Eastern Connecticut news., 1947-04-05

Ju0ge NeWDury dOmeSLeaQ on the same street. =. We hear that he is placing the Newbury place up for sale. ..
 We have so much to tell you about OUR TOWN that we could go on forever (and we hope we wilD eulogizing OUR TOWN SHIP but in our next issue we will tell you and remind you of the many Town, State, and National figures we have in our midst however, we cannot close before we at least tell you of a new resident here who has had to go through various innocu- lations for protection against any human ills we may pass on to him: The little fellow resides at the home of w. c. Joslyn, 50 Thames Street, new subscriber of the Eastern Connecticut News, and his mistress is Mrs. Marion Williams. CHIPS, as he is called, is Mar moSet (mOnkey to yoW, and is six months old, and although he is a monkey he EATS LIKE A GENTLEMAN! CHIPS, a native of Panama is gift from a Navy man and has tail three times the length of his little body which is nine inches. He seems very happy here in OUR TOWN and gets most of his exercise from romping around the Venetian | blinds in his new home!
 This week in OUR TOWN we celebrated, as did other Townships, ARMY DAY, April 7th. With the GRAVE OUTLOOK IN THE WORLD this was very IMPOR- TANT CELEBRATION. At Fort Trumbull across the river all military orders of the World Wars gathered Monday evening in the Auditorium with ex-GTs in uniform to do tribute to our armed forces, living and dead. On 1 the 18th of April a great parade is being arranged for New Lon don that will include many of OUR TOWN VETERANS, the Veterans will gather for the par ade at the Army Dock, New Lon don, where they will be met by Major Carter and his men from Fort Wright. On April 9th, Rev. Bell of the Methodist Church, New London, gave an Army Day sermon, and on April 7th at the Trumbull Auditorium, Col. William Sackwith, General Officer for liar Dor Defense, Long Island, N. Y, gave the main address. On the 18th the Army is planning to work as closely in harmony with the Navy as possible. At $50 a. m. two awards will be given out at the reviewing stand in front of New London City Hall: The Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. {. At 10 a. m. an Army Platoon, a Platoon of Sailors from the SUB Base, a Platoon of Ma rines will proceed up State Street with the Coast Guard Band, with the Bulkeley High School and Chapman High School Vets and proceed through Broad Street, up Bank Street and back to State Street. On the 7th, AFMY DAY was also celebrated at Fort Wright, Fishers Island, N. Y.
 SUBMARINE DAY is to be eel ebrated on April 11th, with proper ceremonies held at the SUB Base, Groton. The latest weekly to ex- change with us is the SUB BASE l GAZETTE, for the SUB BASE men here in Groton. .. The GAZ- ETTE has a lot of FEST to it. in fact, it's editors name is ZESK! Mrs. Eleanor Drew, Public Relations Officer for the CSES, 82 Union Street, New London, tells us that out of the 1900 unem- ployed in Groton-New London, 300 come from Groton. We hope we all can do something about , this soon. The figures make 1 us the hardest hit section in the whole United States of America. Delighted neighbors have f1ocked in to the ROYAL LIQUOR STORE, Thames Street, Groton, to congrat- ulate Mrs Amanda Moriarty and