Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-03-04

first time in many months, the railroad
station is to be o]en just before train time
The arrangement, as it was understood
here Frida, will merely provide shelter
from the cold for patrons of the road and
the platforms will be lighted. No en-
ployes charged with the duty of selling
| tickets, checking baggage or performing
other service to which travellers are ac-
c1stoned will be provided, it is understood
However, Danielson is grateful for
small concessions and, maybe, when 1t
grows u pto be as big as Milwaukee or
some other similar city it's station will be
/ cpen Sunday evenings with ticket agent
| baggage master and the whole staff of
| station employees on duty. Danielson is
| thankful for even small favors in these
restrictive day,
Mrs. Esther Jacobs and Miss Miriam
J BoOmhOwer, both of Danielson Mrs. Al
| mond Bartlett of East kiIlinghy and Mrs
| Charles Blacllmar of Attawaugan, have
| been appointed trustees of the Mary Dex-
ter fund of $500 In accordance with the
| will Of the deceased the interest on the
/ money will be used for the relief of the
poor and about the first of january each
year the trustees will provide a party Of
some kind for the inmates of the town
poor farm. Any funds available each
year after this party may be utilized for
charitable work, the testament specifies
I Although Mary Dexter died about two
| years ago the estate has only been recent
| ~ settled and this accounts for the delay
in carrying out this provision of the will.
The document stated that two of the
trustees must come from Danie1son, one
frorn the northern part of Killingly and
one from the eastern section of the town
Miss Dexter's will also established a fund
! of RI I'll for he
ciety.
state highway department crews follow
ed UP their good work of the early part OF
the week by continuing to push back the
snow from the trunk line highway in this
territory. So Clearly nave they scraped
and plowed the roads that these main ar
teries of travel are bare and dry for miles
at a stretch.
4 Boston paper that buys red ink BIZ
the hogshead and distributes truth by the
gram, told its readers in dispatches thai
! appeared Friday that the Wauregan com.
pary, in view of the recent reduction O.
wages to its operators, had reduced The
rental rate OF It's tenements 20 per cent.
= was giving 20 per cent. reduction OF
prices of goods sold in its company
store and had reauced the boarding hous
rates 20 per cent. This is a troulble-nlak
ing item without a grain OF truth that will
be read with avidity by scores of thou
sands Of mill workers in hundreds O
towns and cities of New England and viii
be seized upon as d. basis for startinS
something against the concerns that en-
ploy them
As a matter of fact the Wauregan com
: pany has done none of these things tn
items claims it has done. In the first plac
it never has advanced the rents of 1t
tenements since 1853, long, long Will
ago A five room tenement rents In Vdu
regay today for $36 a year and tenement
with more rorns, UP to ten, for not hSzhe
than $50 a year, The rate stoo
through the Civil, Spanish and WiorI
war without change. The store sell
gods on the market, in competition wit
any person WHO cares to engage in bus
mess in the village. The boarding hous
Is more or less privately operated and tn
manager fixes his own charges.
The item referred to shows, howevei
to what extent news correspondents vi
go In some cases to grab a dollar from
news agency, regardless OF what trobl
such alleged news" supposed to be up
I date, may cause in widespread areas.