Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-03-30

son. So place your order early with
The Peck-McWilliams Co.
Beth, author of THE First One Hun
dred Thousand a book that has been
very widely read. was the guest and
principal speaker at the fourth annual
dinner of the Yale Alumni association
at Naugatuck Valley Wednesday at
the Elton.
Meriden.-Permissio to have chic
rinator installed at the Broad Brook
reservoir. to purify the water so that
it will not be exposed to typhoid fever
and similar germs which water may
carry was granted to Supt. Joseph w.
Holden at meeting of the boaId of
public works
New Hsven.-The Vassar college
alulnnae luncheon held in New Haven
each spring will take place Saturday.
March 51st. at the Center c1urch
house. Miss Katherine F'arnum is
chairman in charge of the affair and
is being assisted in arranging for it
by Mrs. Philip Browning and Miss
Emeline Street.
Hartford-At the Home Guard head
quarters recent eulistments of the men
of Colts Armory band make a to-
tai that will place the Home Guard
band-for such is to DE its name when
playing for the section-among the
largest in the state. Theodore p. Ford
is leader Of the band. which is to
have drum major soon
Middletown.-The rector of Christ
church, Rev. Henry S. Whitehead mas
offered his services to the government
as a chaplain. The rector comes of
long line of lighting ancestors His
father, Henry Holden Whitehead, en-
listed in the United States navy a. the
age of IA. having run away from MS
home to do SO, and signed up so, the
duration of the war"
Waterbury. eff the amount of
names for membership into the Red
Cross continues to food the heaJquar-
ters during the entire week as It has
500 daily, we feel confident of reach
ing our goal of 5000 at the end of the
week" was the statement made by
Chairman Timothy F. Barry of the
membership committee last night.
Neutrality-suspicious. Clarence S
Wadsworth of AIiddletown. a former
colonel of the National Guard of New
York, ana who was at the border with
his regiment last summer, rendered
district to the Red Cross. to be used
as a hospital and training school in
event of war. The tender was made
to Mrs. Acheson, wife of Bishop
Acheson, who is head of the Red Cross
in Middlesex county.
Hartford.-Gilbert s Heublin of
Hartford. head of well known firm
and hotel proprietor has placed at the
disposal of the state his Heublin tow
er, located at the highest point of
Talcott mountain in the towns of
Avon, Bloomfield and Simsbury. In
behalf of the. state, Governor Holcomb
accepted the offer. thanking him for
his generous offer. The tower is of
concrete and it's apex about 900 feet
above sea level. commanding a large
part of the northern part of the state
and Southern Ma Massachusetts,.
Waterbury.-"The Waterbury health
department has already spent $4,000
because of smallpox said Dr. j. T.
Black Tuesday. ''The citizens of Wa
terbury have been required to spend
fully as much because of the epioemIc.
Adding to this the loss OF time to those
extent OF over 100000. 1t is esti-
mated that the loss occasioned by the
appearance of the colored girl from
North Carolina last June in an un-
vaccinated city will cost the people of
Connecticut not less than a quar- -er of
a million dollars and an undesirable
reputation. The case of the coIored
girl did not come to the attention of
the Waterbury authorities until one of
the IL she had infected was reported"