Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-18

Guard, Captain J. J. McGarry com rnanding. acted as escort and there was a delegation of Boy Scou-s. Bur ial was in Grove street cemetery. A tranIoad of thirty five cars of horses passing northward through this city attracted considerable attention There were IS horses in each car and they were for Uncle Sam's army, but whether for use at Camp Devens or overseas could not be learned here. Registrar Hermon G. Carver said | Thursday afternoon that at the last meeting of the registrars Is applica- tions from those who wish to be made voters was received. Two names were restored to the last and three were erased. No more applications to be made voters will be received prior to the state election, on the first Tues l day in November, but the -egiSrars are to be in session again on October l 2S, for the purpose of finally revising and correcting the lists for use on | November 5.
 l Another unfortunate chain of cir cumstances attendant upon the at 1 tempt to bring army aerop1anes into | this corner of Windham county caused disappointment and much lnconven- fence to hundreds of Putnam people cn Thursday. &
 Scores of automobiles and, special trolley cars conveyed a crowd esti- I mated at 5000 to what had been marked out as a landing field at AL exander's. lake. this throng assembling
 at the noon hour, when the planes were scheduled to land. but they did
 not put in an appearance.
 Telephone messages from Hartford
 brought information that the flyers had met with bad luck and that ar effort would be made later in the af- ternoon to get a machine through, SC the crowd waited patiently through dwindling somewhat, until o'clock
 Failure to carry out the program was due to the fact that two machines that left Mineola Thursday nornins to come here met with difficulty il the central part of the state. it wa: very foggy and hay about Hartford during Thursday forenoon, and in at
 tempting to bring his machine dow1
 to earth at a strange landing place
 one of the army aviators is reported
 to have brought up on a housetop Another machine descended, with en
 zine trouble, at Berlin, this state
 Three other machines that were in tht
 squadron that left Mineola got int
 Hartford late. so could not come oye
 here.
 Deaths and illness will make nee
 essary several changes in the makeul
 of the group of 40 men to leave her next Wednesday for Fortress Munroe Va. A number of alternates hay,
 been summoned to take the places o
 the men who will be unable, on ac
 count of illness, to go into the ser
 vice at that time.
 Everett E. Brown, Pomfret's appl king, says that the apple productio in towns in this section has been ma
 terially increased as the result of tn heavy rains of September, the excep
 tionally heavy fall of water contrib uting to the development of the frui } and to increasing the pick beyon } what it would otherwise have beer } Throughout the country the crop c l apples is not much more than 50 pc cent. of normal.
 : There is a man over in Ponfret wh
 has his eyes on the future welfare C
 his country, and already has pledge !, himself to buy a bond of the Eft l Liberty loan It may be mentioret however, that he holds no bonds C 3 the first four issues.
 Rev. F. D. Sargent was reporte
 Thursday afternoon as resting com 3 fortabIy at the Day Kimban hospita where he underwent an operation fc 1 apIlendicitis on Tuesday,