Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-23
VICTORY BONDS.

Subscriptions of S113,00 to the Vic-
 tory bonds were made in less than ten i minutes at the rally at the state arm ory Tuesday night and about twenty l more subscriptions for amounts not stated were made and will be. figured | i'll on the campaign.
 Subscriptions made through the To- cal general committee Tuesday brought the Norwich total to s259, ,3O0
 according to the report made by gen. eral chairman Nathan A. Gibbs and ] the armory rally sent the grand total i to sS72.300 with 279 subscribers.
 1 The campaign committees are going ] at their work of canvassing in their 1 different districts in vigorous fashion i and the results are proving highly en- couraging towards an early reaching
 of the full quota for the town.
 The rally brought crowd of sev-
 eral hundred to the armory after the i parade which started from Main street
 at the Buckingham Memorial at 7:32
 o'clock after concerts had been given Italian band and by Tubbs band in
 front of the Chelsea Savings bank on Main street.
 l Heading the line of about 150
 marchers was Tubbs band with John l l.. Harris as drum major in a respond - l ent gold trimmed uniform. big bear Eskin hat and silver mounted drum majors staff
 Marshal Charles A. Hagberg and his | aides were followed by 50 members of 1 the two local State Guard companies
 in their khakiuniforms and six mem bers of Griswold command, Spanish War Veterans.
 ! The next section was composed of returned soldiers in uniform, of whom
 there were about 35, representing sev-
 eral different divisions and commands
 The Italian band, with two of its
 members in khaki, led the members 0. the Victory loan committee of whom . about l5 were in line and they wer, . followed by the Red Cross section 1 with about 15 members marching. ' Felix Debarros in his khaki uniform 7 led company of half dozen color
 ed uniform, one of them from the fam
 ous Buffaloes, and was drum majo for the Liberty Drum corps, whicl marched at the head of the 50 Cir :. Scouts that were in line. Followin. r them came 15 of the Tierney Cadet
 and about 40 of the Boy Scouts ] The line of march led to Preston : Bridge and back along Main street t l the corner of Broadway, up Broadwa 2 to Otis street, down Otis to McKin : ley avenue to the armory. All alon ] the line crowds were out on the side l walks to see the parade.
 0 At the rally Chairman Gibbs pre- e sided as James c. Macpherson, wh n had been assigned to take this plac; e was called away by illness, and tn s programme began With musical selec = tions by Benson's orchestra and th = showing of the motion picture, Tn ,, Price of Peace, revealing many detail }. of the American participation in tn t war that had not hitherto been publi, s ly known. The Liberty Chorus, di /; directed by c. D. Geer, sang Pack U J Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Ba l and then Lieut.. Earle C. Herrick ( $ this city, who served in the 56t | heavy artillery regiment that went ol from Fort Wright late in March, 1Hl t gave an interesting recital of some ( y the service of the regiment. The II weapons were the French 1858. mot 'l erized so as to be hauled by tractor and there were 24 to the regimen ', They started for the front about tt i a middle of July, saw little of the sac " ond battle of the Marne. were in tt