Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-24
EWEn CITY

man, who was found dead in his bed in his laundry, Sunday morning, 1 when the door was broken open by his brother. was sent to New York Monday night by Hourigan Bros, fu- neral director of this place.
 The Jewett City Creamery Co. is paying its patrons this month 6S cents per pound for butter fat, the highest price ever paid. Twenty from the method of paying the cream producer by the space, to the butter | fat system. The first payment was 2S cents per pound. Today the far mer is receiving three times as much.
 w, Fl. Brown has found number of negatives taken in Jewett City a few days after the great flood of 1886. MT. Brown secured them at that time | from several fine points of vantage. 1 They will make a set Of renlin. scent photographs hardly to be secured from any other source.
 Spark of Life tonight at Finn's. l Don't miss it. Last chance.-adv. | The Backus hospital ambulance came to Jewett c ty Monday, on call 1 of pr. F. E. Rainville to take Mrs. l Dana Potter to that institution for an operation. Mrs. Potter was Miss Emma Campbell, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Oscar Campbell of this place. 1 It was misstatement in Mondays 1 Bulletin in city local note that J. Ambrose Higgins after. fall last week, lay on the, ground two hours l before he was found. Such is not the case. A friend was beside him. He was picked up immediately and went to his home. MT. Higgins was re- ported much improved late Monday ] ,iY,er I,14 hi tfO Not strong, extra care and worry have proved disastrous to her. Their son, Ambrose, of Hartford is with them at their home on Main street.
 Virginia. the three year old daugh- ter of F. H. P. Clement, whose moth CT died Friday night is being cared i for at the home of Mrs John Stew art. Mrs. Stewards daughter Irene and little Virginia are deeply attach ed to. each other.
 1 Everett H. -Hiscox, Jr., entertained 1 Monday Matthew Dinan of New Ha- ven, Q wartime pal. They crossed the Atlantic ten times on the Levia- than and visited Paris together.
 The extremely bad going on the highways all about this section is responsible for many a holdup and delay. One night recently Central Village business man had a call not 1c1A O4ll SWSAfO v SANNh U OO1140 LO Jewett City.
 Two or three miles above the town the automobile in which the men were coming to the borough became stuck in the snow. After repeated l trials it became apparent that'to pro- l ceed was impossible. Meanwhile along came a Jewett City machine. bound home. It stopped. The. two Central Village men imparted the in formation to the men in the Jewett City machine that they wanted to l get to the bank mans house in Jew ! ett City and asked for a tow in. The two Jewett City men drew aside, took council together and in a minute piled unceremoniously into their car. down the line Arriving here they found Chief of Police John Dolan and reported to him that two men i were stuck in the road above the town. and that they were suspicious l looking chara cters and were bound here to rob the bank.
 Officer Dolan went to the police station and called Mir. Robinson. ac- ouainting him with the facts MT. call was o. K. and that the men were bound to his home. Whereupon the two men in the Jewett City machine returned to the Central Village ma chine and lowed it to Jewett City. ] Word was received by Mrs. William Connell of Tracy avenue Monday 1 afternoon that her brother, Walter Jackson had died in the Backus hos pital, Norwich, where he has been for a week, i'll with pneumonia. The young man, who is a conductor on the N. Y, N. II. & H. R. R. was at one time a resident of Jewett City for I nd fv;1 5- who learned of his death with sor- row.
 At a special town meeting held at the town hall in Pachaug Monday af- ternoon. it was voted to lay twenty mill tax on the taxable property of the town. Last year the tax of the town was twenty five miles. Can any town on the map beat it at this time? Taxes reduced one-half cent on the dollar!
 E. H. Hiscox has a hybrid canary yellow Frances Folsam tulip in bloom. The flower which is open flat at noon each day measures and one-half inches in diameter.
 The box office receipts at the last weeks sale of tickets for The Old Homestead was the record. figure for Films Opera House, $637. Manager Barnett had some difficulty in book ing this fine show and it was induced 10 stop only because MT. Lawrence
 has an oldtime friendly interest in
 the town and the percentage offered given show before. MT. Barnett
 tries in every way to please the pat
 rons of his theatre.
 Norman Parkhurst Wallace Payne and George Wilcox. the committee