Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 10, 1919, Page 5

BULLETIN, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1919 No soap sells like it. Nosoapis llhz We advertise exactly as it is THE WAIST- SEAM MODELS You're sure tv like them; especially young men.. We can tell you confidentially, that it's going to be THE style for young men this season. There’s just a little military touch to the thing that makes quite a hit with the men “coming back,” as well as the fellows who stayed. COLORS ? oxford, biue, brown, green and a few mixtures, PRICES ? $22.50 TO $45 ALL-WOOL ? YES; AT $27.50 TO $45 Murphy & McGarry 207 MAIN STREET p S J ¥ F 4 Price Reductions This Spring we have reduced the price of many supplies. Everready Batteries 5c. Rubber Covered Wire V,c a foot. Fuse Plugs 2c each. Solder 20c a Pound. We have several bargains in Prepared Paint. You can't af- ford to wait until these bar- | gains are gone. [EATOR CHASE €O, 129 Main Street, Norwich! DELCO-LIGHT The complete Electric Power "“'U'hl e safe electric light means [ Bright, more protection for your premises. CARL W. BROWN 28 Shetucket 8t, Norwich, Conn. Telephone 13720 FRANK G. BENSON Teacher of Violin ORCHESTRA For Dances, Weddings and Receptions. 92 Fifth Street. Phone 1251-13 SHOE REPAIRING PEOPLE are too wast throwin, away their old shoes. r6u woul efu 1 | white stripes. jdered service of 3200 hours covering |including knitting and sewing. Norwief, Saturday, May 10, 1919 VARIOUS MATTERS Light vehicle . lamps at 8.23 o'clock this evening. T The Sunday summe: train on ibe! start tomorrow. Bxchange tickets for “Halt Cecelia,” Cranston's, 10 o'cloca today.—adv. The Niantic Chamber of 'Commerce at its annual meeting this week elected H.'P. Billard, president. Special message service by Mrs. Atwood, Spiritual Academy Sunday. —adv. At the Golden Spur, Seth L. Cowles! 1§ at his home, after two years over- seas. with the Engineers’ Corps. In' the gardens at the Norwich Almse House peas are up and Supt. James B. Chapman has potatoes planted. A requiem high mass for Miss Mar- garet Harrigan was sung at St. Pat-{ rick's church Friday at 8 o'clock by Rev. J. H. Broderick. Delegates from Connecticut are in Bostoh to attend the American Physi- cal Educational Association, Eastern Division, conference. The teachers in .Norwich for the| corvention Friday crowded the hotels! and restaurants at noon and following! the afternoon session. Contributions to the White Ribbon Banner fund acklowledged in the cur rent issue include: Canterbury '§1 Central Village $1, Essex $1. Norwich Rural association annual meeting, Wednesday evening, May 14, at 8 o'clock at home of Miss Cather- ine Kent, 417 Washington street.—adv- Surrounding towns are appointing! delegates to the county conference of| churches and ministers at the United Church, Norwich, Tuesday next. George Brown, of Mystie, who te- cently purchased the oll mil property, is making improvements, moving buildings and painting up all the old shacks. Chalrman Howard Chapman of| Saybroek, reported to headjuarters that the town went uver the top, hav- ing reached its Victory Loan juofa at 10 a. m.,, Wednesday. Trappers throughout Connecticut are encouraged to hope for a biz sea- son since foreign huyers are in thi: country paying high prices for mink, | Valley Division to N2w London will| PERSONALS Miss Couranna Savoie was a recent visitor in Norwich. Alexander Jordan of Norwich was a 3usiness caller in Stonington Wednes- ay. i Miss Mary Carroll and Mrs. T. Wal- lace of Norwich’have been visiting Sterling relatives. Philip Chamberland and Peter Tin- ker of Waterford were recent guests at Albert Chamberland’s in Sterling. been elected secretary of the Mt. Hol- | ¥oke college debating society for next year. Holyoke Debating society for year. Winifred Ballou of Norwich been visiting her grandparents, and Mrs. Samuel Collins, Village. Joseph D. Haviland of Greene ave-'| nue, who has been ill for many weeks, has so far recovered as‘to be up'and about the house. Mrs. George Gadbois has returned to her home at Central Village, after staying -in Norwich and New London with relatives during the winter. Mrs. Charles M. Gallup, of CIff street, who dislocated her right knee by a fall, was comfoptable Friday, al- though the injury is proving both painful and serious. WEDDING. Mabrey—Lowndes. Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock in next hbs Mr. of Central St. John's Episcopal church, Sharon, Penn., Nelson Lee Mabrey and Miss Nancy Lowndes were united in mar- riage Rev. Edward J. Owen. The best man was Mr. Mabr brother- in-law, Ernest Gifford Champlin, of Sharon, formerly of Norwich, and the bridesmaid was Miss Miriam Lowndes, the bride’s sister. The bride was given away by her father. Her gown was of blue georgette. She wore a hat of white leghorn and carried an arm bouquet of American Beauty roses. The bridesmaid’s frock was also of blue, she, too, wore a Leg- horn hat and her flowers were sweet peas, Following a reception -at _ the Lowndes home, Mr. Mabrey and his bride left for Boston. They arrived in Norwich Friday morning and were guests at The Wauregan House dur- ing the day, ledving for New York on Friday evening. Their engagement was announced March 18th. The bride is the. daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Lowndes, of South Irvine avenue, Sharon. Mr. Ma- marten, raccoon and beaver. The flags in Noank were displayed| at half mast Wednesday during the funeral of Captain Cornelius Fowler. Burial was in the family plot in the Valley cemetery with the committal} service of the G. A. R. Live lobsters today, 35 cents Ib.. all large heavy stock. will pick out a | third more meat than the light chick- brey is the younger son of Louis and the late Elizabeth Dill Mabrey, of Nor- wich. He is in the offices of the Stan- dard Car Construction company at Sharon. Those of his Norwich friends who knew of his presence in town Fri- |day made haste to tender him hearty !congratulations and to express their | best wishes to his bride. On account | of the rush of post-war orders, Mr.| Mabrey was able to secure but four or five days’ leave and he and bride | | en lobsters. Try Powers Bros. for value.—adv. ‘A check for $100, including collee- i v Miss Ma a Butte and Mrs. 8. Fiske, is to be forwarded | = the Food Tor France Fund headquarters by Mrs, Oliver L. John- !t won, of Norw , county chairman, Mrs. John R z s'ate regent of the Arnarican Buel Da: Revolution, Connecticut Providence 40 Noyesz aveque thefr house at Mair onington, for a y len. . | Musical comedy at Slater hall May 13, Connecticut college girls—adv. | For the second year Norwich prop-; erty owners have until June 10th, in-' ead of April 10th, to pay their taxes. to Collector Thomas A. Robinson, due to a legislative act putting forward the board of relief meeting from Oe-| tober to Mareh. i The funeral of Alice O'Neil, wife! + will reside at They have rented Crossing, North ar, to Ernest Al- | | of Judge Jehn E. Fahey, was held ‘nt 9 o'cl Fri; morning " at St. 1 hurch, Rockville, the requiem | was in St. Ber-| | Pupils from Norwich parochial} ccls will compete, when, on June 13 | nd 14 at Mt St. Joseoh Academy, | Hamilton Heights, Hartford, the an- |pual competitive examinations will be held for the four scholarships offered by the Academy. It is mentioned that Chaplain John Landry, of the transport service, for- merly of All Hallows' parish, Moo- sup. who has been visiting at his par- jents’ home in Bristol, rejoins his ship the Susquehanna. today (Saturda This is Chaplain Landry’s third voy | 2ge overseas. The overseers and faculty of Whit- man college in Walla Walla, will com- memorate June 7-10 the 25th anni- versary of the administration of Pres- ident Stephen B. L. Penrose, who married Miss ' Mary Shipman, daugh-| ter of Judge and Mrs. Nathaniel Ship-| man, of Norwich ancestry. George Coe, who died at the Ma- sonic. Home in Wallingford, May 7. was born in Groton the son of Benja- min and Phoebe Sayre Coe. He mo ed to Meriden, where his only son die He and his wife had been at the Ma-| sonic Home for 20 years. Burial was| in Jordan cemetery, Friday. SERVICE BADGES TO SHOW RED CROSS WORK Norwich chapter of the Red Cross has just received notice. of the plan adopted by the American Red Cross in issuing _certificates which carry with them the right, to purchase service badges’ for women and buttons for men. Women, who have rendered service of 800 hours, covering a minimum pe- riod of six months, dating from April 6, 1917, are entitled to 2 barge with plain blue ribbon. Women who have rendered service of 1600 hours, cover- ing minimum period of twelve months are entitled to badge with one white stripe. Women who have rendered service of 2400 hours, in minimum of eighteen months, are entitled to two Women who have ren- minimum of twenty-four months, are entitled to badge with three white| stripes. This service may have been rendered at the rooms or elsewhere, A special service badge is design- ed for women who have been preve ed, by lack of opportunity, ing, more than 400 hours service, the six months period. Men who have rendered the Red Cross, ¢xceptional service, are enti-| tled to a button, which is unchanged. for varying degrees of service. | No recognition is granted for ser-| vice prior to April 6th, 1917, The wearing of the Red Cross ser- vice badge or buttor, is strictly con- fined to civilian dress. The application blanks for Norwich ‘have been put in charge of Miss Ma- tilda Butts, 272 Washington, and it is in take them to the Broadway Shoe Re- pair and Shine Parlors, they would make them like new. Give them a trial. 52 Broadway. apr24d BROADWAY SHOE REPAIR SHOP WHITESTONE CIGARS Are $48.00 Per Thousand Sl CONANT 11 Fraaklin St required that all blanks must be filled out and returned before June 1, so that those who want the badges or buttons’ must lose no time in making application. Saybrook.—Mr. and Mrs. William H. Pond of Hartford have opened thelr, cottage at Oheq's Heights, Sarhrook, for the summer. j {her home are returning at once to Sharon, where they will reside. OBITUARY. Mrs. Charles H. Kimball. Friends of Mrs. Charles H. Kimball were grieved Friday to learn of her " death, which occurred Thursday night i out 10 o'clecck at her home, 324 ashington street, from angina pe torus. Mrs. Kimball had been in poor hea for ten years and had failed rapi n the past three months. The h . end came suddenly and was quite un- expected, as during the day and even- ing she had been out and around the Kimball, whose maiden name ry A. Fieming, w: born in iese, Scotland, March 5, 1871. In 1894, in New York cil she H. Ki 1, who survives her, together with a daughter, Ruth, who resides at home. She is also survived by her mother, who resides in Dumfriese, and a broth- er in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Xngland. Mrs. Kimball was of cheery person-' ality and her quiet manners attracted to her a large number of friends by whom she will be greatly missed. She, was a loving and indulgent mother and a valuable helper to her husband: in the Textile Shop, ! which was greatly due to her untiring| efforis and excellens gnanagement. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have lived for| about :& years in Norwich Town, dur-! ing which they have made several trips abroad. Patrick Galligan. The funeral of Patrick Galligan was held on Friday morning from his late North, street with friends es attending, some coming tic, Stonington, Stafford Sorings and other places. There were many beautiful floral tributes. At the services at St. Patrick’s church Rev. Peter J. Cuny -sang the mass of re- September was married to Charles quiem. At the close of the services Mrs. F. L. Farrell rendered Face to Face. The bearers were six sons-in- law, Patrick Quinn of Norwich, Rich- ard Cunnan of . Groton, Cornelius Donahue of Mystic, Timothy Lynch of toningtoy, Louis Ely of Stafford prings and William Handrahan of Norwich. Burial took place in St. Mary’s cem- etery. Mrs. Henrietta Safford Clarke. Nogwich relatives received a tele- gram Friday, announcing the death at near Rochester, Mrs. Henrietta Safford Clarke, daugh- ter of the late Morgan and Emmeline | Yerrington Safford. The Safford fam- ily lived for fifty years on Union street, in the third house above the Central Baptist church. Previous to her marriage in 1870 Mrs. Clarke was an active member of that church, Mr. Safford was one of the constituent! members when the church was formed in 1840. He was in business at 158 | Main street from 1840 to 1837, Mrs. Clark was a very active, ener- getic woman, and will be well remem- bered by many old friends in Norwich who will be grieved to learn that she has passed away. She was much in- terested in all forms of church work. Her husband died several years ago and she has lost two of her five daughters. She is survived by one son, Morgan Safford Clarke, who resides near his mother’s late home, and by three daushters, Mrs. Doyle of Rima, N. Y, with whom Mrs. Clarke has made her home for several years, Mrs, Bailey of St. Joseph, Missouri, and Mrs. Guillett of New York city. There are ten grandchildren. The husbands of two of the daugh- ters are now overseas, Dr. Bailey be- ing in the Medical Corps, A. E. and ‘Prof. Guillett in Y. M. C. A. ser vice in France. In Norwich there is one nephew, William B. L. Cranston, and there are Six cousins, Herbert L. | Yerrington and Charles A. Yerrington, and Frank, William, Lucias and Hen- rv Bill Fenton. Mrs. Frank J. McCone. ! After a wee illness with the gr Nellie wife of ¥rank J .\{cCunc“ passed away at her home at 12 Prat{ reet at 1.15 o'clock this She was born in this city the da of Michael and Katherine McCarthy Ryan. On June 6, 1895, she was unit- ed in marriage with Frank J. McCone! of this city. Besides her husband she| leaves one daughter, Katherine Gran-| ces McCone, a sister, Mrs. T. J. Han- drahan, and a brother, ‘Michael J. Ryan, of this city. Stratford.—Bids for a million dollar concrete drawbridge over the Iousa* tonic river between Mitford and Strat- ford will be received at the office of State Highway Commissioner Bennett Miss Ruth C. Child of Putnam has| Miss Ruth C: Child of Putriam has been elected secretary of the Mount| the success -of ; | playing - cert gave two more emn NORWICH VICTORY BONDS First day 152. .. .$230,90( Second day . 14 28,40( Third. day .. 177,40 Fourth day 148,95( Fifth day 51,700 Sixth day 25,15( Seventh day 181,20( Eighth day 23,90¢ Ninth day . 188 76900 Tenth day 131 83,55( Eleventh day .... 234 142,250 Twelfth day .. 220 129,15¢ Thirteenth day ... 257 135,400 Fourteenth day 192 61,400 Fifteenth day 268 100,15C Sixteenth day 215 67,450 Seventeenth day .. 414 84,350 2968 $1,736,200 Norwich quota . .11,695,000 Over the quota .. $41,200 Norwich shot out the top of its Vic- tory loan- thermometér on Franklin square with a volcanic burst Friday and the sun of Victory in the symbolic window in the Thayer building rose to full orbed splendor when the patri- otie citizens put loan clean over él‘;s top on the town's quota of $1,695,- By 11 o'clock in the morning Chair- man Nathan A. Gibbs knew that the town was over the top so that a man with a red paint brush from the Nor- wich-New London Poster Advertising Co. at once got busy with great big splash of lurid color at the top of the thermometer to show that Norwich had $1,712,850 up to the close of the morning report. Afternoon figures brought to the banks brought the grand total to 3$1,- 786,200. And we are still going. This put Norwich $41,200 over the top and we are still going. Subscrip- tions made on Friday were by 414 subscribers for a’total of $84,350. The total number of subscribers has now reached 2,968, and will no doubt go considerably beyond 3.000 before the books are closed. It has been the solid patriotic finan- ot support of the indiv al sub- scribers that has counted for more than a million dollars in the Victory loan for the Norwich banks have taken but $700,000 of the bonds, al- though they stood ready to take more i mecessary, and it has been their substantial and helpful aid that h: made it possible for many individuals to_make the su s they have. Norwich has made # magnificent re- cord in every loan.call, going beyond its quota every time, and subscrib- ing the grand total of $8,974,100, a fi- nancial response that would have beei considered impossible, if could have been known a few -years ago that we would be called upon to make it. The ger the call the better Norwich HAD MEDAL PINNED ON BY KING OF ENGLAND On the Victory relic train serving as a guard only, was a lad who was en- tirely unassuming and modert, but yet had been decorated with a Briti military medal by King George him- This lad was Arthur Morris of Chelsea, Mass., a boy who went acro: when the first call came and was br gaded with the British as a stretcher rer and ambulance driver. The 0 had very little {o say about him- elf when the train was in Norwich Thursday, except that he did his d as he saw The story is t A ur Morris ent out one dark night to bring in the wounded te the British after He had two companions with They searched the battlefield west. They were returning to their mbulance and were going through a avine when a shell exploded. All e knocked to the ground and when Morris came to his comrades re lying across him, torn by the 1l he himself being uninjured. He tarted to ry one of the campions to the ambuignce a short distance away when a Hun plane made its ap- pearance and dropped flares and then opened with a/ machine gun. Morris kept on with hls man, put-him beside the ambulance: gnd returned for the other. When he' liad brought him back bulance off, smashed two tires and otherwiseawrecked the machine. He looked at the motor, it looked all right, and he tried to start it, but nothing stirring. He looked for his gas tank. It was gone. Morris then set to, thinking.all the time the Hun trying to ggt him with€the machine gun. ThereSwas.gne chance. Hevrhad two extra cans Ofspetrol and he took one, made a hole in it, stuck in a piece of hose from his pump#nddattached to the feed pipe. He strapped sthe can on the engine and set to work to tart the motor. After tweny min- utes one cylinder responded and he tied his comrades on the broken ma chine and started for the lines with chine gun spraying the immediate vi- cinity with [ leaden hail. He made the lines, but ™ ¢ of his comrades had bled to death. For this bravery he was awarded the medal, only thirty of them being awarded to Americans during the w: He is to Dbe given the U. D guisned Service Cross soon. WONDERFUL PIANIST IN SLATER HALL CONCERT In the final one of the Academy muscal course, given Frid: an audience that enthralled with her mu: have caused critics to the greatest of pianists times. Her audience gave tribute tg her genius. in everv number. Hc. s full of del v and ima- gination and yet of power, her tone of liguid purity and her technique su- premely proficient without ostenta- tion. The programme was as follows: Prelude, Cesar Franck Choral and Tugue Chant Polonaise, One Etude, Chopin Gambati and at the res, the Rhapsodie (Liszt) and Shadow Dance (MacDowell). The stage decorations in potted paims were by Geduldig. Mid-Spring Novelty Hop. A mid-spring novelty hop that was attended by 60 couples was given on Friday evening Friday evening at the Wauregan house dining room by N. H. Levy, the dancing instructor and was greatly enjoyed by the guests of whom many came from out of town. Row- land’s orchestra played for the dan- at the capitol June 5. ing. 5T him. but found no one but those who had gone a shell had blowngthe body of the am-; one cylinder running and a Hun ma-{ Nocturne, Schumann | Turkish March, Beetiioven-Rubinstein From the “Ruins of Athens” Les ‘Airs de Ballet, Gluck-Saint Saens from “Alceste” . Debussy Philipp “OVER THE TOP AND STILL GOING [liked Tt and responded. apparently, for | the oversubscription on the largest of {the calls, the fourth, was the largest! of all. How Norwich has responded on each jcall is shown as follows, with the re- {turns in complete, of course, as yet| on the present Victory loan: Quota. Subscription. June 1917 - .......$1,050,000 81,1‘3)0.000 October 1917 - 1,250,000 ' 1,650,000 May 1918 . .~ 1,251,400 1,600,000 October 1918 . 2,260,000 2,877,900 April 1819 ..0..5. 1,695,000 1,736,200 Totals ....31,506,400 $8,974,100 The following shows the chairmen {and “number of subscribers in sach oan: 1st—Charles L. Hubbard . 4,000 2nd—Charles R. Butts . 5,130 srd—Charles R. Butts 10,350 4th—William H. Allen 11,848 athan A. Gibbs . 2,968 34,206 Women’s Committee Reports. | Subscriptions continued to come in on Friday at the women's committee| headquarters in the corner store in thei Thayer building, where Mrs. . Oat was on duty in the morning and Mrs. Albert Reece. in the afternoon, with Mrs. W. H. Dawley, the general chairman, directing the work. Forty-four subscriptions for a total of $9,450 were reported for the day. Included in these were the followin High street school $150, Hobart ave nue school $50, Broadway school $50, Mt. Pleasant street school $100, stores $1150, Victory train (afternoon) $2,- 800, headquarters $650, Camp Fire G'“;)I(?Q $100, Victory train (evening) 2 1 For the week the women's commit- tee has reported $85,750 raised and for the grand total of their work to Fri- day $146,900. Chief Stanton’s Offer. Nothing happened in the fire line on Triday to give any Boy Scout a chance| |to give Chief Howard L. Stanton the| salute and thus win a bond sale to_the| chief, so that the chief announced Fri-! day evening that he would carry out| his offer to buy a bond from the first! Scout who gives him the salute after, 10.20 a. m. today. That will keep the| Scouts on the qui vive and on the trail, of the chief to see who. will be the; wideawake one to sell him a bond. Camp Fire Girls. The Camp Fire Girls reported Fri- y night that their work had sold 43 bonds for a total of $3,850. The ladies’ theatre committee, of which Mrs. Albert H. Chase is chair-! man, sold at the theatres last week| bonds to the amount of $9,850. At the! train Thursday they also sold $3,600' worth, thus making a total of $13,450/ secured by their efforts. The ladies at the train were Miss Louise B. Meech, Miss Edith Young, Mrs. J. N. Rosen- berg, Mrs. M. Le Mrs. J. M. Lahn, Mrs. mon Solomon, Mrs. S. Hertz, and Mrs. Albert H. Chase. Expect Banks to Keep Open. The Bulletin received the following telegram Friday evening: Bosto-:, Mass., May 9. ‘The Bulletin, Norwich, Conn.: The federal reserve bank here has sent the following telegrams: “Expect banks to arrange to take supscriptions for Victory loan all day Saturday and as late in the -evening as necessary and to-accept all subscrip- | tions mailed to them on Saturday.” LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE OF NEW ENGLAND. It was predicted by those in touch with the local situation that Norwich; would be at least $100.000 over the top| by the time the figures close. | Team reports made Friday were as follows: Team. 1—H { | i | night' i i T. Parker W. Higgins . . 3—George T. Higgins 4—Robert C. Johnson —Joseph E. Burns .. B. Palmer ... 7. A. Desmond 9—Martin_Rozyckl . 10-11—A. Torrance .... . W. Davissf. E. Peckham B. Potter . $42,900 51,800 16—C. D. Noyes ..: 17—W. E. Manning 18—1J. D. Pfeiffer ... 19—Abner Schwartz 20—C. A. Sherman . GAVE PRETTY SHOWER FOR MISS FLORENCE TURCOTTE On Friday ‘evening at the Community | Center at 142 Main street s miscella-| neous shower was given Miss Florence Turcotte by twenty of her friends in| honor. of her approaching marriage to! Sergeant Francis' Toomey, which takes place June 30th. The hall was pretily | decorated in green and pink and on the table in the center of the hall was placed a huge paper rose in which were the many gifts for Miss Tur-| cotte. After the opening of the gifts| which were handsome and useful, the evening was spent with music, dancing and games. Those present were M Anna McCarthy, Mi: Miss Florida Marsan. is Annie Marsan, Miss Anna| ell Rabinovitch, Mis: He!en‘ Guinan, Miss Josephine Murphy, Miss; Bernadete Breault, iss Helen and Jennie MsBurney, Eva Young,; Miss Clara Zahn, & Mis TLou Battey and Mrs. Henrietta Smith. ! Mrs. Stearns was hostess and Mrs. Jennie Fensley and Mrs. Fred Fleming | chaperoned the party. | Dainty refreshments of sandwiche cake and cocoa were served by M Florida Marsan and Miss Josephine; | Murphy. NEW LONDON NEEDS TO SUBSCRIBE $358,800 MORE representing 0 subscribers. SCHOOL GIRL MAKES | BIG SOND RECORD In the Victory Loan bond selling among the schools, Mis Esther Staplin, | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stap- {lin of Bliss place sold bonds to the amount of $9.400 in vne afternoon. an enviable record that was not equalled| by some of the men solicitors. She at-| tends the Broad Streer school. i i t | Frank Stager Moving to Brooklyn. | Frank H. Stager, formerly of 493 st Main strect, who left the city! several months ago to g0 to Piu»b\r-ghl . a leather and in 3 Mr. Stager he rom New York Friday night and: is to remove his househvid goods to Brooklyn where he is to reside. He found he could not gzet to like living in Pittsburzh and made the, | chanze to New York when a promis- | g oportunity came his way £ who has Resumes Grain Business Managemen. Private Chester Q. Bell, i been in the army | Camp Merritt ha. | has resumed his p ias manager ‘of the 1 Company. J d.| ion in this city orwich Gmn} | through it again for three fortunes; it EDDIE WEISGRABER HOME; - - ESCAPED FROM GERMANS With two wound stripes on his right sleeve, his shrapnel-dented tin -derby slung over his shoulder. his suit case. full of “Heinie” souvenirs, and his face radiating the happiness he felt at be- ing in Norwich once -again, Private Eddie Weisgraber, hero:of many bat- tles and member of the -first brigade of the Canadian army, arrived home after three years of service in France, Belgium and Germany,--«ua-- [ Of his experiences in battle and in the German prison. camp -at Luxem- burg, from which. he made his escape, he had little to say, but of the ‘brutal- ity and fiendish’warfare of the Huns, 30x3........ $11.00 30 x 3%...... $1450 28x3........51050 The Johnson Co. 107 FRANKLIN ST, and 28 men. Lieutenant Commander Freeland Allan Daubin is in command with Lieutenant Commander Garnett Hullings as executive officer. . The other officers are Ensign M. T. Grub- ham and Gunner William §. Henry, C. P. Morris, who has been stationei at the submarine base and is well known here, came over on the U-111 as chief electrician. PRIV. EDWARD WEISGRABER. especially the Prussians, he had a good deal to say, “I've seen and done nothing, and all I want to d is to forget the war: what is past i nothing, heard nothing, gone. 1 wouldn't take a fortune for my experiences, but I would not go s too horrible for words.” i Private Weisgraber. enlisted in the Sosie Divoree For Caislty., ., Canadian arm yin 1915 and was sent| Myrtle Blake a waitress in New overseas almost immediately. He was| London has brought suit for divorce three days in England and in France' {rom Raymond Bailey, alleging intol- went almost directly to the front lines. After four weeks he with a squad of men were cut off from his comrades i erable cruelty as the grounds for the suit. She seeks the custody of two minor children. The suit is returnable | poral and risked his life time after {a bomb. | tons on the and he was taken prisoner by the Sax-| before the superior court the first ons. “Lucky for me it wasn't the| Tuesday in June. Prussians,” said Private Welsgraber, “or I wouldn't be here tonight. They were devils and showed no mercy. The THE DIME SAVINGS BANK Saxonls were fair fighters and fought OF NORWICH. clean. The regular Semi-Annual Dividend He was first taken to Munsters and then to Luxemberg. Being ‘able to speak German fluently, he was made an interprefer for the prisoners and, watching his chances, one dark night he made his escape. Traveling always at night, sleeping days and eating raw turnips and other things he could has been declared at the rate of 4 per cent. a year from the earnings of ‘the past six months, on and after M. bt NK L. steal, Ly walking, riding freight cars and by motor lorries, after three I E REAM 4 weeks, he reached his own lines. Here| 1 he was, as is the custom, given a chance to go to the rear, but he re- fused and stuck with: the boys in the front lines. He has been on various missions to Egypt, Malta, Italy, Belgium and even went ‘into the German lines as a cor- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL (GUARANTEED). PETER COSTANDI, 2 Pel. 571, 112 Franklia St time to gain information for the allied cause. His deeds of valor on the field under fire and his missions came un-| der the personal notice of Marshal Foch, who recommended him for pro-| motion to an officer. Private Weis- graber refused the honmor rather thanj leave.his comrades with whom he had gone through hell. 1 At one time he rescued from a shell| hole Lieutenant Badger, who since; died of wounds, but before his death wrote to The Bulletin of Private Veisgraber’s deeds of bravery and {it' through this source'that we learn of actions, and not from his own lips. The rescue was effected under terrifici shell fire and machine gun fire, but he received a machine gun bullet in the| leg. He was in the hospital twelve! weeks. At unother time he was again hit and went to Blighty for nine weeks. ! In telling of a certain battle he said that when he and his companions went' after a machine gun the Huns would, keep peppering until they were on him and then cry “Kamerad” and hold up} their hands; but shoot you in the back! if he got a chance. The only way to, get them was .to hand them| COLUMBIA BICYCLES The Standard of the World — See our latest Display of High Grade his Bicycles. The Pla;t-—c;dden Co. 135 tc 143 MAIN STREET Established 1872 “We couldn’t bayonet a man with! his hands up, but we weren’t respon-| ble for what a bomb would do. This| was the only way to treat those Heines for. they shoot you the minute your back is turned.” Other horrible brutaMties of the Ger- mans were described by Private Weis- eraber but are too herrible for pub- lication. : Private Weisgraber arrived in Hali- fax on Good Friday, but has been at{ a camp in Canada sinee then. He has been wounded twice and gassed, but shows no effects from either, although his helmet has been dented with shrap- nel in several places, as loud in his praise for the women who were in the hospitals and on the fields and aiso praised the X s for their work last spring. The anks were a welcome sight last spring when they stopped the rush of Heine for France and they sure did tight and I am proud to be one of the same nation, although I served under another flag, he said. 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