Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-16
WILLIMANTIC

When they told her they would not stop
 Mrs. Snow took hold of Helen and led
 her off the premises. Mrs. Snow said
 the Nichols children had frequently
 called her names and made i/-es and
 gestures at her.
 The story told by the Nichols contin-
 gent was that Helen Nichols was on the sidewalk and touched the fence adjoining the Snow property, which so incensed Mrs Snow that she came out and shook the child. and pushed her to the side walk. This was witnessed by two broth CTS of the little girl and her mother. The , mother said that her daughter was sick
 all night as result of the experience. Messrs. Snow and Nichols each served as attorneys for their respective spouses, in cross-examini ing the witnesses on the
 opposing side and at times the arguments | waxed fast. and furious. Mir. Nichols, in making a statement to the court. said that he had nothing against MT. Snow. but his wife was an "agitator' and ire quently without reason chased his chill dren from the sidewalk in front of her home with a broom Judge Dean however, was Of the opin- ion that the matter was too trivial to be brought before the court and said it ap- peared to him as though "a mountain
 was being made out molehill." He suspended judgment in the case. Mr. Snow is janitor at Windham High school while MT. Nichols is proprietor of cafe
 on Main street
 Manager Jack MeQuilIan of the Ameri- can Thread Go. baseball team, has an nounced games for the remainder of the season as follows: July IT, at South
 Manchester July IS, Fisk Red Tops 1; July 24, New Departure, at Bristol i;
 July 25. Monson, Mass; July 31, Rock vile (pending). August 1 Crasho A C..
 of Bridgeport Aug. :, South Manches-
 cester; Aug. 14, New Departure of Bris- tol: Aug. Is. Nutmegs of New Haven i; Aug. P, Singer Mfg. Co. of Bridgeport;
 Aug. 2s, Providence Independents; Sept. l6, Gabor Day), Norwich Knights of Co., i lurnbus.
 An electric storm of unusual severity visited this city and vicinity Thursday forenoon. accompanied by a downpour | that at times resembled cloudburst Lightning played a number of pranks striking the tower of the residence of George E. Stiles on Windham road mak- ing several holes in the roof and tearing of few square feet of shingles, also en- tering the cone winding room in Mo- 6 mill of the American Thread Company, burning out one of the small motors. The water. that ran down the hills from the 1 residential section did some damage, many cellars on Main and alley streets
 beingV flooded when the sewer inlets be- came clogged with rubbish. The electric current of the Rockville Willimantic Lighting Go. was off intermittently dur ing the storm. At the telephone office it was reported that about seventy lines embracing 375 stations were placed temporarily out of commission. At least five trees were struck in the town of He I..-- %1- usually severe. A teams of horses near the Arnston station became frightened at a clap of thunder and ran away, but the animals were checked in their flight be-
 fore any damage was caused.
 A. B. Meredith, the new secretary of the state board of education, will make
 his first appearance before a Connecti- cut audience in this city Wednesday af ternoon July 21st, when he will be one | of the chief speakers at Citizenship in stitute MT. Meredith, formerly assist
 ant commission of education in New Jer- 1 sey, will speak on Citizenship Training | in Public Schools. Another interesting 1 feature of the program will be the ad-
 dress given by Miss Gertrude Folks Of | New York city on Rural Education and Recreation. Miss Folks is the rural ed | ucation expert of the national child la 1 bor committee.
 ] The three daily sessions of the institute for the first two days will be held in the Won,an's club rooms corner of Main and Bank streets. The morning sessions will
 open at 10.SO o'clock, those in the after | noon at ? o'clock and in the evening at
 8 o'clock. Mayor Charles A. Gates will extend the greetings, of the city on We'd nesday evening, when the principal
 speaker twill be Miss Mary Mcdowell Of | the Chicago University Settlement
 House Her subject will be Women in Industry. On Thursday evening, Edwin 1 Davies Schoonmaker and Mrs Nancy M. Schoonmaker will lecture on Political
 Parties and Elections. The ladies who
 have charge of the institute are Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam; Mrs. F. U. Johnstone, Woodstock Mrs. o. B. Robinson and Mrs. Edwin Clark of this city. Friday Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch
 will entertain the institute at her home
 in Columbia.
 i A party of twenty-nine left this city ! Thursday to join a pilgrimage of about
 two hundred, members of the Ste. Anne i Society of Holyoke which is due to arrive