Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-17


GRAFTON during December was S4,4sS,s4o. |
against S4,5sS.ooO in November and 29.-
s14.154 in December. 1920.
Major General Crowder, who investi- |
gated the economic situation in Cuba, has
recommended that Cuba be permitted to ,
negotiate for loan in this country.
Henry Ford declared in Washington
that members of the fertilizer trust" are
interfering with settlement of his Muscle
Shoals (Ala.) offer.
The number of killed in automobile ac-
cidents in the United States in 1921 was
estimated at 5000 by officers of the Ma
tional Safety council.
There will be surplus of 1443,OO0
tons Of sugar in the United States and
Cuba on Jan. l, 1923. according to esti-
mates by the Federal Sugar Refining Co.
Toronto's population is 519,29O an in
crease of $4,000, or 55.71 per cent
over the 1911 figures, according to CEN
sus figures made public yesterday.
Five violators of the liquor laws faced
Judge Creedon in Hartford police court
yesterday. All five received Jail SEN
tences and fines.
The sum of 100000 Iivres will be
| demanded by the Portuguese government
as war indemnity The amount in indus
| trial material will be accepted.
| New Jersey will have an active agri-
| cultural week in Trenton. four-day
program dealing with the farmers prob
lens will be given
]. Ogden Armour and L. C. Swift, meat
packing kings. and c. H Markham, pres
ident of the Illinois Central railroad. were
listed among the delegates to attend the
agricultural conference.
Major General Henry T. Allen, with
a composite company of American
troops, was received at the Swiss from
tier in the name of the Italian ministry
of war by Genera, De Luca.
AS an added evidence of dissension in
the Angora cabinet, JelaI Bey. the food
minister. has resigned. This is the fifth
resignation within a month.
The Christian Stewardship program of
the Methodist Episcopal church is intend
ed to persuade one million members of
the churcn to offer one-tenth of Their in
comes for religious purposes.
Price reductions of two cents on a
pound and half loaf of bread and of
one cent on pound loaf were announc-
ed by Meriden bakers, effective yester-
day.
The coast guard cutter Seneca yester.
day took in tow the three-ma ted
schooner James H. w. Hall, which was
abandoned by its crew, who arrived in
New York on the steamer West Canon
The twin lighthouses of the New Eng.
land coast long since abandoned every.
where else, are to be modernized and q
single beacon made to throw its warning
rays longer and more dstinctively.
Forty-sfx men and women who per
= formed distinguished service in connec
ton with Near East rescue work were
presented with medals in the counci
chamber at the statenouse, Boston.
NJ. sarraut, head of the French arm,
delegation, received an invitation from N
Poincare, the new premier, to continue
in his present post of colonial minister
and at once cabled his acceptance.
Attorney General Daugherty ordered ,
special investigation of a war contrac
. controversy between the government an,
the Dayton-Wright Airplane Co. i,
which the United States is seeking to re
cover in excess of s2,5O0, 600.
i Resolutions setting forth an expressio,
: of unqualified approval of the Washing
y ton armament conference and the result
= that conference has achieved" wer
!, adopted at d meeting of Pennsylvani;
. State college students
Allen Merritt. As. farmer living a
= Crooks Corners. near Malone, n. 7.
=. hung a crepe on the door of his hous
n went upstairs and committed suicide b,
Il hanging.
= Accused OF having operated on tn
wrong foot of club-footed child. D1
Samuel Kleinberg, Brooklyn surgeon. ha
been made defendant in a suit for s10o.
900 filed by David Engle, father of tn
patient.
II II j. Frank Wheaton. negro LAWYER for
, mer member Of the Minnesota legislature
. and a deputy assistant district attorne
: in New York under Edward Swami il
} 1920. was found asphyxiated by gas il
his Harlem apartment.
n
q Owing to the increase in direct tradin
between the United States and Irelan
during the past year, the Free Stat
n cabinet is to be requested to arrange fo
= an accelerated mail service between tn
n two countries.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover has as
70 sured a delegation from the Bosto
Chamber of Commerce that a substantia
proportion Of shipments of grain for Rus
sian relief would be exported through III
n port Of Boston
le new building for the use of tb
ID School Of Forestry Of Yale university
g to be erected in Prospect street, Ne,
'e Haven. The funds for the structure az
to be provided by gift of $500 900 froI
le William H. Sage Of Albany. \. Y.
is graduate Of Yale in the class OF 1865.
g
10 z. A. Spady, an Emporio (Kan)- col
bier, is expecting a pair of shoes by ma
g. this week from President Harding, fc
v repair. Homer Hoch, Kansas represen
ative from the Fourth congression;
district, told the president of Spady
ability, and the president decided to II
N him out
t. A rulinE by immigration officials
a Ellis Island admitting Mrs Dionis
of Zalewaska, a resident of Chicago for