Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-16
CHRISTMAS THRIFT CLUBS
Have Saved Much Money to Be Re-
 leased Next Month.

A small fortune will be released by banks in Danielson next month to the members of their Christmas savings and thrift clubs. The membership of these organizations grew surprisingly this year. Hundreds of residents here and in nearby towns have adopted the club system as an ideal one under which to lay away money every week during the year for Christmas shop ping Most Of the money relea sed- back into trade channels, booming the business of local merchants during the Yuletide shopping season.
 A Snappy Morning.
 A searching wind out of cloudy skies and a rattle of hail early Wednesday morning came as warning from No vember that it is ready to do business In the old way. Temperature readings as low as 25 were reported from vari- ous sections of the town, and the first ice of the season formed
 Flash of Knives Among Railroad Gang
 There was a near-exhibition of hand carving among the big gang of south ern workers employed in the local railroad yards when one of the men missed a $10 bill after he had been given a friendly "hustling" by two other members of the gang. Big knives flashed and there were threats of dire
 
 put an end to the controversy. But the $10 is. still missing. .G ue Will Work for Complete Trunk Line.
 A petition signed by residents of the towns of killingly, Brooklyn and Hampton will probably be addressed to the state highway commission in the interest of action toward completing the work of building state trunk line sections between the Rhode Island line Q oct nd int r,fn no,, ielson and between Brooklyn and Hampton. The aim will be to secure hundreds of signatures to such a peti- tion. and the task will not be difficult Judge Shumway Rules in Unusual
 .,,-f.... y.- Case.
 Presiding at a session of the su- perior court in Hartford, Judge Milton A. Shumway of Danielson did not look with favor on d proposition under which child may De held as security for small board uill. The judge signed a writ of habeas corpus unGer which MT. and Mrs. James A. Roberts of Manchester produced in court Anna Louise Parsons, 6 year old daughter of Mrs. Ida Parsons Molumpy, of New Haven.
 Counse: of the Roberts family was given a day to file an answer to the mothers demand for the return of her child, and Judge Shumway continued the hearing until Friday morning.
 Before her second marriage Mrs. Molumphy worked fol the Roberts family and became inCNAted to them father died in an insane asylum three years aft CT the birth of Anna Louise. It was claimed that Mrs. Roberts pro- vided money to bring the child from Plainfield, N. J., to Manchester, and that she was the only mother the little girl had ever known.
 Judge Shunlway said: '"The board bill has nothing to do with this case .' Odd Fellows Going to Putnam. Next Tuesday evening a delegation of members of Quinebaug lodge of Odd Fellows wil: be in Putnam to attend a meeting of Israel Putnam lodge at which the second degree will be con- ferred upon class of five vandidates Tuesday evening the initiatory degree was conferred on a class here. i Difficult to ESterminate Gypsy Moth That i: is going 10 be exceedingly difficult, mayhap impossible, 70 wholly eradicate the browEtail and gypsy moths from the northeastern corner ot 1 Connecticut is the belief expressed by enc in close touch with the work that | is being done in this section by the state.
 There is every indication, though that the pests can be kept under con- trol, as is being done at present Throughout the winter the work O. searching for eggsma sses will be kep up by the scouts who are working here They are going over every section a! with finetooth comb, searching unde, walls and all places where eggs of thu | moths are likely to be found. l The work is costing the state thou sands of dollars annually, but the eX penditure is as nothing to the damag that would be caused by the moth were they allowed to propagate unmo l tested.
 To the uninitiated in the work o moth hunting it would appear that thi
 section is entirely free of them, bu the careful scrutiny Of the members o the moth hurting crews bring eg! masses to light in many and unex pected places.
 Il At present operations are belng con
 fined to the town of Thompson. Tents lighted by electricity provid