THE "PRESS" HAS A LARGER CIBB inLATIOH 1H THE TERRITORY BETWEEM HAHTFORD AND SPR1NBF1ELD THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER—IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN IT : V. • ; • ESTABLISHED 1880 THOMlPSbNYILLE, CONNECTICUT, THUBSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1918 Single Copy 5 Cents VOL. XXXIX, NO. 32 •r, "NV\. MRS. SCHOONMiAKEB HONOR PUPILS AT ENFIELD TO LECTURE HERE HIGH FOR QUARTER OF YEAR USE LOCAL MEN :-:C'WV • :. ;• . " ..-II- DM. I. MULLIGAN SAILS EARLY MM HUE MI.MWDER "Women and Reconstruction* is A system whereby the names of CONNECTICUT the subject of a lecture to be given the honor pupils will be announced - N CASUALTY US) by Mrs. Nancy Schoonmaker in Li­ 1 FOR FRANCE TODAY Quarterly instead of annually has IDB MUCH DAMAGE brary Hall, Friday. evening, Decem­ been inaugurated by Grover C. Bow­ STATE BRIEFS CITED FORI! ber 13 at 8 o'clock, under the aus- 11 man, superintendent of public ivate Timothy Handley Killed.. •pices of the Connecticut ; Woman Attorney' ' William J/, Mulligan schools, who believes that® the an­ Early Tuesday morning'' tile large AND UNDED Suffrage Association. During the sailed from New York today on the nouncing of the honor-pupils quar­ barn and icehouse of Antonio Luc- Michael Mansfield, fifty, of Holyoke, ON SAME DAY Mrs. Fred Barton, wife of Patrol­ campaign which preceded the Suf­ Mauretania for France on a purely terly will encourage other pupils to cario on Abbe avenue was totally Mass., was frozen to death near Nor- man Fred Barton, received word frage victory of 1917 in New York, business trip in the interests of the strive harder for higher marks. destroyed by fire and the frame walk. The body was found near a ;Mrs. Amelia Bradsnyder of ' Tuesday evening from the War De­ Mrs.. Schoonmaker made addresses Knights of Columbus War Activities lOlive Adams of East Windsor and dwelling house and the dwelling trolley line by a conductor. Mansfield street received a letter last Friday? partment that her brother, Private Committee. He is making the trip in all the larger cities and towns of Edith Chestnut of Thompsonville, house of Mr. and Mrs. James Furey had been employed in New Canaan. from her son, Sergt. Henry Brad- > Timothy W. Handley, a mem'ber of that state, and was one of the most alone and will be gone about six members of the fresnman'class, have a few feet away was badly damaged. William A. Miner, seventy-five, a snyder. a member of Co. H. 102d InfJ ' Company Cr,'326th Infantry, was weeks. Mr. Mulligan, who is chair popular as well as one of the most the highest honors for the period The cause of the fire is unknown farmer -who had lived all his life in The letter was dated Nov. 10, the day > killed in action October 11th. tPriv. man of the committee, was selected interesting speakers of that cam­ just closed. The other pupils hav­ but it is believed to have been strat- Millington, dropped dead of heart fail­ before hostilities ceased and Handley was among the 'first of the at a recent meeting of the Supreme ed by tramps; a man was seen leav­ paign. ing marks higjier than "C" standing ure while at work. He haTl been (lea- written from a base hospital and is in \ lyoung Thompsonville men to be board of directors to make a return Previous to her work in New York are: Grace mage, Worth Bush- ing the barn about half an hour be­ con of the Congregational Church at part: "In one way I was lucky and; chosen by the selective draft and trip to France, to inspect the K. of fore the fire broke out. Moodus for many years. He leaves u state Mrs. Schoonmaker had won nell, Ho urlie, Alice Hamel, in another unlucky. I was cited for $r:i entered the service in the fall of 0.-huts erected there, as well as The members of the family of widow and seven adult children. fame as an author of books. Flora Masp ., Arthur Meguin, the D. S. Cross by the American /\, 1917. He was assigned to Gamp those in England, Belgium and Italy John Vlialedo, son of the gypsy •Mrs. Schoonmaker is the execu­ all of thelie cli ss of ^1922; Anna Nicholas Zito were awakened by tiie staff and the Croix de Guerre by the?-'H< .Devens and later was transferred and advise the directors as to the barking of a dog and looking out "king" of the United States, died of tive secretary of the Department of Allen, Arthur Bromage, Lois Gor- French staff and the following day to Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga„ and work under present conditions in discovered the fire. At the same pneumonia in the Bridgeport hospital. i: Citizenship in the C. W. iS. A. and as dou class of lt)21; Jennie Anderson, was made sergeant. I will give: went overseas a year ago. Several time the watchman at the ITpson- He was twenty-four years old and was such K in direct control of the class­ •those countries. Isobel Bugbet, Florence Gourlie, you further details later about what other Thompsonville soldiers when Martin factory discovered the fire born in Russia. He is said to have 1 es in citizenship being taught Mabel Kessneir, Mary Knight, Joseph I did to win them. I don't like to SIS . writing home to friends and rela K. OF C. ACTIVITIES. and attempted to give an alarm been a graduate of Princeton Univer­ throughout the state including class­ Mercilc, Helen; Stowe, Florence Sloan give myself praise but I don't know . lives said that they had met Private from a private box, but there was sity. He leaves a wife and one child, es at the State Normal School at class of 1920; Ruth Bromage, Anna how I ever got through what I" did : Handley and stated that he was the Several applications for member­ no key and it was necessary to tel­ who are in camp near here, where the #5r Willimantic, and at the Connecticut Farr, Celia Goldstein, John A. Reid without being killed. However, if same happy, carefree and goodnatur- ship were received at a well attended ephone to fire headquarters where "king of the gypsies" is located with College for Women, New London. and Anna 'Sloan, class of 1919. I thought I could end the war by do­ ed fellow that he was .... when in meeting of Washington Irving Coun­ an alarm was sounded. The tire- the tribe. Hundreds of gypsies are Mrs. Schoonmaker is the wife of —:—-—x ing it again I would be more than Thompsonville. ?. men had difficulty in.get'.ing to "the gathered here for the funeral. Edwin Davies Schoonmaker, author, cil; Knights of Columbus, held Sun­ STUDENTS' ARMY TO glad to try it." Private Handley was 29 years old fire with the fire apparatus as tiie Work on a new bridge over the lecturer, and. at present one of the day afternoon in the council cham­ DEMOBILIZE. You may have heard of it before avnd was born in Thompsonville, the bers, High street. Arrangements street is very narrow, and soon upon Housatonic river to take the place of twelve men appointed by our govT the old Washington bridge in Strat­ this but Lyle Adams gq^t killed with­ .•son of the late Timothy and Mary A. were made for club card tourna­ New England college presidents their arrival found the barn ;;nd ice ornment to the Foreign Section of house a mass of*flames. They worked ford will be started just as soon as in ten feet of me. He wasn't killed S'-S Duffy Handley. He attended St. the Committee on Public Informa­ ment to be held in the council rooms were informed last week that the hard to save the dwelling house and the necessary specifications can be outright, so I carried him to a dug­ .Joseph's parochial school in his tion. Details of ' the meeting on next Tuesday evening. The card students' army training corps would also the property of Mr. Furey near prepared by state engineers, accord­ out and dressed his wounds, which .younger days and before entering Friday evening are being arranged tournament will be carried out under be disbanded by the end of the fall by. ing to a letter from State Highway were caused by machine gun bullets. the service was employed by the under: the general supervision of the the personal direction of Patrick term, Decembert 21. This announce­ The loss on the barn and icehouse Commissioner Charles J. Bennett to He got one through the side and one Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Company. Hartford County chairman. Miss O'Donnell, who claims the all-around ment, which came from the com­ Charles L. Gaylord, chairman of the will total about $1,500, with insur­ just below the heart, which caused : At the time Archie Roosevelt was Bulkley. Both men and wo­ championship of New England in all mittee on education of the war de­ Washington Bridge Committee of the Mary ance of $5.00, and the loss on the his death. The last words he said employed in the Thompsonville car­ men of the town of Enfield are in­ manners of card games. partment, said that commanding offi­ Bridgeport Business Men's Associa­ Furey dwelling and contents will be to me were: "If only I could get a pet mills a friendship grew up be­ IA committee was appointed to ar­ cers of all S. A- T. C., both sections tion. vited. There will be no admission about $1,000, with insurance. The few more of those Dutchmen for' tween him and Private Handley, and range for a "Ladies' night" to be and B had been directed to demo­ The plan carried out In Bridgeport charges.