Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-29
DANIELSON


! here, after a visit with friends at Man
chester, N. H.
W. E. Reach has won the billiard
championship of the Bohemian club by
defeating Colin Campbell in the final
game Of the tournament in which the
| members have engaged
| 1t was announced that Neeham
| Brown of the Globe mills of the Amer
| lean Wooden company at Utica, N. Y,
is to come here as agent of the con-
| GERMS newly acquired plant, the
| Whitestone at Elmville
| Memorial resolutions pertaining to
| the death of Miss S. Annie Doty, for
| nearly two score years teacher in
K1llingly, were adopted by commit
tee consisting of Miss Myrtice Mar
land, Miss Grace NJ. Stanton and Miss
Agnes w. Jacobs, representing the Is il
lingly Teachers association.
Rev. E. c. WinsIow of Boston viii
speak at the Sunday evening service al
| the Baptist church
Henry c. Dean of Lowell was Wis
itor with friends in Danielson Friday.
In recent letter from overseas it is
stated that Sergeants George and VIII
| liam Nuttall, with the military banG
are on a three weeks tour through
France playing at different Y M C
A. and were called on to play at g
banquet in honor of General Perish
ing. They state that since the signins
of the armistice they have been very
busy repairing motors of which foul
| thousand carloads have been shipped
from the shop; and what seems re-
markable, is, since enlisting in the ar
my year and half ago the brothers
! have never been SeDarated
Victory loan headquarters for thi.
district, which includes the towns O
KiIlingly, Brooklyn, Plafnf1eld, Sterl.
ing, Canterbury, Hampton and Scot.
land, have been established in the Of
! fees occupied by Attorney e. L. Oar.
bic in the Windham County Nationa
Bank building. A stenographer will e.
on duty there next week. The head
quarters telephone number is 343. C
A. Tillinghast, the district chairman
and Attorney Darbie were in Bosto1
i Friday on business pertaining to tn,
inauguration of the Victory loan Worl
in this district
In accord with the vote of the town
Tax Collector George A Williams vii
begin collecting taxes. in killingly OF
the second Monday in April. Tax pay
ment days this spring are going TO Civ
y
feeling. The town tax rate is 20 l.
!, mills, and that means producing 70
the collector many additional dollars
in most cases, over and above VIVA
was required to pay tax assessor ent
, next year. The new high tax rates ha
!, stirred up much talk of retrenchmen
,, in public expenditures. etc. etc, hu
the first proposition to be met is pay
ment of this years big tax.
The Weather Man switched on hi
winter current early Friday Afternoon
changing the situation in Danielso
from mild, spring weather to the kin
most people look for in late Febular!
The entertainment included, sleet an
snow and piercing winds, proof tia
March can go out like a lion eve
out of its supply of ice.
Joseph Labeile and Dieudonne Pag
who have been engaged in Danielso
and vicinity for years as skilled work
4 men in their trade, have formed a bus
mess partnership and are 10 operat
in the town of Killingly
A unique device employed by til
Germans in conducting their trenc
warfare is on exhibition in the sto1
window of George f. Davignon. 1t
a trench periscope, not makeshi
affair, but a periscope that contain
4 lenses of exceedingly high quality an
4 power. The periscope was taken froI
4 a trench near Loupy by Sergea1
u Charles Robitaille of Central Vil1ag
who was overseas with the 56th Goa
Artillery in which Danielson was s
/ heavily represented.
The periscope is said to be worth {
l 900 to 5000 francs, and those WI
know something of the value OF lenst
say this appraisal is not too high.
The periscope has arms SO that
! may be set up behind any protector
4 object, and the arms swung out so tn;
Y the observer can get his view thoue
he be hidden himself Taken out al
] set up on tripod, as one would set I
a camera, in Main street, opposite Il
1 Windham County Savings bank built
\ ing, the lenses, when properly focuse
4 bring the bend in Main street, at Il
northerly end of Davis park, right u
4 seemingly, to within ten feet of whe
( the periscope is placed. The iustrl
ment is available for effective use
observation over a range of sever
miles.
III Rev, M. S. Stocking, pastor of Dal
ielson's Methodist Episcopal church,
at Taunton attending the annu
Southern New England conferenc
which this year will be of extra SIP
cial interest on account of what "
be said there relative to the Centena
4 movement.
Al w. |. Billiard, formerly Of Danietsc
1 now of Boston, resigned Friday as a
sistant treasurer and financial man
/ ger of the Goodyear Cotton Mills
1 corporated at Goodyear, in the town
Killingly. This action, on the part