Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-12

Hu4HpeIS. Ouiludy was 64ceeulHSly chilly and exceedingly quiet, very few being on the streets and but few au- tomobiles in use.
 Grand Knight John M. BransfTeId and Past Grand Knight T. Frank Cunningham of San Jose Council, No. | IA, K. of C., were in Putnam Sunday, attending the opening of the state
 convention of the order. Work in the | third degree was exemplified.
 At the services in St. Paul's Eps- |.copal church Sunday, announcement i was made that BiShop E. Campion 1 Acheson of the Episcopal diocese of | Connecticut will visit the parish Sun day next and administer the rite of i confirmation to classes of children and l adults. Rev. Alfred Richmond of TurnbuI, Conn., occupied the pulpit at the Center Sunday as a candidate. A large
 number attended the service to meet
 and hear MT. Richmond. Mothers Day was observed in eeveral of the local churches Sunday with special music and sermons MT. and Mrs. Felix J. Lessard of 1e7
 Pleasant street decently entertained a
 number of friends in honor of their | brother, George Bedard of Norwich. l Music and refreshments were enjoy l ed. Among those present were Moses l Ruth Serrick, Cecelia Bedard of Nor wich, Jeanette Parent, Isabelle Parent, Amelia Roy, Ida Tetreault, Rose Te-
 treault, Louise Swanson, Mary Ar 1 bour, A. Thornberg, also Edwin Le- | tender Ernest Herrick, E. Grained, Paul Pippen of Taftville, William Be- | dard of Norwich, Benjamin Dewey ! Morse, William Barrett, Joseph Con-
 nell Alfred Judge. Albert Pentier,
 George Letender and Napoleon Le- i tendre.
 | Private Ernest C. Jacobs, member
 of Company D. 30th Infantry, 77th
 Division, returned to his home in l this city Saturday night after having
 gone through a rather unique experi-
 ence during hic term of service as a
 soldier in France as told by him
 Sunday afternoon. Private Jacobs
 tried on three different occasions to
 enlist in the. service after the United 1 States entered the war, but was not
 accepted because of his light weight. 1 However, he was inducted into the ser vice Feb. 27th of last year and went to Camp Devens and in a chort time to l Camp Upton. He with others landed 1 in England March 18th and three days later he was in, France. and early in June of last year was located at the
 American Base in the Lorraine Sec-
 tor June 18th he went into the
 trenches and was there just five days,
 which proved to be his only active service. on the firing line. On the 24th or five days later, a surprise at tack was sprung by the Prussian Guards and through overwhelming numbers he with others was taken prisoner by the Germans and remained | as such until some time after the armistcie was signed. After being captured, he was taken to Neuville from there to Strassburg, a receiving station for prisoners. Two weeks later he was taken to Darmstadt which
 is 30 kilometers from Forheims and while there was required to do work of a heavy nature. He did not re- main there long but was taken to Rastaff where officers in charge asked for information as to the occupations or trades of the various prisoners. | Private Jacobs told them he knew how to do farm work and late in August he was placed on a farm, The farm
 was owned and run by a prosperous German family who took a great liking to Jacobs and treated him while there from August to December of last year. as one of their own, the captive Tank eating with the family and en- | toying the best of what they had to offer, which must have been good, for Private Jacobs grew fat on it and just
 now would not experienced being dis T barred from the service on account of -l being too light. Late in December of II last year he was released and landed
 in this. country in time to take part in the parade of hte 77th Division in
 New York a short time ago. He re- ceived his discharged at Camp Dix.
 N. J., last Friday and it goes without
 saying that his mother Mrs. Mary E. | Jacobs of 22 Moulton Court, was more
 than glad to see him Saturday night Private Jacobs is on of but three To-
 cal soldiers who were taken prison CTS by the Germans. He has a broth CT, Winfield who is still in France,
 awaiting transportation to this coun- try.
 A most enjoyable social and dance was held Friday evening in the gym of
 the Windham High school by the
 members of the senior class. During l the intermission refreshments were served. The music for the sixteen l numbers on the program was by the Hickey Helmold orchestra. The com
 mittee who arranged the dance was
 Russell Norton. chairman; Josephine ] ! and Claire Calnew.
 The dance was given in the State armory Friday evening under the aus pices of A. C. Tyler Camp, No 8, Spanish War Veterans, was well at I tended.
 Secretary M, E. Sullivan of the gen. eral committee of the local 5th Vic tory Loan campaign announced Sun day evening that a number of team captains and team workers had not turned in their final reports of sub scriptions to the loan and that until he had received all such reports, a sum mary of the standing of the teams could not be given out.
 The Forty Hours Devotion began Sunday in St. Joseph's church.
 The border towns of Windham made a splendid record in the Fifth Victory Liberty Loan campaign. Andover F lacked but a few hundred dollars of subscribing it's quota five times. Chap lin, one of the smallest towns in the 4 state nearly doubled it's quota. Co lumbia expects that out of town cred it's will show the town twice over Wilmington subscribed 14S per cent. of it's quota, Mansfield the home of the a Connecticut Agricultural College sub- A scribed 2444S per cent of it's quota Ashford with but two canvassers, MT and Mrs. David Mathewson, went way over the top. Coventry, which in the fourth loan campaign, tripled its E quota, just squeezed through on this oI.- NG -I