Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27

for duty but his lungs are in such con- dition that he will have to guard against pneumonia for some time to come. Private Ryan is one of the first, if not the very first young men from this city, to wear a gold chevron on each sleeve one of the special decor ations for duration of service abroad, the other for having been injured while at the front.
 The big guns captured from Ger mans by American troops and to be shown on the Liberty loan train that is to tour this section of New England have arrived in Boston. The train is to arrive here on Friday, October Il, at a. m. and will remain for at least two hours. 1t IS understood that pu- pills of the school wiQ be given an op- portunity to visit the train and see the battle souvenirs. There is one gun of large calibre in the exhibit, a bat tery of ITS, captured in the Chateau Thierry fighting, a French 75, that was first captured by the Germans and later retaken by the Americans, trench mortars, machine guns, rifles trench helmets and many small articles.
 After it's stop here the train will leave for Danielson, where it is due just before the noon hour.
 Pon7fret is one of the towns that has more than done it's bit in the canning campaign, reporting more than 25,000 quarts O preserved foods, or eight times and over the quota that was assigned to it. In all of Windham county the canning campaign met with success, and the work continues. Truck loads of can goods have been put up and it is safe to say that in many county homes there is such a great reserve on hand that it will not l he used during the coming winter. I Dealers in glass jars say they have had the biggest business in that line i in their experience.
 Preserved foods are in great varie- l ty, including about every variety. of | fruit and vegetables. One of the strangest jars of preserves reported is l of quahaugs, which are said to keep l splendfdly if given the proper treat ment
 | A number of cases of Spanish inf1u- enza were reported Thursday from the l town of Thompson, but the disease is not so prevalent in the villages of that
 town as to cause undue alarm. A reg l istrant in Thompson whose question
 naire is overdue notified officials here
 that he was willing to fill it out if some one with authority to take hls
 statements would come to his home His offer was not accepted. He was
 given, instead, an extension of time.
 Lieut.. James Meisner, of Brooklyn N. Y, a relative of Mrs. E. c. Morse of this city, is named in specia | press despatich as a member of the American flying circus operating or the western front and already cred ited with 137 aerial victories. although the flyers that make it up are believ- ed to have downed twice that num- | Der of German planes.
 Lieut.. Meisner is officially credited
 with sending down four German fly
 CTS and the officials are now investi- gating the result of another of his combats in which the German flyer
 he was fighting came down out O control. Official credit for another vic tory will make him an American ace The squadron to which Lieut.. Meis
 ner is attached has been doing bril-
 liant fighting during the past two
 weeks.
 | Windham county superior couri
 criminal cases, October session. Con-
 tinued cases include state vs. Joseph
 Sienkiewz, violation of liquor law; Michael Mendetta, statutory burglary , Walter c. Chase. violation of mill , law: Henry L. Spaulding, violation O ! milk law; Theodore K. Papaa. abuss