Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-17
DANIEIsoN

 Danielson just before six o'clock on | Friday morning on the long journey to ] Akron, Ohio. The arain of monster vehicles was preceded by a pilot car of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber | company and in the outfit was Ford | touring car carrying motor mechanics 1 who will doctor up any little diff culty that may develop among the trucks during the long run to Ohio
 New Haven was the destination the train hoped to reach by Friday even ing and tonight will find the trucks in New York.
 The spiteful sputtering of cold mo- tors followed by the deep roar of those that warmed up quickly was the signal to Danielson people who were awake soon after five o'clock, Friday morning that the motor train was about to get under way. Not a large number witnesses the spectacle of the ponderous train getting off, but those, who did get to Railroad square, where the loaded trucks. which had been brought down from Goodyear and the Connecticut Mills, had parked for the night, felt well repaid for their early rising.
 There were "reminiscences of lover there" for some of the soldier boys who watched the getaway, for the Iitruck train was for all the world like 1.-the army truck lines that used to make their way toward the front lines, bringing supplies for the boys who were doing the fighting.
 | As the trucks fell in one behind the 1 other and rumbled down through the | business section and out into Water | street, on their journey of more than 500 miles, the chorus of the power l ful motors awakened many from their I sleep, and scores of heads peeped out from behind shades to get a look at i the strange spectacle. The unusual 1 undertaking of the Goodyear corpor-
 ation seems to have stirred up tre- mendous interest all through eastern l Connecticut and on trains and trolleys | and on buses in this territory dur l ing Friday it was the subject of con- Versation for a great many people 1 For some reason-perhaps on account of it's novelty-the movement of tire | fabric by truck train seems to have struck the popular fancy and every
 bit of information about the biz
 trucks and their trip was seized up
 on for discussion.
 At Wauregan, at Central Village
 and Plainfield and all along the lint
 down to Norwich the trucks were
 watched with the greatest interest or
 their trip south Friday morning Telephone messages sent to friends il
 towns to the south prepared them tC
 be on the lookout for the trucks. an( those who got word were not slov
 in spreading it about.
 Out in the country the roar of tn, , truck motors as they hauled theil big loads over heavy grades on tn
 state roads could be heard for tw, or three miles and many farmer . l HTnr -I1f
 the truck train swept southward ? Those who had read in The Bulletin , of the big and novel project of tn
 Goodyear Company were wise to tn ] meaning of the fleet of swiftly mov l ing vans.
 During Friday more trucks arrive at the plant in Goodyear and sti ; others are expected today. Anothe train is being made up here, but jus l when it will get away could not b determined Friday afternoon. It was stated here Friday that of }. fers were made to some local yOun :, ment of an opportunity to take tn 1 trip to Ohio with the trucks, but non a accepted the chance. not being able t make the necessary arrangements { n get away.
 Bids, which closed Thursday, ar
 now under consideration by the stat h highway department for the contrac : of constructing the stretch of stat n highway in the town of Killingly frol
 the Connecticut-R Rhode Island line z Little Rest to a point where the pres
 ent state highway ends on the Dan
 ielson- South Killingly road. Ther : is 20.600 feet of highway in th h stretch to be improved and the spec : ficati0ns call for 3-inch bituninou
 macadam over Finch stone bas } Bids closed at the same time for tt s building of p, 900 feet of the san
 kind of state highway in the town ( f Brooklyn and in the town of Hamr 1t ton. These two links are the ones tn;
 will give a through state highway lir q from Willimantic to Providence ! e the most direct route They are u r, links that people in towns hereabou
 have wanted built for years. and tn; q desire is about to be realized durfr $ the coming summer. Announcement e relative to who have received the cor
 tracts to build these links of hfgl l, way are looked for within the net e future.
 if At the state arrnory, Friday e, ,L ening, there was a very large attend S arce at the concert and ball given l Rose of Lima council, Knights II Columbus, this affair being the mo l important of a social nature ever a It ranged by the local council. Visiti1
 knights and their friends came fro ,4 al lthe surrounding towns and vi IA lages and were delighted with the e, II, cellence of the arrangements for the sS3 entertainment. Music was hy Mi Burke's orchestra, of Brockton, one 5at the ffinest musical organizations th io has come into this section to play f 'I a ball.
 Ill The great drill shed of the armo d a was handsomely decorated, nations la to colors and emblems of the order beil ,Io .p used with fine effect in carrying o 'ii the general scheme of decorations.
 The grand march was led by Gral = Knight Daniel O'ConneIl and Mrs. ( m Cornell, with MT. and Mrs. Henry ! Dubuc, as second couple in line. Preceding the march and the dan B numbers there was Q concert hol
 during which the orchestra pleas the large number on attendance T balconies were filled with spectato \ who derived much pleasure fro listening to the music and reviewi
 the many pretty gowns conspicuous \ the assemblage on the dancing flo, ! Mrs. Ellen F. Daggett, "A, widow. \ Henry A. Daggett, died at Dayvil ' where she has been living recent H Mrs. Daggett was a native of Es B for many years. She leaves a sist Mrs. Blackmar, of East Putnam, a
 a son, Adelbert, of Goodyear.
 Mrs. Evelyn M. Shippee, 33, wife Ray Shippee, died eadly Friday nor TLo EnHET d11r;nO & afte