Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-12

tregularlv to conduct services at tht | Congregational church in Goodyear, i is announced. The church has beer
 renovated and electric lights install ed.
 l Feast For Fort Terry Boys. Brooklyn boys who are at Fort Ter ry with the 18th Company have some | thing good in store for them. Back l in their old home town the good peo- pie of the War Relief association all 1 ready have plans underway to supply them with a splendid turkey dinner
 as good as money will buy.
 Wood $s Cord. 1 standard price now being asked for ] ''hard" wood and it's mighty scarce at that. Add to this figure the cost 1 of having it sawed by power, now the I.tins cost, for few househo1ders can or will find time to chop wood, and a cord of wood costs more than a ton of coal, under the price fixed by the government.
 Inability to get men to go into the woods last winter to do chopping and exceedingly high 1ates for those who did chop, taken with the greatly in creased cost of hauling it out for de- livery are reasons why wood is sky rocketing in price.
 A local lumberman has made the statement that good chopper can now earn $4 a day in the woods, but 1t is almost impossible to get men even at that price. ~ Temperature of 32 Deerees-Crops
 Damaged.
 The temperature dropped below the freezing point in Danielson and sur rounding towns Tuesday morning, and causing heavy damage to crops, pecially to corn, very little of which has been cut in this territory.
 NoH H1vry- ~<7, cto or-+ point recorded was 32 degrees-the freezing point-but from territory within a radius of half dozen miles came reports of as low as 2S de- grees.
 The corn crop. which is heavy. was late in developing this year on ac- count of the cold spring and now it has been caught in a freeze before it is fully matured-
 Juet how. widespread the damage will be could not be learned Tues day, but it appears to be very gener- al and the damage will amount to a great deal of money.
 There is no announcement from Hartford on the proposition that men in the service be allowed to come home to vote at the town elections in Connecticut on the first Monday in October This means that many Killingly men who are at Fort Terry % and considerable number of others who will be at Camp Devens by October 1 will have to forego the right of franchise. As to town matters in general, many of the soldiers will have few regrets because they cannot par ticipate, but there is more interest in the vote on license. Carefully check ing up of the soldier boys by men who are in very close touch with the li- cense situation here leads them to be- Iieve that there will be practically a -50 split between the license and mo- license forces on account of the ab- sence of the soldier vote.
 For instance, 1t may be quite cer- tain that John Jones is a license vot- l CT and equally as certain that John l Doe Is for no-Iicense. There may be | reasonable doubt. on the other hand 1 as to how Peter Pan might vote All | in all. however. the forecasters fig | ure that the losses in strength on l each side of the license question will | about offset each other.
 But so long as the entire voting | strength of the town as. represented | among the soldiers cannot be gotten l to the polls. an effort will be made to i have officers of the command with | hold leaves of absence from men who 1 wish to visit their homes in town on 1 election day, such a proposition being | regarded as fair to all.