Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-22

According to the usual custom it was ordered that a resume of the ap- propriations made and the resolutions Passed at the city meeting last Fri day night be printed in the Journal
 Alderman M. c. Higgins submitted a report of the public works com mittee on the. petition Of the Ameri- can Waste and Metal comp4ny for permission to install gasoline pumps on the sidewalk in front of POS West Main street and If Thames street. The report which was accepted. grants the petitioners permission to install the pump at POS West Main street but withhe1ds permission to install the lump at If Thames street until the money due the city for a new grano- Hthic walk laid in front of the prop erty is paid when the petition will be reconsidered.
 The Gas and Electric Appropriation. There was read by the clerk a com munication from the board of gas and electric commissioners telling of the action taken by the recent special city meeting in regard to the s225,o00 ap- propriation made for the. gas and elec- 1 tric department and asking approval of the council. The council passed a resolution allowing the commission CTS to go ahead with the improve rnents asked for the gas and electric | plant
 Appointed Special Censtahles.
 By resolution presented by Coun- | cilnan Mathewsen, Felix Callahan, Alex KiIroy, Daniel Williams and | Christopher Dutkowski were appoint I ed special constables. The appoint lnents were made at the request 'of the Texas Oil company who arc to employ them to guard their oil tank. | Another resolution presented by AL deTman Higgins appoints the public works committee a committee to con- fer with NIT. Pelouuin regarding the damages which will be sustained by him through the South street layout The committee is to report back to the council at the regular February meeting
 Bills for fire insurance on the court | house and bills of the corporation counsel were ordered paid.
 DisIoyaI Acts and Words
 Mayor Brown addressed the council as follows:
 Gentlemen of the Court of Common Council: I am in receipt of the following let ter which deserves most earnest con- sideration:
 ;: ITO every American the fact should l.s brought home that we are at wal
 with a people wholly under the deni rance Of the most brutal government t;Go world has ever seen.
 Every person of every nation now lighting under the control of Germany
 she11d he considered an enemy agen
 tIniess we'll known to be absolutel.
 lcra, to the United States.
 The enenly's activities in this eoun try are directed Dy the shrewdest per
 sons, both men and women, who art well versed in the work required O them. ''s eIs There are in this country thousand and tons Of thousands of individual who desire to see us hurniliated as ; nation. and deprived of our freedom and they are willing to do everytnin, possible to bring these things about
 To meet the insidueus efforts o these evil minded and highly organized and traned persons. every good Amer l ican must be alert al, all times. an' ) be hnoyn and active enough to defea all enemy purposes and activities.
 Any disloYal act and word may hay
 great significance. and every such dis loyal act and enemy activity shouI he immediatelv communicated to tn Intelligence officer Northeastern de : partment. United States Army, and | . the nearest bureau of the departmen = of justice. Robert L. HewZe. Colone fGeneral Staff. Chief of Staff