Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-15

largely textile manufacturing city.
 Fire that broke out at three o'clock Thursday morning the third story of the Chronicle building. threatened to destroy the entire building with it's con tents Quick work on the part of the 1 Willmantic firemen, however, kept the blaze confined to the upper stories of the building and away from the paper stored in the rear rooms and the fire was e&- l tinguished after damage estimated at about $10,000 had been done. The fire broke out in the room where metal is heated for the linotype machines and quickly spread to the room above. The fire was not caused by sparks from a fire in the oven of the metal heating stove. but scattered burnt matches on a l bench at the opposite side of the room gave rise to the belief that ssin chew ing the matches had set them afre and the blaze resulted
 The alarm was sent in from box A at the corner of Main and Church street and every piece of apparatus in the city responded Four lines of hose were laid and with two playing on the building from the Church street side and two more from the rear of the building. the fire was checked and confined to the one room on the third floor although con- siderable damage was done in the rooms above and to the roof of the building.
 As soon as the crowd arrived at the fire, volunteers began to remove office files and equipment from the building, storing them in the office of Elmer NJ Young directly across the street. Vol unteers also entered the second story of the building and covered the linotype machines with heavy paper to prevent destruction by water. The fact that the blaze was kept from the rooms in the rear of the building saved the press from destruction and Thursday, after repairs had been made and machinery cleaned up The Chronicle was able to turn out it's edition usual.
 The damage to the building and con tents was mostly by water, several riches of water from the third story coming down through the building and saturat- ing the rooms below. Some twenty tors of aewsprint paper. stored in the rooms | in the rear of the plant were damaged to some extent but it is estimated that they can be used with the loss of part of the paper.
 The store owned by Frank Gallna & Co.,. located on the ground floor of the building was soaked by water but was untouched by the flames
 Lieut.. James J. Lee of this city, who is actively engaged in campaigning for democratic candidates for national off, ces, in Windham county, as member of the Veterans Cox-Roosevelt club, ceived a communication from James NJ. Cox, governor of Ohio and democratic nominee for president, Thursday. the let ter coming from the headquarters of the democratic national committee at New York The letter reads as follows:
 have been told by our national head quarters of battalion of devoted men serving in the vital salients of strategic countries who are doing especially meri- torious work for the great cause to which you first demonstrated your devotion on : the muddy battlefield in France.
 You are man already marked in your community You are a veteran soldier who hurried to the defense of your cotn- try in the hour of national need. There fore you nave both the right and privilege of telling your neighbors what you fought for. I myself am doing the best, as I understand it. to interpret and make real ' your ideals.
 Among those ideals was the thought crystalized into determination, to fight a o war to end war to establish on the sham bles of the great conflict into which we y were drawn by inescanable duties toward D peace. You who fought over there. and :, we who served at home must cooperate 2 in full measure to keep faith with our a dead.
 = Cordially and appreciatively yours. Q JAMES NJ. COX. II me aIumnae or St. JQSenh'S hOSDita d gave their second annual dance Thursday evening at the state armory on Pleasan y street and realized a good sum to be useC = for purchasing linen for the nurses home d. During the dance a sale of cake. cand, - and ice cream by ladies of the alunnna added much to the sum realized The Ia dies in charge of the dance and sale o goods were as follows Miss Mae Keatins chairman. Miss Alice Logan. Miss Nor Grady Mrs 0'Neill, Miss Mary Cnrran and Mis Frances Kingbereer. The fine quality c goods received for sale came from tn many friends of the organization an from those wishing to express their ar preciation for services rendered by tn
 nurses at the hospital.
 A meeting of the YD Veterans associa = tion of Willimantic was held Thursda @ night in their rooms at the state arrnor with President James J Lee presidin,
 Plans for the Armistice night dance wer
 discussed and all arrangements made.
 The Mems club ef the First ConErerf
 tional church held a meeting Thursda
 evening in the church house. fine sui
 per being served at 63o o'clock by ti
 ladies of the church Following the SUI
 ner q nolitical discussion was held. n1er
 bers stating their views of the situatic s1 of the parties in the coming election.
 The auto truck of Hook and Ladd o company No l came to grief while maj ~S ing the run to the fire when the brazir
 on the drive shaft failed to hold TT lS truck instead of turning into Chur,
 street continued down Main as far as Il
 railroad crossing and had to be tow,
 back to the fire station for repairs TT
 accident to the auto truck is similar
 that which put the truck out of con1ni
 sion while making the run to the fire
 the property of Arthur F. Stiles of Win
 ham road about a week ago. On that O
 casion the truck got as far as the foot
 Jilson Hill. and there it went bad IT
 truck was not needed at the fire hoveve
 the smaller trucks supplying the hose al
 implements needed.
 Today (Friday) Windhar High W meet the eleven from Westerly on f,
 football field in the city where the Ia
 named high school is located Windha 1s and Westerly have always been bitte
 rivals and in most contests have be- . evenly matched. Coach Donohue has be-
 giving his men a workout this week a,
 they are in fine shape for the 20 toda
 The eleven battled Norwich Free Aca
 eny to a to tie at Recreation na
 last Saturday and showed they had sor
 goods. With a little more practice in
 should go through the season and win
 majority of their games.
 Three local young men, Arthur Gas, Timothy Sullivan and Harry Noel we
 somewhat bruised early Thursday nor ing when the automobile in which tn were passengers turned over after stri
 ing horse on the state highway about N mile southwest of the railroad Stat;o,