Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-31
DANIELSON And PUTNAM NEWS

storm. 1t seemed like throw-back into
| the arms Of winter-which. officially, has
departed 1t held up outside work that
| has been undertaken and was giving EN-
ployment to many who otherwise would
| be idle 1t messed streets up again. 1t
chilled the spring spirit that was mani
| Testing itsslf. 1t was a nuisance. Aid
that robin looked as if he were voting
with the people who thought SO.
A Ford car owned by Isaac Kagan of
Danielson crashed into the rear end of a
! big motor truck owned by the Mt. Hope
Finishing company of Taunton at Cot
| tage and Water streets during the storm
| of Thursday afternoon. According to
| the report received by Chief John Nc
Farland, the Ford was following along
! behind the truck, the vehicles headed
toward Main street. when the truck
slowed down a bit for some reason or
other. and the rear-end crash resulted.
| No one was injured, though the Ford was
somewhat damaged
Work on the reconstruction of the foot
! bridge over the Assawaga river, near the
state armory, as recently authorized by
/ the adjourned annual town meeting, will
be undertaken as soon as weather con-
ditions are favorable, it was stated
| Thursday by Selectman James Bacon.
| Under the vote of the meeting referred
| to, the bridge will be replaced with a
new wooden structure at a cost not to eX
coed $500. Rebuilding of the bridge,
once the work is undertaken, is not ex-
pected to be long drawn out operation.
Burial of bodies that have been placed
in receiving vaults in cemeteries in Dan
4 ielson and surrounding territory during
the winter period is now being done.
Several bodies were buried Thursdty in
Holy Cross cemetery.
| All Liberty loan coupons maturing
April 18th, if deposited in the savings
| department of the Windham County Ma
| tional bank any time during the month
| of April, will receive interest from April
| LIST. The bank pays interest from April
| 1st on all deposits made in its savings
| department on or before April 18th. The
| Windham County National Bank, Daniel
son, Conn.-adv.
Few dispatches from distant points
were read with such avidity or regret
as those IN Thursdays papers telling Of
the destruction of the magnificent shrine
| church Of Ste. Anne de Beaupre, in the
| province of Quebec.
| Scores of residents Of Danielson and
surrounding eastern Connecticut towns
with large percentages of Freneh-speak-
| ing population have knet WITHIN its walls
after pilgrimages to the distant point
And the majority Of these persons treas
ure some religious article or more world
| ly souvenir obtained within the basiIica
or in the stalls out in the grounds about
| it.
Ste. Anne de Beaupre has been in
truth Mecca for, hundreds of residents
| of this part of the state and only last
| summer a local resident while INSPECTING
many Of the artificial aids to loconotion
| for crippled persons that F"I Accumulate
ed by hundreds in the I at church
/ where they were left by those who nc
/ longer needed them, noted one that bore
the name of a Willimantic young woman
who had been at the shrine for a cure
| during the early part of that season.
The destruction of the great church
| and the consequent loss of $1,000, 600 is
| felt as personal loss by many eastern
| Connecticut people familiar with it.
Following are the newly elected officers
Of the Danielson Baptist church for The
| period of a year: Treasurer, Walter L
Dixon; clerk, Frank T. Stinson; trus
tees, Frank T. Prtston. E. H. Hammett
John W. Gallup, Ernest R. Warren
deacons Frank r. Preston, E. H Ham
| nett, Wilfred L'Heureux, William ]
| Craig, Clifford H. Starkweather, Ray.
mond Allen, z. B. Wilbur committee or
religious education. Miss Grace M. Stan.
ton, Miss Grace Spalding, Mrs. Edward
Reach, Ernest r Warren Miss May