Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-06
JEWETT CITY
Electric Light Commissioners Decide Not to Resign-Tro Trolley Schedule Thirty-five Cars So Through, Carry ing Troops-Annual Meeting of Li- brary Trustees.

 The March meeting of ahe board of evening. The report of the clerk, H. |C. Webster, was accensed as read. Burgess .McBroome reported that the proposed resignations of G. J. Moeller and L. G. Buckingham as electric light commissioners had been withdrawn and that they would remain on the board. Frank Minski was elected 8 third member of the commission.
 Dennis Griffin and John Driscoll, a committee from the A. A. Young. IT. | Hose and Ladder Co, No. 1, laid the matter of the fire house being closed for lack of coal before the board. The board heard the report from the fire committee and arranged to have coal | put in at once sof it can be procured. 1 Warden Mailhotte was obligated to confer with the Jewett City Water Leo. with regard to extending the wa l ter line on North Main street to the borough line.
 | The following bills were voted paid: J. E. Leonard & Son, insurance $21 .55; 1 F. II. Gilbert. wood for hose house, ] sS.50; F. H. Burdick repairs at hose house $1660; J. A. Houfigan, insurance S12.30:, Francis Mclaughlin tending silent police and oil. S5.25; Martin | light plant streets s2sf.2a. library $1.2O: hose house $2s.S3;; John H. Tracy, s4215.
 1 Changed Trolley Schedule.
 The new tlorey acaedl,ls wl4ic., has started this week and will be in effect until further notice restores to Jewett City the running Of Q few weeks ago, l with few changes. The southbound trolIeys now will be: 6.20, sos, sos l1l09, 1.09, 3.o9, SIS, 6.99. TOT, s.09, 1 aO9, HOG. orthooelnd--5.26. 7.19, 1 S.19. 1928, 1z19. 2.1S, 4.19, 5.23. 6.19, l7.2e, S19, 1o.2O.
 Troops Go Through in Three Trains. 1 The tip was given from New London 1 at 3 p. m Tuesday that three big l troop trains were going through. bound north. The word was passed along l and Q. considerable crowd was at the i station to wave handkerchiefs and to cheer. The first train of Il cars cross- eG the 3.0s trolley here, the next of 1 Il cars passed at 4.04. the third of 13 cars went through at 445. in all S5 cars. There were 2200 troops. It is said they were from southern can tonment and were bound for France via Canada. The last train were all aviators, the cars were so marked in big chalk letters along the sides It was remarked by all what fine hardy looking young men the troops were.
 Jewett City seldom has seen such a sight The crowd cleered as the trains moved on, but the seriousness in the tone of the conversation afterwards was not to be mistaken.
 i Charles Mccarthy in Hospital.
 Frank Mccarthy received a tele- gram Tuesday morning from the Wor- cester, Mass. city hospital that his brother Charles, was there, seriously i'll, and to come at once.
 Charles Mccarthy is well known in Jewett City where he spends a part of every summer. He will be remem- bered by many as a warm friend ot the late J. H. Finn. He is a condue- tor on the Boston and Maine. running an express freight between Boston and Nashua.
 law, Dennis Sullivan. left at 930 fol Worcester The telegram did not state whether he was ill or had been in jured in railroad wreck.
 Critically III.
 Miss Minnie .WeIch has received in- formation that William Murray o1 Pawtucket is critically ill He is her brother-in- law having married hel sister Maggie of this place. MT. Mur- ray is a native of Jewett City. the son of MT. and Mrs. Dennis Murray
 lce-crossinq Hazardous.
 About o'clock Monday evening
 there came a light fall of snow moi ahove half an inch.
 Tuesday forenoon the footprints 1T the snow where it had fallen on the ice which covers the Ashland and As. i, pinook ponds told the story of the ex. ,, tent to which the frozen surfaces O
 these ponds are being used by pedes
 trians as cut-offs. The ponds hav'
 been frozen all winter and have tt
 some extent become thoroughfares.
 Hardly in the memory of the presen } generation has the ice been as thick
 Monday was warm and Tuesday wa
 the warmest day since last fall tn mercury climbed at noon to above 60
 Ice does two things quickly wher : there is a current as is the case fl
 both these ponds. In Ashland tn : wheel draft of the mill makes it an,
 in Aspinook there is the wheel draf
 and the continual flow of the Quine baug. Ice, no matter how thick, vii cut out underneath at an astonishin Q rate, with no external sign. And wit
 the mercury at SO it will honey-com in single day. so that six-inch ice <. which if new, would bear up a tear of horses will slump through with tn n weight of man.
 e Alpha Campbell broke through an
 was drowned in the Ashland pon 7. when the ice was six inches thicl q but it had honey -conbed that war; . day in the bend hack of the Textile. e Annual Meeting Library Trustees. 2 The annual meeting of the trustee
 of the Slater Library was held 0 y Monday. Regular business was trans ' acted including the following reelee
 tion of officers: President. Rev. E. \ l. Anthony; vice president, Dr. G. I
 Jennings; secretary, J. E. Phillips d | F. Phillips; librarian, Miss Mabt | Has Been Promoted. T Charles Palmer. II. s. N. has recent ly been promoted to the rank of pett officer
 Fl B. B. Myott of Boston and Mis- \ Frances Colesworthy of Worcestf
 were recent guests of MT and Mir \ Nelbert Myott
 \ 50 wood choppers are wanted | ! chop wood 3-4 mile from borough. AT H Ply to Vim. McNiaoL-adv.A E Alex Desjardine was at home frol H New Britain Sunday and later le
 for Fort Slocum, N r. where he hs
 enlisted in the aviation corps. III To Wed Southern Girl. III A letter from Private J. H. Bickne at Camp Mcclellan, Amiston, Alabs