Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-21
WILLIMANT1C.

Dear Father:- am well and hope you are the same, and all of the rest. Am waiting for us to sail most any day now. Every move we make is to- ward some seaport town: don't know if will be home before Christmas or a little after. I think I have been lucky not to even get a scratch. We have been on three different fronts, the Toule front, the San MihieI front, and the last one was outside the Ar gonne forest. There we were in five different positions. The last places We4 were in, the towns were not shot up as bad as some towns back fur ther. We are in barracks now, but we have to sleep on the floor. We've been in barracks now just a week. Up to this time we have slept Oh the ground in tents since last August The ground froze quite hard the last few nights we were in tents. :
 The letter was written in Les Foy- CTS du Soldat, Union Fraa1co-Ameri- caine. MT. Potter was very much re- lieved to hear from his son as this was the first he had had in two months.
 James P. Bath considers himself a very lucky man Some time ago, Iwhile he was in Hartford, his coat land an automobile robe were stolen from his car. The. theft was reported to the Hartford police, who have been working on the case ever since. De- tective Sergeant. John M Henry has finally located the stolen articles bur jed in the cellar of a Hartford saloon keeper. who had evidently purchased them from the thief. The articles have been returned to Mir. Bath, and the thief was taken into court, where he was fined S25 and costs
 Miss Helen Child, executive secre- tary of the Welfare Bureau, entertain ed the social workers of Willimantic at a. luncheon party at the Mary Anna Soda Shop yesterday noon in honor of Mrs. Lewis, nationally appointed representative of the Social Hygiene section of the state council of de- fense. Mrs. Lewis was in town for the day to find out the local condi- tions, and the forces that could be brought into play in protecting the health and well-being of the young manhood and womanhood of Willi- mantle. She spent most of the after noon in a visit to the American Thread company plant, and in consul tations with 1ocal physicians.' Those present at the luncheon were Mrs. Frances Martin of The Films; Mrs. Ora 1t4SiIIllAi1S OIdIhy City Miss Harriet Tabor, welfare worker at the Thread Company's plant; Miss Myra Smith of the Girls club; Miss Betty Buck, volunteer assistant at the Welfare Bureau; MT. J. D., Elmendorff of the '. NJ. c. A. and Miss Helen Child.
 Announcement has been made by the Rossie Velvet company that a bo- nus of 10 per cent. will be paid to all operatives of the local plant who have been employed for the past year. One half of the bonus will be paid this Saturday afternoon, and the final half will be paid June l. There are about 125 employees, and about half of that number will profit by this arrange ment. some of them receiving as much as $60, and two receiving over that amount.
 The entertainment given by the Windham Street school Thursday eve ming maintained the high standard set by the pupils of the Natchaug school on Wednesday, and for the second evening this week standing room in the Windham High school was at a premium. ! Sheriff and Mrs. Fred o. vinton of IEagleyille were local visitors yester day.
 Alphonse Gelinas. superintendent ot streets, is confined to his home, by | illness.
 MT. and Mrs. Rufus Worden of South Wilmington were in town yes terday.
 Miss Katherine Hunt of Norwich a graduate of the Willimantic Nor mai School in 1918, is the guest oi Miss Winnifred Green on Church street.
 Mir and Mrs. vantine Anderson are in Norwich for short stay.
 The Misses Lillian and May Chene, of Valley street left last night for { vacation in New York.
 Earl Tucker. who was a senior il Windham High school, when he en listed in the aviation corps last Marcl has arrived in town. He has an in jured left knea resulting from blov lfrom an airplane propeller which h. sustained November ?. He was member of the First British Pursui Squadron.
 All the stores will be kept open eve
 nings for Christmas shopping iron now until Christmas day.
 l .~Sergeant Burton Taintor, O. 102nd Infantry, has written to his ia ther that he was in a hospital Nov 4, recovering from an attack of in ffuenza. Sergeant Taintor had beel l in the Argonne battles and gon
 through without any injuries.
 Joseph Drods, 32, died at his hem on Milk street Friday morning afte
 an illness of about three months. H is survived by a wife and three sma children.
 Funeral services for Chester C. Bon
 noy were held at Shepard's mortuar
 chapel, Friday afternoon at 2 c'clocl
 Rev. Harry S.. McCready offiaatet
 The bearers were Howard Stanley
 Elmer Balcom, Raymond Parrish, an Edward Mcdonald. Burial was in tn tWillimantic cemetery.
 Funeral services for Levi Eugen
 March were held at the home of hi
 parents in Eugleville, Friday after noon, at 1 o'clock. Rev. Mr. Kline (
 Mansfield Depot officiated. The bear CTS were E. H, Woodward, Richard F Hanna, George Wilson, Peter Seymour , John Thompson, and Fenelon McCol lum. Burial was in the cemetery g
 Storrs.
 Christian Science services will b . held in the Woman's Club rooms, 80
 Main street, Sunday morning at 1o.4
 o'clock. Subject of lesson sermon, ]
 the Universal, Including Man Evolv
 ed by Automatic Force? Golden Tea Isaiah 45:1S.
 First Congregational church, Harr
 S. McCready. minister-945 a. m., tll , church school will meet in the churc house. Special Christmas programm } aE departments of the school uniting 10.45 a. m., morning worship: 12.15
 m. the mems forum in the Grex ciu
 room; 4.30 p. m, Christmas vesper
 in the church. Cantata, The Chris
 Child, by Hawley, under the directio 7 of MT. and Sdrs. Caswell and the guar } tette.