Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-04
DANELSON

Lorimcr Dixon, of the Windham
County National bank, has received a
watch fob, sent him as a member of
the i93Td Aero squadron, with which
he serted for - months oversee s-Nov.
-. fal8-Jan. 30, 1919. The fobs are
suitably marked and each of the $50
members OF the squadron has received
one.
J. f. Gardner, Jr., was in New York
Thursday on a business trip.
Members of the Girls club held
successful food sale Thursday after
noon at the home of DIR. and Mrs. w.
H. hudson.
Al 7.29 Thursday morning an alarm
from Box IS called out the department
for a chimney fire at the residence OF
9. II. Pellet, North Main street. There
was no damage.
Already representatives of decorating
concerns arc. coming to town to get
the business that the big celebration
here in honor of Killingly's service men
will bring them. The celebration will
be in May, probably about the 18th,
and the business section and many
buildings in the residential section
will be gaily decorated. on The line of
what was done here during the bi-cen-
tennial.
1t IS said that more automobile radi-
ators were damaged during the cold
weather of the past week than during
all the winter. Car owners became
careless about protecting the radiators
and there We're many freezeups
The matter of considering incrcas-
ing the capital stock OF the Connecti-
cut Mills company by as much as
! $3.50, 900 will be one of the matters dis
cussed at a special meeting of the
stock N Ol0pTS n he held in pocfpy1 ,1oyT
week.
The work of repairing ST Adams
| rectory, damaged by fire, is progress
/ ing so rapidly that it is now expected
| that the work will have been finished
and the rectory made ready for occu-
| pancy in about five weeks.
! II was stated here Thursday that
when national prohibition becomes
i effective some of Danielson's drug
| stores will cease to carry Intoxicating
liquors of any kind, even TO be dispens-
! ed under prescriptions. These drug
gists are bound that they shall not be
| pestered to sell intoXicants under any
! conditions, nor made subjects Of in
yestigation by reason of having the
| stuff in stock.
Mill men say there is an improve
! ment in the market for their goods
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day that he has booked sufficient or
ders to keep the plant going for three
months and that orders were available
for seven months, but at prices some
what lower than may be expected
later.
The announcement that the Fifty
First Field Artillery brigade is sailing
from France for home is cheering news
in numbers of homes in Ilillingly. This
brigade is part of the Goth Division
and included in the artillery units are
a number Of killingly boys, a number
of whom were students at Brown uni
versity.
Just what motor apparatus can &C
complish in putting the firemen or
the job in fast time was demonstrated
Thursday morning The Captain
Putnam Engine company made one Of
the longest runs that it can be called
upon to make, in the borough, up Il
North street, in such rapid time as L
amaze those who keep tabs on the OPP
Grafton. And speed counts in getting
to work in fire fighting.
While Private Adelard Barbeau wa.
having his hair trimmed in a Mair
street shop, the BARRIERS clippers raj
against something hard, the little Oh.
ject when removed from the scalp
| through WHICH II WAS WOFhlHg, prov
ing to be a silver of shrapnel metal
which the soldier received when he wa
wounded in action in France. This il
one of the fragments that Private Bar
beau argued with a German physician
should be removed, but the physician
insisted that the metal had all beel
taken out. Another little piece O
shrapnel still can be felt under tn
scalp, and this. too, is expected to wcrl
itself out in time.
A. r. Wood stated Thursday tina
steps have been taken to bring bacl
from France the first body of any sol
der from this vicinity who gave hi
life overseas for this county. TIL
young soldier is Harry C. Hopkins, 2t
of Putnam, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwi
o. Hopkins. Private Hopkins wa
wounded on October s., and died DC
tolSr s. He was one of the selecte
me- of this district and left Putnam