Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-19


 Misses Mae Barry and Claire Hurlbut The exercises were well attended. The class reception to the graduating class was held Wednesday evening in the assembly room of the normal school. The graduating exercises of the class will be held this (Thursday) afternoon in the auditorium of the high school.
 The graduating exercises of the Windham Center grammar school were he;a Wednesday evening at the Con gram was given. The class members; ruiat ering eight, were presented their diplomas by H.. Clinton. Lathrop.
 Prosnective bidders for the trans portation of school children from the outlying districts to the Windham Center school season 191S- 1920, wiu please call at the office of The Wind ham Silk Co. on or before July 1, 1919, for information. or notify Mir. R. Fenton, chairman of committee by mail or phone. Dated at Willimantic, June F. 1919.-ady.
 "Wednesday afternoon about S.30 o. clock a Ford touring car, carrying license number 2705S. and driven by Arthur A. Andrews, employed by the American Thread Company of this city. came to grief on Windham road at a point in front of the house of Eugane Hanna. A number of young ladies were riding in the car at the time of the accident, which was caus- ed by the blowing out of @ rear tire, according to MT. Andrews statement. According to witnesses the car was travelling at a pretty fast clip at the time the tire blew out, which caused ha 1riu tn chine, which finally left the road. go- ing up the bank and colliding with a tree. The driver was badly cut about the face from flying glass of the smashed windshield and one of the young ladies was thrown out by the force of the collision. No one else was injured. The car was smashed up quite a bit. the lenders dash board radius rod and other parts being bad ly bent and twisted.
 Mr. and Mrs. Pierre J. Laramee left Wednesday for five weeks trip in the west, during which time they will at l tend the National Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose, at Mooseheart i Ill.,, MT. Laramee being the delegate tc the convention from Willimantic lodge No. 1440.
 Among recently discharged servic. 1 men to return to their homes in thi: city are Private Omer B. Brindamoor Sergeant Wilfred A. Gagnon and Cor. 1 poral Charles W. Hanson. Sergean William H. Owens, who is still in tn, service at Camp Devens, is spending few days with relatives in this city. In accordance with the annual GUS
 tom, Natchaug lodge, No. 22. Knight
 of Pythias will hold Memorial servic, Sunday afternoon next in Odd Eel
 lows hall. The memorial address vii
 be delivered by Rev. Harry S. Nc
 Cready and the usual ceremonies vii
 be held. Four members of. the lodg died during the past year and thei
 are a total of Al graves of members
 which will be decorated next Sunday Pythian Sisters, Puriton Temple, Nc ?, will participate in the services
 Among the members of the graduat ing class of nurses at the Lawrenc l Memorial hospital in New Londo this year is Miss Maud l.. Chappell c
 No. : Spring street this city.
 Henry T. Burr. a former principa of the Willimantic State Norma
 school, was present at the. class re | ception Wednesday evening held i
 the assembly room of the school. A number from th1S city will tax
 in the Yale Harvard boat races O
 the Thames river at New London
 tomorrow CFriday)..
 A session of the superior court wi
 be held in this city today (Friday) a 1915 a. m.. with Judge Greene C
 Norwich on the bench. The civil case
 of Sullivan vs. Willard and Burnhar
 vs. Crane will be taken up.
 As the result of dissatisfaction owe
 wages young women employed by tn Foster Stewart Manufacturing com
 pahy at their Wilson street mill, tn force numbering thirteen, left the
 work and say they will not return un : til they are granted an increase
 wages 15 per cent, the same as opeI
 atives of other textile plants receive . June 2. The young women who al 7 employed at tape weaving state ths . up to two months ago they were o 7 piece work. but at that time a chang |. was made in the design of work an , that in May notices were posted in tt mill that after June 2, an increase i / wages would be paid They say ths the raise was but 50 cents a week an some of the women did not have the 1