Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-20
WILLIMANTIC

away with the big end of the score. but Taftville has been hitting a better pace during the past few weeks and in tends to add victory over the Ameri- can Thread to those, already recorded. Last Saturday the Taftville nine took the Rosebuds to task | nd defeated them 1 to l and with the same lineup they
 expect to duplicate the deed the Coming
 Saturday, Manager Jack McQuilIan will send Gill after the boys down be- i low and Joe" Hamel will do the signal
 act Leo Normandin will take third for the game. It is. expected that large i delegation of boosters will take the trip l to, root for the local team, as Taftviile 1 Is an ancient rival.
 i Sunday the Singer team of Bridgeport 1 is 70 play at Recreation park and from 1 all accounts this team will be one of
 the toughest the locals have met this
 season, and they will have to go the | limit if they expect a victory. Qooney i who mas pitched in this city twice pre- viousiy will be on he rubber and Me l GiHley win hold his cid position be l hind the pat Pete" Wilson an ex- ! leaguer will probably do the hurling for covered by Jack" Mccarthy former c i A. C. captain.
 [ Wnlinantie mills lave felt the slack. l
 closing down of the Quidnck- Windhan ! and Windham Silk companies during the 1 present week. Tie finishing depart
 ment of the American Thread company 1 is now running on a four day a week schedule.
 Dance Saturday night August 21st ] Washburn hall, Majestic orchestra 1 adv
 1 A New. London newspaper tells a i story about Morris Streeter. of this city
 who sells chickens and in his hate tc ! sell a particular lot travelled to the l Whaling City with his Republic truck borrowing markers from another truck
 for the trip. While in that city he was
 stopped and it was learned he had nc
 registration card and was sailing under i false colors. In court Streeter admit 1 ted his guilt for both offenses but stat
 ed he only used what he had to deliver the chickens that day. New London al. 1 lowed him to dispose of the chickens and then split profits with him by re- i lieving him of SIS in cash.
 ! Automobile parties passing through i this ely Thursday asked where they 1 could purchase various articles. only tc | be told that the town was closed up for , the day. as it was Clerks Day and the 1 clerk, that is the majority of them. | with their employers were at Cosey Beach East Haven, wading through 2 shore dinner. Some 110 local business
 men left at o'clock ThursGay by auto
 mobiles for that beach and made a day i of it. returnnG home late in the even
 ng They didn't sec Eabe Ruth hit a rome run. that's true lJut they sure dio 1 have good time The Yankees were unahle ito play an exhibition game al
 New Haven Thursday owing to a change 1 in schedule between the Tanks and the 1 Indians, fellow ing the death of Ray Chapman, the Cleveland shortstop Tues 1 day morning.
 1 Mrs. Grace Potter and son Byror
 lave returned to their home here after 1 two weeks trip to M&nchester-b blythe 1 Sea Singing Beach, s,,d other beaches along the Massachusetts north shore, 1 X Blouin of 27 Park street left Thurs | day for Webster. Mass, to attend 8 1 field day of the insurance company o1 which he is an agent.
 | FuuxeaI services For Mrs. Harriet E Toney were held Thursday afternoon al ! four o'clock from the A. Nj. E. ZioT ] church on Spring street, Rev. D. R. . Overton, 1l,e pastor. conducting the ser 1 vices Today (Friday) the body will i be sent to New Bedford for burial ir i Oak Grove cemetery. Undertaken Jay 1 NJ Shepard was in charge of the fun ; eral arrangements
 l Funeral services for Mrs. ssrah $ i Roola- were held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock from her home. No 29t l Prospect street. Rev Walter F. Bor chert rector of St. Paurs Episcopa church officiating The bearers were Frank Alpaugh, Chauncey. Frank and |, Harold Curtis. Burial was in Willi- !, mantle cem2rery where a commtttai ser vice was read by Rev. Mir. BOrchert
 The arrangements were by Jay M. Shep- ard.