Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-07

Adjusters are expected here today 1 to view the ruin caused by the fire 1 at the Bugbee department storn. Closer inspection in the interior of the Bugbee store on Saturday showed that the damage to the valuable stock was very heavy. The shoe eepart- ment, which is on the Elm Front streets corner and is nearly cut of, 'excepting for a doorway. with the main store on the first floor, shows the least damage, and it is probable that this part of the store can be re- opened in the near future.
 To just what extent Investigations that have been going on have helped fix responsibility for the fire is not known outside of official circles, but there is reason to believe that court action will eventually result from what has been learned: in fact that was being intin1ated in some quarters on Saturday.
 This is the second week of the Lib erty loan drive and the period during which the work will be speeded up in Putnam, where liberal subscribing must be done if the city's apportion- Eient is to be raised.
 This week the house to house can vass will be inaugurated. and the | committees in charge hope to visit every home and obtain subscriptions l for many bonds. While officially re- corded subscriptions were i1i the vii. l cinity of s200. .010, the drive for sub scriptions must go forward with in- creased intensity to Putnam over tiie | top by the end of next week. What might be termed the hattie of i Sunnyslde Heights brought full house, and a talkative one. to Satur
 day mornings session of the city i court
 Judge Geissler learned what it
 means to withstand a perfect drum fire of high explosive conversation and something of the nature Of what may heights of Putnam's Ghetto. Invective against each other was i poured out unrestrained in English and other tongues as old as Israel while the show lasted, but it lasted
 only until that time when Judge Gois- sier decided that the orehestration
 wasn't just to his liking. Then he i threatened to have busted from the | court any person who talked when
 not invited to do so and the threat
 proved effective after it had once been put into practical use.
 l Judge Geissler finally adduced from the storm of accusation and counter
 accusation that took place iii his court l that a childrens disagreement had ] started the rumpus that finally had 1 involved a number of families that I live on Sunnyside Heights and that 1 mothers and in some cases fathers, l had been drawn into the swirl of bel | ligerency.
 As is usual in such cases, aach com pjainant felt very certain that some l~I
 ance that rocked the usually socially
 quiet sector of the city from which 1 they ca5ne. and at the height of the wordy storm in the city court it seem l ed to some of the few observers who remained calm that the wisdom of a Solomon would be needed to arrive at
 a fair decision in dealing with the matter
 Children quarreled, mother talked to mother about the matter unkind re- marks were passed and overheard by others, drawing them in-and the cnflagration of words was on. That seemed to be the gist of the situa- tion Judge Geissler passed out a
 sprinkling' of moderate fines and sent the benigerents home. Peace reigns again on Sunnyside Heights, for the arTnistice seems complete.
 Work of classifying men who reg istered September 12 is well advanced and very, probably will, be completed on Wednesday. This will bring the
 physical examinations for the Class IA men near at hand, for more men must
 be made ready at once for induction into service.
 Illness among the personnel of the
 iccal boards clerical staff has slowed
 up the work here for a few days, prior to which a splendid record of speedy r handling of the work in hand was be-
 ing made. , | The Class IA men who were to have been inducted into service next Thurs
 day will not go out, as tine order fol , their entrainment has been cancejlo on eaccount of the epidemic of in ttuenza in the eantonments in the
 east.
 Among the several hundred mer 1 already classified there is not a higl
 percentage of men who are in Class
 IA. Practically all of the men of 1! !. and 20 are going into that class. but it has been found that in sf1e groups
 of men above 31 years of age there
 are few who have not good grounds
 for their claims for deferred claSsi-
 fication upon the grounds oi depend ency or industrial occupation, or both
 The queStionnaires of three regis trants who claim to have conscientious scrupleS against war so far have beer encountered. Two of these nave wei , founded claims for deferred classifi cation on grounds of merit. Some married men have waived all claim. for exemption.
 Questionnaires will be mailed or
 Thursday Of tlis week to British sub jects of the district who have takel
 nc action toward entering the empire service.
 - Raphael Howartf1 was before Judg,
 M. H. Geissler in the city court Sat urday morning and was sent to jai for 50 days, a suspended sentence Q
 time ago for having bean intoxicate, ] and for committing an illega. act, be g ing put into effect. He had been bel,
 in custody since the fire of Frida,
 night.
 ' A Putnam man of genius gives t | the public at large a practical pla1 : for saving coal in the kitchen range o Block off one third of the firebox wit Q 0 brick placed crosswise of it and GU : to fit. Fill up back of the brick. Thi
 will give a good fire under one cove
 of the range and the fire can be ru z all night.
 $ Private Frank Phillips, enlisted ma
 'assisned to duty as a clerk at the of & fee of the local board. was reporte q Saturday afternoon as dangerously i : at his home in Hampton. At that tim - his temperature was 194. Privat