Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 10, 1918, Page 5

of Many Mysterious Pains ard Aches.’ rders. Men have these troubles, ‘weakness. ringly, and to use Doan's Kidney Pills, To iive simply, ,i% beund %o help bad kidneys get | bfter. There is no other remedy so ! whll-recommended by Norwich ' peo- plp. Read this case: Mrs. Henry L. Greiner, 606 ¥. Main cold has sometimes nagging My back hu felt weak and tired and I have 'been worn out. When bending, sharp pains haye seized .me .in. my back and it has been hard to straighten I have used Doan's Kidney Pills for these attacks and they have done | St, says: “At times a (affected my back and yerwork has caused dull, pains across: my kidneys. up. me Iots of good.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Mrs. Greiner P had. Mfgrs, Buffalo, N. Y. 'mnn Have Learned The ny women have come to know t sex isn’t the reason for all back- dizzy headaches and urinary , and often they come from Kid- eat take better care of one's VARIOUS MA MATTERS this evening. Extra choice fresh fish today 10c ™. Osgood wharf.—adyv. Many of the To!l”a began cutting The Forty Hours’ Devotion begins Sunday in St. John's church, Mont- ville, Pastures, lawns and gardens fresh- ened up like magic, after ~ Friday's heavy showers. »Preliminary reports of registration at Yale for the freshmen class show more than 390 have -enrolled.’ nty farmers week. - The planet Jupiter may be found near Venus In Gemini in the western morning sky, rising about 3 a. m. © From 88 degrees.at $-oiciock Thurs- day evening, ,the mercury had fallen to 76 degrees at the same hour Fri- day. " Guests at’ the Putnam house in Brooklyn, this state, are Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Holbrook and daughtet, of Win- sted. A bungalow is.being built at Gard- ner Leke .for Dr. H. M. Pollock ,of Breokline, Mass., jformerly' of Nor- wich, . Don’t simply: ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan's Kidney Pills—the . same. that Foster-Milburn Yesterday afterncon’s tempest cov- The Chelsea Savings Bank Norwich, Conn., August 5, 1918. The Board of Directors of this Bank have this day declared a- dividgnd for the current six months at the rate of four per cent. per annum, payable on and after the 16th day of September. FRANK' HEMPSTEAD, Treasurer. New York & Norwih Line H;n Transpo?tion Corp. ! Telephone 1450 Leaves Chelséa Dock, Norwich, . Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays [ at5p.m, ‘ Leaves New York. Pier 46, East River, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri- [ days at 5 p. m. F. V. KNOUSE, Agent. SPECIAL OPEN MEETING OF LOCAL No. 225 to be held in Carpenter's Hall, New | London, on Monday Evening, August 12th. All wiremen welcome, both union and non-unfon, ~COMMITTEE. TREES Order your TREES and SHRUBS now for fall planting. Orders deliv- wred anywhere, Maplewood Nursery Co. T. H. PEABODY Phone 98¢ NOTICE Dr. N. Giibert Gray has re- moved his office from 371 Main Street to 2 Bath Street. 'HOUSEWIVES 5ave Washing and Ironing in Hot Weather. Use DENNINSON’S PAPER NAPKINS AND TOWELS THE CRANSTON Co. TEAMING and TRUCKING JONE VERY PRPDMPTLY AND AT REASONABLE PRICES ARTHUR H. LATHROP Phone 175 CUMMINGS & RING Faneral Directors and Embalmers 322 Main Street Chamber of Commerce Building Phone 238-2 Lady Assistant FREDERICK T. BUNCE Piano Tuner hone 838-2 &2 Clairmount £, AMERICAN HOUSE 'irfl-:lau- GI!‘I’C‘ Service Connected D. MORRISSEY, Prop. hone Shetucket Street - “PROTECT YOUR FEET" A. G. THOMFSON, F. g FOOT SPECIALIST LICENSED CHIROPODIST lfr. Cummings’ Spring Arch Support vA}iu Building, Norwich ‘aterbury Phone 1366-4 Buite 7-8, ‘ormerly of ered the ground in. orchards with windfalls of .green pears, apples akd quinces. A reeent. gift to Peck Library, Slater Memorial, is- “What a Geologist Can Dq in .‘War,” by R. A. F. Pen- rose, Jr. At Union, Nelson Horton had a heavy yield from a fieid of rye, John Jubon of' Westford threshed about 90 bushel for him. In a2 number of suburban places the elms ‘are being ruined by beetles, some of the trees being nearly strip- ped of their leaves, The. annual outing of the members of the Barnes family will be held at Round Top pavilion, Lake Compounce, Thursday, Aug. 15. Connecticut dealers are in New York this week attending the Wall Paper convention and studying the new effects in panelling. The ‘pledge-cards for canning in Tol- land have nearly all been handed in. The quota was 7650 cans and the pledges amounted to 9060 cans. The annual tri-county W. C. T. U. field day is to‘be held at Willimantic Camp Ground, Saturday, Aug. 17. There is to be a.gold medal contest. At Block ' Island . a .gingham , dance at which all the, girls- wore gingham frocks was giver at the.Ocean View last week for the®benefit’ of the sol- dier's smokes fund. The new schedule of the Norwich and Westerly Traction Co..vill go in- to effect today (Saturday), and half hour “cars will run between Westerly and Groton during the afternoon. Of a former Norwich resident a Flainville correspondent writes that Principal Orrin L. Judd, of:the Plain- ville grammar schools, has left for a trip up the Hudson and on Lake George, ‘A Farm- Bureau fleld day will be held at Rockville Wednesday, Aug. 14. There will be an automobile trip Gesigned to show the different lines work in which the Farm Bureau is interested. In charge of the student-nhrse en- rolling in their respective localities are Miss Theresa Sullivan, Plainfiel Mrs. Stewart Elisworth, Central Vil- iage, Miss Yvonne Lafreniere, Moosup and Miss Helen Atwood, Wauregan. The $30 per necticut W. C. month which the Con- T. U. is sending to the ‘White Ribbon House at Camp Dev- ens, Ayer, Mass, is greatly appre- ciated, according to a report in the summer issue of the White Ribbon Banner. A Brooklyn, Conn, item reads: Rev. A. E. Kinmouth has' been spending most of his weelc time during the hay- ing season at his farm in Ledyard. Mrs. Kinmouth has been there for several weeks- both weekdays and Sundays. Word has been received from Pri- vate J. Henry Shannon of Norwich, that he is at Tours, France, and is moying toward the front. He ig a member of a sanitary train and has been stationed at two different camps overseas since his departure from this country, 3 One hundred and ninety-four Sis- ters of Mercy, including nuns from Norwich, are taking part in the spir- itual retreat which was begun Tues- day evening at Mt. St. Joseph's semi- nary, Hamilton Heights, Hartford, the preacher being Rev. Thomas F. Gra- ham, S. T, of St. Peter’s college, Jer- sey City. Secretary Daniels recently com- mended three members of the crew of the U. S. S. Dodger II. for heroism in saving the lives of 23 men of the Spanish steamer Serantes, “destroyed by fire July 13, John ng Galleher, 2 chief boatswain’s mate, commended in the son of John H. Galleher of Prooklyn, N. Y., formerly of Norwich. Complaint is made that gray squir- rels in the Broad street section are causing great destruction to pears and apples. They bite into the fruit and eat the seeds, then drop the rest of the fruit on the ground. The own- ers find they cannot do anything, as an act passed in 1909 by the general essembly prohibits the killing of gray squirrels. LIGHTNING KILLS TWO Strikes Woman and Boy Bather Near Pond in Oakdale. Mrs. Beatrice Leahman, 20, of New York, a bride of five weeks, and Har- bert Herschkowitz of New York, nint years old, were instantly killed by lightning on Friday afternoon in a shack in Oakdale in which they hed taken refuge when they had been driven by the storm out of a pond where they were bathing. Another person in the shack was shocked by the lightning. The three were summer boarders on the Leahman farm in Oakdale. Mrs. Leahman was married five weeks ago in New York to a lieutenant in the United States army who is now ia France, 4 The bodies were taken in charge by a New London undertaker. Sweet Youpg Thing—Ai'm awfully glad the waw’s ovah in Fwance. Her Escort—What -are you talk- ing about? The war isn’t even be- ginning to end. Sweet Young Thing—Ai didn't Eiaa it g ovahn Fwsnca—in- it ovah * s e—In- M Norwich, Saturday, Aug. 10, 1918, - —_— _Light vehk:la lunps -at 826 o'clock Miss* Frances tucket for a short stay. Dewey Seguin of Cenmu Village is employed in Norwich. Miss Alice O. Armstrong is spending her vacation at Nantucket. Norwich in-Center of Fierce Rain and Wind—West lhrgt.ret Tootill of Sterling is visiting relatives in Norwich. Daniel Billington of Baltic. was a recent guest of Oneco friends, Charles Davidson of Norwich was a caller in ‘Westerly Thursday. Miss Agnes- Collins of Union street| - = was a visitor at Ocean Beach Friday. s Four days of torrid heat with the thermometer ranging in the nineties ‘were ended here on Friday afternoon by a terrific thunderstorm at 2.30 o'- clock that brought 1.47 inches of rain in about ‘an hour, accompanied by a Miss Alice Tatro of Taftville is the guest of Mrs. JoseWy Tatro of Sterl- ing. Miss Edna Mayer of Spring street spent Friday afternoon at Ocean Beach. 3 i high wind, and almost -incessant D. J. Sullivan of Co. F, 304th in-|flashes of lightning and nerve-rack- fantry, 76th division, has arrived safe- |ing cannonade, whils the streets Iy overseas. swam with water almost ankle deep. Probably over a dozen places were struck, a barn was set on fire, the city electric light plant put out of com- mission, several hundred telephones crippled, and places using electric rower lost about two hours of time unti] the city plant was again able to serve them. At the first crack, three ecircuits of the fire alarm telegraph were put out of business and the same bolt ap- parently did the damage at the elec-: tric light plant whyre the fuses were burned out. When thess had been restored, a second instaliment of the storm came along with even greater violence than the first; and for safe- ty’s sake the plant did not resume operations until all danger from the electricity was past, Come From the West. The storm came from the west and was heralded by a growing darkness, that reached its height with the first heavy fall of rain, through which au- tomobiles plowed along with their lights lit and the trolley cars threw on their headlights and crept cau- tiously along as the motormen nursed their cars to avoid danger of the elec- Mrs. Fred Donath iting her sister. Mrs. in Stafford Springs. of Mystic is vis- ‘William Baidwirt Mr. and Mrs. John R, Tarrant are in the Wilson bungalow at Pleasant ant View for a vacation stay. Frank Shugrue and William Mur- phy have returned after a two weeks’ stay at the Adrian at Block Island, Miss Anna T. Hallahan - of Baltic streeet 4s spending 'her vacation in Providence, R. L and Sound View, Ct. Misses Helen G. Cochrane and Dor- othy Rogers are the week end guests of Mrs, M. R. Waters at Lord’s Point. Miss Elizabeth Denison, operating room supervisor at the W. W. Backus hospital, is on.a three weeks' vaca- tion. Miss Geraldine Oat is the guest of Miss Jeanne Lecclerc of Providence, R. I, at her summer camp at Point Judith. Mrs. Clara Chapman, her daughter Agnes and son Charles of North | tricity”burning them out. Stonington; were recent * visitors in Trolley Cars Delayed. Norwich, The cars were further delayed @ur- ing Friday’'s storm by the crews ha ing to shovel themselves out in sev- eral places where the tracks had be- come coveréd with gravel and mud. The force of trackmen in the employ of the company has been greatly cut down during the past few days by trouble between/the men and the com- pany. When asked if the men were on strike an official of the company said Friday night that the men had not struck but had left the employ of the company. He admitted that wages had something to do with their leav- ing. One motorman reported six to eight inches of mud on the tracks in Nor- wich Town. He could not see the rails and managed to navigate by let- ting down his snow scrapers in front of the wheels. Barn Burned, About 4 o'clock the fire department was called out for a fire in at 61 Eleventh street owned by William McNeely, which wag by a bolt. The alarm was rung Misses Sarah and Margaret Walsh of Norwich have returned after a' visit with Mrs. William Coughlin at Pleasant View. -Attorney John H. Cassidy of Wa- terbury,. son. of .Dr. Patrick Cassidy, of Norwich, is at Block Island for a vacation ‘stay. The many- friends of Frank A. Smith of Washington street are glad to hear he is able to be one again af- ter a slight iliness. Miss Helen Slattery and William Lloyd of Norwich were guests early in the week of Mr. and Mrs, J. E. QicCarthy of Bristol. Miss Florence Wakefield, night su- pervisor -at the Backus hospital, has returned from a three weeks’ vaca- tion in° Springfield and Rockland, Mass. Mrs. James R. Troland and daugh- ter, Mrs. Frank R. Cartwright, of New York city, were recent guests of Mrs. Troland’s sister, Mrs. Charles Rogers, of the Breed building. in om Box 28 at the correr of Eleventh reet and Central avenue hy P. H. Ethier and then someon> rang the hox again which ought out the \\(‘m At - Mrs. Cummerford’s cottage, | Side company. Ford Pleasant View, are Joseph Farrell, |car owned by Mrs. son Miss Annie Pickett and Miss Nonie John._and a pony King of Norwich, Miss Monica Dono- by Mis; EHL’lhelh W van and Miss Elizabeth DaWy of |and vehicles were taken out by Taftviile. tor Davis of Taftvi r —_— thews of Greeneville. The fire had RED CROSS WORKERS a good start when the firemen arrived but they soon got it under control and STAYED AT WORK —— Lightning Play” With Heavy Town Street School House ; Electric Light Plant Out of Commmxon—hgluning Finds Numerous Targets. - s the recall was sounded at 4.30. The barn was. practically destroyed. School House Struck. A bolt hit the West Town street school house and badly damaged the interior of the building, entering by the steeple and passing out *one of the front windows. The plastering throughout the building ' was torn down and several blackboards were knocked out ‘the walls. All the pictures on wallg of the varlous rooms with one exception were smash- ed by the lightning. There was no cne in thebuilding at the time of the accident. Several windows were broken, Belt Co. Fire. The lightning started a small fire at the plant of the Norwich Deit com- pany in Greeneville. It entered on the electric light .wires and burned off the insulation andjat the point where the wires entered the ceiling started 2 blaze. A pail of water put an end to tls fire. Another bolt entered the strap shop in the basement of the building but did no damage. A bolt entered the main office of the Shore Line Electric Railway com- pany on Main street, over the elec- tric light wires, and burned out a small electric heater. Lightning en- tered the shipping room of the Yantic mills and burned the wires completely off one of the electric bulbs, the bulb felling at the feet of the government inspector at the mill. No one was injured. Rain Checks at Theaters. The local theaters were all forced to issue rain .at the afternoon performances owing to lack of power. The roof garden will be farced to use a different piano when they open to- night as the so-called waterproof cover for their piano was not able to resist the storm and the felt on the riano keys became so gummed up that the pianist would have had to use sledge hammers to strike his notes last night. Horses Knocked Oown. On Orchard street a pair of horse$ owned by John H. Ford, the iceman, were knocked to the ground and hv as if dead for several minutes, but they recovered and so far as could be determined were not injured. The driver of the ice wagon, Edward Cole, was at the rear of the cart trimming. up a piece of ice with an ice pick when he felt the effects of the eler- tricity and climbed into the cart. Im- mediately afterwards .the horses were knocked down. Small Fire Started. A sinall fire was started in the mat- tress factory of Sussman, Silverberg & Co., on Chestnut street, but was ex- tinguished by the employes without calling on the fire department, Big Ball of Fire. A big ball of fire was seen by Po- licomau Frank Henderson to come down the pole on Thames square where the police signal box is. A tree in the yard of Charles Burke ~ 91 Lafayette street was splintered. Women in Hysterics. In a number of business places.in the ‘city, women employes were ter- rified into hysteries. e Through Lightning Flash Played About STORM DESCENDED Room in Thayer Building. ON XENS’ PICNIC. At the Red Cross rooms in the Thayer building, Friday afternoon, the workers were subjected to various un- pleasant experiences, because of the severe electric storm. The electric lights, which had been turned on ab- out two o’'clock were twice extinguish- ed, the second time the circult being put completely out of commission. by a lively flash of vivid lightning: which played around the room. for 4 minute. No one was injured, though several complaired of headaches and tingling fingers, but every woman stayed at her post, like good soldiers, so that the afternoon work resuited in a large number of absorbent pads, of which the Norwich chapter must furnish sev- eral thousand. The room was in chargz of Mrs. John Townsend and Miss Mazie Caruthers. Enjoyed, Nevertheless. The annual picnic of the Xens so- ciety was held Frid at Round pond, Lantern Hill, when a royal good time and a day's success was hardly dim- med by the thunder storm that was pleased to visit the picnickers in the early afternoo: Nearly forty rflemhua left the city at 9.30 in Josly auto bus and in every one was busy. Chef W. Smith Allen with able corps of assistants, Mrs, Charles Cobb, Mrs. Jam limore. N Her- bert Wllle‘ Mi: Kate Willey ~and William Koonz and Walter M Cowan,. in sho:t order had one of hi famous clam chowders going and a bountiful supply of lemonade. OBITUARY At 1 o'clock all were seated when a dinner was served of clam chowder, Frank Ladd. crackers, pickles, sandwiches, pie and The deatk of Frank Ladd. occurred | cheese and coffee. on Thursday evening' about 9 o'clock( The atternoon: was given up to at nis home at 41 Union street, where | $ames and a social time in general. he had been sick for about a week,| FProbably a baseball game, had it having left ais employment as a pol- | been allowed to have been fi § jsher at the barlin-Rockwell factory, |Would have surpassed any of £ because of his illness. He was born in Norwich about 60 vears ago and ':ald‘ Nay we will never had lived here all his life. He is surs |KROW. — vived by his wife who was Miss Car- UEDETEWas seovedy o) rie Ayers and *o whom he was mar- | Sandwiches, salad, pickies, ried on Dec. 26, 1908, by Rev. L. I.|coffee. 5 ; West. He also leoves a sister, Mrs, | Feanuts were enjoyed during tke af- Laura, Richardson. wholives in Mass- ter,;}fign-pam i achuse@slend oo bivkere. afternoon enthusiastic over*the outing. Brownell Gage Arrives Overseas. News has been received by Mrs. Helen Howe Gage, of the safe arrival overseas of her hushand, Brownell Gage, who, as dean of the Yale mis- GETS BELGIAN SOLDIER’S PICTURE AND LETTER. sion In China, has enlisted for one|Jack Ableman Receives Response from vear’s service ia France. to have{ Card Slipped Into Box of Rifles. charge of the Y. M. C. A. camps, ‘where the Chinese troops are quartes- Jack Ableman of 29 ed. has just received an intel minder from overseas wh 1t of slipping his T into a cra. gian rifles that was being shipped from the Marlin-Rockwell shop. there came to him by letter fro Breach of Peace. Early Friday evening Robert Frost and Man leman were arrested on North T es street and locked up in the police station on charge of breach i Belgian of peace. The men were having a ma Bele fizht mher zathered in by Policeman | Paul Leclerca, at the Belgian arsenal Divito, Ailer snd Murphy. at Havrs, enclosing the soldier’s pic- ture and a pleasant word of friendly greeting and appreciation of the chance to write to an American. The soldier also asks to have a newspaper sent him, For Superior Court. Probably cause was found in the case of George Grant in the police court on Friday morning on the charge ; of theft of a tire from the Bromley garage on West Main street. and he was held for the superior court under Rambler Trocp Met. The Rambler Troop of Girl Scouts held their regular meeting at the bonds of $300. 2 Trinity Methodist church, Friday eve- ey ning with Captain Mary Crowe in esent, INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY Baltic Street Fire. Rags on fire at the home of John A. Johnson, at 68 Baltic street called the fire department there about -5 o'clock Friday morning on a still alarm It was quicl extinguished. Dr. and Mrs. Frank S, Bunnell have been “in New York this week for a brief stay. Ultimatum to Japan. - London, Aug. 9.—A despatch to the Exchange ‘Telezraph from Copenhagen says the Petrograd newspaper Pravda, drgan of the Bolshevil announces that following a stormy meeting of the workmen’s and soldiers’ deputies, Nikolai Lenine, Boishevik premier, sent an ultimatum to Japan concern- ing Japan's intervention in Siberia. The newspaper adds that the ultima- tum was handed to the Japanese con- maal jm Mosachr, Miss Marie Deel of New York is the guest of Mrs, H. F. Parker at Pleasant View. Miss Phoebe Brewster has left town for New Canzan, where she will make one of a farming unit for six weeks. Mrs. Foster Wilson and Miss Annie E. Vaughn have returned after spend- ing two weeks at Westport Harbor, Mass, g g But Day at Lantern Hill Pond Was| SULPHURIC ACID BURNS THREE MEN When Carboy Exploded at Winchester Woolen Mill Plant, Shortly after the day shift went on at the plant of the Winchester Woolen company at Thamesville Fr: ing a raxbov of ay morn- ulphuric acid explod- ed in the car bonizing room and se- verely burned three men. They were gaken to the office of Dr. Louis T. Cassidy, who sent one of them John Doche, of West Thames street, to the Backus hospital for treatment and af- ter treating the other two, Adam Spanier of 125 Hickory street and a Polish man who lives upstairs at 180 West Thames street; took them io their homes. They were all burned about the face, chest and arms. The cause of the explosjon is mot known. All will recover, as' the burns while | severe and painful are not serious, s JACK SHUGRUE WRITES FROM THE TRENCHES Pens a Few Lines During a Lull in the Fighting. Word has been received here from Jack (Eggs) Shugrue. a former local boy now in France h the 61st In- fantry. He has been in the trenches two weeks .and wrote the letter 12 a,lull in the fighting. He savs a great place and that the getting plenty to eat and a rlace tc sleep when behind the s. He wished to be remembered his iccal {rirnds and was par- to know of Danny 11 manager of the New Private Shugrue is a and was a member of team. Murpny Haven team. West Side boy the old Hardig: IS WATERBURY MAN Man Who Dropped Dead Was Employe in Hotel Elton Steward B. N. Dunn of the Hotel Rlton at Waterbury came here on Fri- day evening and positively identified Gedeon L. Marceau the man who dropned dead in a Bat street saloon on Thursday evenin rceaux had e hlinn At et the last ten yea and was highl» though of by his embio Fle had been missing from for two wee! and nothing of where he has been in that 3 The first trace of who might be was rsecured on day morn- ing when undertakers Cummings & Rine notified the New Haven Chief of Police that the man's been made by a New Haven tailor and it so happened that the tailor remem- bered the man. He s that the last he knew Marceaux had worked for the Hotel Elton in Waterbury. It is believed that Marceaux had ‘walked from New London here on Thursday as a Thamesville woman remembers 2 man of his general des- cription whom she found sitting on the steps at her home and gave a drink of water to when he said he was not feelinz well Mirexaix, who was born in Quebec, has a brother, M. E. Marceaux, and a father living in North Woodstock, Vt. His mother is also living. the man Austrian War Report. Vienna via London, Aug. 9.—“In the Seven Communes the artillery duel has increased to great strength,’ says the official communication issued from Austrian hes.dquartera teday. “In Al- bania, the fiehiing has died down.” clothes had |” TERDAY’S STORM W ARE COMPELLED TO BE CLOSED TODAY, BU%Y WILL BE OPEN SUNDAY MORNING TO CONTINUE OUR SALE OF GRAIN. WE HAVE THOUSAND: OF BUSHELS OF OATS CORN, BARLEY ANE WHEAT, THAT WILL BE ON SALE. UNTIL THEY ARE DIS POSED OF OATS WILL BE SOLD $1.50 PER BAG, BUSHELS TO A BAG. CORN $1.50 PER BAG. BRING YOUR OWN BAG Charles Slosberg & SON GRAIN AND FEED WEST SIDE ment, $2.00 to $50.00. The Plaut-Cadden Co. Established 1872 NORWICH, CONN. Jewelers AUTOMOBILE MAKERS MUST WORK FOR WAR. Must , Have Their Plants at Full Ca- pacity for Government by 1919. W ington, Aug. 9.—Manufacturers of passenger automobiles were advised by the war industries board to get on a 100 per cent. war work for their plants before Jan. 1, 1919. In a letter addressed to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, responding to its proposal for a voluntary 50 per cent. curtailment of passenger car production, the board says the manu- facturers can be sure of continuing their industry and - preservisg their organizations only by converting to war orders, No Automobile Material, The war industries board declared that the present situation regarding steel and other materials needed for war work gave little assurance of ma- terial required for the manufacture of passenger automobiles, even after pro- viding for war requirements. Pending receipt by the board of sworn inventories of materials on hand requested last July 16, no ma- terials will be permitted passenger car manufacturers, the letter states. FIRE ABOARD BIG SHIP LADEN WITH WAR SUPPLIES Heroic Work of Sailors and Firemen Prevented Serious Loss, v New York, Aug. 9.—A mysterious fire in the cargo of a larse steam- ship loaded with supplies for the al- lies was discovered tonight as she lay at her dock on Staten Island. Sail- ors quickly turned a strexm of water : into the hold containing the shells for ST T iy the ship's zuns, which was next to| Guilford. Conn, Aug. 9—The body that in which the blaze started, and |of Tuliliani Leandro, 25 years-old, wha mmoned a fireboat. had been missmg from his boarding The firemen directed their attention |house at Leet’s Island since Wednes- to ping the flames away from a vy, was found in the creek near the large quantity of benzol cn board, | t}d Brooklyn guarry here today. In his while other ships in the neighborhood [ clothing, which apparently had lain were being towed to places of safety|on the bank of the stream for 48 in fear of an explosion. After a bat- | bours, was $500 and a valuable watch. tle lasting more than two hours the | Medical Examiner Holbrook reported burning section was flooded. The |the death "as accidental. ship was almost ready to sail when the fire was discovered. The damage was not estimated. ADVERTISING CURTAILED FOR UNSKILLED LABOR Derothy M. Woodward, D. C. (Doctor of Chiropractic) P.5:C;.1914 (Women and Children) 220-221 Thayer Building - Norwich, Conn. -~ There Must Be No Competition With Government or War Industries. Washington, Aug. 9. — Advertising, either through newspapers or by other means, to obtain unskilled la- bor by employers engaged wholly or partly on war work with a maximum force of more than 100 men is pro- hibited by an order issued today by the department of labor. Unskilled labor is being recpnited at present through the United States employment service and advertising is held to in terfere with the activities of the sa vice. Non-war industries may continue to advertise for unskilled labor, but may not in the advertising offer superior inducements or in- any way undertake to compete with governmeént or war indu: War industries also may continue to advertise for skilled la- bor. Notice—Drawbridge Come one, come all, to Drawbridge for a good time where everything good eat can be .purchased at store of Mrs. Stoddard’s. BOATS, BATHING SUITS AND TENTS FOR HIRE TREE STRIKES FAST GOING RAILROAD EXPRESS TRAIN. Several Passengers Seriously Injured, Others Cut by Glass. Ansonia, Conn., Aug. 9.—During al severe electrical storm shortly before 1 o'clock this afterncon _a tree fell over on the just as i: was\ speeding into all ‘of the windows on one side of the rear coach being broken out. % passengers were cut by flying : two or three quite seriously. Dr. W. H. Conklin s taken aboard at_Ansonia and administered first ald while the train proceeded to Bri port. New Haven Man Killed. New Haven, Conn., Aug. 9.—Michael Flannery, 43 years old, c® this. c was shot to death in a downtown sa loon today by Angelo Giardi, 30 years, also of this city. Giardi admits, the police say, that he shot Flannery after the latter had beaten him up in a fight over a billiard game. Giardi was held without bail by order of Deputy Cor- oner Kenneth Wynne, and will be ar- raigned tomorrow. Baggage Space Conserved ‘Washington, Aug. 9.—To save space in baggage cars for the army, the con- servation division of the war industries board has advised manufacturers that trunks should not exceed forty inches in height or length and that travel- ing bags and suitcases should be re- stricted to sizes from 14 to 28 inches, with. all partitions, sections false bot- toms, etc., eliminated. Theodore Returns Home. Dark Harbor, Me., Aug. 9.—Former President Roosevelt brnught his vaca- tion on the Maine coast to a close today after a visit of two weeks with his daughter, Mrs. Richard Derby. With Mrs. Roosevelt, he left for New York, boarding the afternoon steamer. to Rockland where train connection was made. For Engines, Flash Lights, Daylos, Door Bells, Autos THERMOS KlTS Italians Hammering Away. Rome, "Aug. 9—The official com- munication issued by the war office today says: “Yesterday morning en- emy detachments twice attacked the Col del Rosso salient, but were re- pulsed. We have bombed the military establishments at Pola. Near Trent two hoa.le machines were brought Two Aviators Killed. Colon, Aug. 9.—First Lieutenant Thomas R. Evans of Santa Cruz, Cal, and Corporal George D. Sensey of Ridgefield Park, N.-J., were killed to- day in an airplane accident. The plane in which they were flying dropped into Colon bay in forty feet of water and the men, strapped in the machine, were drowned. ndupennblelfyoucarry: lunch or go on a picnic (AR GHIASE €0, 129 Main St., Norwich | WHEN YOU WANT tc put your bus. | iness before the public, there is- no mediun: better than through ul. ad- | nrusinz Sajumag of The Bulletin. The annual reunion of the Holmes- Cady association is to be held at -Crystal Lake hotel, Tolland county. next Th\lndu