Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17

trucks will be brought to nanielson lat CT. At present only six large trucks are in the armory garage, whereas the full motor equipment of the service battery will eventually be about 40 vehicles. Any person who read in Wednesday mornings papers that the soft coal strike had been adjusted and the miners ordered by their union chiefs to return to work couldn't possibly have found so much satisfaction in the statement as might have been the case some bleak day next December, for Wednesday was a wicked day for heat-such a day as failed to arouse much enthusiasm about future heating needs. Thermometers which usually ,show some regard for the truth, said at 10 a. m that it was ST in the shade, while others out where the sun was beaming upon them made the readings 96. In the early afternoon numbers of instruments showed readings of 100 degrees and few had the strength or ambition to inquire. "Is it hot enough for you?"
 Four more weeks of good weather will bring the road building crew at work on the new state highway east of here, near | to the completion of the major portion of l their task, although there will be much detail to c.ear up after that time. The 1 foundation course of crushed roch .o un ] all the way to where a crusher is sta | tioned midway down Dark Lanter. School | house hill and trucks of the roadbuild- 1 ing forces are over it.. Still father east ] between Quondock brook and the Rhode 1 Island line, several hundred feet of the new roadway has been covered with crushed stone. The bridge oyer the 1 brook has been widened from Is to 24 l feet and the grade in that /. section is considerably changed. As the Rhode Is 1 land workers are making good progress It is likely that the entire route to Providence will be ready for use soon after September 15
 Rev. and Mrs ByrSn U Hatfield of Westerly are spending a few. days in {! Danielson visiting friends. Rev. Mir l Hatfield for several years was pastor of Danielson Baptist church.
 | Frederick Dubuc, of the Christian hill section of Broad street, has a broken collar-bone, an injury received when he l was hurled out of a motor truck running over highway east of here
 | Lester Craig, now at the home of his parents, Mir. and Mrs. J. W. Craig, Whit ] CT street, is making good progress to- ward recovery after being seriously i'll with pneumonia, which developed while QSg Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. Edward Hatch are spending a few days in New York
 Commissioner J. w, Whittlesey of the 1 bureau of domestic animals, and his chief special deputy Howard A. Elliott. were visitors in Danielson Wednesday.
 Many were at. Davis park Wednesday evening to hear concert by the Boy Scout. band of Willimantic. The ysang
 musicians left here for Putnam, where they were scheduled to give another concert.
 Progress Is being made at Central vil- lage on the. excavations for the founda- tions of the new high tcho1l, to be
 erected by the town of Plainfield.
 Saturday, August 2s. has been set as
 the date for Danielsons annual summer
 Dollar Day by the Danielson chamber
 of commerce.
 Today (Thursday) brings another sum-
 rner half-holiday for the store forces of
 the borogh. many of the stores closing al
 noon for the day.
 Arthur Pepin for years engaged in the
 automobile business in Putnam. has en.
 tered the employ ofC. H. Pellett.
 Somehow. Potter cider seems to have
 developed a sour taste in the mouth oi
 eastern Connecticut.
 Automobilists who see blanks stand
 ing up six to eight inches on the Mair
 street crossing continue to be of tht
 opinion that tne crossing needs attention
 It appears that something more sup
 stantial than planlking is now required ts
 stand the constant pounding of traffi, ! at this highway cross-oveg. .'