Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-04-11
DANIEL SON

making subscriptions in the Victory
loan drive that they give at least
part Of their subscriptions in behalf
of the town where they reside. This
particular feature of the campaign is
directed toward the end OF getting
some benefit of the heavy subscrip
tions that come from summer resi-
dents of some Of the towns in this dis
trict, subscriptions that are apt to be
| placed through banks in large cities.
1t is believed that this campaign. if
| properly urged, will result in boost
| ing materially the total of subscrip-
! tions in some of the towns of the
/ Danielson district.
f, Gloomy and rainy weather Thurs
day did not operate in any degree to
dampen the joy of many of killingly's
reople over the return here on leave
Of absence from Camp Devens~ of va
rious of the towns sons who have
| fought the god fight lover there"
They were received with open arms,
and second only to the happiness of
| their relatives and close friends over
| their safe return was that of the peo-
pie at large.
John Horton, Daniel Doyle, Francis
Gagnon and George Moran made up a
quartette of Yankee Lewiston boys
who set foot in their home town for
| 1
seems superfluousl to state that they
were overjoyed to get back. even for
! the brief period that their leaves of
absence permit, and their feelings in
i the premises were matched by the
| happiness of the people that welcomed
| them.
All of the four excepting Horton
who was in a field artillery outfit
/ fought with the famous 1920 infantry
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proud for evernlore. All of them have
seen the service that tries mems souls
and all of them have faced death day
after day, never fiinching, never way
jering, always mindful that they were
representatives of the nation whom
\ the success of the war for the allies
/ depended.
Horton and Doyle are Danielson
boys, Gagnon and Moran of Dayville
Their war record is something in
which the town shares what must be
1 their pride. In the strenuous cam
paigning of the 1920 infantry from the
first all escaped serious injury, some
thing that few of the original outfit
can claim. and they are of the hand
full of men that started overseas with
the regiment in September, 1917. and
lived through to come back with it.
|. They We're at Seicheprey, at st. Mi
! hiel where nearly 20,000 Germans
were captured, on the Mouse and If
the Argonne and other terrific fight
ing. They have learned what il
means to come into immediate touch
with the kaiser's forces, and to bea1
them back every time they encoun-
tered them.
Looking into their youthful faces. i
. is almost impossible to realize tina
they are among the most seasoned
! veterans of hard fighting that Uncle
Sam sent overseas, or to realize wha
their eyes have looked upon. The!
know all of the horrors of war, excep
that of defeat. and they are represen
; atives of victory triumphant.
Many were the people who claspet
: their hands Thursday. At Dayvill
Messrs- Moran and Gagnon were over
whelmed with Fluctuations on thei
safe return and were properly sere
naded
They must go back to Camp Dew
ems at the expiration of their leaves t,
= await the big review at the canton
jment and the monster parade in whicl
they will participate in Boston, bu
about the first of May they will com
back as civilians have made a recort
of which their towns people will TAX
pride in talking as lons as this gen
Grafton lasts.
Following are the newly elected of
z fcers of Montgomery council, No ?, 5
l NJ: T. J. NJ, c, S. Francis; l. D NJ
Frank T. Preston; l. ?. G. +. z. Bit
[ good; treasurer. Frank T. Preston; re
. cording secretary. D. Fred Kenwor
thy; c. of c., Captain T. E. Withee
conducto, Ernest r. Warren; stew
: ard, Walter Anderson; sentinel, Ed
: ward S. Carpenter.
r The officers were installed by Retir
ing 7. I. NJ. Ebert L. Darbie, assist
\ ed by Orray f. Potter as grand mar
shall.
!. Among the men from this sectio
d who have been named as members c
the reception committee of the Con
|, necticut general assembly centennia
= are: Representatives Franklin c
= Brooklyn, Dorrance of Plainfelc
= Haines of Pomfret, Kent of Putnar
and Baker of Ashford.
y Manufacturing concerns are show
= ing much interest in the coming Wei
come Home celebration, it was learn
ed Thursday, and not few of theI
will be represented in the big parad
by groups of their employees and b
t floats. The present promise is for on
of the greatest celebrations Killingl
:, ever saw.
h Sergeant Henry Burnett. who wa
S a motorcycle despatch rider oversee
tells Of the exciting life that one
r, these riders lives and with pleasul
Of the speed with which they carrie
,, out their missions. The America
:. riders showed the despatch riders
other allied arms what real spec
e looked like. and it came to be Il
common thing for the Poilus an
n Tommies to stop and watch them
amazement as they would tear throug
= towns, riding their machines at breal
= neck speed. Sergeant Burnett g
many nasty falls in his hazardous OF
IS cupation. but he escaped without ar
y broken bones. though he was so il
: jured in eXtricating another rider
machine from the mud that he wi
'e have to undergo a surgical operate
before he is mustered out.
II At the Connecticut mills, a surve
d is being made of land surrounding IL
d big plant. While no statement rel;
tive to the activities will be given OF
p by mill officials it is taken to indica
that at some time in the not dista1
future the company will give serio,
consideration to the much talked
iplan of building another mill. tt
big plant is extremely busy at Il
present time, and is running day al
night shifts of workers.
There were two calls for fires {