Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 21, 1922, Page 7

The Masonic club are to hold their an- nual Christmas obsérvance Saturday af- tornoom at their reems on High street. They will have a Christanas tree and toys will be taken from it and given to ths chil@ren of the town. Mrs. Samuel H. Davis, chairman of the Near Fast relief committee of Westarly, has reported that the committee has re- celved 420 garments given by Westerly people, and that Westerly’s quota in this appeal is 300 gaPments. A, J. Leon, a student at Tufts Medical school, Boston, -is spending the Christ- nas vacation at the heme of his parents on Spring street. Henry Hughes of Chester avenge is to léave town the first fart of next week for Bt. Petersburg. Flg., where he will be em- ployed aduring the winter. Miss Fannie Holmes of Elm street is in the Rhode ISland hospital, Providence, rupivm‘ treatment. The board of engineers of the sewer department are now engaged in comput- Ing the assessments of the different prop- erty owners in relation to the installation of the sewers. The assessment is being figured at the rate of 3-4 of 1 per cent. of the area. One hundred feet in depth is the maximum point of consideration. The is figured on the 'b.sm of $0c per runaing foot. STONINGTON- Friday will be the closing date for the town schopls for the holiday season. They will reopen Tuesday, Jan. 2, and there will be exercises in the grades before closing. The Shore Line eléctric cars have beem unning late-this week due partly to the eavy traffic between Westerly and New London. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Langworthy have moved from the Road district to Wester- Iy. Another radio set has besn installed in the borpugh, Joseph H. Hammond having installed one of the latest desigm at his ORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, | home here. 4 Mr. and Mes. Henry R. Palmer attend- !ed the Victory ball held in connection | with the campaign for the raising of a fund of §1,000 for a lying-in hospital at i Providence Tuesday night. Mrs. James V. A. Trumbull has closed her Main street residence for the winter and will spend it in New York. Mrs. Jerome Anderson, who has been ill, is improving. Mes. C. P. Atwood, D. ., will spend the holidays in New York and she will be joined by her husband, Dr. C. P. At- wood, who has finished his course at the Chicopraetic institute at Chicago, Ill. MYSTIC The students of the Mystic Oral school on Wednesday evening enjoyed a Christmas tree with all the handsome decorations and a real Santa Claus dis- tributed gifts and eandy and oranges to the 94 pupils who atténded. The prin- cipal and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Tucker, and the teachers helped to make this affair one long to be remem- bered. The school closed Wednesday for the holiday vacation and will reopen on January 2. There are enrolled at this school a ll.rge npumber who are benefitted by the training’ received here. The school now has 11 resident instructors and 2 non-resident onés. The farm is car- CHRISTMAS MO'RNING WILL SOON BE HERE Will it bring happiness and good cheer to you and ‘yours ? You can easily answer that question thru a visit to this store ~—full of sensible and ideal Christmas gifts. Ahnotteverylldyyaeldstofllebewuchmgluxwyofhmd- some Furs and our line this season comprises some of the most rarely beautiful peltry it has ever been our privilege to Over a quarter of a Century doing business with the same clientele is your guarantee of dependable values. New models in Hudson Seal Coats, HudsonSulw:thSkunk Irnn,Beneroqumneltnm. Raccoon Coats in dark selected pelts, Muskrat Coats, Muskrat Coats with Beaver or Raccoon collar and cuffs. Otter Coats, Caracul Coats and French Seal Coats. . Sto Muten,Mfl.NLmepanx,Skunk.Cuml,HudoonSelehadl fiar&lbhhfimhmdwdmfidmnmuuhewndomof selecting in this store. { 5 . VMEN'S SILK DRESSING GOWNS—MEN'S BATH ROBES, IN EXCLUSIVE DESIGNS AND QUALITIES MEN'S HOUSE COATS—FUR CAPS FUR LINED AND FUR GLOVES ‘GLOVES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AND GRADE GOU'HOSIERYMDM.LKINDSCFSILKHOSERY FOR LADIES OR MEN MEN'S SILK SHIRTS, ALSO MADRAS AND PERCALE SHIRTS : UMBRELLAS FOR LADIES OR MEN IN A wommu:.mumonormmm WOOL BRUSHED AND FINE GRADES FOR ALL THE FAMILY' MEN'S OVERCOATS—MEN'S WINTER SUITS MEN’S HATS OR CLOTH CAPS HANDKERCHIEFS FOR LADIES OR MEN IN END- lmsmvmmmcmqum HOLIDAY NECKWEAR FOR WHICH THIS STORE is ALWAYS HEADQUARTERS HAS NOT BEEN NEGLECTED THis SEABON AND YOU'LL FIND : -mccm_mmmrs THAN EVER ' FAMILY AND AT PRICES THAT CANNOT BE FQUALLQ FOR THE SAME Vfil.ufi ried on by the members. and students and it can brag of having raised and put up 5,000 quarts of vegetabled and pickles of all varieties and is one of the most noble institutions in the state. Vis- itors-are welcomed at any time and the most wonderful work is being don® here. The annual business meeting of Chari- ty and Relief lodge, No. 72, A.\F. & A M., was held Tuesday evening in Ma- sonic temple, ~The annual election of of- ficers took place as follows: Worshiptul master, John . Irving; senior warden, Charles Sawver; junlor warden, Neil McPhail ; treasurer, E. H. Newbury; sec- retary, C. C. Dodd; trustees, J. W. Chap- man, Sr., F. W. Batty and John Rus- sell; junior deacon, Robert Collinson; 'senior déacon, Edward E. Bucklen; chaplain, Willilam Fraser; marshal, Jobn W. Chapman, Sr.; tyler, (ieorge D. Johnson; senior steward, Lloyd Brown; junior steward, S. A. Stoddard. James Orkrey, who was worshipful master for the past vear installed the officers for the ensuing vear. A carload of Christrgas trees, the first of the season to arriye here came in by motor trucks from New London con- signed to local merchants, Wednesday. Postmaster Foley has’ large corps of helpers to assist in getting Uncle Sam’s mall to its destination and a heavy mail goes out daily from here. Mrs. Christopher A. Heydecker, one of the residents of Mystic passed away at her home on Water street Wednesday morning at 3 o'clock. She had been 1 with pneumonia for about three weeks d owing to her advanced age, was uri- ble to- survive the disease. She- was the widow of John J. Heydecker lnfl was born in Wordenburg, Germany, 1831. She has made Mystic her hfl- since she 16 years old. Mrs. Hey- decker leaves a daughter, Miss Apolonia Heydecker and @ son, Charles B. Hey- decker, of Mystic. The Mystic Bulldogs defflted the Noank Junior team in a basketball gameé this week, by a score of 32-17. A -Ju- nior basketball team league was started by the Community house director ahd four teams entered. Mr. and Mrs. John Payne of Bank street will leave town the last of the week to spend a week with their son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Payne at Newport, R. L The Primary department of the Union Baptist Sumday schooi will hoid a Christ- mas social and a tree with gifts dis- tributed to the lttle ones. The social will be held Saturday afternoon in the Parish house. Joseph May, of New Haven was & caller here Wednesday. William H. Noyes is confintd to his home' in Pearl street with an attack of tonsilitis. The ship builders dt Noank, who_are constfucting the large -fishing boat for ;| knife. the Wiloox Fertilizer company, are em- ploying ship carpenters and helpers from Mystic. Mrs. J. W. $tudweil of South Norwalk is at the home of Dr. and Mrs, A. W, Purdy on Pearl street. Captain Alva Chapman of West Ha- ven, a former resident here, was a vis- itor here Wednesday. John KEdgecomb of 33 Pear] street, spending two weeks in New York. Mrs. Manis Pomeroy will ‘leave eek for St, Pétersburg, Fla. The trolleys are carrying crowds: daily and New"' Lomdon, shopping especiaily on the Mystic end, from town people pack the cars daily as the electric ears now go direct to the center of New Lon- don on a half hour schedule. The Broadway hool at Mystic will render the following Christmas pro- gramme which is ynder the direction of the principal, Mrs. O. J., Dennechey, on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock: Song, Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, school; * recitation, The Story of the First Christmas, Georgia Denison, Grade 5B; Flag Drill, Grades' 5A and 4B; Christmas Song, Kindergarten; operetta, The Runaway Bear, school; recitation, Johnnie’s History Lesson, Charles Brown, Grade 6; selection, orchestra; Folk Dance, Grades 1 and 2; piano duet, Blizabeth Thorpe and Margaret Welsh, Grade 7; drill, Hélly and Mistletoe, Grade 6; violin selo, Amando Radisioni; Grade 8, accompanied by Evelyn Han- ley; playlet, Mother Goose, Grade ,3: violin duet, Holy Night, Silent Night Amanda Radicioni and Frank Linzes; song, Come All Ye Faithful, school. Word has been.received from Mr. and Mrs. George Dunham, who are en route for. Califorina, that they were met by relatives upen their arrival at Omaha. Miss Kariski Gates is visitig in Pennsylvania, the guest of friends and relatives there. is this THE HEERIN MASSACRE DESCRIBED BY A WITNESS Marion, TIL, Dec. 20 (By “the A. P)—l; Peter Hiller and Otis Clark. two of the five defendants on trial charged with murder in oceRm y With the Herrin riots, were pointed dut in rt as mem- bers of the mob by two of the four sur- vivors whp took the witness stand today. The survivors, whe oceupled the stand most of the day, were William Cairns, P# J. O'Rourke, Bernard Jomes and Robert Officer. ‘The latter, a University of Penn- sylvania ygraduate, was a bookkeeper at the “strip” mine where the riots started and which resuited in the death of twenty non-union men. The first thrék were guards at the mins. Cairns testified that the men i ‘the mine surrendered under a white flag between 5.30 and 6 o’clock the morning of June 22 and were marched jout of the pit with their hands above their heads after being told would not be harmed. He said he had seen C. K. McDowell, the crippled_super- intendent of the mine, led away by Otis Clark who had a gun, and another man, “We wero marched on 4ntil we came to a barbed- wire-fence” he said, “and someone shouted ‘All then with guns line up to the right’ and then sameons else cfied: ‘Now, you fellows. run’.” . " Then the firjng ‘started, he said. When he was wounded and lyifg beside the fence with two bullets in his body, Cairns said he saw Peter Hiller come up to an- dther wounded man and fire into his body after shoutingy “You great big can't we Kill you?” e witness sail he saw another man ack John Shoemaker, mssistant su- peérintendent at the miné, who was lying ounded in the fleld, <and sa. at machine-gunner.” olared the Speaker then drew a pistol and Blew Shoemaker's head off. The witneds said he was picked up and takén to & hospital by Sheriff Thaston abéut an hour later. O'Rourke told ‘of being shot twice at the fence, of fleeing through the woods until he was erecaptured, and marched with five other.bleeding, pleading victims through Herrin to a cemetety outside the city, where all six were ghot down. The witness said he rémembered pray- ing for any: Christigh in the crowd to bting him-. water and, in the mame of his mother, #6f someone to notifey her of his ‘fate. He said someone knelt over him and slashed -hiy throat with a pocket O’'Rourke was pitked up with seven billlet wounds jn his body. Jones “testified that h¢ had raised a that they & cri forty-eight Bulletin's Pattern Service | . SO i 1 1 A STYLISH COAT STYLE. Black veivet and squirrel fur are hl’!l portrayed. This is a_ good model " for broadcolth, velours, and other cloakings, The collar is comvertible. It may be | turmed up high or rolled lew with the | {ronts open. The pattern is cut in five sizes: 6, 3, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 10 year size re. quies 2 1-4 yards of 54-imch material ‘attern mailed E address on re- ceipts of 10 cents in S o siopa | Send 12 _cents in er or stamps for our p-To-Date Fall and Winter g1922- | s Book ef Fashions. ! Sezd your order to The Bulletin Pat- tern D!’L. 1188 Fulton St, Brooklya, N. Y. white flag at the mine om the order of McDowell gnd was to'd by the leader 8¢ the attackers that thosc in the mine would be taken rafcly out of the county. He told of the march from owd shouted “Kill | “Hang *them!” but that others | . we are going to put them on them out of here. They've He quoted Otis Clark as saying: “We're going through with this if I have to ghoot them all mysbif." Jomes said that when the firing at the fonce started Re ran through the flelds | and after being given refuge by a farmer boarded a train for Chicago. On cross-éxamination, Jon id that he had been emoloyed by several private detective agencies. ‘He said that at the mine he had acted as goard at the water tank from June 14th o the 13th, but was not dulurbed during this time. Jones said he was given a shotgum and quotpd McDowell as saying: “We, don't want any trouble, but we t have our shovels blown up. - “Isn't it true that yoi were instructed to bring someone and start trodple so troops would be called out?” he was ask- ed, and replied: “That is absolutely mot true. A. T. Norman, a Herrin hardware @ealer, testified that on the afternosn of June 21 a crowd of men and boys came into his storc and got theee guns whd asked him to charge them to the Herrin miners’ local. Norman said he refused and atked for hames, and they gave him two and said_they wante@ th¥ guns In a hurry. E. A. Mosley, another hardware dealer of Marl . testified that fifteda or twenty men ¢ame into his store the afternobn of June 21st and seized nine shotguns told him to charge them to the Herrin locals, and if he wanted verifiemtion to call up ‘Hugh Willis or Will * Divis miners’ officials. * the mine Robert. Hérron, ¢hist of police of Hers | BE rin, who, one of thé witnesses testified, was & spéctator of the desth margh through the lown, monsee( Mn Tesigna- tion today. [T — REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE SPENT $54,53.13 Haftford, Dec. 20.—The fepubligan state central- committce “spent $54,953.18 in the recent state election, according ‘to th ereport of State Chairman Ji Henry'} Roraback to the secretary bf state’s of- fics \today. The ceceipts of the republican gommic- tee aggregated $59,706.64, leaving a bal- Goldblatt’s ; Shoe Store CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS Children’s Fine Comfys at 85¢ Ladies’ $1.00 Comfys at 85¢ Ladies’ $1.50 Comfys at $1.2¢ Children’s Rubber Boots $2.0 Misses’ Rubber Boots $2.50 Boys’ Ball Band High Rubbe: Boots, sizes 9-2, at $3.00 Boys’ Ball Band High Rubber Boots, sizes 2-6, at $4.00 Men s Ball Band High Rubbe: Boots at $5.00 ¥ Men's Comfy Slippars $1.0C to $2.25 Weber Shoes for Men at Re duced Prices. Serviceable Shoes for Chil: dren. - 46 FRANKLIN STREET Norwich, Conn. ance on hand of $4.753 ment of all expenses The democratfc o ment today by Holt, gocounted for receiy and expenses of $66.950.3 smal o be rec ing a defeit of at least Two - Individuals o esich to the demotratic ca nor-elect Charles A. Ter latgest individual ributor to the ™ publiean fund, the aggregate of his con tribution being $3,000 e NEW HAVEN MAY BUY LIGHTHOUSE POINT LAND 51 after the par s ermasurcr $64.53 with som thas Yeax od. New Haven, Dec. 20.—Legislation in Wasfiington proposing the sale of many parcels of unused government PrOperty among them Lighthouse Point hete, may in the purchase of that tract by Several suggestions have beén made by clvic bodies that the city adquire the premefty as a small pack and he possibility of its sale by the govesnmeént hAS revived those suggestioms. Lighthouse Point is a small Sty of 404 oft the ovast on the outskirts of New Fiven. An abahdoned lighthouse and 3 @osk afe s chief structures. PRESIDENT HARDING'S GREETING TO SANTA CLAUS New Tork, Dec. 20.—President Hard- toddy sent Christmas greeting td the children of the United States in the form of a telegram to the Santa Claus association, a national organization ‘which yeeives letters written by chil- dren to Santa Claus and sees that they are” fultably replied-to. “Merry Christmas to the childrén of the ‘United States,” the president’s mées- read. The words were Sent by radio tonight, to efeh Of the 48 branches of the Santa Claus association in the gountry, Natural-gas was first used in Chima, Wwhete it Was conveyed from fissures in stlt mMinés to the surface through ‘Bol- low bamboo. Just time for a bite? Yankee Fried Cgkes will- satisfy your hunser and they're nutritious as they are appetizing. Give yoursslf @ treat toley. ¢ .