Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-20
DANlELsON AND PUTNAM NEWS
DANIELSON

The first death among the members or Leo J. LHomme post American legion | occupied here Sunday morning. whel | Armand Peitras passed away at the hom | of his parents, Mir. and Mrs. Damase Poitras, School street. |
 Gassed during the last days of theI fighting. he returned to this country with the 18th Division and was mustered out of service on June [, 1919. His health | was never good after his discharge from the service and within few montAs after his return here he began to fail and his condition has been such for several months past that his life was despaired of
 MT. Poitras was born in Quebec, but the greater part of his life was spent within the United States which he serv- ed periodically and valorously during the world war.
 was assigned to the 18th Division as a member of Supply Company No 316. He was in the hard fighting in which his division participated at Montfaueen, in the Argonne, during the terrible days from September 18th to September 3oth, 1918, when the Germans felt for the first time the full force of the American on- slaught in one of the most bitter strug- gles of the war Leo J. LHomme, for whom the local post of the American Le- zion is named, and Oscar Swanson, for whom the North Grosvenordale-post is named, were companions of Peitras who gave their lives in the Argonne fighting Later Private Peitras was in sanguinary sections at Grande Montague in the Tryon sector, fighting almost uninter- ruptedly from October 6 to November II, the day of the armistice. His character and war record is summed up in the one word in his mastering out papers-"Ex- ccllent."
 The death of Private Peitras seems very much of tragedy not only to his 1 relatives, but to a host of friends. He was an unusually powerful and active 1 young man in the very pink of health when he went into the service. That l his remarkable constitution should wilt
 under the effects of the terrible poison ous gases that the Germans used in i their inhuman effort to best the forces
 of civilization and that the gassing he
 received so affected his lungs as tc i finally cause his death after months of 1 suffering is evident of the terrors that
 the service men faced overseas.
 Members of Leo J. L'Homme post vii honor their departed comrade Tuesday
 morning by assembling at their hall and
 In uniform, if possible, attend his funrea
 services Officers of the post were busy
 on Sunday making every effort to reacl
 all members and have them attend in
 body the funeral of the first of the mem
 bers to die.
 At the Bartlett home on Maine. street
 Saturday, at Il o'clock, Miss Olive Elsi Bartlett. daughter of Mir. and Mrs. P. Bartlett. was united in marriage wit
 Charles Stark Venable, whose parenta
 home is at Chapel Hill, North Carolina l The bride, who was gowncd in white
 wore a veil and carried a bouquet o brides roses, was attended by Miss .Laur Jacobs and Miss Lauretta Lambert, a bridesmaids. Earle Bartlett, brother 0 the bride, was best man.
 The wedding was attended onlysb by rel
 atiyes and a few friends MT. and Mrs Venable left during the day for thei
 wedding trip They are to make thei home at Belmont, Mass.
 For some time past Miss Bartlett fa been making her home in Boston. NJ j is engaged in research work in the labor atories of the Massachusetts Institute ( Technology.
 At the masses at St. James, churc \ Sunday, the hundreds of women who a tended service heard the suggestion frol the pulpit that it now their duty an : an honor to take up the duties of cit zenship in the interest of God and coul try. A considerable number of the VI
 men of the parish already have registe - ed to become voters and some were al
 mitted as electors on Saturday, but mar = more are expected to qualify in time }, participate in the presidential election o November.
 A story is going the rounds abo1 = three boys who went to local dr1 ! store and purchased { a bottle of wo h alcohol Though closely questioned
 the registered man who served them If to what they intended to do. with t ir liquid and cautioned repeatedly that tn l. must not use it or allow it to be us
 for beverage purposes, the youngste a went away with the poison and ca k finally took small drink from the bc
 tie. They had represented when purcha ss ing the wood alcohol that it was want
 for fuel purposes. Hours after the pu 10 chase was made the trio, badly frighte n. ed appeared at. the office of a loc k. physician and told of their reckless e n periments upon themselves. They h
 not taken enough to cause Serious ar suits, however. and are reported to i1a s quickly and favorably responded
 treatments. The bottle containing h. wood alcohol was plainly marked DO rI on.
 P Another druggist told Sunday morni w of his experience with person that pl ,d chase a quantity of medicated grain ,1 cohol. As in the case of the boys, t n buyer was warned that the grain al,
 hol contained a poison to prevent its
 ing used for bevrage purposes, but 1 . druggist was reasured that it was wal = ed for rubbing" Later 9 Sobbing V B man put through a hurry call for 1 [ druggist to tell him that the alcohol h \ been used as one ingredient of conc s tfon recommended by a seventh son \ seventh son who, apparently was sey B generations removed from knowing al E thing about the effects of medicated E sohol on the human system. An eme 5 helped straighten out this drinking tang ! as in the case of the boys, and left a impressive lesson against drinking liqu ! with death lurking in them.
 E At the session of the selectmen, to clerk and registrCAj for the purpose admitting qualified person as electors the town hall building on Monday, persons were admitted and will have tn t names added to the rolls. This is i largest number of persons ever admit in one day as electors in the town s2 Killingly and more than half of tn E who qualified were women. Republic. f were particularly jubliant because sA wards of 80 per cent. of the women V 0 were made voters registered upon Fl republican caucus list. Among the Q men admitted was one whose age ' S@ over 80 years
 N Sister Mary DeSalles, whose home H in Danielson before she entered the G terhood of St. Joseph, has been transi N red to St. Joseph's convent, Danielsor A Chief John Mcfarland issued wa A ing on Sunday that persons must de 6 from throwing glass in the streets. I H careless practice is becoming too gene H and motorists are made to suffer tn.