Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-28


 Knocked Down Mrs. M. A. Sfumway,
 Fined $1oo and costs-Henry An
 derson and John Prick Released
 After Latter Resiaters-Advaneed
 Rates for Gas and Electricity.
 In the town court before Judge W. F. Woodward Thursday morning Cal win Killian, who was driving the car that struck and injured Mrs: Milton A. Shumway Wednesday afternoon, pleaded guilty. to a charge of. reckless driving and was fined $100 and costs a total of $11o.69. which was paid. In his own defense Killian said that he was not driving excessively fast and that Mrs. Shumway surprised him by stepping out from a place in the street where her approach was hidden by an automobile truck.
 Court officials afterwards made it clear that .Killian escaped without a more severe penalty only because of the fact that the maximum punish ment that may be imposed under the 1 provisions of the Connecticut motor vehicle statutes is $100 for reckless driving.
 Thursday afternoon Mrs. Shumway was reported as resting easily. Hope continued strong that the nature of | her injuries. painful though they are, are such as to make likely the pros pect for her recovery.
 1 The accident in which she was in | jured has again aroused a widespread l demand for more rigid enforcement here of the motor vehicle laws pro- viding for very careful driving through the streets of the borough While there is recognition of the fact that the most careful driver may become in- | volved in an accident, there have been l countless protests over the manner in which some drivers regularly speed l their cars through what is known as | the Westfeld section.
 Arthur Lacombe, who was called in for questioning by Coroner A.. G. Bill on the strength of reports that he had been racing with Killian, was ab- solved from all blame in the case Coroner Bill said that he is satisfied that Lacombe was not racing wher the Killian car overlook him and that he was not in any way responsible fol the accident.
 Goodyear Men Released.
 After the registrar of vital statistic: for the city of Worcester had verified the birth date of Carl Henry Anderson of Goodyear, that young man was re |
 ton Thursday, after being held ovel night that his status as an unregis tered young man might be investi gated.
 Anderson was born in Worceste Aug. 1, 1899, the city records show, st he is not yet 19 years of. age. Th' fact that he had told at Goodyear tha he was 21, and had no registration card in his possession, led to his ar rest. John Frisk, 21. an Austrian Pole also of Goodyear. was released Thurs
 day afternoon after he had been obi , ter on June 5, and his failure to d. this was due. apparently, s6 combi nation of causes. He speaks littl English and concerns himself only eve
 so slightly with the fact that thi country is at war.
 He came to this country just befor
 the outbreak of the war and lived il
 Chicopee, Mass, before coming t
 Goodyear, year ago. He has mar
 ried sister in Chicopee.
 Officials of the Goodyear compan
 urged F'risk to register. but he faile to do so, with the result that he wa
 arrested. Thursday he showed will
 ingness to comply with the selectiv r service. law. As an Austrian subjec . he escapes immediate induction int
 service, a lot that would have falle Q | to a citizen had he found himself i
 F'risk's place.
 r When released, Frisk said he woul n return to his work at Goodyear, wher
 he is employed as a weaver ! Gas and Electricity to Cost More. '' An advance in gas and electric rate l JE fo hn T.,1r
 by the Danielson and Plainfield Ga
 and Electric company, which supple A service to Danielson, Dayville, Good
 year, Attawaugan, Ballouville, Brook
 lyn and the villages of the town (
 Plainfeld, excepting Wauregan. .
 Nathan D. Prince, treasurer of tn
 company, stated that the advanc t would be moderate and only sufficier 5 in degree to allow the company | .' earn a reasonable return under cor e ditions of doing business that are quit = extraordinary.
 Sharp advances in the price of coa $ labor and all of the materials ths
 enter into new construction work an repair work have made it necessar = for the company to advance rates, . - has been done by a large number
 lighting concerns in New Englan o where there is an acute shortage
 bituminous coal and of labor
 Detailed outline of the advance F rates are to go forward with the Jul : bills to subscribers to the company O service.
 = Protest Against Speeders,
 Following the accident in which Mir
 M. A. Shumway was injured, thel came an appeal Thursday from res N dents of the West Side that action | sl taken against the automobile and mo \ tocycle drivers who are making \ speedway of the fine thoroughfare tn; H runs out to Brooklyn. Crossing railroad track is comparatively sa.
 compared to getting on to this higf
 way, especially in the early evening E Warnings by the score have had I
 effect on the speed kings and there A loud and urgent call for the repro
 sentatives of the state automobile q, \ partment to get busy on this stretc \ of highway and put the speeders in \ court. Nothing but good stiff fines, is agreed, will have any effect upc H them.
 E New Books at Library. The following books have been addt
 to the shelves at the public library: Fiction: The Amazing Interlude E J. Rinehart; His Second Wife, E Poole; The Aztec Hunters, F. Rol | Wheeler: The Earthquake, A. Trail
 The Pawns Count E. P. Oppenhein
 The Enchanted Barn, G. Lutz; IT
 Boardman Family. M S. Watts: Lol E Ever Ago, R. Hughes; Boy Woodbur H @zzzzzz aHE KI