Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-28
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
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 country this week.
 H Dr. L. J. Sylvester has been at Boston attending a convention of the National Dental association.
 Amos H. Huntingdon. Civil war vet 1 eran and twice a member of the legisia-
 ture. from this town, has announced that 1 he is a candidate. for the republican -l nomination. first district, for representa- 1 tive.
 Il A game has been arranged between the Newmarket, N. H., and Goodyear 1 baseball teams, it was announced here.A T At union service to be held at the l Baptist church Sunday evening, Rev. J. T. Edwards, paste~ of the church, will l deliver his farewell sermon.
 | Heavy shipments of coal are being re- I ceiyed by some Kii1ingiy manufacturers. l Charles Pierce, who has been manager 1 of store at Dayville has been trans ferred to Stamford to have charge of
 another store of the chain in that city. II On Sunday man will be on duty all I day near South KilIingly to check up the | number of automobiles that use the Lit | tie Rest route. The data obtained will I be used during the session of the legisla- ] ture to impress the proper persons with the need of constructing at once the stretch of state road between Danielson
 and Little Rest thus opening up the
 most direct route to Providence.
 1 Sympathy was being expressed in of Il feial quarters Friday over the sad fate | of Mrs. Marie Little, 50, who died at Elmville Thursday as the result of pois-
 on taken a week ago. Had the discour- aged woman but made known the des- perate situation in which she found her
 self all necessary aid would have been 1 given her, and in abundant measure. The
 case is 3 particularly sad one.
 The Jakey business has attained such proportions in the town of Killingly as to really be a serious menace. One of the towns manufacturers has filed an
 urgent request with one of the towns
 officers that something be done to stop | the selling and drinking. This mill man
 is quoted as declaring that in all of the
 years of his. manufacturing experience
 he never had so much trouble with enl-
 ployes drinking as during the past two
 or three months. Officials realize that
 the Jakey industry is a mighty difficult one to check. Dealers who are selling tine stuff have the necessary authority
 for handling it, and It is a mighty diff cult proposition to prove that they are
 selling it for beverage purposes. As the II Jakey sales have increased tremendous
 ly, so has the drinking of it, and the confirmed addicts to this 95 per cent
 knockout are rapidly ruiHing their
 health.
 Jakey reigns supreme in about all of H the villages of the town A story comes
 out of East Killingly relative to the effects of the stuff on a man that wis If ited that town, with his automobile. Just how to handle the Jakey situa- tion is a problem, but there is grow ing realization that something will have to be done about it. Those who will
 drink. law or no law, are getting as drunk as they wish as often as they ] wish One of this ilk lay sprawled out on fruit stand on Main street at mid night Thursday, and had to be driver
 away.
 A week from today, Sept, 4. providing plans do not miscarry, the Boy Scouts band of Fall River is to give concer on Davis park. The concert has beer arranged by Agent Robert W. Boys o Goodyear Mills, Inc, and the Scouts visit here will be with the idea of arous ing local interest in that organization < of worldwide fame
 This band of 50 pieces will be remem
 bered as having appeared in the Good ] year section of the Welcome Home cele brationI in Danielson on May IS of las year and that it was enthusiastically re eeived. The band now engaged in play ing daily concerts on Cape Cod, is bet ter than ever now and that it is beinl brought here by MT. Boys is appreciates by all. In addition to the concert her the band also will play a program a Goodyear Sunday afternoon, Sept 5. Tn band will remain at Goodyear over La bor Day.
 In illustrating the need of additiona school quarters at Goodyear, it is point ed out that the number of children nov 1 in that village who are of school az is 1ss. As there was overcrowding las session in the four-room school, with a s average attendance of about 160. it indicated that the increased number wh I | will register in September make it nee l essary to provide some suitable arrange nlent for caring for them. . Persons in trade and in ether lines ( :. endeavor where much money is handle = have noted during the past two weeks surprising decrease in the number ( , bills of such denomination as $1o's an U $2o's, which have been amazingly pler q tiful in this territory during the pa
 three or four years. Smaller bills al n now being offered in payment for pu Il chases, and the explanation that shrew business men make is that many vi y were flush with coin a few months bac n are feeling the pinch of temporary d.
 pression caused by the closing of b e textile plants, which have been payir IS record high wage scales.
 Q A stuceo' front is being put onto u 'e Bradford building on Center street.
 new cement walk will be laid along Il le frontage of the same building during u IS coming week. Center street has deve
 oped rapidly as a business thoroughfal 1t during the past two years and the Brat tt ford building is the newest one to flu
 nish quarters, now all occupied, f.
 stores.
 Labor day, as usual, has been set. {
 the time for the annual Old Home ds E exercises at South Killingly. The annu
 event is always particular joy to fo g mer residents of that pretty section ;,
 the town and large number is expecte ve at the reunion.
 Members of the East Killingly Unic
 church Sunday school will go to Ros.
 land park today for the annual picn j and outing.
 n Funeral services for Mrs. Josephir s Harrington were conducted at her hon i II. in East Killingly, burial being in tf ., East Killingly cemetery. A. F. Woo ]. was in charge of the funeral arrang, | ments.
 Ballouvi1le and Attawaugan baseba IS teams have game scheduled for tn 'e afternoon and there is much interest
 the contest in those villages of the tow
 The new and smaller telephone dire, tories are proving generally acceptab = to the ma jority of subscribers here IT 1 books are less cumbersome than the ol
 and more convenient to have about Henry S. Fredette of Woonsocket ws
 a visitor with friends in Danielson c
 Friday.
 II SOUTH WOODSTOCK