Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-23
i NELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS

more. Savings accounts in. local banks
/, have increased over s.. 900, 600 since 1914,
and other savings include upwards Of
smother $1,000 900 worth of Liberty
bonds owned in this immediate vicinity,
There are a few facts to ponder. To
the calamity bowler they may mean
something or nothing at All. To the sin
cere person who is really striving for
some hopeful sign Of the times they
| should be very encouraging.
One cannot get away from the fact,
| however, that approximately million
dollars a year over and above what the
mill workers ever received in a like pc
Rod before 1914, is now being paid out.
| There is nothing in that situation to
terially lower than they were in almost
every line. AS to earning a. living in
| this territory. higher prices, rents and
other things given due consideration, the
situation is in the light Of facts from
every viewpoint, materially better than
| prior to 1914.
The moral of all this is to buck up
with the coming Of spring and reap with
| the optirnists the harvest of good things
| that come to those who smile, letting the
| pessimists grope about in the gloom ere
|
need not be stagnant in this territory
! through lack of money to make its wheels
turn. The money is being earned in suf-
ficient amounts to make trade brisk and
| the buyers happy.
| Such figures as were obtained for
use in this article came from absolutely
authoritative sources and can be veried
by anyone sufficiently interested to check
them up.
| No attempt is intended ere TO COM
| pare earnings OF today with the hectic
war period when an errand boy earned
a dollar an hour-but merely to establish
| the fact that Killingly's workers are
earning 100000 year more than
. they ever earned prior to 1914.
Boy Scouts Joined Wednesday in the
search for Roland Roi, 10. who mysteri-
ously disappeared after leaving his home
on Dyer street Monday afternoon, and
| has not been seen by anyone who knows
him since early evening of that day.
All efforts to locate Roi having failed
during Tuesday, Chief John MacFar-
| land on Wednesday enlisted the aid of
the Boy Scouts. Some of them took up
| the search during the morning hours,
while the ma iority of them went at the
task during the afternoon and spent
hours investigating thoroughly all of the
territory to the north of the borough.
| CHIEF Mcfarland said Wednesday that
the last authentic report he has received
of anyone seeing Roi Placed the young
man on Mechanic street, near Westheld
avenue at about 6.45 p. m.
Relatives of the. young man are much
perturbed over his continued absence.
Wednesday morning. the funeral of
Mrs. Marie Barbeau was held from her
home on the West Side with funeral ser
vices at st. James, church at 3 o'clock.
Rev, John Reux, NJ. s.. was ce.ebrant of
the high mass of requiem. Burial was
in. Holy Cross cemetery. The bearers were
| Joseph Godreau, Xavier Godreau, Treffle
Bernier Leon Blanchette, VALDEZ La
vale. Gaspard Duval. Louis E. Kennedy
was the funeral director.
| William A. Burrows. who has been
nominated for warden of the borough,
| is veteran borough official, for years
a member of the court of burgesses and
| familiar with every detail OF borough adj
ministration. Excepting for his unwil-
! ingness to accept such preferment, Mr..
| Burrows, now as for years past mem-
/ berthe junior meInber-of the court OF
| burgesses, would have been warden long
I! since. The caucus choice of a nominee
| for warden is meeting with widespread