Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-30
Norwich Bulletin, Willinaantic Of flee, 23 Church St., Telephone 105.
What Is Going on Tonight.

WnaS IS Goin9 Qn fohi9nIs
 Company B. Third Regiment, drills at armory on Pleasant street.
 A blaze in an upstairs bedroom at. the home of Mrs. Kate Dyke, of Main street, nearly opposite the town from Engine Company No. 1 Monday morning about S.10 o'clock. The box rung in was No. "A at the corner of Main and High streets. The fire was. out soon after the firemen arrived, three gallons of chemical extinguishr ing the blaze. The fire was caused by children playing with matches, the fire starting in the bedclothes. When the firemen arrived the fire had start. ed to eat into the partition but with a little chopping this small blaze was also put out. The damage was slight, amounting to about $25' The building is a tenement frame structure, is the property of F. A. Sayles.
 That the condition of the state roads between this city and Hartford is bad will be vouched for by one man who came through this city Monday. Hi sstory was that at one place in the road there was a ditch and a heavy truck had become stuck so fast that not one portion of the wheels l trick was lying in such manner as to make it impossible for automobiles to pass without trying to hurdle the ditch and chancing getting mired. It cost this man just one big dollar to get over this spot and he felt that a roping party should deal with the i persons he paid the money to. A | man and his family who live not far ] from that spot had seen in this ditch a chance to become millionaires. With the aid of a pair of mules and two 1 heavy blanks they started on the road | to wealth. When an auto party came to the ditch and stopped, the men ] wou ask if they wanted to get across the ditch. Of course the au- toist did and he was informed that if one dollar was paid the men would | let him run his car over their blanks i The dollar was paid, the mules were i, hitched to the automobile and the trip ] safely made.
 | The man who told this story stated that these men had informed him thai
 he was the sixteenth victim in two hours. It was about o'clock at that time the autoist figured out that they | would earn a few more dollars during the night. The only part that hurt the feelings of the motorist was that
 the mules weren't needed because i
 a car could be run over the ditch the
 trip would be simple. The men, how
 ever, had a monopoly on the blanks
 and it took dollar to place then over the ditch.
 Some evening this week, the com.
 mittee appointed by the chamber O
 commerce at the request of the civi, committee of the Willimantic Wo. | oy7'e xrriH III,
 committee and ex-Mayor Daniel P
 Dunn and Valentine L. Murphy t, discuss the final disposition of thu
 Liberty Cottage. It is the plan of tn Woman's Club to set the building ol the property of the American Threat Company near the Main street cross
 ing of the N. T., N. H. & H. railroad
 to be used for a trolley station. Tn;
 plan, however, does not meet the ia
 vor of ex-Mayor Dunn or Mir. Murphy .l custodians of the cottage. At one o the meetings of the Elks, a commit tee was appointed to make arrange
 ments for preserving the cottage be
 cause of it's historical association, They also planned to place it in Elks
 park on. Pleasant street until som
 plan has been formulated as to it's fl
 nal location. The cottage was mad
 from materials donated by local firm
 and belongs neither to the town O
 the. city. As the Windham Nationa l Bank is soon to undergo repairs will be necessary to move the cottag
 to some other site. Many local resi- 1 dents seem to favor keeping the cot
 tage for it's value in the future his
 tory of the city while others desire !, as a station but feel that somethin should be done to keep the history the cottage and it's location from be coming lost to future generations s-t Following the receipt of a warnin
 that he must vacate his place of bus
 mess on or before the 18th of Apri Louis Brettschneider made arrange = ments to sell his business at 105