Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-30

Frat .e; or Choso .:fe ehheG out Tn ag- Aing coughs in gas attack He was every bit as mt ;h hetv ns the man Wa reGklessly rtek T life :a reeeELol- a1 ing the eneIny'5 lines
 Perhaps be was mora the hero,
 Almost any man can be brave when he is prepared for 1t. The frenzy of excite ment and the desperation fomented by nerves that have been put on edge by long hours of lying in filthy, muddy. vermln-infested trench. have had much to do, they say, with the making of he- >roes in the past. Heroism is more easily attained when men in numbers, are fac- ing common danger. Courage Is often due to companionship in peril.
 Thomas Kelley, non-commissioned of ficer had four years of warfare, with the Canadian forces and acquitted himself well.
 After the war was over he mained in the United States army, with the flying corps. He risked his life at regular in- tervals, as do all those who usurp the el- | ement of the eagle P-'d the hawk in man. | made machines, and dld it iaHhe most he ] roiG 1par .,er possihle-ln Hhe way of a daily task.
 There WAS no criEls "a the tide of bat- | tie that hung upon his carrying of dis patches. He was not inspired by the fact that his was the rorioTn hope lha :njgn save his comrades from destru ctlon. He could not fortify himself by the Inward knowledge that upon him lay the respon- sibility for bringing in important inform ation that might turn he ide of war that had ebbed and flowed for four long years.
 He risked his life, as do his kind daily. much in the manner of our climbing on board street car, or making a voyage | across the ocean, because it was his job There were no heroics. no hysteria, none of the excitement hat makes even a timid man brave, I4a VI becase 1t was Ynot in him to be afraid,
 He was hero44 it was his job | to be heroic, without his realization of i the heroism. He did his work because | it was his work, and for no other reward than that given, every man in the military or naval service. He added to his re- cord as a war hero the record of being a peace time hero. And the latter is by far the harder thing to do.
 He accepted task. and performed it He lost his life doing his work faithful ly and we'll, and, while he lived, made nc complaint that his work was more haz ardous than yours or mine. So I say tha his epitaph could suitably be carven.
 Sergeant Thomas Kelley. American hero"
 The body of Sergeant Kelley is lyine in state at a local hndertaker's rooms for the remaining evenings of the week
 Brief News
 Prize winners at the whist party giv en by St. Anne's Charitable Society a St. Josephs hall Wednesday night wer, Mrs. James J. Tighe and John Me Cabe. Mrs. Tighe received a cut glas dish and MT. McCabe a fountain pen About three hundred from this cit. visited the Connecticut Agriculture College at Storrs Thursday afternoon t attend Mansfield fair.
 Judge L. P Waldo Marvin of Hart ford will occupy the bench at the shor calendar session in Putnam today (Fri day) not in Willimantic, as announce Thursday.
 Local automobile parties took the tri to Rockville Thursday afternoon to at tend the closing day of Rockville fail Edgar M. Warner, clerk of the Wind ham county superior court, is to be i this city Saturday to examine appli
 cants for first and second papers.
 Valentine L. Murphy spent Thursda in Hartford on business. Francis Keon, who has been a patien at St. Joseph's hospital for about tw
 weeks. has returned to his home Arthur Lamoreaux has returned hom
 from Reading, Pa, where he was in tn [. employ of the American Telephone an I Telegraph Company.
 9 Mir and Mrs James Began have re . turned to their home in New York at = ter visiting for a time with the latter 5 mother. Mrs. William Dubberke c
 Scotland.