Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 20, 1922, Page 8

o A, o i e WEST Thomas Hartley who stepped into prominerce last week by defeating George N. Brown, the champion long distance walker, now issues a challenge 10 Brown, to walk him any distance, but the rase must be out of doors and not on sn exhibition walking machine. Hart- ley says he realized that he had some sxeeptional walking ability from the way bo easily passed young men liké himself on his way to and from work. He say that at & recent walking contest between Westerly and Bradford, he was bar- rod becaus it was apparent that he had exceptional walking abllity. When Brown's challenge appoared in a Provi- dence newspaper Hartley immediately answered it, but received no reply. De- termined to get into the race he set out tor Providence on the day scheduled for the, event and go: into line. As to the news in Providence papers that | Brown did not know he was racinz Hartley, the latter says that the race was arranged between them. He per- sonally challenged the champlon, who a cepted. Hartley is of exceptionally fine physique and an athlete. A very pretty wedding took placo at the Church of the Immaculate Concep- tion Saturday morning when John S: mano and Mary Toscano, both of We srly, were united in marriage. Re Henry Bruno celebrated the nuptial mass. The bride was attended by Mrs. Santo Negrelli and Pasquale Pelligrino acted as best man. _In the evening a reception was held for them at the town hall on Union street which was attended b: ver a hundred of their friends. Music, dancing and refreshments were served and the party lasted until twelve o'clock. The young married couple will make their home in Westerly. The following Westerly cases are as-| signed for trial at the opening of the November sesslon of the superior court for Washington county which conven at West Kingstown this (Monday) morn ing; Ace Battery Manufacturing Co. Vs. Whitall Eectric Company; Joseph Girard vs. Westerly ~Automatic “Tele phone; Gladys Girard vs. Westerly Au- tomatic Telephone Company; Industrial Trust Co. vs. Robert B. Ricker; Thomas, E. Brown complainant, vs. Michael A.| Prisito. The " divorce petitions returnable to- day (Monday) are as follows: Grace E. George vs. Eli George; Ma Jacobson | vs. Jacob Jacobson; Allennette E. Colling J. Collins; Eunide J. Alns- George W. Alnsworth; Fred E: Jencks vs. Lauro M. Jencks; Marle De- Vere Bishop vs. Frank Bishop; X Bouffard vs. Alphonse Bouffard som C. Y. Jeffrey vs. Harriet trey. The Bed Cross drive of last week was a great success in town and airead: there are nearly fifteen hundred name: handed in tal over $2,000. had charge of Saturday the Girl the work and they STONINGTON Sunday afternoon there was another ac- | cldent added to the already list of ac-! s that have happened this season Sunday after- two Ford were goitg - west toward Mych T‘u head car was going alow- ly when the"car in"thé rear all at once ook a zig zag course and went smash- Ing into the For touring car ahead. A woman was driving the rear car and had with her two or three others., The car ha da, Connecticut licenss No. 92-566 and is owned by J. B. Gurry, Jr., of Westerly while the car which was run into bere the Connecticut license No. 46-3577. A man was driving the! first . Ford and there were three women and two men in the car. This car is >wged by Frank Chapmin of Groton. Th- last Ford car emashed the rear of tl Chapman car and bruised the occt nts of the rear seat. ry car were badly damaged. Tho selectmen of the town of Stoning- | ton met Saturiay. 9 new patro take the pla has served t] burough as patrolman for a pumber of years. The Mistuxet wo nin the s They bave appointed James Walsh Auctionv nd co d Bridge - club st played with the Hook & Ladder Co., in their rooms in Mystic. Stoning.on club is now ad by 3500 points.. 1 xt game vill be played at Stonington. Saturday the local troop Scouts distributed literature of the Red Cross and thus helped in"the good being done here by this order. The service which was held at the! Community house Sunday afternoon cal ¢d out a large delegativn to hear an ex cellent demonstration of the radio. sermon and hymns by a quartet heard. Mr. Killars has charge of t re' celving set here. James H. Comstock who has had charge at the Community house has resigned -his position there. Mr. and Mrs. Merton P. Clarke of Spencer, Mass, motored here Sunday ! with subscriptions which to- | The -engine, radi- . ator, lights and whole front of the Gur- | will | of Thomas O'Connell, who i w of Doy ERLY lected $250. They were assisted by Mrs. Arthur Coy and Mrs. Addison Archie. John - McGrath of Ludlow, Mass., visiting relatives in town. John Sullivan of Liberty street has gone to Providence whers he will be em- ployed during the winter. Mr. and Mrs. James MacGregor and son of Lake Forest, TIL, are gisiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Dowd, of Spruce street. © ™MYSTIC Local young men are showing much interest in bicycle racing. Several took part in a race here Saturday. The start was at 10:30 in the morning. The who joined were up to 18 years They were classed according to In Class A Raymond Hatficld in first, winning the race quite a ahead of the other mine contest s as follows: Raymodd Hatfield, W. R. F. Burdick, Lewis Rade- Thomas Cordner, T. Urchue, Carl Thissen, A. Radic erg. lass B Bernard Stewart won first in. the race and P, Shuizden sec- . Fribance and Leon Brooks the other is | came side a E. Kinney’s store, # returning by the east hing at L. fagpole. judges were L. E. Kinney, Gray, C. O. Reyno ford, starter. The { were presented large H. Sanford. Edwin Francis left Round Pond, Maine, spend the winter. The begiuning classes will be The ladies’ cla | evening, closing Academy “o‘vs fonday and Tuesday afternoons at 4 o'clock. The girls' class of Broadway and Academy will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 o'clock. Other classes | will_socn be organized by the director at the Community House. fin; 3.-P. with O. H, San- nners of the races zashlights by O. town Friday for where he wil of held will the gymnasium today (Monday). will have their classes The news of Wiiliam L, Stark's death | has been received here. He died at larpon Springs, Florida, a week ago aturday and he was buried at Aurora, Neb. Mr. Stark was born in Mystic but | remained here”only a little w a young man he settied in Nebraska. Hes sister, Mrs. a brother, of Florida, besides mev- { Annie E. Bradiey of Mystic. 1A, Henry Stark, eral nieces Mystic. st Side, up to Old Mys- |5 e. When | and nephews who reside In! ~NORWICH BULLETIN, MGNDAY, NOV. 20, 1922 1 no. The young men stopped e - car | and tried to force hér into the machins, | bar she struggled with them. * AS a ma: ching, was coming toward ler sheé mo- tioned the' occupants tostop and upod Sceing the car stop the men: fled toward Westerly. ‘Their car. was chased but the riumber .could not be: learned.- The young..people of .the Methodist church heéld a meeting Sunday evening in the Congregational parish house at 6.30 oclock. Field Secretary Hicks addressed the meombers and a special musical pro- ram was rendered by Mrs. Farnham 1he meeting proved to be of much inter- fest to all ! The activities committee of the Mystic Commanity house met Friday evening and a mew feature program was consid- ered for. December. most capable leadership of Mrs _O. A. Wilcox, Miss Minnie Flynn, Mrs. Charles Nash, Mrs. Arthur Boylen, Mrs. Leonard Hermes, Miss Doris Raynes, Miss Ellen Boggesmes, Dorothy King, Miss Ethel Weir, Miss Ida Maynard, Miss Ethel Johnson, Miss Marguerite Poor, Fred Raynor, Tom Weir, Nathan Brown, " Fiynn and Lloyd Moore. The Saturday afternoon sewing class met and 35 young ladies held their third sewing bee this season. The work is un- usually well done. This is under the di- rection of Misses Margaret Bindloss and Barbara McDonald, Mrs. G. A. Thomp- son, Mrs. 0. Colby.and Mrs. George Leonard, xhibition of their work. is held cach year when the work has been completed. The library of the Mystic Community as been added to by an excellent by well known 2 y. The donor C. R. Bad(us and the members who erjoy reading will take great pleasure in having these excellent ! books added to their library. There were 24 members of the Ep- worth league of the Methodist church who attended the circuit meeting from here which was held at Niantic Friday evening. The honor went to Mystic and the league here received the banner for the largest percentage of attendance. The president, James W. Jackson, the members to work und try to hoid the banner for a long time. Miss Evelyn Burdick wuas chairman of the program for Mystic. She introduced many new games which pleased the large number who wero present and helped to make the evening an enjoyable one. James W. Jackson was one of the prin- cipal speakers of the evening. There was an attendance of about 250. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Hermes and daughter Isabelle arc visiting in Hart- ford. Mrs. Harriet Avery spent Stnday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cometock at Gales | Ferry. Mrs. Waiter H. Lathrop of West Mys- tic.avenue will today (Monday) entertain the Monday club. There is much activity in repainting and building going on in Mystic this sea- son, as a large number of property own- ers are fixing up their residences and giv- ing them a fresh coat of paint. George Smith has just completed painting his About 6 o'clock Saturday evening an larm was rung in -as a chimney fire foun dat the home of Mrs. Georse; er, on Elm street.. Both fire com- the Hox'e Fire Eneine Co | the hook and ladder company responded |to the call ana did excele There was little breeze during this & which helped out a great dea! and | Clothusline ititevos arg at work 'acain in !the village, Pcople are complaining that their clotheslines are being cat i {two and some are stolen. About two | weeks ago a prominent young lady, who | Wa sreturning to her home, was accost- {ed by several young men who were |driving a closed car toward Stoninzten near Quiambaug. They .asked this | young lady if she wouldn't like to ride jand “she thanked them and told thém SATURDAY'S MARKET. New. Yogk, Nov, 18.—Trading in to- s brief session of the stock market! zuldr, closing prices | ghtly higher tha: final figures, of a large number of floor s, who had been responsible for} !mueh of the recent activity, accounted | for the apparent lack of interest. Pro- fessional interests uncovered a few : weak wpots in their campaign of expe; { mental short selling, but the volume of ht out one the reactions directed principally Harvester, off preferred, off dated Gas and Mathieson e Tosses of 3 oints of very small turnovers took can Sumatra _Tobacco HBE YR }Eas: rn Iilinois preferred; May | ment Stores, Pittsburgh-& West Virginia and South Porto Rico Sugar preferred. Steel res give a good example of | the conflicting price movements, cruci- ble rising ¥ {Lenigh Valley Canada Southarn. Chicago | ! residence, and Mr. Stiles of Mt. Vernon, IN. Y., who has a summer residence -at i Park place, and C. H. Latham are mak- !ing improvements to their places. Benjamin Brown of the highway de- artment for the town of Groton is ill at home here, and his work is being | i taken care of by Amos Crandall Iployed at Lamb's grocery store, has re- signed his position and entered. the -em- {ploy of the night force of the Robinson &ilk mill. Miés Jennie Wzife has addéd to' her | residence on Gravel street a new verands. | - Dr. Charles Benjamin of the New Lon- don coad, who has been confined to his home by iliness, i8 able to be out. This was under the | informed | |- Samue] Higbee. who was farmerly em- ! | 1 1 This outfit requires 13 balls of Lusterdown knitted. This Sweater requires approxi- mately 9 balls of Lusterwool or 10 balls Shetland Floss, knitted. More coal for a incal desler arrived on iSa.lurday It was shipped Qz boat from * FINANCIAL AMD COMMERCIA! ——— !Dome Mines lErie . 5 ris 1 pr . i Fisher Body 1 Gen Electric .. Gen Elec spec |Gen Motor .. | Hupp Motoh Car | Illinois Cent .. Int Harvester Int Harv pr... !Tnt Mer Mar . lInt Mer Mar pr . Int Paper .. . Int Paper pr sta Kennecott Mexican Petrol &iy Missouri Pac pr . N Y Air Brake NYArBaA . i { Norfolk & We!t North..Paeific. .. Penn R R | Pierce Ol .. This Sweater requires approxi- mately five balls of Lusterwool. > OF MINERVA YARNS BEGINNING TODAY WE WILL HAVE STRATION AND SPECIAL . DEMON- SHOWING OF M!NERVA YARNS AND THE SMART KNITTED THINGS THAT ARE SO FASHIONABLE THIS SEASON. JOIN OUR FREE CLASS Mrs. Fassett, representing the makers of Minerva Yarns will be at our store all this week to give advice and in- struction to women who like to knit, and whether you are a beginner who has never handled knitting and crochet needles, or one so experienced that you need only slight assistance on new models and stitches, you will find Mrs. Fassett skilled in this handicraft and capable of imparting her knowledge to others. Membership in the class implies no obligation on your part—instruction is free to all who attend. MINERVA YARNS ( ARE HIGH GRADE There is such a difference in yarns. Minerva is entirely Virgin Wool. It is “lofty” and beautiful—dainty, but last- ing. Garments made of Minerva wear wonderfully. Yarns keep their shape and There are hundreds of colors to choose from, clean exquisite shades that defy comparison — and the prices are most reasonable. PRICES OF MINERVA YARNS Minerva Minerva Minerva Minerva Lusterdown Floss... Luster Wool Silk Mixes.. lceland Wool,,. Shetland Floss Knitting Worsted Minerva Pure c:mel Hai twa-fold Minesva Hea(herdewn Wool Minerva Thistledown Weol.. Minerva Minerva 45¢c - 5&: Minerva Spanish Worsted..... Minerva Zephyr Floss......~ Minerva Germantown, four and eight-fold Minerva Saxony, two, three and four-fold Minerva Flake Zephyr Minerva Sitk Zephyr . Minerva Golf Yaen...... -Minerva Superfine Angora.. . The demonstration will take place on 6ur main fcor, near Art department. Chsuwfllbegintoday,nfidemfinue daily throughout the week—and best of -all, instruction is absolutely without charge. Join the class now ! J This Sweater and Toque requires approximately 2 bails of bails fold Saxony, knitted. four This Sweater and Hat requires five balls of thres-foid Gaxony or two balls of Fiaks Zephyn, This entire outfit requires 8 bails Germantown, knitted, 1 3-8, and U. S. Steel com- | States ‘and Republc, fraction. | pono coines Replogle dropped a point afil | Reading B and Venadivm yicled|Rep Iron & St .. Rep I-& St pr . end were guests of relatives. | mon, Guit NMrs. E. A Barber whe aas spent the { ally, whil summer with her daughter and family, Belh ‘hem Mr. and Mrs. Frank James of Clift | slight] street has gons to make a visit with her | Som This Sweater and Bag requires This Bleuse requires approxi- approximately 7 balls of Luster- mately 7 balls of assorted Lus- sor, . E. Barber of Providence, R. L Raymond Leéward of Wequetequock, motared to Harttord Sunday. William P. Mindioss of Stonington ani Charles and Wells Fowler of Westerly, at- tended the Shrine_gathering at town Saturday. ‘ss Aana A Bryer and r are in New Bedford, tie former will be marriod this weck. Mr. and Mrs. W: F. Broughton visited over the weck end in Briczeport. Maurlee FL Crandail -and Mrs, J. mond Syrette of Springfield, Mass, mo- |~ tored to the home of iheir varents, War- den an Mrs. C. B. Crandail Saturcay for & brief visit. There ia mwech Interest taken by the taxpuyers of Stonington - over the bufid- \5g which tha town schicol . committes bave had erected on the old trolley walt- - ing room site at the ccrrer of Elm and Center street, Onme of the taxpayers werc heard te remark that.thers was 3 double waiting station now, The school clifldren walted insiae the building whils | The &oor | the taxpuyers waited outsido. is kept locked an dtle peopl efeel it should be kept open for the public. e ————— LOANS BENEFICIAL LOANS Basy Faymeént Plan—3mall Monthly Imllmcm-—\.nwml Interest Charges. Wi nearly here, with its finan- inter i clal neéds for Coal, Ciothing and other mecescaries. BE PREPARED You will find our SERVICE very con- verient, and the costs moderate. W make our loars upoh very short notice, uhd tiiey ‘are made withowt “red ape,” or fuss. B " “OUR WAY' Btra lhflmrd. 'bul nfll mothods, upon a honorable deal for -vomn:. -‘q“", CAI.I.. WRITE, OR ' PHONE Londen 1 BENB-'ICIAL LOAN SOCIETY BANKERS TO THE WAGE.EARNER ooms -3 _New Marsh ng u STATE STREET (Third Floor) " .‘.’i.‘”.'.‘;f?"fi'. Bark A b ‘:" ’yu S, Do e Middle- | | iss Al X(\_ M of the strong epots were North- ern Pacific, Continental Caa, Céca Cola American Tobacco A and B, Associated | Dry Goods, Marir> preferred, Ameri- A Tevas, Gén- Service o1 I Stores and Pacific prefcrred, the goins Inz {rom 1 to nearly 5 mointe, les were 262,000 shares, xchanges were - nominally The clearing house statement showed an increase of $6377.000 in loans, dis- courits and investments and decreasss of $4.837,000 in cash, $55,499,000 in re- serve of member banks“in the Fedéral Rescrve -Bank, $1,300.000 in net demand | depdSits and $1,616,000 in time deposits. Aggregate | feserve was - $488,952,000, leaving a deficit in reserve of $19 642, 600 as compared with an increase in | excess reserve of $39,568,750 last week. STOCKS. The. following is l. summary of the trdnsactions on the N c‘h York Stock Ex- change up to 3 P. M.: High. “Low: Allied Chemical .. 72% Am' Ag Chem ‘pr .. 60 Allis_ Chalmers ... Am’ Beet Sugar . Am Bosch Mag Am/Car & Fdy ... Am Tel & Tel . Am Woolen Am Woolen pr Apaconda Cop Atch T & § F Atch T &St P pr Balt & Qhio . ® {Balt & Ohlo pr Beth Steel . Eéth Steel (B) Brook Rap Tr Brook ‘Rap Tr-ctf Buite & Sup ‘. Canadian Pac Cent Leather ' ‘Chznd Motor Ches & Ohlo Chi Gt West pr Chi M & Bt Popr Chi & N'iwest ChiRI &P Chile Copper Chino Copper:. Coedea 3 anlble Shv_l Close. 72 South Railway South Ry pr Tenn Copper .. . | Tobacco Products Tobaces Prod A . Union Pac .. Union Poz pr ... U S Rubber .. U. S Rubber pr U'S Steel U S Steel pr . West'house El Worth Pump . Worth Pump B Liberty Bonds. High. Low. S Lib 3%s .:100.14 100,12 S Lib 1st 4%s 98.62 9854 S Lib 2d 4%s 98.00 " . 92.90 U S Lib.3d 4%s 9854 93.40 U S Lib 4th 4%s98.30 98.20 Victory 4%s ..100.30 100.26 do ulled 100.06 100.02 Treas 4% 99.50 - - 99.44 Quoted m dollars uxfl cents ‘per $100 da U |L IU 24 forelgn Exchangs. -, . With. the_ exception . oi- sterling, n! quotatjons are in cents -per umt-of for sign cvnw - down, knitted. THE PORTEOUS & MITCHELL CO. New York and will be unicaded today (Monday). . Tho Skippers of Mystic defeated the Night Owls of Industrial park Sunday af- ternoon in a game .of football .with a store of 9 to 8. The Night Owls were from Noank. ‘Both teams put up a good fight for the laurels; There were plenty of, rooters to help ‘make the game inter- esting. PROCLAMATION FOR AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK DEC. 3-3 “Washington, Nov} 19. — President Harding - in a - proclamation made public 100,25 | today at.the Whits House sets aside the week of December 3rd to 9th as Amer- ican education week. He . recommends to. the appropriate national, state and local authorities that they . give their coraial support and co-operation’ and al- 80 calls upon parents to- ‘enlist them- ®elves in behalf of closer understanding bétween .the School” and the ‘home. :The téxt of the préclamation-follows: “The ideals of » democratic - govern: ment ‘and! demoeratic education - were planted ‘simaltanecuely ‘in ‘our. - country. | The fathers mightly believed that “oniy a people- trained to- vision® of public needs and dutiés® could -develop and maintain : ehi-rlctefl!tic features ‘of our life. 0 institutions of popular: government. The sy&ter of universal edncation, ‘estab- HM in -the‘beginnings, . has deyeloped. the country and become on€ of the n 3t we have laid foundation of that system’ of American culture which has. enabled to absérb and - assimilate - millions who have come ‘to us from many coun- trjes, bringing the ' traditions of widely - "} varying “institutions. “In order that we may keep In mind the need constantly‘to improve our edu- cational system, it is proposed that the | support “make the -weele & period of revival of '.’Be bréad” work " of “national everywhere a determined purpose to maintain education unimpaired, in order { that the coming generation may be.equip- iped regardless of sacrifices in the pres- ent, for the Increaging responsibilities which it must bear. “Without vision the people perish. Without education. there ‘can_be _little vision. Of education it may be said that it §s twice blest; it blesseth, him gives and him that takes. It will be greatly worth the effort if, ag . an - Incident to the~observance of education week, we can imoress-this thought upom . the young’ manhood and womanhood of the nation and re-direct their inferest and patriotic zeal to the idea ‘of making a proper contribution to educational work. It is regrettable ' that so . few young men and women, equipped for such service, are nowadays disposed to give their time and talents to teaching. Education needs their youth, eagerness, zeal and enthusiasma. There .is no. school of discipline more effective than that.in which the teacher goes to school. We could do no greater service: than by convincing those young men and women who have enjoyed “educational opportu- nities, that they owe a reasonable share Df their time and energies to teaching.. ‘Fhe strength and security of the nation will always rest in’ the intelli- gent body “of its people. Our eduéation should implant conceptions. of . public duty and private obligation broad enough to enyisage the problems of a greatly distraught world. More than anything else, men ‘and women néeed the capacity to see with clear eye and ‘to contemplate with “open, unvresnfileed mind, the issues of these -times. Only through a properly motivated. and gen- tween the s¢hool and the home, with the purpose of ‘mutual helpfulness. In -consideration and witness . there- of, I haev heretnto set my hand . and caused the seal of the Unned States to be affixed. “Done at the city anncpn, this of twentléth day of November, ifr tKe year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred that [2nd twenty-two, and of “the Independ- ence of the Unitéd ‘States the one hun- lred and, forty-seventh, : (Signed) - v “WARREN ‘G 'HARDING. BUSINESS CONTINUED TC i IMPROVE LAST WEEK New. Yorx, Nov. 19 (By-the A.. P.)— Continuation of a -high rate of indust- rial activity and - satisfictory progress of fall tfade are indicated by the busi- ness of the past week. Steel production has, if anything, improv and is now stated to be between 75-and 80 per cent| of :the country's capacity. + Cotton cofrsum: rétirns show that in 1920. " Soft _coal otion - has . contin- uéd “at 2 rate.of about. 10,790,000 tons 4 ‘week, or at about the Dbest, attained since he . end of the strike. . pnuwmmmu.mm slagkening ‘whic hmust 'be expected furnished by the. erously inspired process of admuw can this be accomplished. “In view, then, of these and other considerations, I hereby vroeh.ln the week of Decémber 3-3 as American education - week, recommending. the propriate national, -state and local- - thocitles that they give their cordial and. co-operation observance inspirational and " beneficial Civic. organizations and 3 may ruucr ‘special to ‘making ‘its | firmness. is| pricd of money and the rate terwool, knitted. ;:1 large German needs for our commod- ty. At the: same time offerings of lvbnz have - been light and sentiment iri “the trads -lfas’ become distinctly more bali- ish.. Comm also moved pp into new high groand™for the’ year, the December fu- ture getting about 72 cents as compared with a~price of 52 cents in August. This. improvement, even more than that in ‘wheat, emphasizes the gain - which: has been. achieved in tlie farmers’ in- cotnie. . In‘cotton the market has continued to fluctuate in.the ne borbood of 28§ I.n"‘ 2§ cents despite héavy profit . taking’ Optaion - continues to” differ as to -the, ultimate size of the crop, but something Reafer 10,000,000 thah 5,000,000 bales whas talked of during the past week. In any event it is elur that the crop is proving a much greater financial sues, cess than the south anticipated and that business prospects In that district are correspondingly improved:; ¥4 ‘A further' decltne In. the reserve ratio of the federal . reserve system adds banking confirmation to -fhe evidences of growing trade, and conforms to the usual seasonal movement. The ratio of the ‘systesn as a whole now stands at yper cent.. which ie 34 per cenmt above that of a year ago and which in- dicates an ample reserve supply of cred- it mw«htlm * Thie “decline from the. high point 0! the year amounts to only 5.2 per cent. No ‘further_increases occurred in . the. on calt Taoney on the New York stock exchange. at the end of the week to § 1-2 per s the "lowest figure smce Septem- ber-18. With nnnl to the foreign situation. the “obinion”was held n financial quas- that ‘political conditions were some- improved. The new government iu w has ‘beén_able to reach am