Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 19, 1920, Page 2

Phone 500 THAMES SOFT AND STIFF HATS Made to losk as goed 28 new at the BROADWAY BROATSHoE HHas A0 2 AY middle [t Sromihy: reseug he. Atiantic g tates Tuesday. (Bpecial to The Bulletin) €] cluding that of a murderer, lav t gether- in the rooms of an undo\. er on Furnace harvest of death spread neighborhood in the western part the town of Brooklyn Saturday b: Vietor Lipponen, over the northern, and snows over the . distriots east Mississinpl by Tuesday rea N S e e o0k —] west winds with fair, continued cold e west and northi\st = winds , be ‘coming variable and fair weather. H Foresast ff southern New Bngland: tinted cold Monday; H not _quite so cold, pro night. 5 Observations in Norwich The following reconds, reported from. | The Bul ohurvn‘i’ana show the ohanges in temperature and the baro- metric changes Saturday and Sunday: Sunday— ‘Ther. Bar. am . 18 24 16 y cloudy, ly snow by was intended should end her life. The dead are: - Vietor Lipponen, 38. . Mrs. Selma Luoniala, 29. Christian G. Ritter, 46. - Miss Elsie Rose Kimber, 19. Lipponen Baby, aged 4 days. The wounded: Mrs. Charles Ray. Mrs, Vietor Lipponen. * Lipponen, who evidently went stark mad SAturday afternoon, spread dumb terror through the iso- 32 2060 lated farming region in which he liv- * 30 5.70|ed With a rampage of murder, arson,| om, 3o 299y |mutiliation of animais and, fnally,| bl 2990 suicide. SR TR W e Snow| In the fréhzy that drove him on he N e wwork lgaueuom for Saturday: tly warmer. Saturday's weather—Snow followed | by_clearing. Predictions for Sunday. fair, Sunday's weather: strove to kill every living thing that he encountered and meither .human beings m0r animals escaped the frenzy of hi§ attack. His weapon was a dull but heavy axe and crushed in the skulls or faces of his vietims, hacking them savagely they fell to make certain {doom. His ghastly work left those who came to look upon. it sick with horror, and it may be said that it no parailel in the history of Windham eounty. Probably Fair ,Cold west High 1 Moon | Rises. | augurated at his own home, ich he- traveled ! deighborhood, conducting an_indt ual massacre at farmers’ homes making, In the course of an hour a : . =14 half or two hours, a trail of death BT Al R T od uien | almost too terrible to contemplate. t : $ And as a climax to the bloody orgy TAFTVILLE Lipponen sought out a farm, tempo- At the ‘Sacred Heart ‘church Sun-|be day morning at the 10.45 mass Rev.|his death by two determined pursu- Oscar Norman, formerly of Taftville,| ers—cheated, they realized as they who was recently ordained to the|looked into ‘his evil face, by only a priesthood by Bishop J. J. Nilan at!few minutes from delivering thal Hartford, said his first mass In the|SWifter end that awaited him had he church wWhich he had attended foribot used his last minutes to end hi many years. At the mass Rev. U. O.|own life, and had he shown the { Bellerose was deacon and Rev. H. F.|slightest resistence to capture. | Chagnon was sub_deacon. The church| Up to Saturday forenoon Lipponen was handsomely decorated and was| Was not known outside of the town of |Afiea with a larse congregation that|Brookiyn, and {o Ghe reaidents of inciuded many relatives and friends|that peaceful town he was known of Father Norman. Among those|generally as a foreigner, whom most leaving through HESENS g Bbtin s a present Dbesides Father Norman's|People referred to as “Hill.” He lived immediate were hig” twolon a little farm called the Corcoran + | srandmothers, Agnes Norman, | place; was peaceable and a hard work- who is 84 nd Mrs. Mary Benoit, who is §1 years old, who oc- cupied ceats in the front of the eburch. Hugh Kinder was at the ofgan and a special choir sang. Rel- atives were present from Bridgeport, Meriden, Willimantic, Central Falls, R. I, and Baltic. Father Norman has received an appointment as cur- ate at St. Ann's church, Waterbury, a5 jeaves for hat parish this morn- ng. The death of Katherine KrausS, wife of John Krauss, occurred in Norwich Sunday, following an, lilness of long duration. Mre. Krauss was| born in Bavaria,- Germauy, 47 years| ago and came to this country with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William! Wohlleben, when a small child, She has always made her home in- this| loeality where she has o large civcle of friends. She leaves her husband ang. several children. The sowstorm of Friday night has made excellent sleighing and coasting and many of the local peo-! ple who have not disposed of their| sleighs for automobiles got their old ! cutteérs out te enjoy the winter sport, " The Bearcats have at last consent. | (°Tth as follows: ed to give the marricd men a game| Some time soon after 10 o'clock lana in_repiving to Chip Dugas’ chal- t 8 |lenge Manager Murphy of the Bear- jcats classes the marri { gen Fred W. Stone,*employed at Standard Steel & Bearings Inc., N Haven, spent the week-end 4t home on South A street. NORWICH TOWN There will be a meeting of the Red Cross workers this (Monday) evening in the First Congregational chapel After a lengthy visit with relatives on Town street, Mrs. Eleanor S. Joy,! R. N., of Springfield, Mass., has re- turned. Having visited for several days at the homé of her father, Allen Way, of North Lymé, Miss Eiizabeth Way re- ;tfi;l)ud Thursday to her home on Plain By invitation of M#s. John Olsen of Town street, the members of the First Methedist church choir met at her home Friday evening for the weekly rhearsal. » Owing to the extremely cold weath- er, frozen pipes, ete, it was deemed | advisable to olose the Town Street schwol for the morning session, Pri Classes weve resumed in the aft- A By v pass- y crowd of youns people ed_through Noerwich Town 'énum,.la‘cod them from where they stood in night about ten o'clock on a sleigh- | the stanchions inflicted gapinp A“. party. The air was filled with | Wounds that sunk in through the hide the gound of horns and melodles of jand Aesh and bared the animaly ere coids ‘aceompanied by sore] songs. skulls. His pmm;ixlxhon in relation to the cows was su at he could mot in- throat liave béen prevafent in many ’_m the full force of his powerful !u-n'flq in ths"'loelflty‘ In some cases [blows upon them, but when he had every mémber has been afflieted once,|finished that chapter of his reign of fi“'flth‘:.:c. "filflgfln of the same fam- | terror in the barn the cows were y st me. all deeply slashed across ‘the forehead and down the sides of their faces. Strangely enough none of the cows fell and within two hours were looking out in a wistful way at human be- ings who came to pity them and offer i them hay which they ate with appa ent relish. Dr. F. W. Page, a veterin- arian, later atiended to the cows' wounds and it was stated Sunday' that er. He never interfered with anyone, and few of his nejghbors- entered into intimate association with him. though all were friendly , exchanging the greetings of the day as they might pass. He never had any quarrels with his neighbor: they tell the story that he was other hard-working man. As late as Satur- day morning at seven o'clock and even a couple of hours later, when he visi- ted Brooklyn village to do a little shopping, he appeared his usual ple and quiet self and wen: his affairs as any man might do, at tracting no atténtion and pleasantly greeting those who spoke to him. some day, perhaps, s. Lipponen may be able to shed light on what turned him almost instant] wrat turned him almost instanlt to 2 death-dealing but to late Sunday Able to give any intelligibl now, considered than a normal, up un- atement. Tragic Trail Begins at Home. _ The pages of horror that he w into Brooklyn's history durij tragic morning, however, ma , and where ,Selma Luoni: 28, wife of John Lucniala, of Brook! ¢ @ home nurse, was caring for Mrs. Lipponen, and her new born child. Lipponen, carrying an axe, entered his wife’'s room and made a vi swing at her with the.axe. tack feroci extreme. The axe ponen a glancing blow in the forchead and stunned her, though the wound she received was not s evident that Lipponen’s aim was bad or else that his wife rolled over in her bed and dodged. ‘In any event Lip, uwen must have felt that her end wa ‘certain, for he immediately rushed out into the kitchen and attacked Mrs. Luoniala, who had seized the in- fant in her arms and w ving to make good her, escape with t chiid. Mrs, Luonfald’s end was swift and terrible. One’ blow of the axe split her skull wide open and in failing on her face in the corner of the kitche she crushed the infant to death. and brutal in_the truck Birs. ed t ished, Lipponen weut out to the barn and started slashing at the heads of four cows th bhis axe. The ter- injurles. . A horse that Lipponen had the treatment as the cows. The murderer had other use for this animal. Har- nessing him he hitched him into bob-sled, took his axe, and drove out use KALPHO 2nd ohserve its mag- in the treatment of nervans- insomnis, brain fag, isitability, metmory, eté "rupmo 9 . ete s on ‘tHie brmin, nerves,musclesand cells; ¥ ‘wornout nerve tissues and is in- s 10 all mental workers. Con- 3 o Barniful ncr habitforming drugs., At " $1.00. Refuse substitutess “[of his yard, starting westward to- * Danielson, Jan. 18:—Five bodies, in" | vard Hampton. street Sunday, the through a a Finnish farmer who for the past two years or more! has made his home on a little farm, that borders the Brooklyn-Hampton highway. At the Day Kimball, hos- | pital in Putnam Sundayanother wo-| man, a victim of Lipporen, lay bat- for life against odds that seem- ed almost hopeless and at a home in| Brooklyn, in the neighborhood where the worst crime in Windham county’s history was ellacted, was the wife of Lipponen, half crazed from the ex- perience through which she had pass- ed and suffering from a wound that; suddenly this he as| of theiri Lippeonen’s carnival of death was in- rarily abandoned, and hung himself, to! be found within a few minutes after| and they never, as! The at-| Lip- { It was| prapared for His ghastly wark in his home fin-| rific blows he rained upon them as he! ®il probably would recover from their | barn “was not subjected to the same} ‘| made by surgeons and nurses to sa + Attacks Neighbor. . A third of a mile away was the home of Christian G Ritter, a farmer neighbor, who lives in a little farm house that sets down in a hollow at the end of a lane that leads off the main highway. Lipponen, on his mis- on of death, turned his rig into the sane. Mi. Ritter was inside, en- gaged in picking a chicken, intended for the family’s Sunday dinner. With him were his daughter, Cecelia, aged 14, and his son, Stephen J,, aged 12. _ As Lipponen drove into the yard Mr. Ritter and his children went out to meet him. As the chiliren tell the story, Lipponén talked to their fath- er for a minutq in a casual way and| about matters of mo more than pass-| ing importance, and then reaching| back picked up his axe and, ' without warning, dealt Mr. Ritter a tremen- dous blow with the weapon full in lthe face, which was completely crushed in. * Mr. Rlitter fell to thei ground and as he struggled to arise was leaped upon by Lipponen, who rained further blows with-the axe up- on him, killing him thep and there. Then the frenzled man rushed at the children, but these horror-stricken and nimble-footed woung people who dashed away and managed to avoid |the slower and more cl demon {who wouid end their livel His efiort to get the Ritter children availing him nothing, Lipponen drove away from the Ritter plage, from Ritter was absent, being for the Brookhill Manu- facturing company gt Danielson. The murderer left Mr. Ritter's body lying| {in the snow in the Yard i | Heading out through*the lane and into the highway, Lipponen continu- | ed westward. For some reason that no one ecan explain, he drove directly ipast the home of John Stalzer, who occupies what is commonly known in Brooklyn as the brickhouse and which is next westward from the Ritter place. Kills Two at Ray Home. A little ever, he turned his horse into the arive at the home of Charles Ray, who at his work in. Brooklyn, and halted the rig outstde the kitchen | door, Taking his axe he went to the kitchen door, knocked and went in. He greeted Mrs. Ray, who advanced ito meet him, with a cheery “Good morning” and then, without the {clightest warning, struck her on the head with the axe. As she went down under the awful impact of the heavy instrument Lipponen dealt her | more crushing blows, and then turned nd attacked her daughtér by her | first marriage, Miss Elsie Rose Kim- ber, 19, who came rushing .to her mother's aid. Powerless to combat the Drute human form whom she was facing, Miss Kimber suffered ~the |same fate as her mother and was {beaten down, horribly mutilated {about the head, her left arm, which she evidently had raised to shield her head, half severed from her body _Charles E. Ray, 11, was also in the kitchen, but, though Lipponen tried tq attack him while he was dealing death to the boy’s mother and sister, managed to elude Lipponen and es- cape out of doors, making his way rapidly toward the Stalzer home. The boy furnished the story of ‘the trag- edy at his home, and told how* Lip- ponen, having reaped, the harvest of | death in the house,went out and set the| Ray barn on fire, the structure butn- | ing to the ground, with two horses and | a cow, all the machinery and too !and hay being 10st in the flames. Mr.{ Ray had no insurance on the barn. The horses were. the property of-a Mr. Davis, who has been employed by a telephone company in Qoing teamin | As near as can be figured, it was between one ond two hours from the |time that Lipponen started to kill he- fore he ended his work a the Ray | from his own home, yet none at that | {time had come to interefere with him. Suicide on Abandoned Farm distance farther on, how-|" ton Furnace street. {ALLEN B. LINCOLN EXPLAINS {point that the attitude jthe £ jPlace, nearly three-quarters of a mile! ta ekt ik SAFE, PROPER DIRECTIONS - IN ‘EACH “BAYER” PACKAGE - The “Baylr Cross” marked on tab- Jets means you are getting the gen- | uine “Bayer Tablets of Aspyin”| proved safe by millions of people. In,the Bayer package proper di rections for Coids, Headache, Tooth-! ache, Earache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, | Lumbage, Sciatica, uritis and for| Pain gener: tables cost | 20 -sell only a few ce i s the | larger Bayer packages. trade mark of Bayer M Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. | be offered this week at v | it were quickly at the scenes of Lippon- |f ther quickly. en's erimes, the coroner making as thoroukh an investigation as was pos- sible under the circumstances. No Motive Known. bargain event, and the Absolutely no motive for Lipponen’s' crimes can be found. He had no cause to seck revenge against any of his victims During Saturday afternoon Mr. F# told_The Bulletin representative that on Saturday morning as Mr. Ray was | § passing Lipponen’s place on his way to| work in Brooklyn Lipponen came out and asked him_to| vs. Mr. Ray| sesl ha » twork 'and &old | Lipponen that he could not stop then. | ponen questionett and Hrs, Ray said; he would try to. At that time, Mr. Ray says, Lipponen appeared perfect- 1y rational and he noticed nothing out | of the ordinary about him.' Mr. Ray! is convinced that Lipponen intended | to kill him had he enterel th barn. i Sunday morning men who visited | | sible. bons, Laces, Trimmings, Etc. Lipponen place found that the mu gerer had packed a suit case which| he evidently intended -to take .with | him. The case contained Lipponen’s best suit, shirts, collars and ‘a raor, and it is taken as an midication that he had planned at first to make good | iz escape afier he had indulged in| %illing but lafer changed his mind | and ended his own life. ndertaker Louis B. Kennedy took | charge of the bodies of the murdered | and his victims, all of which are now In one room at Mr. Kennedy's morgue| A photographer | § Yor a’ Boston paper came here Sunday | anl got pictues of Lipponen and the | othier dead «as well as of the homes| along’ the road where the crimes oc- curred. 7 ' and Underwear, Mv£lin STATE'S AMENDMENT STAND At the Prohibitionist banquet held| in Hartford Saturday evening, in ree- ognition of the adoption of the egiht- eenth amendment of the federal con- stitution, the principal addr were made by William E. Shaw, of Mass- achusetts, at one time prohibition The Portecus A SALE OF REMNANTS AND ' BROKEN LINES Beginning today and continuing throughout the * week we will have a Sale of Remnanis, Odd Sizes, Broken Lines, Etc. ; i During the Clearance Sale a lot of short lengths and odd sizes have accumulated. All these will Every department in the store is included in this such that ro ons can afford to ignore them. Comeany day this week—come today if pos- THERE ARE REMNANTS | of Silk Dress Goods, Cloakings, Prints, Percales, Ginghams, Outing Flannels, Linings, Table | Linens, Toweling, White Goods, Cotton, Rib- THERE ARE ODD SIZES in Men’s Overcoats and Suits, Boys’ Overcoats and Suits, Sweaters for Men, Women and Chil- drén, Women's and Children’s Winter Garments, Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Winter Hosiery THERE ARE BROKEN LINES of Men’s Neckwear, Women’s Neckwear, Sus- penders, Napkins, Towels, Table Cloths, Blan- kets, Comfortables, Umbrellas, Etc. oLy FIBUSES. | The :ay old huuscs are hooded weos- From ' siop tousied Buriets aing aWIY; | bonnets of o0d, hey -M{ <1 and tue What ‘old_seoret; ere often pry amd fumble? oW hat old ehiats hurry fo and frot—r Ghosts of s that poke about and mumbie v Of bot-ieaded Youth y.h!! fretted long: ago, What_Tales and dozing and what Romances are e dreaming About the broken hearth, within the musty gloom? What Stories o7 loving and' quarre) and scheming Huddle with ‘thelr crowd each room? S0, hushed, thoy stand, like hoofed women peering— * | Thes> worn < noises that glwass dream- and sigh; : And BEE 011 mothers, they brood emd stare at hearing | Voices that vanished in the yesrs New York memories to gone by! —Lonis. Ginsb: Times. HUMOR OF THE DAY “Sce the dancing snowakes,” “Prgcticing for the snowball, F sap- pose. Bvejy dog has his day, but only | thoroughbreds get enterci at the bench shovw. “Money talks” said the political | grates “Well, if this does any talidng,” said the bribe-giver, handing, it over, ‘8t will be the last you will ever get.” “The last tinfe you:told me you's { never borrow a dollar again as long ivou lived.” “Dhats so, and' you'll rm borrowing fivers now. “Give us this day our dai one paused—*and, Oh prices which must move in the chances for economy are i notice | except that.a man across Ball is learning to play the cor~ it to get a tromhone” 7y ke got the cornet.” s stuff isn’t fit for a pig 1 thought it wa or 1 wouldn't have Texas adv.—"l have a do not want to chioroform, give ge for a dog. If there Houston who will rent more_furni 30 D, care ‘m_ getting ri Underwear, Etc. or | Don'cha come coat Onless youse want to get our goat. Jest been nicked eleven for snoes, An we puts de blame on guys like youse. round in yer leather (Boston Transeript) | G'wan away! It's not real hide; It’s only oileloth and, beside, We've coughed up eleven for bro; too. Trow. chew & Mitchell Co. vay dat rag youse tryin’ tel (Brattleboro Reformer) B candidate for governor, and by Mrs Mary Wilson. recently chosen presi dent of the Connecticut W. C. T. U. Neayly 200 perscns were in attend. gnse at the banquet hall of the Y. M. R = The toastmaster was Aflen B. Lin- coln of Hartford and Ashford, former | ed.ior of The New Englanq Home, a prohibition weekly publshed at Hart- ford in 1888-94. Mr. Lincoln made the of Connecticut in refusing to ratify the amendment s due to two principal t that the leadin: of ,the state refus v before the pub! modern The 63d annual communication Franklin lodge, No. 20, F. and A. was held in Masonic hall on High street, Saturday evening. District dep- uty Grand Master Howard Knight was e installing officer. Knights of Columbus from Westerly went to Mystic Sunday to witness the egemplificatidn of (he third de- gree by Father Murphy council of Mystic. The S. D. B. society of the Pawca- tuck Seventh Day Baptist church met in the church parlors for work Sunday of > the findings of lence as to the physical na- and effes on, ty issue is one of the of a man to drink to' and therefore his it; and ondly, that in ht to buy Going interfering LW he eame to the Doyen farm, where he drove into the Yaud, T L munule, then drov on agaih. At a poin where a cress road turns off to the left and south he | selected that route and drove to the e farm, which s ubandoned for the winter, the fami | Brook¥n, Halti | rei hi sel heriffi Edwin Bennett 'y Lathrop, both of Brooklyn, who nd him while his body was yot! | warm, life having departed probably not more than iwenty minutes, were : emergency and rmdy} to act with terrible decision, had Lip- i ponen been alive and st in fighting | mood: The murderer hung there| {limp, however, his knees resting on the ground, so long was the rein. |, Sometime afer Lipponen had left Tis own home his wounded wife, ut- terly weak from all of her experiénces |of the pgst few days and the attack upon hef, managed somehow to get out of bed, put on a pair of boots and slip on an overcoat over her night far 4 make her way on’ fdot { through - the snow for a half .mile to the Saler home ,where she eollapsed. { He wound is not & Serious one and does not endanger her life, but the | shock, taken with her general condi- ion, makes hiér condition serious and on und- o v rmpved to the Day Kimball ‘hospital at Putnam. Mre. Lipponen does not speak English . 6.8 been able gating the case i iceive the idea during Saturday fores | neon that everbody was seekink to kil | him and her, H Spread Terror In Neighborhood | The kifchen at the Ray Home was| ta real chamber of hofrors. Diffic | was experienced getting mied aid to Mrs, Ray and Miss Kimber, 50 | ! great was the terror and excitement ! jdn the neighborhood, * which _is well supplied with tclephone, ubt Dr. ¥ P, Todd of Danielson finally was focated and drove his machine at top speed to brimg aid to the two women, who lay on the kitchen floor meré than two hours. Both were unconscious from the tifne of the attack. A meo- tor ambulance, improvised- by I. B Kennedy in Danielson and men who wave at the Ray place and rendered willing aid, was used in the attempt! to get Mrs. Ray and Miss Kimber to| th Day-Kimbalk hespital at Putnam. iMr. Ray and Ernest Kennedy made { the trip with the ambuiance. i Dicd on Way to the Hospital, ! The lives of both were hanging by the slenderest threads and Miss Kim- | ber did not survive the journey, dying | on the way to the hospital. | At the hospital every offort in as X | i Mrs. Ray's life, and on 73 1 were hoping that she may 1 though little encouragement is gizon. | Mrs .Ray's’ wounds’ are of a teribl nhture. Coroner Arthur G. Bill of Danielson Tmmip Shaie (heolas T e its d on and action upen ratifi- | cation the Connecticut te senate ig- | nored the constitutioual issue invelv- ed and took practically a reactionary referendum stand. really out of ac- | cord with the representative assem ¢ essentlals of the constitution the United States, Lincoln n_bis prelim'nary addre afternoon at 3 o'clock. Later a basket supper was eaten. The annual mesting of the South County Poultry and Pet Stock. asso- clation held last week in Caledonian hall was largely attended. The re. of Edward Congdon, treasurer, | showed a balance of $44934 in the The American people, through their| treasury. William R. Wells of Ash- fundgmental ent of represen-|AWay was elected treasurer to succeed tiye gov have faken s !Bdward Congdon who has held the of- stap That institu- | fice since the association was perfect- areq by the o ed in 1911. Uniteq ource of crim business; that specific, 4 institution the alco- no longer the| tional revenue of William R. Wells, president; Wilbert A, Clark, Thomas Thorp, _Frank nch, James Bishop and William Opie, vice presidents; Roger F. Dun- ham, secretary; Alexander W. Lewi assistant-- - seeretary; Paul Rietzel, treasurer; James Bishop, chairman John Kennedy, L. Foley, Mrs. T. Rabinson, Wilbert Clark, Alexander Lewis, W. R. Wells, Jr, Mrs, A. R. Maxson and Mrs, Alexander W. Lew- is, executive committee; superintendent of show: Barl ! assistant_superintendent: Har- #3 Done cairman and Thomas Thorp, auditors. The salary of the secretary was increased from ‘$50 a of our .m hut an outlaw. fic is no longer rrotected promoted by the and deusive policy Appointed Special Escort For | Return Of Soldier Dead From Overseas WESTERLY The following officers were chosen: | Harold Do- | KALEIDOSCCPE Soundings have Dbeen obtained over all parts of the ocean, even in the two Polar seas. Needles were first made in 1545, when the making of 10 was a good day's work. 4 nglish language there are nes beginning w W than any other letter. Driven by a 300-horsepower electric motor, a slene crusher in a Michigan limestone! plant_can crush 1250 tons of roek an hour. Scientists have estimated that Lon- don’s annual fall of soot is equsl to from to pounds for each inhabi- tant of the city. biy durable textile for clothing been developed in Eng- land from snort silk fibres heretofore thought almost worthless. g to a calendar of world day in January, ex- 1t and not ineluding ‘Sun- days, is observed as a holiday somes where in the world. Mrs, H. Burton Voter, of Farming- ton, Me,, recently found there b Pal, ota Kappa key, which the owner, & s of Wesieyan, save he lost 1n 3 city of Central New York more than 10 years ago. "The addition of Unit No. 16, includ=- ing the greatest turbine and, genera- vear 'to $75. ‘The salary of the treas urer was fixed at §10 and that of the superintendent of the show $20. T lowing the meeting there was an en- tertainment with dancing and refresh- ments served. The fiction at the Memorial li- brary has been arranged on the open shelves in an_attractive manner with | individual shelves for detective stories, { s stories and books. girls prefer ks boys like best. An excellent | collection of religious books has been | placed on the open shelves and among this collection are many readable vol- umes. | Local Laconies. | | _ Linemen of the Shore Line Electric |, | Railway have heen at work repairin | Buy wires_in Dixon square. George D. Tillinghast and family of | | Wequetequock have moved to their | | new: home in Brooklyn, N. Y. | "Dr. and Mrs. A. B. Briggs of A: {away are to leave today | for Daytona, Fiorida, whers | spend the remainder of the wint Mrs Ciaries F. Champlin of the West Side has been in Providence | visiting her husband. a patient at the |tor in_the world, to the plant of the | Hope Street hospital. Tt is expected | company that utilizes the water pow- | that Mr. Champlin will bedischarged |er of Niagara Jalls means the begin~ from the hospital during this week. |ning of an annual saving . of 994,000 | _ Charles P. Tecleston, president, and | fons of coal. 3 | Frank L. Powell, manager of the Lau- | ponpje Lad, a Scotch collie- owned rel Glen Lime works have been in |y jopn Gallasher the Kansas City | Boston to attend the amnual Retail|ilennel cib, lost ai but two teeth in | Shoe Dealers’ association exhibition in | 2 “fete with o bulldog. His master | Mechanies’ hall. _They were aceom- | o 01 W% Gentist and now Bonnie panied by +John_J. Johnsonm, SUperin-|y.; nas a full set of faise teeth, two tendent of the Westerly branch. The A urel Glen company are exhibiting a = ¥ P special lne of e product in s e ,)‘“;“‘jfii‘e'%‘éemg c;}]‘.‘l“gb, having two spaces in the bal N ed on Scptembor 2. This was 3 the first American steamship to en- h- license and local option—a policy hich was nothing other than a m era revival of the old-time delusion of squatter sovereignty and under which in recent years, the liquor traf- fic had entrenched itsel in its strons- holds and hag become an effective balance of power in politics. The big system of breweries and distilleries, which could deplay _itself in eympathetic states, and thence through interstato commeree measur- ably nullify the popular will in prohi- bition states; the big- system of brew- | eries and_distilleries, the backbone of the traffic, has sone out of busi- ness forever. The adoption of the Amendment is the culmination ‘more. than onc hundred years of agit tlon, For more than fifty President Taft has plam trend of supreme ions was foreteling the prescnt out- come: plainly warning those in the quor busines that it was a public ‘meniace; and that no business of such o damaging character could = expect other than increasing restraint and fl- nal_elimination, for the sake of the public welfare. The amendment has been adopted at every step in exact the Federal constitution: approved and submitted in msuai and proper form by cengress: ratiled by an over- whelming majority of legislators In representative aesemblies chosen by the people in forty-five out of forty- eight states. To attempt to indict the sincerity or genunensss of that re- marksble 1 s to quesiion ¢ character and of the A ican people. er technicalities ercounter in pra CORYAIGHT PRESS ILLUSTRATING SSAVICE, M. Y. Former Sergeant Willie Sandlin, of Hyden, Kr., who has been ap- pointed by Secretary Baker, 4 spe- eial escort for the rcturn of our soldier dead-from oversaas. Sand- lin was appainted on recommenda- tion of Mujor Gene cause eof his unnsual record in World War. He is said to rank second only to Sergeant York im his exploits against the enemy. - the ou_ sclentific inquiry and con- Brmied by sxparience. a great forward ntcord with the method provided by | fer the port of Dieppe. The captain and the chief engineer were received by the local authorities at the 1ow s hall and were presented With. souye- nir medals of the event. step has been taken, and the outcome is-as certain as natural law. “Afri- oam_slavery is doomed because it is against nature.” declared Ralph VWal- do Emerson; apd the same prophecy will hold® true for the alcoholic drink traffic. condition as when raised from the bottom of the sed. Her decks are uncovered, and one heavy sea swell would ea: fill the . bunker holk well as the hatches. Only three boil. ers could be used on the voyage, and they broke down when the ship was two days out of the Azores. The {U. S, Bobvo-Link was in attendance nq towed the ship into port. Aside from that assistance and a tow be- PLAINFIELD BOY ON SHIP RAISED FROM SEA BOTTOM| The raising of the U. S. S, Ophir| from the bottom of the sea at Gibral- tar is of local Interest inasmuch as Arthur Dayon, Jr. of Plainfield was a | member of the crew of the ili-fated | transport, The transport is at] Hampton Roads, Va. tween the Bermuda Islands and Ner- Mr. Dayon was formerly of the 13th | folk, the vessel made the voyage Company. C. A. C. i He was|der her own steam. rejected at Fort T but .xlt(’rl - et undersoing an operation in the Back- duriior Shot Coupes; jus hospital, performed by T R. R. for members of the Agnew, he enlisted «lubs will be held at cember 1817, During the wir ho w s college during the jatter part of on a mine layer and afterwards w v, the exact dates to be annonnced ; ! engaged niine sweeping, e had| nis b : 19°months. service In foreign waters.| J4tee: | This will be open to all mem. The Ophir.is to be towed to New York | “ST 00 W0 SO ore members of by_two. barges. . state ehamplonship teams, have been With reference to the raising of the| TCSa0a Tllia of 810 each tn cever Ophir the Virgtnian Pilot of Norfolk.| cyiences of travel and lodgiig’ iel- Z dental to the course. This sum will sufieiont \to cover fhe potiyal cost of (he course. Six bovs, of the pig club Hlar prizes’ by i Va., sa After four months at the bottom of | i s beyond | tempeorary the L‘ ine room, the T arrived " in v Haven compen; hampton oz te Thirsday even- | A:;' Tmemibe oL i ing from Gibraitar, pi 3 Rior L one of the Sherman Sireat Property Sald, Real Estate Broker Joha A, Myren has sold for Mrs. N. E. Smith of New Bedford, Mass., the eight-room &bt~ til November 2§, when a nayaj,ewew of | tage with modern improvements at’sh cfficors, Caviwin L. L Connelly, | Sherman. strcet to John ‘Colemas, 8r, and 68 men . were as-|who is soon tq Occupy the property signed to bring the vessel back to the|for his home, . - PR Upited States. . Bight wonten. wives of RYER g enlisted men, were also on the Ophin [ Too many men who have The vessel is practically in the sameare unable to make good. by (he Unitad g navy The vessel remained m G