Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-10
DANIELSON

lingly and in Brooklyn and all parts CT
the town OF Plainfield Thursday, when
il was learned that the Associated
Press had announced from Washing
ton that the seth Coast Artillery reGi-
rlent is on its way home and that the
U. S. battleship Dakota bearing the |
men is due to arrive on this side. Jan.
II. a week from today.
In this regiment is D battery, which |
includes more than 100 men from the
towns of KillinS!y, Brooklyn, Plain |
field and few from Putnam.
1t is a fighting outfit that has seen !
hard service and the eastern Conuec- |
ticut men who are included in it know |
what it is to stand uD under a Ger /
nan bombaTdment and also the thrill |
Of giving them back four for one
as was the fixed rule wherever they |
fought, Sergeant Raymond Hamilton |
who has been invaded home, tells his |
| friends here.
Danielscn will give the home COM
pany a welcome that will rip the roof
| Oft the town. But that is matter that
will have to await more definite
| knowledge as TO where the men are to
| be sent after arriving on this side and
how long they will be held before be
| ing allowed to come home for good.
| The regiment went overseas in
March of last year after eight moEths
of training at Foyt Terry. Their act
ual contact with the enemy came
about the beginning of August, 1918,
when they moved up back of the Goth
| division that had been engaged in
| driving the Germans back from Cha
| teau- Thierry. They had been follow
iES up fer about two weeks after the
big drive started, according to Ser
geant Hamilton, but the American
doughboys We're sweeping forward
with such imDetuosity that the artil-
lery, with its tremendously heavy guns
| and other equipment, could not get
into the fighting line until about the
first of August. when tho drlA2 was
slowing up. From then until the sign
ing CT the armistice-a period of more
than three monthS-D battery and
other units of the 56th saw plenty of
action, so that it returns to tlfS United
States a veteran fighting organization
made up of men who rushed into the
service, for the most part. soon after
Uncle Sam decided tC fight.
Though the battery has been
through terrible actions and hurri-
. canes of artillery fire. intended by the
Germans to wipe out their battery.
not a man who went out with the
F., Danielson company has lost his life
a record that is truly remarkable.
Some were wounded and some injured
in ether ways. but they are all com
ing back to the towns where the peo-
s rle are just seething with impatience
to honor them as 11en who have writ
, ten some pages of history of which
= the communities they represent al
= ways will be proud.
n In line with other cheering news of
!, Thursday was the announcement by
. Deputy Sheriff Charles F. Aver, who
Ia1.. ir. L 11r,, ~
- the quarantine against dogs has beer
t. lifted by the bureau of domestic ami
. mails. This applies TO all of the town
+ Of Killingly and other towns here
abouts, with the exception of Plain
field, which was not mentioned
S whether by oversight or otherwise, ir
} the communication received by Sheriff
: Aver. The dogs have been under
e greatly restricted liberty since the fal
' Of 1917-a period of more than a veal
: during which most of them have beer
" OF the time. They get their full lib
$ erty back under the order effectiv,
l. Thursday, however so that both dogs
e and owners must be happy.
II Thursday afternoon at 8 o'clock a
% the undertaking rooms of A F. Woo
on Academy street there was f.,
neral service for Mrs. Harry Sims
formerly Miss Charlotte Carpenter o
n&lielson. who died in Denver. Col
" Pev. Albert Jepson of ST Alban!
church conducted the service, which
is was attended by relatives ana friends
Burial was in Westfeld cemetery il
= the Carpenter family lot.
Mrs. Rebekah Williams crowcIl, 81
1t died early THURSDAY morning at In
home of her son, Henry II. Crovel
II in North Sterling. Mrs. Crowen wa
born in Pawtuclet and was the wild
oil ow Of Alonzo Crowen who died
ar number of years ago. Mrs CrCwel
had been making her home with he
t son fer a number of years.
&c Lester Craig, who has been in tn
: army service, in the department o
chemistr..-, has been mustered out an,
las returned to the homo Of his par
ents. LIr. and Mrs. ". L. Graf Nj
"a Craig was a student Il Brown univer
~ Sity when he entered the service carl,
last year.
Lafayette HoyIe, who has been il
BUSINESS on Centes street, has pur
chased what has been known as h
Darbie place, on Academy street. De
tween the Bacon and LeavenS ruiId
inSs and has stat" excavations the
for the foundations COR ! now huildin!
that he VIII occupy as : shop.
Prospects for getting an i-n cro
fol Danielson do not improve rapidly
At Quinebaug lake where most of tn
ice for the borough is harvested tn
ice had reached a THICKNESS CT only
little over two inche; on ThUrr7a
Miss Mabel Ken, CT Putnam. dis
trict deputy president. ana her suit
will come to DanieiS0n this evening
install the officers of Dorcas Rcbeka'
lodge. The ceremony will take DIac
in Odd Fellows hall in the town ha.
building.
A light touring car owned by tn
Connecticut Mills company was dam
AGED Thursday morning when it skid
Gcd on Main street. opposite Dav'
park. None of the occupants wel
injured.
Hearts of the World. one of the mos
wonderful screen stories that has bee
produced was shown at the OrnheuT
theatre Thursday afternoon and eve
ming. The world war forms a back
ground for the great production
which is founded on a romance. ar
many Of the scenes were Photographic
under shell fire on the b1xtiefeldS {
France. The picture is regarded q
one of the most wonderful that ha
been shown in DanielSon.
Miss Katherine D. Awkward will /