Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-13
PUTNAM
Soldiers Monument Fund Reaches $1,6oo-New Haven Road Plans Two Big Track Tanks-MemoriaI Tablet to Mrs. E. R. Browning.

M. R. Joy was in Hartford We'd nesday.
 c. W. Grosvenor was delegate and John Osgood alternate to the forty fourth annual department encamp- ment of the G.. A. R. in Hartford on Wednesday from A. G. Warner. Dept Patriotic Instructor C.. A. Potter of Danielson and Joseph McKachnie of Putnam are the department staff.
 Testing Pupils Eyes.
 The sight test required by the state board of education is to be given at the high school this week.
 The committee having charge of the Easter concert at the Methodist church has decided to postpone it to week from Easter Sunday evening.
 Mrs. Henry Potter of Hartford and Mrs. Marcus Wood of Danielson are guests of MT. and Mrs. Chauncey Morse this week.
 Charles Belair of the battleship Con- necticut is on a 15 days furlough at his home here.
 Mrs. E. A. Stoddard is seriously ill.
 Peter Gardner has been appointed dog warden of the city by Mayor Mac donald and the selectmen have ap- pointed him dog warden for the town.
 Peter St. George is in Hartford this week., attending the encampment of the c. A. R. veterans.
 $1 500 Received for Soldiers Monu-
 ment Fund.
 The committee of the Womans Re- lief corps announces that contributions to. the fund for the soldiers monument received to date amount to $1,600. The members wish to make the fund $2,500 before the order for the monument is placed. The monument will not be in place Memorial day, as at first hoped. Hobbe Girls to Contest. For tha boDafit of tho O11IStar fuDd the firemen are planning two basket ball games when the Hooks will play the Protectors. This game will be followed by one played by the Hobble Girls, Miss Vassar's team vs. Miss Radcliffe's team This will undoubt- edly be the laugh of the season. Odd Fellows Lodge Twenty one Years Old.
 This is the twenty first anniversary I of the local lodge of Odd Fellows and | at the last meeting, after a campaign | for an increase in membership, fifteen new applications were read. The members voted to attend church in a 1 body the last Sunday in April. and have accepted the invitation of the l Congregational church.
 1 Big Track Tanks for N. G w. Branch l The N. Y, N. H. & H. Rail road Co. will place two track tanks 1 and Is inches wide between the tracks 1 of the main line of the Norwich & 1 Worcester branch near the coal chute 1 in this city to provide for through ex- press trains which they intend to i send over this line during the coming | summer. The tanks from which wa 1 ter is taken up by a scoop under the I tender while the train is running, vii | be filled from a well which is to b. l dug at this point and two electric mo- tors will furnish power to do the l pumping. i fI
 kiIties Accompanied Eiks to Norwich 1 About 125 from the local lodge o 1 Elks accepted the invitation of thu l Norwich lodge to be present at tn l opening of their new Elks home il 1 Norwich. Wednesday night. The mem i bers went by special train, which stop ped along the line to take on member
 from out of town. They were at tended by the Kilties, Scotch pipers 1 of Waterbury, and each Elk had l cane and pennant.
 Commencement Speaker. l Rev J. F. Norcross. DID,, of Bostol l has been selected as the speaker a the commencement exercises of tn 1 Putnam high school next June. l Memorial Tablet to Be Unveiled. l At the Easter morning service a the Baptist church a bronze ta blet t the memory of Mrs. Ellen Robbin | Browning will be unveiled. This trib ute is in appreciation of her generou
 gift of S14,0O0 to the church. of whic
 she was a member.