Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-02
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hIdl y at NdpO Mdy, IN. J., HdS WT1tlcH his sister, Mrs. Frank Mailhot, High street, that he expects to be permit 1 led to come home for a vist. in about l two weeks. His letter states that he | first learned he had been decorated 1 with the distinguished service cross 1 through Norwich Bulletin clipping, 1 which his sister mailed to him after 1 he arrived on this side. He was en route to the United States when the 1 announcement of his decoration was | officially made.
 Coroner Arthur G. Bill has absoived 1 George R. Torrey from all blame in 1 the killing of Philip Caron, 4. at Gen. 1 tral Village. last Sunday. the child un- l expectedly running out in front of MT. | Torrey's automobile as it was being driven at very moderate speed. l The Confession of Shoe Merchant will be the subject of an address of 1 Benjamin Starr, at the Sunday morn 1 ing service at the Baptist church.
 There were All Saints day services at St. James church Friday and there will be All Souls day services today. l The congregations were large at Fri | days services.
 1 At Old Trinity church, Church street, Brooklyn, Friday. there was an All ] saints day service, this being one of ! | the rare occasions during the year that l services are held at this pretty church 1 about which many who w0rshipped there in the old days are buried.
 The coon hunting party tlsat has in- 1 eluded James Kent, William Ross and Frank McGorty that has been at the mems camp near Phoenixville the past two weeks has had considerable sue cess in getting coons and other game. l A deer has been shipped here by E. B. Wilbur, who has been in Maine on 8 hunting trip, as Is his custom each fail.
 Mrs. A. V. Woodwork, who has l been at a Hartford to undergo sur
 sical operation, has returned to her home here and is gradually regaining her strength.
 Mrs Lillie Leach of Putnam will come here next Wednesday evening to conduct the annual inspection of Me Gregor scorps, Woman's Relief Corps.
 Members of McGregor post, c. A. R.,
 have been invited to attend.
 Judge James N. Tucker of East Kill lIngly writes; George 4. Rtcnmdnd land a party of helpers from Provi- dence have been busy the bust few days taking down the tall Scotch
 granite monumental shaft which for
 
 1 base above the burial vault contain
 ing the bodies of Thomas Pray. who died Nov. l. 1867. and his wife. Mrs.
 Sarah A. AngeIl Pray, who died on March 8, 1887.
 The bodies were removed Tuesday to the Swan Point cemetery in Prov idence, where another monument will be erected. The monument removed
 from the East Killingly cemetery will go to a monument works in ProVi- Geuce.
 Thomas Pray was born here in the Kentuck region, just north of Lake Chaubaumaug, April ?, 1895. The farm where he was born is now overgrown with woods and then was sterile and rocky and thus, through the struggle S and deprivations of ALE. Pray's boy hood was developed a physique, q character and an energy that never afterwards recognized defeat He be- came one of the pioneers of cotton
 manufacturing and. associated with ;he late Henry Westco,t was tic builder Of most of the mills here in cluding that of the Aseptic Products Co, the Whitestone. a par1 of the Da- MS and Brown and the one in Elliot vile.
 lie was a man of indomita ble will and. great strength and force of char acter, and of rather stern exterior, hut with a kind heart that mace him a ready helper in every time of need. He was a type of that era when the relations of employer and employee
 were more intimate fraternal and re- ciprocal than they are at present.
 Workers here in the interest of the republican party were expressing sat
 isfaction Friday with the manner in which members of the rank and file of the party were coming forward and pledg:ng loyalty and promising their
 support of the full republican ticket, laga!nst all t'npOrtuning in behalf of
 democratic candida tes seeking election
 with the aid of republican votes The danger of giving over d representative
 to the democrats has not been dis missed, however. and the party work ers are continuing to urge all repub- licans to vote only for republican can-
 didates for the legislature this year atoye all years.
 The body of Mrs. Alphonse Lecre-
 nier, 2. who died at St. Francis hos
 pitNl. Hartford, Thursday, from double pneumonia, will be brought to Put
 nam today. Mrs. Lecrenier was be-
 fore her marriage Miss Edith Fris-
 sell, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Walter
 Frissell of Attawaugan, where her fla ] ther is manager of the Attawaugan
 company store. She was a native
 of Attawaugan and graduate of Kill l.nGly high school. After her grad
 nation she taught for time at Moo
 aus, where her husband was enga ged
 in business. After theire marriage
 they made their home in Moodus, nov ing about a year ago 10 Hartford where Mir. Lecrel1ier has a position with one of the big insurance com ranies.
 Mrs. Lecrenier was MT and Mrs
 Frissells only child. Besides her par
 cnts and husband she leaves three weeks old daughter.
 Halloween was made the occasion of some joyous parties and pranks by numbers of young people who rroopeC about town finding opportunities fol their own amusement and that of eth
 CTS. Some of the joymakers were
 masked and there was a lavish use o1 lack O lanterns and other devices as sociated in time honored way with tht night observed.
 Marie G. Prive. years, daughte
 Of Mir. and Mrs. Vital PrivA. died a their home on Morln avenue Frida, : morning.
 Today brings the last Saturday 0 business for the saloons of Killingly which go out of existence Monday ev eninS, in accordance with KiIlingly Gry vote registered at the annual towI election on the first Monday in Oc a t0ber The dealers say they are no \ discouraged and, notwithstanding, th q prohibition talk now heard, expect {, ! bc doing business again after the war when, they expect, it will be nor profitable than it is at present. on
 reason why Killingly went dry. it i
 said
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