Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-23


 Fort Terry-Tow ownsend- Lo,seile We'd ding-Eome Guard May Camp at
 Ranse-car Struck by Lightning
 School Attendance the Coming Fall Certain to Show increased Enroll nent.
 Mrs. Edward Keech and daughter Flora of Academy street have been spending a few days with relatives in
 Miss Marietta Healey, who has been l the guest of MT. and Mrs. P. F. Mur- ray, is visiting friends in Norwich and | Jewett City.
 at the telephone exchange, is having l her vacation.
 Home on FurIoush. Sergeant Joseph Burton of the Thir- teenth company was at his home here from Fort Terry on leave of absence. | Henry F. Gregory of Lowell visited i friends in Danielson Wednesday.
 Judge w. F. Woodward presided at I a session of the town court on We'd nesday.
 William F. Davis, editor of a paper at Railway, N. J., is spending his va i cation with relatives in Dayville. Mrs. Davis and her sister. Miss Mabel Fin ter, are with him. | Drivers of vehicles who try to pass through that section O. Main street closed to travel, on account of high way construction work, find themselves l in difficulty.
 A force of cablennen employed by the A. T. and T. company is engaged in doing work in and about Danielson. DayviIie Store Closed.
 The Frank T. Field estate store at DayviIle has been closed. The store has been operated by the late MT. Fields sons since his death.
 Severe electrical storms caused more trouble tO wire service comma nieS in and about Danielson.
 John B. Herman of Fall River visit ed with friends here Wednesday.
 Troops fer New Army.
 A number of Danielson men will be included in this districts first contin- gent of troops for the new army. the men to leave here Sept. ,. The second contingent of local men will go out Sept. 13, the third eontin gent Oct. 3.
 Manufacturers here showed special interest Wednesday in the fact that the price of bituminous coal is to be regulated al g a ton at the mines.
 Townsend-Loiseiie.
 Miss Bessie LoiseIle and George Townsend. both of Goodyear, were united in marriage Monday at Dayville at St Joseph's church by Rev. Ignatius Kost.
 Local peop.s who have 9 surplus of vegetabl and would like to do a kindly act might forward them to tho
  Fort Terry.
 Home Guard May Camp.
 Capt F. O. Huntingdon of the Home guard company said Wednesday after noon that the organization may go into camp for week end, this matter to be decided at an early date.
 The pIan which has met with much favor among the members of the com pany. is to establis a two or three days camp on the rife range south Of %0 he fn11 ad would be mucF. after the plan in vogue 1 n regular army and national guard 4ncampments.
 It is felt that such an encampment | would give the men much additional | experience especially in field work.
 If the plan for the encan-pment is i adopted # will be necessary to make 9 i canvass of Danielson and vicinity for | nerly in use by the na-ioral guard 1 organiza tions of the state and not now in use by the guard regiments have been condemned and disposed of. It is | number Of privately owned tents can | he secure to meet the needs of the | company.
 Car Struck by Lightning
 W Irving Buiiard, while motoring | from Providence to his home here late | Tuesday night saw, on the hlghWay near Scituate, R. l., an automobile that | had just been struck by lightning The 1 occupants of the car which was soon | in flames. escaped without injury.
 Mr. BuIlard and the members of his party stopped to offer any possible as sistance and were noL long there when | another car arrived. A mar who was in this car, to prevent an explosion, took out a revolver and fired three bullets through the gasoline tank of the burning car, allowing the contents to run out on the ground.
 After the fire the car was complete wreck worth only it's value junk.
 This is the first instance ever re- corded here of a car being struck by and set afire.
 No Blanket Appeals.
 No b11rket appeals, covering all of their drafted employees. ara being made by any of the manufacturers in this district As a matter of fact, manu- lecturers have filed only 3 very few appeals or claimed many exemptions for their men. A few claims for ex- emption for employees have come in l from miilmen to cover men whose re- moval for war service would seriously interfere with their plant organiza- tions.
 Price of Wood High.
 Anticipating @ possible coal shortage this fall. many heads of families here bouts have been securing the country for quantities of hard wood to use as tuel They have found that good dry hard wood is also scarce article and that the price asked for 1t is very much higher than in normal years. difficult to get woodChoppers during the past winter, and those who did go 1 into the woods to cu- the small quan- tity pileo up and now seasoning got unusually high wages for such work. Then, too, hauling wood cut to market ,-iy + i1.,I