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Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
BIDS OPENED FOR REPAIRS AT SCHOOLS

s14o4 Louis ortman $141o; H. Black
ledge Co. 1885, Fowler and Rathhun
$3.50; The Conn. Engineering Co. 1892.
Main Street Property Repairs-H
Blackledge & Co. 800 Pukallus and
Baldwin $10S Louis Ortman s117 !;
Conn. Engineering Co. .s152; George
Boucher S175.
Mt. Pleasant street Repairs-Pukal-
lus and Baldwin $3.50; George Boucher
$50; Conn. Engineering and Contracting
Co. ss5.
Broad Street Fence-Pukallus and
Baldwin $2S Louis Ortman $40; Conn.
Engineering and Contracting Co. sSS; H.
Blackledge and Co. $4S; George Bou-
cher Sis.
Painting
Taftville School Outside-P. F. Sa-
bourin $500; M F. FfIligan s574; Allyn
Brand $3.50; H. P. Beausoliel $3.50.
Norwich Town-P. F. Sabourin SIS; H
P. Beausoliel $40.
High Street-P. F. Sabourin $27; Allyn
Brand $45 H P. Beausoliel $50; Joseph
Beausoliel SOS.
Broad >Street-La Rochelle and Co
s120; P. F. Sabourin $685. Allyn Brand
SITS.
Main Street Property-La Rochelle and
Company $175; P F. Sabourin $3.50; Jo-
seph BeausolieI $40; H. Blackledge and
Co. 1924; H. P. Beausoliel $500.
Broadway Fire Escape-P. F. Sabour.
in $6S; Allyn Brand SIS; H. Blackledge
and Co. s122.
LAUREL Hill Avenue-La Rochelle and
Co $50; P F. Sabourin $S5; JOSEPH
Beausoliel S100; H. P. Beausoliel SIPS.
Greenville SCHOOL,. F. Sabourin $3.50
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
HUMOR OF THE DAY

Barber-Shall / part your hair 81
that your bad spot is not in evidence.
Customer-By no means / am SUM
my wife for divorce and that bald spoi
is part Of the evidence. - New YorI
Sun.
Asldtt-How did he make his money
Lostit-That isn't worrying ma
What I'd like to know is how did he
manage TO save so much OF iti-Lon.
Who is that beautiful titian-hairee
woman. the men are all gathering arounc
like moths around a fame7"
I don't know what her married nau,r
is but when I went 10 school with he
as a kid she went by the opprobrioui
name Of Bricktop. Florida Times
Union.
This movie actress refuses 70 ray u
because she says her bathing suit doeinf
fit"
Better cancel her bin"
'Uhg"
Il don't think we could possibly viii
before a jury against a pretty mevis
actress in a bathing suiL"-LouisTills
Courier-Journal.
ANY bootleErers around here
NO" replied Uncle Bill Bo;tietop. .
understand that the persons that stzrtee
out with boots are now wesrin' patent
leather shoes an silk socks.
ton Star.
Zim-what in the world made you bu,
that canary?
zsm-My wife. She said she eoul.
sing like bird. Now she's got to prove
it-Judse.
"A woman always has the last word
commented Mr.. Growcher.-
1t isn't entirely her fault" replied
Miss Cayenne. Some men are toe
dull or too bashful TO do a reasonable
share in keeping u the conyersatisA."-
Washington Star.
HaroId-"what did you give thu
bride as a wedding present"
Allan--Oh. l gave her a dictionary
of synonyms
BY, lingo; what a funny gift"
We'll, thought of Steve, when he
starts coming home late after he's sal
up by your or my sick bed. he'll get
tired of hearing the same words ever!
uight.-London Answers
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
KALEIDOSCOPE

Between 1928 and 1915 Russia used
platinum coinage.
Persons with a BLUSH tint in the
whites Of their eyes are said to b.
prone to deafness.
The Japanese pick cherry bIoomf
and cure them in salt, using them &c
make sort Of tea.
Some phosphorescent deep sea fish
catch their prey by means of the light
from their glowing fins.
The time-honored bulls eve lantern
carried by the London police has been
replaced by merit electric lanterns.
Nearly 10000 person lost their life
in an earthquake lasting only thirty
five seconds in Messina in 1908.
Most Russian farmers are making
their crops today with tools similar
TO those Of the United States in the
year 1880.
The Los Angeles police have their
hands full taking care of the screen
struck" girls, who find their way TO
that city at the rate. Of about fifty
week. All these girls aspire to be film
heroines, but of course, the great ma
jority Of them are unable TO qualify.
The study of fire prevention has beer
added to the curriculum of the New
York public schools. Fire prevention
has been compulsory course for some
time in Kentucky. New Jersey has
law, recently passed, which provides
for the teaching of fire prevention.
The increase in the number Of huf-
faloes in Buffalo Park, Wainwright,
Alberta, has reached such proportions
that it is proposed to slaughter 1000
of the animals this year 1t is expected
| that considerable sum will be real
lied from the sale of the meat, hides
and heads.
There is a possibility of an Angora
wooden industry being started on VAN
couver island, utilizing the wool frOm
the Angora rabbit, which, it is assert
ed can be spun into the finest and
softest wool. The rabbits from which
the test was made were bred at Pros
pect Lake, a short distance from Vic
toria, British Columbia.
Amelia Gade. age twenty-five who
swan completely around Manhattan
recently forty miles in fifteen hours
and fiftyfive minutes, was the second
woman to accomplish this feat. The
first woman to swim around Manhat-
tan was Miss Ida Elionsky. In Sep
TENDER, 1915 she covered the distance
| in eleven hours and thirty-fiYe min
utes.
A school in Madrid suburb In de-
| voted to training young toreadors and
matadors. The apparatus used consists
of a missiye block of wood roughly
shaped like the head and shoulders Of
bull, equipped with;yreal horns and
mounted on rubber tired wheels. BY
means of handIebar in the rear the
instructor plunges- this formidable ma
chine toward the student, who must
| learn to avoid the menacing horns
while making effective use OF his lanca,
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
REMAINING OLD LANDMAEN
AT NORWICH TOWN

A new marker has just ba'sn LlaceI Oh
the Huntington Green" which is in
front of the First Methodist church at
Norwich Town. This oldest part of the
town was the northwestern limit Of tn
town plot. No house lots were Drigi-
nally laid out nor houses built until 1870
beyond where the river crosses the road
at D. W. Avery's. On this town green
has stood for two hundred years a very
large elm tree which was the successor
of one of great size and SYMMETRY,
which, according to Miss Caull1ins' his
tory, was verging toward decay when
the settlement of the acknowledgements
commenced. Under the shadow of this
old umbrella elm (but recently cut DOWN
in former times was conducted the bust
ness of the town, tables were here spread
speeches made ana sermons preached
Around this green have lived many by
the namo cf Huntington.
Mr.. Sam Huntington, eldest son of
Rev. Simon Huntington, born in 1851,
lived and died in the house at the foot of
the green now owned by Mrs. Corri-
geux., His son. Roger, born in 1854,
gu all his married life in the corner of
the green under the old historic elm. He
died in 1852, after representing his town
| in senate and at one time was speaker
! of the house; he was also state emp
troller. These two men were g-andfath-
ers and great gTandfathers respectively
of the Right Eminent Grand Knight
| Templar Frederick D. Huntington WHO
addressed the parading knights Temp
lars in the armory two weeks age.
| Joseph C. Huntington, born in 1911
lived on the east side of the green in the
house next but one to the Methodist
church. A little farther up the street
lived Erastus Huntington, born 1863
brother of Ehenezer, born in 1854, and
| all these men were Descendants CT Rev
Simon Huntington 0born 1T1s, graduated
at Yale in 174D who lived in the clt
| Huntington homestead at the foot o,
Plain Hill which house was built BY
Ebenezer Huntington in ILL and is ST.
occupied by descendants Of the origina
owner and builder, children and grand
children of the seventh generation
Three of the old Fillmore families l:veC
in houses bordering the Gre4l so year,
ago, and in what is known as tn,
Charles Williams house on the west sid
i of the green. Sixty years before VII
liams bought It, here lived Hon vii
liam Dodge as a boy, naarly enc hun
dred years ago. Mrs. LLOYD Green's tw
aunts lived in the house at the soutl
side of the green in the early par. of tn
nineteenth century. This BIT of the ear
ly histt-y of this historic. spo. S III
explanation for its new name.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
POLISH WAR HERO is
BURIED IN NEW LONDON

The body Of Wladyslaw Kwyecinski OF
New London, who was killed overseas.
arrived Friday night in New London
from Hoboken, n. j.. being enc of the
bodies o. soldiers which was disinterred
in France and brough. to this country
last week on one Of the United States
transports.
Kwyecinskis body was removed to uE-
dertaking rooms and mass was SAID 4:
the Polish Catholic church at $50 on Sat-
urday morning. The fIEe:l was he'd
this afternoon, the Konomoc band accom-
panying the body to the grave IN Cedar
Grove cemetery where a firing squad
fired a vollsy over the grave.
The deceased was wounded m acton
in France and his death occurred on
August 5, 1918. He was a private in
Company K, One Hundred and Twenty
seventh infantry.
Fire Protection For State Pier.
Work was expected 10 be started last
week on the s35.000 sprinkler fire pro-
lection system which is t. b. installed
at the state pier at New london but tha
material not having arrived work Will
be delayed indefinitely. The appropria-
ton was made by the state legislature
during tho last session.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
MIDDLEToWN HOSPITAL HAS
MOST PATIENTS ON RECOR

Some interesting statistics are con-
tanned in the annual report of Superin-
tendent c. Floyd Haviland of the Con-
necticut State Hospital at Middletown,
submitted to the annual meeting of the
trustee this week. The doctor reported
that the census of the institution at the
close of tie fiscal year, June so showed
the number of patients 5,7S6 the largest
number on record there. OF this number
1850 are men and !, 436 are women. The
total number under treatment during the
year was s3,24S which is eighty-one more
than the number during the previous
year.
TI3ere are 11S patients at home on pa
| role. the report says Superintendent
Haviland says the hospital was over
| crowded during the year and that during
| the last quarter admissions had been lin
| tied to emergency cases. During the
year there were 57S admissions. With
no increase in accommodations the hos
pital was overcrowded by $50 patients
| each day of the year. OF the admis-
/ sions AS were first admission patients
who had never before been treated at any
| institution.
/ The report shows that the number of
recoveries during the year was ninety
ty-two and that the number Of patients
| discharged improved, was eighty-four
The recovery rate based on the total adj
missions to the institution, was 1873 per
cent. Those discharged recovered and
improved constituted 80 per cent, based
on the admissions
DIR. Haviland issues data concerning
deaths. The total number Of deaths
during the year was 20, or twenty-nine
less than last year. The death rate was
6.4S per cent. based on the total number
Of patients under treatment for the en-
tire year. The death rate was the low
est in the history Of the institution.
The institution received twenty men
| who had seen naval or army service.
This number brings the total up to
eigfaty-one since the armistice was signed
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
POETRY
OF A coNTENrEp nm


When all Is done and said.
In the end this you shall find.
He most of all doth battle IN bliss
That hath a quiet mind.
And. clear from worldly cares
To deem can be content
The sweetest time in all his life
In thinking 10 he spent -
The body subject Is
To tickle Fortunes power,
And to million mishsps
Is casual every hour
And Death in time doth change
II TO a clod Of clay.
When as the mind. which Is divine.
Runs never TO decay -.
Companion none is liks
Unto the mind alone
For many have been harmed by speeeA-
Through thinking few or none
Fear often times reEtraineth words
But makes not thought TO cease;
And he-speaks best that hath the skin
When for TO hold his peace
Our wealth leaves us az death.
Our kinsmen at the grave;
But virtues of a mind unto
The heavens with US we have
Wherefore. for virtues sake
/ can well be content
The sweetest time in all my life
To deem in thinking spent
Thomas Yaux-
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
At Ocean BsaEl.

Norwich people, summering at Ocean
Beach include the following: L. o.
Smith at 80 Beach Front. Rose Gordon
at "a Neptune avenue. Nathan NJ. Solo
mon at Is Easterlyeplace. Bessie H. Rob
bins at. Il Easterly place, Abner
Schwartz at u Ocean view place, Mrs.
ae Hertz at is Midway place, ]. w.
gladden. at IL Mott avenue, Mrs. G. c.
Preston at 20 Mott avenue, a. T. Utlay
at 40 Mott avenue, Mrs. Samuel Kronig
at 81 Mott avenue, Lewis Mabrey at II
Park street, Dr. Daniel L. Jones at "A
Park street, Mrs. Elida A. Worth at 81
Mott avenue, F. E. Patterson on Bent
ley and Shore avenues, George Greene
berger at 101 Neptune avenue, Charles
NJ Hutzler at IS Elliott avenue, Ike
Beckenstein at 81 Bentley avenue. Jo-
seph P. Conner at 1913 Bentley avenue,
Mrs. H Schwartz at u Easterly place,
Mrs NJ. ]. Zuckerman at II Midway place
and Max Sternliet at 10 Alewife avenue.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
FEWER DIVORCES IN COUNTY
IN COURT YEAR lust CLOSED

There were many less divorces grant
ed this year than last for New Lo'l1tn
county during the SUPERIOR court year
endiag July / According to the court
record 81 divorces and three annulments
We're granted during the past year IS
against 124 divorces AMI one anadlment
during the year ending July /, 1920.
Desertion heads the list as the cause
of petitions being granted. 81 persons re-
ceiving divorces on this ground lntol-
cradle cruelty comes next with IL and
Is were granted for a1Ilte-y. One d.
vorce each was granted or the grounds
of habitual intemperancs; habitual in
temperance and intolera5le cruelty and
Infamous crime involving violation OF
conjugal duty and punishable by imrris-
onment in state prison.
One of the annulments was granted
for fraudulent representation ana two an
nulments We're granted for reason that
defendants were already married.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
CANNOT MAKE VOTERS IN
NEW LONDON THIS FALL


, There is no chance this year in New
London for making voters of the young
me- and young women who have at
tanned the age of 81 since October 1.
The general statutes provide that the
town clerk, selectmen and registrars
shall meet on the second Saturday pre-
ceeding the annual town meeting and
make votes. There is no annual town
meeting in New London, that institu-
ton having been abolished by the new
council manager charter which the cit
liens adopted on June and which be-
comes operative on the first Monday in
October
The new charter makes no provision
at all for the making of voters and
the elections under the new charter
occur on the second Tuesday in Sep
tember and on the fourth Tuesday in
September Were the selectmen able
to make voters under the. general sta
tutes they could not make them in
time so that the newly made could
cast their ballots at the first Septem-
Der election, and probably not at the
second.
But the new charter eliminates en-
tirely Ihe town meeting No town
meeting, no making voters On tbs
second Saturday preceding" FRS
Selectman Lawrence S. NJ Cook stat
ed that he has asked for the opinion Of
Corporation Counsel P, z. Hankey as t.
their right or duty to make voters mex
September and the corporation counse
has advised him that no voters can b.
made this fall because of the lack o.
charter provision and its conflict with tn
statutes.
It means that would-be new voter
must wait two years for a chance to
| vote Doubtless voters will be mad,
next year for the November elections
Land it is also believed probable tina
| this situation will be considered b!
| the new council so that an amendment
! may be made to the new charter max
/ ing It possible for the making of new
voters annually in time to partici
pate in the elections in September o
| each year.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
HAVE REDUCED WAR RISK
AArc nv 90 {

HAVE REDUCED WAX RlSk
CLAIMS BY 29,4T6 NOW
A reduction of 29,476 in the number
OF pending compensation and insurance
claims of former service men and women
has been effected during the last three
months of the fiscal year ending July l,
1921, it was announced Friday by Direc-
tor c. R. Forbes of the Bureau OF War
Risk Insurance. This reduction IN the
number of claims on which final action IS
still to be taken has been accomplished
Notwithstanding the fact that new claims
have been reaching the bureau during
that period at an average rate of from
TOO to 500 a day and that these new
cases receive at once as complete action
as possible on the data.
On Acrii l, 1921 there were pending
before tie bureau 90, 401 claims for COM
pensation and 5,7SS insurance claims !;
on July 1 1921 the account stands 61,o0O
pending compensation claims and 3,O25
pending insurance claims, while during
that period 56,25S new claims have been
filed with the bureau.
A determined drive toward the goal of
current basis in handling the claims
CT former service men has been insti-
tuted in the bureau. To t-is end week
ly chart is prepared and posted in each
of the units of the compensation and in
surance claims division where action on
tie claim is initiated. and on this appears
the number of waiting claims apportion-
ed to that section and the estimated ac-
count as it s,ould stand at the close of
the week Many of the units are now
running ahead of their schedule of re-
duction of cases awaiting action.
All cases which have been pending
for six months are now handled by
telegram the wires going to tie claim
ant himself, to the district office of the
Bureau Ct War Risk insurance which is
nearest to him, to some one of the vel
| fare organization cooperating with the
bureau or to any source from whicr in
formation necessary to the adjudication
of the claim may be obtained.
An intensive program is being carried
out in the medical division through tht
introduction of fifty additional doctors
who were called from the district offices
of the United States Public Healh
! Service to aid in the drive and as a re
suit, the medical division has succeeded
from May Is to July l, in handling ap
pfoximately $4,000 cases. The expert
ence in handling war ris cases so afford
ed these doctors, temporarily detailel
from field service. will be of further as
sistance and value to the work of adjudi
eating war risk claims when the doctor
stall have returned to the field and whel
legislation may have made the establish
ment of regional offices with authorit
for complete action on cases an accomp
lished fact.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18

A little over 200 members the Con-
gregational church Sunday school enjoyed
the annual outing at Ocean BeaO., Sat
urday leaving the village in the morning
by two special cars and returning late
in the afternoon.
Various games were played on the
beach and swimming and boating was en-
ioyed. A basket lunch was carried. The
outing was in charge of Rev. Arthur
Marley and was assisted in selling tickets
by Gustave Hedler. Earl Woods and
Everett Pingress.
A large crowd of villagers went to the
beach Sunday by auto truck.
Two or three truck loads of baseball
fans journeyed to Jewett City Sunday
afternoon 20 see tie Ashland-Kacey
game.
Harold Heap and Oscar Madison were
visitors at Rocky Point Sunday.
William Wohlleben and George Poyerd
we're recent visitors at Pleasure Beach.
George Basher Of Oil City, Penn, a
noted athlete while attending an outing
aere Sunday afternoon, won his first
race Ct 100 yards in 10 seconds officially
lined against Is entrees He was
awarded A-st prize. His friends con-
graduated him.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
WET WEATHER BRINGS NEED
FOR SPRAYING THE CROPS

Weather conditions recently have been
favorable for the development of plant
diseases and unless the home or market
gardener protects his plants by spraying
there is grave danger of losses, accord
ing to A e. Wilkinson specialist in veg
etable growing for the extension service
Of Connecticut Agricultural college.
The crops that will probably suffer
first says Mr. Wilkinson ARE potatoes.
tomatoes, egg plant, muskmelons, water
melons and cucumbers. Frequent spray
ings are necessary. Bordeau mixture, ap-
piled to all sides of the foliage will con-
troll plant diseases"
A circular covering control measures
for plant diseases has been prepared and
will be sent free to any gordener in
Connecticut en- application to the Exten-
sion Service Storrs, Conn.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
NE PEssIAIIsT.

Nothing 10 do but work.
Nothing 10 cat but food
Nothing TO wear but clothes
To keep one from going nude
Nothing TO breathe but air,
Quick as a fash 'tts gone.
Nowhere 10 fall but OF,
Nowhere 10 stand but on
Nothing TO comb but hair.ail
Nowhere to sleep but in bed.
Nothing to weep but tears
Nothing 10 bury but dead.
Nothing TO sing but songs.
All. well. alas, alack
Nowhere 10 60 but out
Nowhere TO 90 but back
Nothing 10 see but sights.
Nothing TO cuench but thirst,
Nothing 10 have but what we've got.
Thus thro' life We are cursed
Nothing 10 strike but a gait:
Everything moves that goes:
Nothing at all but common sense
Can ever Withstand these woes.
Ben King, in the Kansas City Star.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
ST. PATR1CK,s RECTOR HAS sroop
IN PLACE WHERE CHRIST vEpT

The Rosary Society, of which Mrs
John A Moran is preslIen-. led the com
municants to the sanctuary railing at
the 80 mass in 81. Patr.ck's church,
Sunday morning, and these were in such
numbers that the rector. Rev. NJ H May,
who read this early mass as usual, re-
quired the assistance Of Rev. Mylcs p.
Calvin il giving holy communion It was
the ninth Sunday after Pentecost, The
gospel read in all the masses being Luke
XIX +1-47, narrating the sorr3w Of the
Saviour on beholding the city Of Jerusa
lem and predicting It's doom.
AfteN he had entered the pulpit and
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
x. OF C. SCHOLARSHIP
TO EDMUND C. COUGHLIN

Edmond D. Coughlin son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Timothy C. Coughlin of 165 Pros
pect street, is one Of two young men to
whom awards Of Knights of Columbus
scholarships nave been awarded by the
Catholic University, Washington, D. C..
Competitive examinations were held last
April throughout the country, with 10
competing. The other scholarship is to
George D. Rock
Mr.. Cougalin graduated from the Free
Academy in 1917 and entered the Catho-
lie university graduating from there last
June IS and receiving the degree of B.
S. He is 20 years old and was born in
Greeneville where he obtained his gram
mar school education.
The scholarship entities him to a post
graduate course of from two to four
years at TIE university with tuition and
board free.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
GRoToN IRON WORKS CLAIM
FOR SI3.oOo ooo DEM


The Groton Iron Works has been de-
MED its claim Of damages amounting to
$4,000. 600 against ne United States
Shipping Board.
Judge Edwin S. TIL mas. in special
session OF the United States district
court held at South NorwalS. granted
the request OF the United States district
attorney. that motions, By the plaintiff.
for a remand and by the United States
for = dismissal, of the case e the Gro
ton Iron Works VS.. The United States
Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Cor
poration, be denied. The motions were
made at a hearing held in New london
on May IL, but were denied Friday on
the authority of the case o. the Eastern
Steamship Building Corp, recently &C.
cided in the United States circuit court
of appeals. New York
The damages claimed By the plaintiff
company amount to $15,000.aoc. and are
for an alleged breach OF contract.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-18
DR.. Schwartz Automobile On Fire

An automobile belonging to DR.. Paul A.
Schwartz Of this city cought fire in State
street, New London Friday night, was
pushed cut b the middle Of the high
way. An open petcock causing a leak
of gasoline, b alleged to have been re-
Eponsible for the blaze
The blaze was smothered by bystand-
srs before the fire department arrived
DR.. Schwartz was not in the car at the
lime. but had parked the machine He
arranged for the machine to be towed to
! garage Aaa ~ssgAsnled.