Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-06
JEWETT CITY
Warden Appoints Borough Commit
 fees--Tuesday's Weather the Cold
 ess Yet--But One Session of schooI..

The meeting of the warden and burgesses was held Monday evening
 Warden ,Mailhotte presided, and the.
 minutes of the last meeting were read by Clerk H. c. Webster The warden appointed these new committees On streets, Thomas McBroome and Jacob Wechsler police, Louis Masse and J.
 H. Lee; fire. J. H. Lee and Louis
 Masse; nuisance Jacob Wschsler and
 Thomas McBroonae. The resignation of George J. Moeller and r. 6. Buck ingha mas electric light cofnmissi ion
 CTS were laid on the table: A com regarding claims of $50 for injuries caused by a fall on the fee in front of the Jewett City postoH1ce the eve ming of Dec 15s .1si7. was laid on the table.
 The following bills were voted to be paid: T. E. Shea, election expenses, | l$27 50; Finn Bros, oil for hose house, 70 cents; Chapman & Tripp, coal for hose house. s5.25; B. M. Gray salary as clerk and treasurer, Jan. 1S, SIP; 1 c. H. Prior. auditor and fire marshal, 1 house, $f4.11: H. C. Webster, treas iurer ana collectors bonds, insurance /, on hose house and D. L. Plant and 1 postage, $63.53: A. c. Burdick insur-
 ance. on hose house and electric light 1 plant, $21.7S: JeWett City electric light plant, January, lights, streets and hose ! house, $314.90 and s6s70; Edw Rous- seau. labor and supplies, hose house, l s2,S5, A. N. L'Heureux. services mum | bering houses, $9;, A. LaBarre ashes l OF, sidewalks, $20 i; Frances McLaugh- Hin tending lights and posting no i tices, s7.25: EdW. Smith, labor on Streets, $36.25; A. A. Green, labor on streets S6.25; Dennis Griffin, repairing Etoiier hose house, S2.f0; Alpherie Le- Claire, collecting taxes $SS5; town of 1 IGris#old, rent of borough room year
 ending Jan IS. $25: Fred Menard ser vices numbering houses, S35 Martin | Wolf. police duty, s77.50; Payne & Gardner Borough reports and notices, 1881; Newark Bargain House, for hose
 house. 60 cents: Shea Bros. wood for
 hose house sS: J, A Hourigan insur-
 ance on electric light plant. s9.23, F. c. Lague, electric expenses ssi.S5; to- Bitterly Cold Day.
 Tuesdays weather took the cake of ice. It was the bitterest day of the
 bitter cold winter, for the thermome ter stood only two above zero at noon 1 with the sun shining ali day. The most PtSESlll6 Vii1u pAcW T d $ 1ts5s etii <st VI . 1 day night and Tuesday. Only a fes z
 P below very early in the morning which was not to be compared to + below and a freezing wind Tuesday I Heatless Monday caused freezeups ir business places. One lady heard g tremendous crash in her house Mon- day evening. A search was made foI smashed window panes Or fallen chim- ney or piastering, but nothing could be found. Later, it developed that g water bottle in an outer entry, hay ing a small quantity of water in it had burst People with the good old fash \ tened stoves hugged themselves ani the stove. thankful that they had ns
 coalsess furnace to wall about, nt room to freeze up. no electric lights t
 be shut off on account of lack of coal
 Blessed be nothing in the line of mod
 ern Improvements this winter!S The. can put one over on those who ar, I working overtime day and night. try
 ing to keep their network Of pipe from flooding their houses, ehoppin! ,, any old kind of wood to feed a fur , mace, which burns it up before the un happy modern man wearily ascend the cellar stairs, and mentally VOW , that stovepipe holes will be cut il the house next winter. And he won have to buy but four tons of coal whil
 now he buys fifteen. and then doesn'
 get it and has to saw wood.
 Notes.
 .I Miss Mildred Mouiton has returne,
 to Willimantie after spending a fey
 I6ays at Mir. and Mrs. H. C. Webster's
 There was but one session of schoc
 Tuesday on account of the cold.