Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-19
WILLIMANTIC

ventory about this time. and had the matter of increased wages under coI,y sideration, when qur men presented demands tor a Ia per cent. increase in wages and shorter hours,
 The company conceded the 10 per cent, increase, to start the first of the year, but QWing to the present eondi7 tiels of euE orders dia nat feel that we Therefere while the matter is under going furfhsr consideration. we decid- cd to close down and take the eppor-
 unity to take our annual inventory,
 whtch can he done better with the shop elesed down.
 The cempanV has always meant tp treat their men fairly, but they alse
 wish theiF men to De fair with them. The fepndrymsTl, as 8 bpdy, aeeepted
 sf per esn aas s.a,ss sssass ss %ta the sTss Therefore. to show that the company appreciates their >aetion. we have de- a;ded to give them the Ia per cent, in- crease starting at once, Instead of the first part of tre year;
 The Smith Ss Winchester MfE Co., GUILFQRD SMITH. President. The cold wave that struck Willin1anr tic Wednesday morning shows no signs of g letup, and the Thermometers al various locations throue hput the city continue 10 hover around the zero point, One of lhe most noticeable eff fleets of the. cold wave is the increase in the number Of fires: For the past l two weeks there had been a luil in the
 number of telephone calls for fires, but durins the past aS hours three men et I Engine company No. 1 have responded | tp three calls to fight chimney fires. The first call came in ahAut 4,SA o'clock | Wednesday afternoon. when the ehim- ! ney at the hene of James MeFiaFtv af Willewbreok street caught fire and gave the men soHa trouble before it vas extinsqished. At 3 e'cleek
 Thprsdav afterneon anather fire istpke | men soen had 1t under eontral. Earlier i in the day (Thursday1 the men had fought q chimney fire at the home of 1 Charles MulIigan of Chapman street, using some i2 gallons af chemical to | extiHsuish the blaze. Other noticeable 1 'pstanees of the effect of the cold are | the increased buyips of gioTes and ear
 proteetars. Tue river is frozen over
 and few more days of continued cold
 will put enouRh ice on the river to ill
 some of the eitE icehouses,
 1 Christmas exercises will be held in ] the graded schools today fFFiaay4 some in the morning and others in the afternoon. The exercises at Natqbsi
 parts, the pupils of Misses LarSin
 kindergarten roems st 8 O'Clock i1 tbe
 morning; ef Misses Ehapnel and Will 1 lett in recitation room at s.all 8. m,
 pnpils of Mrs Sullivan and the Misses ] O'Neill and Cheney in the kindergarter room at ? ?. m; of the Misses Jacobs 1 and Riehm9nd and Mrs Rose in the recitation room at ?. m,
 l h the two basketball ganes played ! al the Windham High school Wed nesday evening the local High sehooi
 teams came out victorious. The boys
 five lined up against the five from ! Stafford and won by the score of 2s fo F. @hey were never in danger of de- ! feat and at the end of inc first period
 had a total of + points to their ep- ponents r Tn the girls' hasketball i contest Miss Vivian Williams starrsegdi $ f for the local team, getting a total of I of the II points her team receive wlaiif | the Alumni of the school seraped UT points. This contest was a ruaa : way for the high school girls and ai 1 the half way mark they had 6 points l while their opponents were still try l ing to get their first basket.
 
 The death of Mabel Saba, the 1 twelve -year-eld daughter of FadloJ
 Saba, occurred Thursday morning al l St. Joseph's hospital, death being due to meningitis. The deceased was iE the sixth grade in the Natcbaug gram mar school. and was the oldest of foSil
 children. Besides her parents she
 leaves twQ brothers, Edward and Al.
 ferd Saba, and eRe sister, Raesy Saba Tke regular wsskiy meeting of the
 Girl Scouts was held Thursday eve ning at the GeagregRtional ehurcl
 house. As next Thursday is Christ
 mas the HleetiTg of the scouts viii b, postponed for one week. the aex
 meeting te be held Fhprsday, Janaar. 1 1920. $ '' | The tFsin due ja Willimsntic s.aortl, , after three o'clock in the afterhoonr from Hartford for Boston, Mass, wa
 9Yer tEo hours late Thnrsday after