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WEARIES IF ITS[.-Sentiment Favors Replacing Makeshift, Tumbling to to Pieces.GREENWICH, Dec 24.— (Special the Telegram.)—The quest Ion 'clrere as to what aha 11 become of thef —^Jiooor roll on tho triangle in front ■w'of '’the postofflcc, is causing con-.^©IderabH' in ter eat here and a plan J^toward in tho oroction of a mcm-?v£»vfal for the veterans of tho World tr is also being discus*sed.The honor roll was installed on /.trhe post office triangle during the VW’crld war by a committee headed £jlSy Robert I. Chamberlain. The de-in center is the handiwork of £,.'lt;3eorge Wharton Edwards, the ar-'JjfStst and illustrator. Many of tho frames of tho Greenwich boys who lt;r#Hvere in the service have become staged and for more than a year ;^ast the honor rail has been an ^.eyesore to the community.'■iti It seems to be the general belief •V;that the Greenwich Post, American jjOglon. should otter sorne suggestion to the Wdrden and Board of Burgess of the Borough, as tho honor roll Jls located on Borough property, and then the Boa»*a can act. It was Mtig-fjfftatod that the boards containing rtfhp names bo removed and placed V the State Armory, but according fb a letter received from Adjutant £rlt;?eneral Cole, this cannot ho dene, jrflteps will probably soon bo taken in matter./Mrs. E. Hathaway Turnbull, a •^jpuozninezit resident has interviewed jvfcoth Mr Chamberlain and Warden ’'Joseph P. Crosby, suggesting that aKV*W'^inemorial be placed at tho entrance ••46. -Putman cemetery here. Sheiasi had a design made whirh por-£!trys n white tnarblo stone with 'Sfleht. upon which would be carved names of Greenwich veterans. .vTrees would bp used as a bnck-ground with flowers at either sidebird fountain raid to the monumont.It\ front and a ..vfiv walk lendingIf HEARD RAfiRDMIDI Telegi at St. be he 11 red \ bo givestecSarrne Miss : the fc hymn Deum Kyrlc Chant Fid eh herds, Lewis ion h; Excel.*munichymnTheas foi:Hi! -Ooorg C. \\ Tiotck Slvoll, Gates, Bissei Wood Eric nor, I Clark, ney, j Rubes‘ Nettle
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Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Tue, Dec 25, 1923
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