Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-07
DANIEE.LSON

command or the destroyer Shackyes nag ship of the destroyer squadron. This destroyer has three guns, s torpedoes, and carries a crew of 90 men. She is to be at Newport from today. August :, to August 20.
 East KnlingIy lost one of its oldest and most respected residents Sunday morn ing. when Almond Bartlett died a; his home in that place, after long period of serious illness.
 Mir. Bartlett was of an old Killingly family, a son of Waldo and Mary Covell Bartlett He was a native of the town of KiIlingly and had spent the greater part of the nearly s7 years of bis life in this town.
 He was one of a large family of chill dren. all of whom lived to adult years and were typical of the splendid New England stock that contributed in such large proportion to the development of this section of the country during the past 300 years.
 MT. Bartletts early education was cb- tained and his subsequent studies were made In this town Grown to man. hood he showed a capacity for business and at periods was engaged as d mer- chant, for a time at Uncasville, where hs was proprietor of a store. At an- other period he was engaged as shoe
 
 store at East Killingly at another period and for a time was in the employ of waldo Brothers leading grocers and rrain dealers in Danielson years ago. During one period of his life Mir. Bart lett was in the west. being located at Chicago at one time and at aonther time in Sioux City, Iowa.
 Mir Bartlett. veteran of the Civil war. in which he served in K company 18th Connecticut Volunteers. was porn tu 1885 and would have reached his s7th birthday August goth. He was a rnenber of McGregor post G. A. R., of Danielson and during the years when he was a Danielson resident was actively interested In the affairs of this patriotio poeisry. in which he held official posi- tons.
 Among his activities during the latter years of his life was direction of the improvement and care of the Bartlett esrstery, crowning the range of hills at East IiKlingly. and its present fine con ditjon is due in large measure to the gpecial interest that he displayed and the energy he expended in beauLifying this last resting place of so many whc figured so largely in the development of this town. especially the territory about East Killingly.
 Mir. Bartlett is survived by his third wife. who was Miss Lydia Hawkes.. Ht also leaves two brothers, Reuben $ Bartlett of Norwich and Charles Bart lett of Uncasville. Mr. Bartlett's 1lrs wife was Mrs Mary Bullock Reynolds an East Killingly woman. His secopC wife was Miss Abby Whaley Bartlett who died in Providence, following surgical operation, while the Bartlett home was in Danielson.
 The westfeld Congregational churcl society is setting a fine example fol property owners Of the borough to follow along the lines of rebuilding sidewalks es has been talked of here for tw, years. In connection with the variou improvements now underway at tn church property at the corner of Mali and Reynolds streets splendid cemen walks are being laid and will be read, for use during the present month. Thes new walks replace tar walks that ba become crumpled, broken and wavy, q have many other walks in the centra part of the borough.
 At St James church at the last an high mass Of the day, Sunday, the Fort Hours devotion was inaugura-sd. Hun dreds came to pay visits during the aft srnoon and evening hours. There are t be special masses this (Monday) morn
  priests are in attendance at the devo uon, during the period of which larg numbers of parishioners will teceiv communion.
 All roads will lead to East l1uIinEI Thur sday-for the annual Old Hom Hay celebration and shore dinner l that community. Flocking pack fror nearby and distant hooks and corners C New England former resident will as ssnble for what each year is a real GIG time, honest-to-goodness reunion, joyfl in It's every feature and wholesome i It's simplicity and world of good caee Old Home days up in the highland seC ton of East Killingly are suggestive ( what holiday gatherings must nave bee in earlier New England days and this one Of the things that lends such charl to occasions of that kind in the con munity that will attract so many tn rid-week
 Joseph Bodo left Sunday afternoon fc New York to drive home a new autt mobile. A number of cars will l brought through by a group of Puma and Danielson drivers who al going out for a Putnam dealers.
 Persons in touch with the strike si nation at the Aldrich Manufacturir company plant in MOosup say that . additional number will go to work th CMonday) morning. It was asserted the week end that 1s0 looms of il nearly 1900 in the plant were in oper ton.
 No one that is successful can hope evads imitators. For several weel past, citizens hereabouts have been 1T portuned to buy bullet-proof glass al now, comes the fellow who assures " hs has a few shares remaining for ga -F ~~fI -Fo .Nf tI7 ht,tl proof grass company.
 Over at the Spaldlng farm ne South Kiilingly a horse out to pastu Saturday afternoon had as a lone col pauion a friendly hen that stroll along picking into the grass within foot of where the horse was lazi munching at the luscious grass. and t bird never was two feet away fire the horses head, whichever way fan headed him.
 The picnic scheduled to be held We nssday of this week, August g, by Oui ebaug lodge of odd Fellows, has be cancelled. on account of different engagements. Instead a good time W be provided at the last meeting of { lodge in August, and to this affair me bers of the lodge and members of tn families are 10 be invited.
 Persons who are interested in the Rncial doings of the borough will be hand at the town hall this (Monda evening to attend the adjourned ann town meeting at which the tax rate the year will be fixed and petitions he extension of the sewer system ac upon.
 Mir. and Mrs wilfred Puize, Jr., ] and Mrs. Frank Bennett and Mrs. N fred Puize. ST.. were at Rocky Pc Sunday.