Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-20

land and France, they will respond nobly to the call from every quarter, whether it be agriculture, the muni- tion or war work industry or govern ment service. The United States em- ployment service is prepared to place women as we'll as men in the occupa tions for which they are best fitted. and the Willimantic superintendent welcomes both requests for positions and inquiries about any line of wom ans work.
 About 75 members of the cone wind | ing department of the American Thread company of this city, who are working on government orders, have refused to work because one of the men employed in the room is not a member of the union to which all of the other workers belong. The work CTS refused to work Friday afternoon about 5 o'clock. They remained at | their machines until closing time and Saturday morning. They also report ed for work Monday morning, but would not start their machines. Later l in the morning they left the mill. l One of the government officials who | is employed as an inspector at the mill tried to persuade the people to return to their work, but they would not Officials of the Textile Workers of America have been notified and are | expected soon. The New York direc- :. tors were also notified by telephone. | The walkout was still unsettled at closing time Monday.
 A meeting of the cone winders who are not out on strike because one of the winders does not belong to the Labor Union hall. Nothing definite was done. but they decided to await word from union officials. They will not return to work today, and they expect word from the union officials in regard to their future conduct soon It is possible that other workers in the plant will strike, but nothing au- thentic was given out pertaining to this proposition. The plant is engaged chiefly in war orders.
 Private Edward J. Connouchton, who
 was sent to this country from France
 on sick leave. is rapidly improving al
 Hospital No. 4, at Port Chester, N. Y
 His sister, Miss Nellie Connoughton of Prospect street, was about to leave
 for the hospital Monday to visit him
 as she did not know how bad off he
 was, when she received a letter from
 the commander of the hospital that he
 was improving and practically out ot
 danger. No information as to Wha
 he was troubled with was given.
 Sister Mary Corona of the Academ,
 of the Holy Family, Baltic, died at St Joseph's hospital in this city Monday morning at 4.30 from acute Iobar pneu-
 monia, following an illness in the loca hospital of about one week Sister
 Corona was born in Holland and hat
 been member of the Sisters of Chari ty for over 20 years. She was th' infirmarian in the Baltic academy where she was much beloved by tht
 other sisters and her pupils. The re
 mains are to be taken to Baltic thi
 morning and placed in state in tn, !, Church of the Immaculate Conception until Wednesday morning, when a sol emn requiem high mass. will be cele
 brated. Burial will be in St. Nary
 cemetery, Baltic.
 Thread Ends.
 Myron Knapp, 19, and James Mullal pleaded guilty to intoXication befor Judge Foss Monday morning. Botl were fined S1 and costs, amounting t $9.60. George Chappell pleaded guilt,
 to violating the city ordinance b, lleaving his horse unhitched in tn street. As he had been before tn , court on the same offense before, h
 was fined s2 and costs.
 5 Aleck Belicko. who once lived in thi
 city was accidentally killed on Aug s while in the army. His cousin. Kos
 man Dubina, of g Ives street. is hi ] nearest relative. Belicko was drafte \ from Detroit and had been in Franc about two months.
 Registration places in the Seven teenth district for those who have be come 21 years old since June 5 wi be in the local town hall and a Chairman B. w. Danielson's office i the Hall building. Moosup. The reg E istration places will be open Saturda E from [ a. m. to 9 D. m
 Miss Carrie W. Moses has accepte i the position of stenographer at tn employment office temporarily. Mis- Veronica McQuillan. who held the DO . sition, has left to resume her dutie
 as school teacher in western Con
 necticut
 Roy Downer of this city, who ha
 been stationed at Camp Belvofr, Va
 has been ordered to take up the off cers' training course at Camp Le
 Va. This is an infantry school. aI l though he enlisted in the medics - corps and served in the cavalry som
 time.