where she will study throughout the summer. Sergeant Harry W. House, from Fort Warren, Boston harbor, spent three days’ shore leave recently with his mother, Mrs. Effie House, of Church street. Misses Lucretia and Lovena, daugh- ters of Lieutenant and Mrs. Lafayette ns of Bridgeport are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Byron H. 4 of Washington street. Mr. and Mrs. Orrin L. Swain enter- tained recently at their home in North Stonington Mrs. Jennie Swain of Lis- bon, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Edwards of Montville and Mrs. Ezra Huntley and daughter of East Great Plain. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Lewis of Methuen, Mass,, Mrs. Frank Coleswor- of Worcester, Mass., and Miss A h Fitzgerald of Hartford have re- turned to their homes after spending their vacation ith Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes K, Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. win E. Lewis in Preston. MISS BLANCHE ROGERS NOW NURSE IN FRANCE Is the Grapddaughter of Former Nor- wich Woman and Cousin of Leslie T. Gager. Miss Blanche Rogers, a cousin of T. Gager, a former member of Bulletin editorial staff, is now as a Red Cross nurse in Miss Rogers, whose home is the granddaughter of Gardner, a former resi« Kan in 1 Mrs. Andrew ill be remembered by vich and Montville people as hav- occupied a farm near the fair- about 25 years ago; from noted as an able mariner in New Ensgland. He died several years ago in Kansas. Mrs. Gardner has two sons, Ernest Ernest is a salesman for a large milling con- cern in Kansas and in addition tq that fi inds time to care for his large and excellent farm. Andrew, the other son, is engaged in Kansas and Oklahoma in making estimates for oil concerns of the quantity of oil that wells that may be operated by them are apt to produce for a certain time. Miss Rogers is the daughter of Er- nest Rogers. WEDDING. Lawless—Barry. Sebastian K. Lawless of New and Miss Delia Barry of this v were married at Fort Terry on r. The wedding took place at me of Lieutenant MeCormack, caremony beinz performed by ther of the bridegroom, was best and Miss Grace Mussell of Nor- was bridesmaid. Sergeant Lawless is A, attached -to the senior battery of the known here, Transferred to Gulfport. Albert R. Portelance who has been company “commander of the Hospital Company T at the Newport . Naval raining station is in town for a few 5 before reporting at the station at Gulfport, Miss. Mr. Portelance will report at employed and navy. fulport on July 26. He was a druggist in Norwich Taftville before enlisting in the INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY . Miss Rosalind Cranska has returned several weeks With Miss Ruth Sullivan has returned to after several weeks’ Henry D. Johnson and Miss Eliza- beth A. Johnson have been visiting | Mrs. Samuel Johnsen in New: Haven. | Mrs. Frank Cranska and Miss town to end_the summer at Fishers Island, New York. ~ Besides Saving Wheat Ma Says I'm vmé Cooking When | Ea POST TOASTIES left Norwich Manufacturers Discuss Labor Question| An Effort to Be Made to Get Federal Employment Director Korper Here to Qutline Situation—Coal Situation Also . Discussed By Bureau. @ Friday evening the Manufacturers’ Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce held their July meeting in the Cham- ber of Commerce rooms with twenty of the lealing manufacturers of the city and vicinity in-attendance. Chair- man Von Wagenen opened the meeting and the secretary read the minutes of the last meeting which were approved. Secretary H. R. Branche reported the following firms as having taken out associate memberships in the chamber: Marlin-Rockwell corpora- tion, Shore Line Electric Company, Ponemah Mills, Thermos | Bottle company, Vinchester Woolen company, Norwich Woolen, Eastern Connecticut Power company, J. B. Marth company, Norwich Belt Manu- facturing company, Schwartzenbach- Huber company, Atlantic Carton cor- poration, United Metal company, Cres- cent Ikire. Arms company, Joseph H. Hall & Son, Versailles Sanitary Fibre company, Saxton Woolen Corporation, Max Gordon Sons Corporation, Cheisea File Works, Hart Transportation cor- poration, -E, 1. Dupont de Nemours company. There was a discussion of the trans- portation problem, especially inirela- tion to the coal situation, from data cempiled by the chamber. Since the government has taken over the rail- roads there has been what is consid- ered a great advance in the charges for the shipment of coal and other commodities. This matter was thor- oughly gone into at the public hez ing of the public service commission in Boston July 16. The concensus of ovinion at that meeting seemed to be that McAdoo was acting unjustly. At the meeting Friday many of the local manufacturers expressed their opin- ion on this matter and discussed steps which might be-taken to remedy it. The question of labor also came up for discussion at the meeting. The employment service of the U, S. de- partment of labor is trying to organ- ize the demand for labor in each com- munity so that there will be no aim- less wandering from place to place in search of jobs. California draws its unskilled labor from points as far east as Buffalo and New York goes as far west as the Mississippi for its unskill- ed labor. It is the aim of the employ- ment serwice to do away with this through having the needs of each community ~ tabulated and supplying the needs through a central labor board. In this sense the officers of the United States employment service will act as cxchanges for unskilled labor. The chamber of commerce through its manufacturers’ bureau is consid- ering co-operating with the United States employment service of the de- partment of labor. The matter was first taken up with Joseph W. Alsop of the state council of defense and he turned it over to Leo A. Korper, fed- eral director for Connecticut of the U. S. employment service. Mr. Korper has furnished the secretary of the bu- reau with instruction concerning the’ formation of a war community board. After considerable discussion it was decided to have the secretary commu- nicate with Mr. Korper and invite him tc appear before the chamber and give his views on and explain the op- eration of the community labor board. The matter of putting another steamer on the Norwich-New York line operated by the Hart Transporta- tion company was discussed but no action was taken. The meeting adjourned about 10.30. NORWICH CELEBRATES ALLIED VICTORY WITH FIREWORKS. Chappell Company Furnishes Beautiful Display in Honor of American Drive. Although /a trifle late, Norwich on Friday evening celebrated the allied victory in France with a large dis- play of fireworks sands of people who cheered each bursting aerial bomb. The fireworks were the gift of Arthur H. Brewer and Willis Austin, members of the firm of Edward Chappell Co., who had sev- eral weeks ago prophesied an allied victory and had made arranzements for the celebration, but the news of the victory arrived before the fire- works. The fireworks set off by Dominick Americano of New Haven, who was sent here for the occasion by the com- pany manufacturing the fireworks. The display included aerial streamers, red. white and blue rockets angd star shells such as are used in night raids in the trencehes “over there.” Thege shells would go up and burst, a parachute drop from which a burning substance would light up the| city for several minutes. These shells are used in the trenches when an en- emy raid at night is feared. When the red, white and blue rock- | ets were sent heavenward the orches- | tra at the roof garden played The Star | Spangled Banner. A freight train on the Centraal Vermont road which went down during the celebration had six red signal fires burning on the rear end of the cahoose. The Girl Scouts from Trinity Methodist church were present at the celebration and cheered for General Pershing and for the boys over there. The display lasted for half an hour and was one of the best seen in this city in many years. ANOTHER LAWYER NEEDED. Judge Howe Advises Prisoners to Get Someone to Defend Them in U. S. District Court. When George C. Morgan, a New London lawyer, told Judge Howe in the United States district court at Hartford Friday noon that he had been personally unable to decide whether his clients were really guilty or innocent, but that he had advised them to plead guilty, Judge Howe told him that his clients had better get another lawyer to protect them from themselves. The prisoners changed their pleas from not guilty te guilty. Mr. Morgan intimated there ‘was a doubt about their guilt. Judge Howe said if that was the case, they should not plead guilty, and the court said he would not accept such a plea. After some discussion. Mr. Mor- 2an told the court he had been un- able to form an opinion on their guilt or innocence. “Then they have -the wrong law- ver.” said Judge Howe, “thev should get some one €lsé to defend them. It is a serious thing for two young men to plead guilty to a larcency thev have not committed.” Mr. Morgan finally said he thought they were guilty. They had been in jail forty-two da and both are married and have children. Mr. Crosby thought to date sen- tence back to include the time they had already spent in jail, wsuld be sufficient. Mr. Morgan asked the court if a nominal fine would not re- jlieve the stigma. “Why do you recommend that” asked the judge, “you have already won your case, and I am willing to let them go." They were then discharged. FUNERALS. Charles L. Chapman. The funeral of Charles Lewis Chap- man, 85, who died in Preston on July 15th, was held from the parlors of Undertaker C, A. Gager, Jr., Friday afternoon. There was a good attend- ance of relatives and friends and many | beautiful floral forms. Rev. Albert Donnell of Jewett City officiated. The bearers were Eri Mitchell Alonzo Whitford, Frank Avery and R. F. Pendleton. Burial was in the Union cemetery in Moosup and there was a committal service at the grave. Jerome Collins. The funeral of Jerome, infant som of Cornelius F. and Catherine Collins, was held from the home of his parents at 16 Boswell avenue at 2 o’clock Fri- day afternoon with a good attendance of relatives and friends. There were many handsome pieces’ of flowers. Buria! was in St. Mary's cemetery. Undertaker Hourigan had charge of the funeral arrangements. Stage Wedding Postponed. The wedding of Harry Latoy and Arlene Zara, which was to have been performed on the stage of the Audi- torium theatre Friday evening during the performance, was postporied until this ‘Saturday afternoon in order to comply with the laws of the state. Rev. George H. Strouse is to perform the ceremony. Both Miss Zara and Mr. Latoy are members of the theat- rical troupe now playing at the local eatre. 2 from Chappell's | wharf which was witnessed by thou-! bomb | WILL HAVE 1,000 MEN OVER IN FRANCE SOON Knights of Columbus Is Doing Good Work in the Great War. William J. Cronin, the well known Knights of Columbus official, has re- ceived the following from the com- mittee cn war activities of this order: “It is the wish of the committee to have at least one thousand men in France by Oct. 1. At present we have over two hundred and at the present time we also have about two hundred applications in the government at Washington, but we want to keep a sufficient number there all the time sc that we will be able to send fifty over cach week beginning with next. “Tons of chocolate, coffee, condsnsed milk and candy have been purchased and the first shipment will be sent this week. Seventy-five million cigarettes, ies to be made at the rate of millions per week, two hundred twenty-five thousand cigars, deliver- ies to be made in lots of seventy-five thousand _in the month of August, September and October. XKitchen au- tomobi and 3 1-2 ton trucks are go- ing over within the next ten days so that the boys at the front will be cared for. It is the committee’s idea to have @&verything for our boys at the front free. The motto of the order is verybedy welcome and everything free. “In order to carry on the work it is necessary to have men, and if you know of any in your community who are interested between the age of for- tv and forty-five or thereabouts, we would be glad to have you réquest them to write to the office at 461 Fourth avenue, New York City. “Sincerely and fraternally yours, “WILLIAM J. MULLIGAN, “Chairman.” LIQUOR DEALERS DISCUSS HIGHER BEER PRICES At Convention in New Haven Held Recently. That the members of the associa- tion in this city and at other points throughout the state will not be sur- prised to see a number of the smaller saloon keepers forced to close their doors within the nesxt few months be- cause of the coal situation and the very great increase in the price of beer and other alcoholic drinks, caused by the increased federal taxes as well as for material and coal, was apparent at the recent meeting of the State Liquor Dealers’ association. "It has been estimated that 50 New Haven saloons may be forced to close by early. fall and it is expected that at that time numbers of owners of licenses will not make application for renewals. Fearing in the event of another special federal tax the brewers will raise the price of beer per keg to such a figure as to prohibit the sale of beer at the bar for five cents, the associa- tion appointed a committee to confer wit hthe principal brewers of this state on the situation and if possible to se- cure a uniform price per keg for the entire state. The convention took no action, however, as to raising the price of beer to the consumer nor on re- ducing the size of the glass. Appointed on the committee to con- fer with the brewers were State Pres- ident Frank P. Quinn, New Haven; State Vice President Leo Guthlein, Hartford; State Secretary Thomas F. FitzSimmons, New Haven; State Treasurer P. J. Griffin, Waterbury; Thomas Schumaker, Ansonia. Daniel J. McCormick of this city was local representative at the meeting. Liberty Choruses. The council of National defense has turned to the Connecticut State Coun- cil of Defense for advice on the sub- ject of community singing as a force in winning the war and also in the matter of suitable music for commu- nity war choruses. The first state in the Union to mo- bilize its singers as a war force was Connecticut, - according to informa- tion secured by the state councils sec- tion of the council of national de- fense. More than 130 “Liberty Chor- uses” ha been organized in Connec- ticut to date under the division of Lib- erty Chotuses, which is a department Df‘ the publicity committee of the coun- cil. The director of this division, James S. 'Stevens of Hartford, has been in- vited by Arthur H. Fleming, chief of the state councils section, to attend a conference to be held in Washington this week to discuss Liberty Chorus organization on a nationalwide scale and to consider the matter of suitable song books for the choruses. CARGC OF RELIEF SUPPLIES TO BE SHIPPED TO RUSSIA By Red_Cross—Principally Foodstuffs, Clothing and ., Medicine. ‘Washington, July 19.—A large cargo of relief supplies, principally food- stuffs, clothing and medicine, is to be dispatched to Russia by the American EKed Cross “at the earliest possible moment.” A special ship will be used for the purpose and the cargo will be accom- panied and distributed by a group of Red Cross representatives who will work under the direction of the Amer- ican Red Cross commission now in Russia. 4 What astern Connecticut Boys Are Doing- In Various Branches of the Service. Another Promotion. Jay S. Ricketts, who has been with the U. S. Atlantic patrol forces since last August, writes the following let- ter: ¥ U. S. S. Yamacraw. July 1, 1918 Dear Folks:— Before putting again to sea, just a moment for writing to inform you that your sea-salt is all O. K. and very much alive, etc. This is the first sum- mer in years that I've not been great- ly troubled with hay fever—guess I have to inhale téo much salt water through my nose. ‘We have spent a month doing many needed repairs, overhauling and dry- docking. The hull of this goodly cruiser was so.completely covered with barnacles (perhaps this is what made her so uneasy at sea) that she has had to be scraped from stem to stern. So we have had a delightful rest, and a sort of vacation. The weather has been;great, but of course very hot. You know, in this southern clime they have no rain in summer; they save it all up and let her rip about Novem- ber. Last year it rained 28 days al® most consecutively in that month. There is wonderful swimming here and we put in most of our time at the bay on’ the white shore of the Med. Received plenty of mail on this trip; several from home, including the let- ters you sent from Springfield (what a fine trip you must have had in “our” Packard!), very good letters from Mrs, H— and Mrs. B—; a very fine one,in- deed from Mrs. L. W. W—., whom you must thank for me. Tell her I enjoyed it very much and would an- swer it were we not limited in our letters, as the mails are getting too large. Of course I had the usual bud- get from Persippary. I understand we are to be relieved before long, for the “powers that be,” who run this outfit, have just realized that it is a pretty big strain on a man to work constartly in the danger zone. It makes me laugh when I read in the papers about some men who have been across once, and they think that every man who goes through the dan- ger zone should be awarded some kind of a medal. Here we haven't been anywhre -else since last August. On that basis I should have to bring my medals home in the hold of the ship. L think I'll not let you krow when I'm coming home, so as to give you a big surprise, still I might find Jothing to eat if I did that, and 'm not pre- pared to face such a serious disaster. Well. I've gone up again, for now I'm chief commissary steward for the entire sh:p. buying everything that is eaten on board. Besides my duties as master-at-arms, am still in charge of a fivesinch rifle while® at sea, having its warm reception for Fritz when he pokes his snout up for air. Many a time T've seen him wish he had wait- ed a couple of minutes to take in the scenery. I am convinced now that Fritz has had his compass so jarred that he couldn’t plot a course for Helgoland and wound upn on the Jersey coast; it'’s a good thing for it will wake them up and let them know what we've been sailing around with for the past year. I will surely write you again in a couple of weeks when we reach our next port and let you know that all is 0. K, etc. Verv glad Bradford is safely across: he sure will have an eye-opener and when he returns will look like a man of 50. I have lots of gray Hairs now, would you believe it? I don’t believe he’ll be there very long. as everything looks like the grand finale by the en- tire company very soon now, and I want to stay until the exit march plays. I'll say good night and turn into my bunk (have a fine stateroom now, shipmates with chief quartermaster). ‘With much love. JAY. P. S.—Seng Bulletins, J. Appreciates Sweaters, The Baltic Red Cross chapter has received the following letfer of ap- preciation from one of the boys who is in the service who has received a sweater from the chapter. The letter follows: O, D. Camp, Company 317, Great Lakes, III. Ladies of the Red Cross, Baltic, Conn.: I wish to thank you for the gift of the sweater given me by vour branch. Though not the season to be bundled up, still in the evenings my sweater is very comfortable, especially as we are quartered in tents here for the present, and on relieving a sentry for duty in the middle of the night. I assure you that the sweater is appreciated. Again thanking you, 1 beg to remain, Very truly yours, MELVILLE COTE. 'SOLDIERS AND SAILORS || THE GREATEST YET FRISWELL 'THE IAut'o-Military Calendar Watch ; Also WALTHAM ELGIN SWISS The Wm. Friswell Co. 25-27 Franklin Street ENTENTE AIRPLANES ACTIVE OVER THE BATTLE LINES. Twenty German Machines Were Brought Down or Put Out of Com- mission, Paris, July 19.—The French official report says: “Yesterday our airmen in collaboration with British squadrons continued, their work along the whole battle front. Twenty German ma- chines were brought down or put out of missign by ‘eur pilots and two [ ve balloons were burned. The British airmen destroyed seven Ger- man. machines. “Our bombing groups continued their expeditions against the crossings of the Marne. A footbridge west of Reuil was bombed and demolished. Cantonments and troop concentrations at Oulchy-le-Chateau, in the Vaux- buin ravine, at Fere-en-Tardenois and in the region of Oeuilly were attacked with machine guns or. bombs, the troops being dispersed. Stations in the rear areas were sprinkled with projectiles. Fires broke out in the stations at Amifontaine and Fismes. Heavy explosions were observed at Pontavert. Twenty-two tons of bombs were also utilized in the day and twenty-one the following night. “British squadrons dropped two tons and a half of explosives with excellent results.” RULING ON RAILROAD FARES FOR CHILDREN Between Providence and Points on lts Bristol, R. Branch, ‘Washington, July 19.—The interstate commerce commission today ordered the New Haven railroad to cease maintaining commutation and special fares for school children between Providence and points on its Bristol, R. I, branch, when such commutation and special fares are lower than are now maintained for like service be- tween Providence and Fall River, Mass. The fares as at present were declared in the commission’s opinion to be unfair to South Swansea, Fall River and other towns on the Fall River branch of the road. “PROTECT YOUR FEET" A. G THOMPSON, F. S. FOOT SPECIALIST LICENSED CHIROPODIST Mfr. Cummings’ Spring Arch Support Suite 7-8, Alice Building, Norwich Formerly of Waterbury Phone 1366-4 AMERICAN HOUSE First-class Garage Service Connected D. MORRISSEY, Prop. Phone Shetucket Street PLUMBING AND GASFITTING REGULATIONS CONCERNING USE OF THRESHERS Owners Must Make Report Month to Government, Every Every man in Connecticut who owns a thresher must make monthly re- ports to the government through his county agent, who will telegraph the totals to Washington. Under authorj- ty of an act of congress, the Secre- tary of Agriculture has authorized and instructed the chief of the Bureau of Markets to obtain monthly reports from threshers showing the amount of wheat they: have threshed and to ob- tain seaspnable reports for all other cereals at the close of the threshing season. Plans for conducting this work were determined upon at con- ference of representatives from the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Crop Estimates with offi- cials of the Food Administration and the Federal Trade Commission. These plans provide that each thresher be supplied with a record book for keeping an account of the amounts and kinds of grain and his charges for threshing. In addition, the thresher must find cut from each far- mer the number of acres he planted to ‘wheat in 1917, and the number of bushels he harvested. These facts are made a part of the threshing record The thresher’s record book will be supplied gratis by the government. These books will enable the thresher to readily furnish a monthly report on separate blanks supplied for the rurpose. They will also be a real convenience to him in keeping his own accounts. Both the record books and the Teport blanks can be obtained from your farm bureau. The povernment wants to 'know about all the wheat threshed in each county. It is therefore important that returns be made not only by those who thresh for hire, but also by far- mers who do théir own threshing. Lo- cal postmasters may be called upon to assist the county agents in secur- ing complete lists of threshers in taeir respective communities. - Assistance of the postmasters will probably not be needed in Litchfield, Fairfield, New Haven, Hartford and Tolland coun- ties. The desired information is al- ready available through the very com- plete agricultura] survey that wag made cooperatively by the committea of food supply and the farm bureaus for the state council of defense. All reports must be made to the county agent who will assemble them, summarize the returns, and telegraph the county totals to the bureau of markets at Washington not later than the fifth day of each month. = CALL UP 734 With or Without Gas Attach- ments but Always EFFICIENT and ECONOMICAL=— MODEL RANGES We furnish Repairs for all makes of Rarges A. J. 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