Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 20, 1918, Page 8

NOHWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, DhGEMBEfl 20, 1918 v 3 Dolls-Dolls-Dolls BOUGHT OUT" THE ENTIRE DOLL DEPARTMENT OF SCHWARTZ BROTHERS —On Sale at— THE PASNIK CO Loads of HANDKERCHIEFS at our famous low prices—the box 29¢ and 57c. Silk Camisoles, 69c—the kind others charge 98¢ for. Boudoir Caps, each in a box, 69¢c, worth 98c. | Ladies’ Outing Flannel Gowns, $1.29, worth $2.00. New Nifty Silk Ladies’ Waists, $2.97 and $3.97—none higher. * THOUSANDS OF OTHER THINGS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN’ AT OUR FAMOUS LOW PRICES YOU CAN SAVE FROM $3.00 TO. $5.00 BY BUYING YOUR COAT AT THE PASNIK CO. NORWICH STORE WILLIMANTIC STORE OPPOSITE WOOLWORTH'S | NEXT TO WOOLWORTH’S Soon at Danielson, two doors below Woolworth's 5 and 10c store 5 AND 10c STORE 5 AND 10c STORE A FOUR-DAY XMAS SPECIAL At THOMAS BROTHERS Friday—Saturday—Monday—Tuesday HOLIDAY FRUIT AT SPECIAL PRICES D. C. Flour . ... 2 for 35¢ Yellow Eye Beans, 2 *Ibsd For A Libby Condensed Milk 2 for 31c Value Milk ..... 2 for 31c D. C.-Odts ;.. ."2 for-25¢c Barley Flour ...... 6¢clb. 3X Oleo : | :....39b. Jack Frost Buckwheat 2 for 25¢ Onions, ....... 3 lbs. 10c Best Brooms 75¢ Young Am. Cheese.38c Ib. A. Borax Soap, 21brs, $1.00 Jim Dandy Flour, 2 for 25¢ First prize Corn Meal 2 for 25¢ Fine Eating Beans, 2 for 25¢ Armour’s Beans, 2 for 25¢ Best Coffee ...... 21c Ib. Potatoes 48 cents a peck Plum Pudding, Fig Pudding, ‘Cherries Dates, Figs, Raisins, Jellies—for the Holidays 29¢ Holly Wreaths, Fancy Baskets Best Chocolates in Bulk and Package THOMAS BROTHERS, 35 Broadway We Give Royal Gold Stamps Phone 1563 ALLEGES TWO GROUNDS IN HER PETITION FOR DIVORCE it < Ladd of Franklin, who | ye o William E. Ladd of | 9, 1891, has| cre than three on April divorce trom, the d by Attorney C. V. The loudest go; o clerk of the | the poorest dinner. THE LYONS CO. | CHRISTMAS APRONS A WONDERFUL DAINTY DISPLAY OF APRCNS —FANCY WHITE APRONS at 25¢c—a price not easy to find on the market these days. Large assortment of Round and Square Aprons, in plain dotted, also Lace and Embroidered Trimmed, at 50c. Band Aprons in fitted and gathered at 75¢, 98c to $1.50. Bib Aprons in short and long patterns, in plain and fancy materials, at 75¢ to $1.98. Look over our line of Aprons before purchasing and we feel sure you will be pleased you looked. MARK CROSS KID GLOVES for ladies—a glove that wears and fits—in white, black, tan, brown and gray—oprice $2.75 and $3.00. Camisoles for the ladies, in flesh and white, at $1.25 to $2.50. A pretty as well as a useful gift for Christmas. BOUDOIR CAFS, in all the dainty styles and colors, at 50c, 75¢ to $2.50. ENVELOPE CHEMISE, in white and pink, a very large assortment, good material and dainty lace and embroidery trimmed, $1.25 to $4.50. Also carry a complete line of Muslin Underwear—any article in the line will maks a useful gift. Wonderful assortment in WHITE DRESSES for the children for Christmas, sizes 2 to 12 years. These are made of muslin, batiste and voile—they are smocked and lace trimmed—prices $2.50 to $8.50 each. Also the Colored Dresses—useful and stylish. ROMPERS A pretty Whitc Romper, smocked, pink and blue—a pretty gift for the baby at $2.98 and $3.30. We can give you the practical Romper in the colors at $1.00 up. For the boys—WASH SUITS, 2 to 8 years—a large and varied line. One of the popular models is the White Sailor Suit, trimmed blue at $2.98 to 34 50—other styles from $1.50 to $5.50. All the Small Toys, such as Rattles, Dolls, Soap Bubble Sets, Animals for the little ones. KNIT GOODS The popular TAM in the pretty shades—just what the young girls want for Christmas—prices $2.00 to $3.50. SWEATERS for all ages, from the infant to the girl 14 years. ! Hartford .. been hab- | i 5.| dinner and am feeling fine SOLDIER VOTE WAS m MAJORITY FOR HOLCOMB Governor Marcus H. Holcomb led United States District Attorney Thom- as J, Spellacy for governor by more than 300 in the soldiers’ vote cast at the recent. election, which has been compiled by the state secretary’s of-' fice, the republican governor having 2,054 votes to 1,715 for the democratic/| rict a,ttorney e following table shows the way the men in the service from New London county cast their votes for governor: New London County. o £ 5 " H & cier ez ‘quuodtort’ *9 pu;a p ‘KoerRds +'p ‘feroeT | Bozrah .... ... Colchester Bast Lyme . Franklin .. Griswold Groton . Lebanon .. Ledyard . Lisbon Lyme ., . Montville . New Londos North Stonin, Norwich 01d Lyme Preston . | Salem Sprague . Stonington Voluntown .. Waterford [P S P - esta - EFS- ot 4 n 3 0 4 15 Summary, New Haven . New London . Fairfield Windham . Litchfield . Middlesex . Tolland .... Totals MONTVILLE SOLDIER TREATED BY NEW HAVEM DOCTOR Private Louis J. La Boanty, 308th Infantry, 7 Division, has written to his mother an& friend in Montville that a doctor from New Haven has eiven him Zr”dt care in a hospital in Trance and he is now =zeiling along "|l right. The letter fol T have heen in the haspital now for thirty-five dave and this is the first t'me T have sat up. I am feel'ne fine ~ow and I am in-hopes n a few days. Gee, I had some time. helieve me. I left the front lines on Octobex 6th and got to the hoepital on th have had all that you could been ves with it, re last night. did certainlv eating tin | nans anc at tus top of their 1 T '\'l you they are a hanpv of people over hers, We ¥ ®ood chance wonder. T hail a good Conrecticut dde for me from New Haven, s are very good to me in e eot to qait writing 1 am all in. November 13—Well T've iust had T am out Pelieve me, T of quarantin» teday. man now. all the time 1 w soon as T holy communio: to see me every night since we were “wro and he has brouglht me apples 50 you see T lad pretty are. The nurses are first class. I can’ te any more my arm is tired Onl f(’fih rot- en. The only Montvill seen real artion are k Craig and myself ~mrhmz about tis ves 1 never races Dec- , SO My letter m nurse writ soon. he Red Cross man brought =nme dates and a puzzle ti Mother, writz and tell C ad the Tl be me s morning. J. Downs to tell Dr. Brophy that a friend &f his by the name of Dr. Col who is a lieutenant from 'w Haven. doctored me in the base hospital and he is a fine doctor, FIRST CLA PRI\ TE L¢ 5 J. LA POUNTY. NATIONAL ALLIED RELIEF ISSUES CHRISTMAS CALL For the help of thousands i ean countries who are in need, widows and orphs: nle aged and weak; soldl blinded, tuberculous or ot 2bled, the national allied i issuing a C peal. The cutlook for people is dark and hopel In France the refugees into the hundreds of thous Theyv are crowding the undamaged citles and towns to four and five times their mormal populstion and are dependinz ‘or daily existenc themselyes are s 2 duplication of the France. In Great Britain there i lant opportunity for merica to hrighten up the Chrisimas season. Hospitals there are stiil giving de.| “oted care to the seriously wounded nd convalescent soldiers who fought for us, Just remember these are our allies vho suffered as we wer: not called pon to suffer, that thev need our help today ir many ways, and that ‘his is Christmas time. Send all centributions to James J. Brair, Jr., treasurer, National Allied Relief committee. Ine, 2 West 45th street, New York city. ¥ FOUR-MINUTE SPEAKERS FINAL ON CHRISTMAS EVE The final subject for Four Minute Speakers is entitled A Tribute to Our Allies, and will be covered only on cne day. that is, Twesday, Dec. 24, ‘hristmas Eve, The speakers on this subject will be, wccording to the schedule made up: Auditorium, - Rev. William H. Ken- sedy; Breed, Rev. Charles H. Rick- etts; Davis, H. A, Tirrell; Hillchest (Tafts), Rev. Arthur Varley, This Christmas eve talk will be the final work of the four-minuté speak- ers as an organized body. CASTORIA For Infants and Children InUse ForOvorMYurs zettine up | ehth and been here ever since, | B 1 bells were | 8 of gettinz | B 1 am doing fine and no |8 'Ferp at one B brought ovs who | I Well, Tl be | this | |4 Distinctive in character, refined in style and attrac prestige, and the happiness they bring amply justi or Separate Scarfs for Christmas Gifts are ideal, Raccoon or MEN’S HOUSE COATS Attractive and Comfortable, an Ungquestioned Induce- ment to Stay at Home. MEN’S DRESSING GOWNS Men’s Dressing Gowns even up to all Si'%, and Men’s Bath Robes in rare patterns and superb qualities. You - can do no better in this line than to select from this stock for we have been headquarters on Bath Robes for years. HANDSOME CHRISTMAS NECKWEAR Crisp foreign silks suitable for Cravats only in dainty and exclusive désigns and up to the very best qualities, meriting the endorsement of our finest clientele. We show you all grades and all fashiczable shapes. LADIES’ GLOVES Ladies’ Gloves for sireet or evening wear. Dezpendable makes in the new shades Butter and Ivory, white or tan in all grades.of washable capes. | Yaa ai s They fite !5 | hoiha Sn- v 100t ar. hadk 78 have LABIES’ SILK OR LISLE HOSIERY re so you | ] Ladies’ Silk or Lisle Hosiery, Luxite, Holeproof, Phoenix and many other makes in the latest shades and all grades. LADIES’ HANDKERCHIEFS New lines of Ladies’ Handkerchlflfs, plain or choice em- broideries at moderate prices and yet different from the common kind. UMBRELLAS FOR LADIES OR MEN MEN’S GLOVES Men’s' Street or Driving Gloves in Chamois, Mocha, Suede or Cape. Men’s Fur Lined Gloves or Gauntlets for Auto or Street wear. Men’s Wool Lined Gloves of all kinds or Woeol Gloves of every description. MEN'S SWEATERS Men’s Winter Weight Sweaters with or without collars in light or heavy weights. Shaker Knit or in the finer grades, comfort garments at unequalled prices. FURRIER AND —_— DR. LESLIE GAGER SAYS HUNS MUST PAY Femlmne Fancy ‘Turns to' For Christmas Gifts! 291 Main Street, Opposite Chelsea Savings Bank, Norwich, Conn. tively ‘priced, our Furs have an unqfie§;i§péd fies every dollar of expenditure. - Separate Muffs or we can show you complete sets well matched.” New Models in Hudson Seal Coats, Muskrat, Nutria Coats STEAMER RUGS Steamer Rugs for traveling or the auto WALKING STICKS Walking Sticks of Mallaca, Penang, Weixel, Congo and Ebony. Rich and rare mountings at reasonable prices. MEN'S SILK OR LISLE HOSE Men’s Silk or Lisle Hose in all the new colots antflfi!n Holeprofs with a six months’ guarantee “Nol.l'ung ,better for a gift to Father, Son or Brother. - DRESS ACCESSORIES - Correct Dress Accessories for all* events. Evening Dress Vests, Dress Gloves, Dress Jewelry in Pearl or Platinum sets, Dress Neckwear, Gloves, Reefers and Protectors. MEN’S PAJAMAS AKD NIGHT ROBES Men’s Outing Flannel Pajamas and Night Robes or Nightwear in the Lighter materials including Silks. MEN'S UNDERWEAR Men’s Underwear, Men’s Caps and many other lines useful for gift making. MEN'S FUR CAPS Men’s Fur Caps, in Hudson Seal, Scal, Nearseal Natural Raccoon or Muskrat. MEN'S SCARFS Men’s Silk Reefer Scarfs for dress or street wear, a re- markably complete line from $1 up as high as you wish. e A T S T S MEN’S SHIRTS Men’s Perfect Fitting Shirts, made with French soft cuffs or with stiff cuffs, exceptional patterns, fabrics clear up to Tub Silks and all the between grades. Store Open Every Evening Until Christmas Telephone Orders Given Prompt and Careful Atten- tion. - A visit here will simplify your problems and make your Shopping a joy during the Yuletide Season. JAMES C. MACPHERSON HABERDASHER place the French on public buildings and street signs but from every house the tri-color is floating—the casion when' an. \Americap provost marshal walked ip am{]'askgn me pret- ty emphatically, whhi was doing in Metz. I had a pass to Nancy and women have been busy getting fiags ready since the second battle on tlie Marne— “The Hun\ have got to v for this (m\(‘ludes Liet T. wich through p able to do t! Lieutenant ( the army, w hind the Lo: lows: Bvacugtion Hospital No. 12, Novemb: 5, 1918. Now that the fighting and the cen- sorship—two great defects in war from a certain point of view—-are over, it is possible to write home tnat I'm up here in the St. Mihiel region, with the country covered with barbed wire, and the old Hun trencl just to the north of us; that a couple of days ago 1 was in Metz, the redoub'akle city of French fortresses gow trebled in strength by the Germans: that we are seeing all kinds and natioualities of prisoners as they filter prison camps and the mines tories where they had been at hardia- bor tor the liuns; that w gomng up into Germany ourselves with the Third doctor in | ne front. H s letter fol- Army at almost any day now. “Some- where in Fraice” becomes for us here a point midway betweer v cathedrpl- fortress town of Toul and Thiacourt, occupied since 1914 until the middle of Septemb#t Ly the Ger: and now a mass of ruins, empty o its civil- ian inhabitants, from thz shell fire, first of the advaucing Americans, and latér, of the retreating Boches. You get up into this country and find vil- ages laid absolutely flat by the guns, Sthers, spared somewha' by the ar- 'lflery, oécupied only by gray rats, out in most, the billets of American soldiers; engineers, clears up the streets and blowing up th the flelds that the Germans had laid tal be-|i mines in|a to stop our troops and men. labor troops fixing up the reads. pretty well | worn now by the thuusa_nds ot trucks e ey that have been car 41+ munitions railroad W guages er all the last week, the army of cceupation, part of it. has been mmmg up past us- ents, ma- pply trains— 10 have beer holding zan another drive two armistice called things 1 The hills with camp fires, a ance after the dugout life and dark- ness of this modern way of fighting; but the men were still wearing the tin hats and carying the gas masks just like old timoes. But the new times are at hand. One sees the peasants begirning to re- turn, family by family, each with its cart and b > and load of furniture and possessions saved from the wreck of things.. They are going back, at the edge of winter, to pratty hard con- There is hardly a house left s roof still whole in hundreds of these villages; the roofe aud they are store or tile, are knocked down and fill up the wreck of the living rooms. It is all a picture of desolation that you can never forget. But the French are coming back =nd reconstruction is be- ginning. And the people who've got the job on their hands are the men of over 48, and the women and the childreh. The young and active men of the nation are still wi the army—cnd many thousands lic under’the crosses that one finds scattered in groups all through thess hills ~nd fields where the battle lately rolled. much rejoicing in the It strikes one after leaving the shell-swept deserted city of” Pont-a~Mousson, and going up to Moselle over the frontier into’ Alaace Lorraine. These Gemm.n names re- long lines of | {and that in the glory o regular garden party appear- |+ and the girls run’ across the streets i with ribbons of red, white and blue in \their hair. Ou the way up to Metz, its the same pirture of glad celebration {and of welcome to the Poilus of | France who, fill the city. It is most | certainly a'German lo town, full | of thrifty shop keepers and with tram lines well orga™zed, German | names and speech pre ng. But the great cathedral dominates the city its age and architecture, is French, significant of the medieval sister cities of Verdun i the propd, Toul the sainuy. the rich. There is quite a bit of (he hlstur!c !and the impressive in an old place like that, and a Frencn infantry band had just struck up an inspring aw, I was quite under the speil of the oc- and Metz Luneville—twn days of leive to over io see the French lad that we had at the hase hospital a vear ago— but it was too much to-exptiin how my path took in the * “closed” city of Metz —the major couldn understand. I guess, the curiosity of a Yankee and the “pporfunity of transvortation afford- ed by passing automobiles. And I was ordered “under arrest” ‘for the first time in my life, at least crdered to re- bort as such tc my.comnany. He didn’t know, that A. P. M. that we're in a | state of perp:tual capm 1ty out keré at Evacuation 12. all packed up for a ‘week waiting for the word to go to Germany. I went on to Nancy, and found that {beautiful city transformed-from dark- streets crowded with ness into hgh( (Géntined o Page 1, Col. 7) 77 Store Closed All Doy Friday Preparing For Our BIG SALE. .