Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-22
DANIELSON

IT. lLC SSINlCS dt SdHip pun, ucS been mustered out and has returned to Danielson.
 Members of the Baptist Ladies Aid society are to meet with Mrs. J. T. !! Edwards at the parsonage this after noon.
 Maurice Conklin, Hartfcrd, visited | with his parents, MT. and Mrs. B. c. Conklin, at Elmvi1le
 Judge W. F. Woodward was in Will ! limantic Tuesday. attending a session | of the superior court. r Officer Christopher Andrews was on duty Tuesday in the absence cf Chief John Mcfarland, who was in Willi- mantle attending the superior court. Loriner Dixon, who has bean over seas with an aero squadron, was due to arrive in Boston Tuesday on the tronsport Melita. Upon his return here he is to resume his position with the Windham County National bank. J. Carl Witter was in Providence Tuesday on a business trip.
 Advices received here Tuesday were ! to the effect that the Danielson boys 1 who arrived from overseas and went to Camp Mills Saturday are to be- | transferred to Fort Terry and Fort 1 Wright almost at once and that mus i tering out will follow in short order. Letters addressed as follows are
 unclaimed at the postofiice: Mrs. Mary l Borden, Miss Belle Leslie, Fred Han
 sen, Paul Fisher Sylva Wendell. l Pierre Boulaine, formerly a book
 keeper at the Quinebaug store, is plan
 ming to return from Southbridge with
 his family and to engage in business. | The rooms of the Bohemian club | were turned over to the Civic Fedora tion Tuesday evening for whist par Y, the proceeds of which will go to | the work of the ori& lfMs-on. The rooms were prettily decorated.
 By direction of the department.
 Postmaster Raymond Allen has been | interviewing business men and others
 Ill Danielson Se to whether they have
 any suggestions for the improvements
 of the mail service. Chiefly, the post
 master learned, the people are inter
 ested in better arrangements for get
 ting mail in and out of Danielson--so
 this puts it up to the railroads. The
 postmaster also has heard frequent
 mention of the arrangement of the
 entrance to the postoffice. The en-
 trance is displeasing to many and a
 netter arrangement of the doors is wanted.
 The report that one of DanieIson's 1 large manufacturing concerns had I sold it's plant ta another big opera
 zion that operates a mill in the town
 of Plainffeld was denied by a gen.
 tleman closely connected with the
 Danielson company.
 Subscribers in the Danielson divis-
 ion who had occasion to use the wires
 TOT toll line communications Tuesday
 learned that the new rates to points , outside the state do not represent such sharp advances from the old a charges as do the tariffs for talking with points within Connecticut. The Connecticut rates are the ones over which the howls are being heard. \ war department telegram to Mrs G. Herbert Smith of South Main q street, West Side, announces the death a 1T action, on Oct '. of her son, Pri- \ rate Merrill Collyer Smith, 31, member "a D company, 23d infantry, Second 5 division.
 Thoush the telegram was an official one from the war department, there ' remains ground for the hope that Pri- < Tate Smith is alive still
 s Circumstances surrounding his case B are unusual. No letters have beer received from him since last June. IT B the meantime hki mother has made E every effort to gel into communica- ion with him, has sent him remit \ t2nCes and endeaVOred through every s possible avenue to locate him or to ger E ia touch with someone who knew his B whereabouts. Every effort met witt .ailure. B Now comes an official report of hi! E q ath in action, on October [, with n, explanation from any source as t. s why no word has come from hin s since June, though he had writer | regularly up to that time. nor wi, B n,afl from this side failed to reacl him or inquiries about him brough E ao response tending to unravel tn E mystery.
 sl f Private Smith has given his If < fer his country. he is the second fror ! DanielSOn who has made the supren j sacrifice. the first being Nicholas Pa . ralymh erris, who died of wounds i E France.
 < Private Smith entered the service t october, 1917, as a selected mar fror s Division r, with headquarters at Wi 5 iimantic, for tae West Side of Daniel 6 son is in the town Of Brooklyn ant = therefore, a part of the Wtllimantt
 draTt board territory. He was sent |
 Camp Devens, went into tro ming an q eventually was assigned to the 9 re infantry, a regular army outfit. an
 went overseas jn February, 1918. + ed avas of splendid physique and mao IL m excellent soldier The report
 his death in action has been receive a. here with deepest regret. thoug i!e many, considering all of the circun re stances, are buoyed up by the hor
 that the report may prove untrue. r. has been the case many times du ny Ing the present war.
 Hn' Writing from France under date ' Dec. 28, to The Bulletin corresponC u ert, Private Adelard Barbeau G con > pany, 1O2d infantry, who was fn
 German prison camp for seven montl ok says in part:
 on Just few lines to let you kno nd tkat I am well and back in Fran m with the old company. hut, belle al me, many of the boys are missing
 course, you must know by now wh
 this division has done and what tn, - have suffered since last January Wh
 they have been in every big attat made by the American army. I a sure you have read what General E, wards has said about us.
 All the boys from home are in tn regiment, all having escaped alive would have been dead one in Ge many if it had not have been for tI Red Cross sending me parcels of foe And, you may be sure, I was badly need of food when their first packa reached me in August I had be captured, wounded twice, on April end was down to 130 pounds when t package came. Now I am back the old weight, 1S0 pounds and fec ing fine (Barbeau weighed 200 poun when he entered the service in Sc tamber. 191D."
 | 'Thosa Germans treated me like 1 dog. Believe me, I'll never have a more use for German. It's all ov