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Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02
DANELsoN

Trout fishermen had a great day of 1t Friday, the opening of the season. The first days catches would indicate that this season is to be a top notcheE, Tor yoEne fine strings were brought in. One f the argest-27-was shown by Wil- liam Nj. Franklin and Earl Wilbur An bther string numbered 19. No particular ly large fish were shown up to late after noon, but most of the trout were from 8 to 10 inches and in fine condition. Tue fishermen who went out before daylight faced trying conditions, as northeast storm of rain and sleet was real try out for their enthusiasm and the means of keeping some of the more tender sportsmen at home until the coming Of a better day.
 Chairman Henry F. Dubue reported Friday afternoon that the canvass Of the borough for the Irish relief fund was well under way and that gratifying fe- suits are being obtained. Occasionally the canvasers have met with cool recsp tions, but on the whole the attitude Sf the public toward the drive has been very satisfactory indeed.~ Among the large gifts reported on Friday was s25 from the Church company. A resident in an outlying section of the borough came to the home of one of the solicitors Wnlle on HIS way lO WOIh rTludy IHOIH- ing and left s10 bill He said that he had feared that the cahvassers would overlook his home, which is somewhat Isolated. Another s10 came from a wo- man who does not speak English, but, through an interpreter, she made it known that she wishes thse she might give more Chairman Dubuc said Friday afternoon that no figures on the collec- tions have yet been complied, but 1t is expected that these will be available this afternoon. One canvasser reported having received ss0 up to Friday after noon. Chairman Dubue is to be at the Danielson Trust company, headquarters of the committee, this evening, from to p. m. to receive contributions from any person who may wish to met him there.
 Attention has been called to the fact that Thomas A. Bradford came to Daniel son 51 years ago Friday and has since made his home in this place, now being one of the oldest residents in point oi years spent in the borough Mir. Brad ford has witnessed the greater part oi the development of Danielson from the village that it was half a century ago and is in such good health and so ac. tive that he bids fair to witness much further growth of the place. Mr. Brad. ford is a native of Canterbury and came to Danielson when 22 years of age.
 There is to be a special musical pro- grame at the Methodist church Sunday evening at o'clock and this will include part of the Easter Sunday music
Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02

came to the store proper by using a trap door.
 A meeting Of Putnam grange will he held in Odd Fellows half Monday even ing to work the third and fourth degrees. The officers have received an invitation to work the same degrees on some members of Thompson grange and have accepted, the work to be done Tues day evening.
 Plans are practically perfected for the Hoover banquet to De held in the various churches.
 John II. Moss, an ek-seftiee man from Putnam will probably be the assistant scoutrnaster of the local Boy Scouts, as- sisting William F. Penney. At the last meeting Mir. Moss gave drill and the boys havea job ahead of them to learn the army snap.
 Miss Anna Arnold student at New Haven Physical Culture school. spent the Easter recess with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Cortland Arnold.
 It is reported that Robert ". Boys, new head of the Manhasset Manufac- known as the old Episcopal parsohatt at 1S2 Grove street. This property at present is occupied by Mir. and Mrs Jo- seph Gague, and Mrs Russell Bowen. Mrs. Bowen is at present in Florda
 The drive for irish Relief ends today (SaturdAy) with tag day for the fund. The chairman, Edward W. Mullan, states that the campaign has been very suc- cessful. The eanvassers have practical ly finished their work, while reports are not all in, indications are that the quo- la will be raised.
 Plans for the play to be given by the senior class of Putnam High are prac- tieally complete.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02

A small boys idea of greatness Ia to be able to lick another boy size larger.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02

An advance of 10 cents ton begihnine May l. Is announced, so the present rate is likely low for the season
 Mendbefs of the Girls club derived some enjoyment Friday evening at ''chil- dfen's party" members dressing a little people
 er Mrs Mary Reed of 1ieh street.
 Benjamin Weisberg of New York has riotored here for visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Weisberg.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02
ASHFORD

Earl Poole Of wailihEtord was home ever Sunday.
 Frank Bennette and family of Vest ford were at Edwin Grants Sunday.
 Walter Green and son are boarding at Whites Crossing for few weeks.
 A number from here attended inc auc. ton held at the Weeks place Saturday of last week.
 Mir. Hewarth moved his family to Der by last week.
 Mir. and Mrs. Koss went to Bridgeport 10 have their baby ciffstehed one day last week.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02
MARRIED.

MARRIED.
 COP oPELAND-BUsH-In Norwich. Mar4h ID, 1921, by Rev c. H. Ricketts, Harry Evelyn, M. Bush of 2Is Main street. VALAKoS oS-KAvARNos Tn Norwich March 27, 1921, by Rev. Thomas DsnI iels, George Valakos of 1s7 North Main North Main street. 0A 70 CAsET-TAYLOR-At. Crystal Lake. FL nngten. March 26, 1921, by Rev. a. I Aldrich, Otis Casey and Miss Alice RosE-WRIGHT-In this city. Anril I IS2l. by Rev. J. Eldred Brown. John F. Rose of Pennington. Coiin.' ana %iss Bertha B. Wright Of this city. '-'
Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02
DIED.

daughter of the late fseofTs M sni Harriet Chanplain HafdiriE. ''-'O Funeral services win be held at tbA Grassy Hill church in Lyme SundsV, April 3, at D. m. LATHAM-In StopinEten, March s1, 6S years. @eeU LATHRoP-In Plainfeld, March zs. 1921, twin sons of MT. and Mrs. Waiter Lathrop. o1'e' Suddenly, in Groton. March 31. 1921. Maurice P. Mccarthy of New Mccarthy. aged IS years.
 TAYLoR-In Pawcatuck, April 1. 1921, Mrs. M. Estelle Taylor
Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to express our appreciation tU our neighbors and friends for their many acts of kindness rendered during our re- cent bereavement; also for the beautiful flowers sent. MARY o'BRIEN, MR. AND MRS. DENNIS MCCARTHY
 AND FAMILY.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02

Bats in full flight in the dark viii avoid threads stretched across thelr path
Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02
BoRN.

BORN.
 BLIVEF-In Mystic, March 3o 1As1. . son to MT. and Mrs. Ernest D. Biiyen- LATHROPA1n Piainheld, March sS 4szi, twin sons to Mir. and Mrs. Walter
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

"scorcher." It was charged that bicycle po-
licemen were inclined to overpedal the bounds
themselves. Cyclists were warned against the
danger of attempting to smoke and ride at one
and the same time. The daredevil who took
his hands off the handlebar while he lighted
a cigarette was deemed about the ultimate in
human menaces.
The pulpit was giving attention to the SUBJ
ject of Sunday bicycle riding. What was said
on the subject about the time the Coney Island
path was opened would indicate that the golfer
has been getting off easy.
Wheelmen who returned from Europe were
eagerly questioned by reporters. They went
over in squads, and every one of them at the
first opportunity expressed himself in severe
terms about the poor showing this country was
making in the matter Of bicycle roads and how
ought to have more inns and beer gardens
and such things for wheelmen.
A few buggies, driven by noisy gasoline en-
gines, were beginning to appear on the streets
and were throwing the ranks of the wheellnen
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

into no end of confusion. Everybody thorough.
ly disliked these strange contraptions that h.
yond all doubt were doomed to short l;t.
They were even barred from the parks whe,.
bicycle races were held.
Live newspaper men played up stories .ho,,.
wheemen from all over the country. MI
space was given to stories from Colorado +.l,
ing of venturesome bicyclists being chased -.
coyotes near Denver.
A man who did not ride wheel stood . ~
show of getting his picture in the ,aper H.
tinguished friends of the bicycle we're nle..
ingly featured.
certain proportion Of the non-ridno norr
lation seemed to be affected with "a ran;a xop
throwing tacks along the favorite way, Of VI.
cyclists. Any man who bought a package Of
carpet tacks laid himself open to suspicion.
even though the purchase might be made ouing
to the legitimate demands of houseclean;pg
time.
Trick riders bloomed everywhere. IT..
ambition Of the average boy was to own :
nlckel-plated wheel and use it in a vaudeville
sketch. If you could ''do the standstill" on 8
wheel-that is, keep yourself from falling
without wheeling either backward or forward
You were regarded as a promising youth.
wheel shows" were held everywhere and
were largely patronized. Racing bicycles
weighing only few pounds and giving one
delightful curve in the back, stirred quite as
much envy and aduation as any limousine or
touring can arouse to-day
The few manicurists in the business had
hard struggle in those days because every
wheelman cleaned his own bicycle and oiled
the bearings. Such work had to be done at
least seven times month, and it would hard
ly pay to manicure the finger nails that were
not hopelessly ground off between chain and
sprocket. AS matter of galantry one had
to keep his wife's bicycle cleaned also.
Real money was paid for bicycle magazines:
Men wore medals and added bar thereto
every time they rode one hundred miles in
one day. Men who could ride double centu-
ries" were looked upon with awe-a tribute
which none would take away from them te
day.
These enun1eratons are only few of thu
features of the bicycle era. The opening of
the Coney Island cycle path came at the
height of that era. The strange and bother
some machines, which looked like buggie-
yet which were not buggies, began to make
inroads on the bicycling army. The cycls
paths were expanded into full-sized roads and
were lost in network Of other highways.
Cycle clubs lost their membership and be-
came boarding houses.
To-day a bicycle parade to Coney Island
would be all messenger boys-and they would
ride at only so much an hour and pretty
szable tip in the bargain!
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
SOME NEW STUFF
In ALIBIS

the boy liberated, and he spends year or
two improving his pool technique, until finally
he gets an opportunity Of putting over real
bank robbery and getting away with it.
What happened to the Jones boy has not
been without it's impression on the rest of the
G. P population. Main Street fairly pours
motion picture alibis on the head of the de-
fenseless judge. The girl who is brought up be-
fore the juvenile court because seemingly she
has stricken the word "home" from her vocab-
ulary knows just what to say. She keeps
right on with her gum-chewing as she says it.
She tells the judge that she went to motion
picture show. Before she has gone any
further the judge leans his head wearly on
his hand. He knows what is coming.
Then there is that deporable case, out in
West Sunfower Place, involving the painting
OF the parsonage cat by the plumbers twins
Boys-especially twin boys-and paint brushes
have figured in mischief before This time it
is chant in unison concerning the influence
OF the movies. Why should the twins bother
with more complicated excuses when the
ready-made one is at hand? 1t was scene
IN a comedy that suggested the idea The
scene had noting to do with cats, but there
was paint in it, which was sufficient for the
suggestion Of the idea.
The judge remembers that he saw the
comedy himself. He cannot recall that it sup
gested any possibility of painting cats, but
he admits that he may not be allowing for
the difference between the adult mind and the
juvenile mind He is going to have divorce
case, an assault and battery case, a case in
volving the receiving of stolen goods and a
ho$o L:
ing. <Ue wonders how many of the defend
ants Will plead guilty but lay the blame on
the motion pictures. He remembers similar
cases IN years gone by, long before the movies
were invented, and tries to bring to mind ;ust
"hat predomlnatlng excuse for human frail-
ty there was in that uncivilized time. Fail
ing to remember just what defendants said
when they hadn't the moving pictures as an
ahb he goes home with headache
One remarkable development is the con.-
plete olanketing of the comic supplement as
so-called first aid to juvenile crime. Such
supplements are still printed, and are still
scrambled for by children in the home. nor
have their themes changed to any great de-
gree But no one hears of any more club
discussions about the great damage done to
juvenile manners and morals by the comic
artists. Yet not SO long ago the comic sup
plement was more or less in the position now
occupied by the moving picture in the alibi
field.
1t may be that the future will develop a
greater alibi machine than the motion picture
camera has turned out to be, but prophecy
along such lines cannot be laid down ALONG
blatantly confident lines. Just at present
there is nothing on The horizon threatening to
dim the screens luster AS the all-embracno
excuse Tor human frailty, only the apple Of
certain ancient garden excels the movies.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

converging movement Of wheels upon the en-
trance to the bicycle path, and the parade
the greatest in history, as any newspaper file
of the day will assure you-got under way,
with the Hon. Timothy Woodruff, then Park
Commissioner, at it's head, and no end of
famous public men and women following in
commendable order.
Such an affair provokes smile now, Of
course. Everybody who was asked about the
date of the opening of the Coney Island BIZ
cycle path, in the course of the preparation of
this article smiled more less reniniscently.
But even the most ably reminiscent cannot re-
member all the elements that gave the cycle
craze it's ascendancy and that were responsible,
collectively, for such affairs as the Coney
island bicycle parade.
Some Of the things that got preferred posi-
tions in the news and editorial columns at the
time were as follows:
"Bloomers Are Legal was the heading
over dispatch from New Jersey. Somebody
had gone too far in questioning the right of a
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
Spring and Spots

ONE of the joys Of spring that appreciats
the least is the inevitable argument con-
corning gray suits and grease spots. It's the
same old establishment year after year.
can never get accustomed to the unwritten
law of the grease spot. 1t gets me every time.
1t usually happens about this time in April.
A few warm days have come along. I have
regarded them suspiciousy at first, rather be-
ieving that winter was merely playing hide
and seek behind the sunshine.
Then more warm days happen. An open
streetcar flashes up the avenue. Two or three
men in the Office blossom out in their spring
SUITS ! begin to think about wearing mine.
As l remember, it is pretty snappy affair,
gray Norfolk with belted-in back.
That night l go home and dig it out Of tho
moth balls and try it on. In the big pier glass
/ don't know myself. After winter Of dark
blues and browns, light gray can do wonders
with ones personal appearance. picture N.Y.
self making grand splurge at the Office the
next day. Of course, the suit ought 70 be
pressed, but what are few wrinkles between
friends?
Early in the morning am up and at it. All
shaved and hair-brushed, climb into the thing
proudly Then ! take one last look in the
glass. The warm sun pours in through the
window on me and my gray suit. This is the
crucial moment.
What is that fly doing down below my left
knee? I try to brush it off. 1t won't brush.
What is that spider crawling across my coat
lapel? 1t isn't spider. What is that round,
dark thing under my elbow?
In flash the key to the whole situation
-kc1
/ hadn't really forgotten the grease spots:
merely neglected to remember them. Some
way had feeling that they might disappear
during the long winter hang in the closet. But
there they all are, the dear familiar old things.
/ don't know. Grease spots aren't 20 bad
when you get the proper feeling toward them
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

go into one of these stores and come out wear
ing a pair of shoes whose label would indicate
that you purchased them on such-and- such a
street in "Napoli" or Roma
Likewise you can go into various shops and
after few hours purchasing Agarb yourself
so that if you were turned inside out with all
your labels displayed you might pose as cos
mopolitan who had gathered his hahiliments
from the four corners of the earth, in this
manner:
Suspenders from Guatemala City,
Shirt from Shanghai, China.
Overcoat from Buenos Ayres.
Hat from the FIJI Islands.
Cellar from Patagonia.
Suit from Paris.
And spats from Vladivostok.
Never was there time when it was so easy
to appear in the guise of globe trotter with
out having left your own home town.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
THE MISLEADING
LABELS

NLD laundry marks or makers labels
u sewed on garments or inside crows of
~ hats used to be favorte clews by which
detectives sought to establish the iden-
titles of persons. For instance if certain
Mr.. Sherlock Holmes in New York, working
to solve some deep mystery, discovered label
on the clothes of an unidentified principal in
volved in the mystery and that label indicated
the clothes had been purchased in some other
city, Mr.. Holmes would inevitably conclude
that the person in question came from the
distant city. 1t was one Of the dogmas of
detective wit that the person and the label
usually came from the same place.
But times have changed. If that princ-
pie were followed out to-day the examination
of the effects of an unidentified person might
lead the detective chase around the world
label in the shoes might indicate that the
owner had trod the streets of some South
American city; the makers mark on the shirt
would say he purchased his wardrobe, in part
at least, in Italy; his hat would seem to have
come from China, his necktie from New Zea-
land, when, in fact, the owner of all these
things might never have stepped his foot off
the Island of Manhattan. The reason is quite
simple, although it never has happened before
The United States manufactures wearing ap-
parel for all countries in the world. Just after
the armistice was signed American makers of
shoes, clothing, hats, shirts and other furnish
ings produced great quantities of stocks in re-
sponse to orders from foreign dealers. These
foreign dealers stipulate in their contracts
that labels bearing their names, addresses and
trademarks shall be attached to each article,
although the manufacturer has the privilege of
adding his own name. A certain American
shoe manufacturer, for instance, made 10000
pairs of shoes for dealer in Rome and Ma
Piles. Each pair of shoes had label inside
the heel saying the purchase had been made in
Italy.
Similar quantities of other apparel were
made for customers in other parts of the world
The assumption was that after the war, when
millions of men would doff their soldier uni
forms, there would be an unprecedented de-
mend for civilian attire. The goods were la
beled and ready for shipment.
Then something happened The foreign
exchange situation became so acute that ship
ments abroad had to be stopped. European
money deprecated to such an extent when
counted in it's American worth that European
merchants could not afford to take the goods
they contracted for, and South American coun-
tries, where the rates were not much affected,
demanded long credits. The result was that
millions of dollars worth of foreign contracts
were Cancelled after the goods had been manu-
factured, labeled and packed for shipment.
The American manufacturers, seeing no i'm
mediate prospect for an improvement in the
| exchange, had no alternative other thaa to
:..%o L. hAn,n VSrn+ Thn
shoe manufacturer put his 10000 pairs of foot
gear made for Italian shops right into chain
Of home retail stores. Now it i, possible to
New-York tribune., 1921-04-17

THE one important thing H. G. Wells
seems to have left out of his Outline
of History is eight chapter
dissertation the motion picture as
the worlds greatest ever-ready alibi.
No doubt Mr.. Wells had plenty of notes
under some such title as Blaming 1t on the
Movies" but careless servant may have lost
them or a messenger boy may have dropped
them while on the way to the print shop and,
among SO many other themes, the loss would
not be discovered Immediately. The omission
can be accounted for in no other way. So
painstaking an observer as Mr.. Wells could
not have failed to discover the general incli-
nation to fasten most of the shortcomings OF
the human race on the "silent drama" silent,
apparently, because it is more or less dunn
founded at the myriad of accusations brought
against it,
When Mr.. Edison, in the quiet of his studio
evolved His idea of tealning the rapidly flow
ing sensitized film and the swiftly winkng
shutter with the ever-fathful lens between
he could not have imagined that he was pro-
viding humanity with perpetual excuse for
= individual wrongdoings and shortcomings
Such seems to have been the way matters
have worked out, however, and it is more
than likely that Mr.. Edison will admit that
the motion picture device should be showed
right up in the A list, in the final cataloguing
Of his inventions, under the title of the alibi
machine.
Seven dollars and fifty cents spent with
= any clipping bureau for one hundred clippings
the price used to be IS, but every one
knows how much more expensive it is to keep
shears ground since the war-w bring Wis
ual and entertaining evidence of the growing
tendency to saddle things on the motion pic
lures. few years ago such things were laid
to bad training, lack of any home influence
natural depravity or perhaps blow on the
!. head received in youth. Any one of these
excuses served when the youthful bank mes
senger OF Gopher Prairie scandalized Main
: Street by running off with $140 of the banks
funds that should have been delivered to the
North Side Furniture Company. Nowadays
all the young bank messenger has to do is to
explain that he saw such a scene an evening
before at a motion picture theater, which put
the idea of theft into his head.
Such an explanation is bound to get more
-or less credence. 1t is true that bank mes
sengers occasionally misapproprated funds
long before pictures were made on the rapid
fire plan, but such affairs of the past seem to
be forgotten The story gets into the Gopher
Prairie paper. The judge himself doesn't
think much of the excuse. He has heard it
before. In fact, it occupies large part of
that volume, "What Every Jurist Knows
He can repeat the excuse backward, and he
knows just the types of young people that
are going to get it off, The Gopher Prairie
ladies' compare notes over the newspaper arti-
cie' and they agree that this is about the worst
confagration among the worlds Burning
0hames Consequently they contrive to get