Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

route, and the boot points in the snow | led to the detection of Wilcox, and al- | So showed that he was not alone. The l snow prints showed two rubber bodts | of different sizes, and it was ascer- l tained that Wilcox wore one No. ' and l another No. boot. The other fopt- | prints were made by Shoes evidently | by woman, who was closely qties- toned as to the curtains. Wilcox and | the woman claim the curtains were purchased, and profe.-s ignorance Of l any thefts committed at the plant of the Eagle Waste and Metal company. |
 A real singed cat, not the pussy of traditional fame, is of the feline West erly groua. With the thermometer far below zero, the head of the house went into the cellar of his home ana shoveled from underneath the fire box the accumulation of ashes, gave the
 gfates a gentle shake or two. then
 opened wide the lower furnace door in order to give the fire draft and a
 more speedy making of steam. Short ly after he closed this door, and went to breakfast, and enjoyed his after brea kfaS st smoke. After this he aagiri went to the cellar and gave the fun mace grataS a generous shaking. Just as a matter of curiosity and to see how much ashes he had shaken through the grates he reopened the lower door.
 Out jumped the family cat, it's black fur filled with hot ashes and a live coal on it's back. The man made a
 reach for the cat and managed to knock off the burning piece of coal. be-
 fore the animal ran under a pile of odd
 boards. After awhile the cat cine purring in the open and a appeared more like a Maltese cat than it's orig | inal black self The hair was singed, 1 there was burned spot about the size of an old time silver three cent piece But aside from that the cat was ali right, and after a confinement of near l ly an hour underneath the frefox Of a fair-sized furnace, filled with
 burning coal.
 A draft horse of the faithful and true type, that had served well the c | B. Cottrell & Sons Company plant, has drawn his last load-W Wednesday morn
 ing,e when in the company yard, one
 hoof got caught in a rail of the spur track from the railroad main line into the yard. The horse fell and it's leg
 was broken. A veterinarian was surn-
 tnoned and a we'll directed shot into the head of the animal ended it's suf- fering and tisefulnesS.
 ] Henry Bryant, 57, clerk in the |. Westerly rost office and for g years
 in the government postal service dief Friday afternoon at his home or Union street. Mr. Bryant has been. if failing health for a number of years
 but kept at his work until Christmas
 eve when he consented to take brie , rest although he was previously urg. , ed to abstain from work during tllt
 hclid r. rush. He was able to be GU
 unti, Wednesday afternoon when h, : became seriously i'll and failed unti : tho end came.
 Mir. Bryant as youth worked i,
 3 news office and carried newspaper. for George W. F'oslin, and was in ths|
 employ when appointment to clerkshiI
 iii the Westerly post office by Post . master Eugene B. Penalton. the ofIiet then being in the Dixon block. He wa
 later appointed to the railroad posta . service run between New York ar. Boston. After few months he re: Signed and came back to the looa ; post office and remained for nearI1 ' two years when he. again entered tn z e railway. postal service on the run be !. tween Providence 1ntl Boston. :. In 1893 he again secured clerkslliI !; in the Westerly office where he re ee mained until his deathI He was al s s efficient clerk and held in high es 2 teem by all his acquaintances. H ' l served under Postmasters Eugene r !. Pendleton. Samuel H. Cross William F , Clancy, Walter Price, Charles J. But : Ter and John A. Farrell. He was tn ' son of Ably Dennison and the lat - Daniel Bryant. His father served Ii
 the Civil war with Go. G. Sth c. Re,
 Henry Bryant was sole. support 9 his mother for many years and fc '- the past fifteen years she has been = helpless invalid.
 ; Mir. Bryant Zas unmarried and '- survived only by his mother.
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