Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-08
NORWICH AUTOTRUCK
Breaks Through Bridge While Bound
 for Oakland.

A four-tOn auto truck. owned by Norwich firm, loaded with about four tons of household goods. went throueh bridge in the eastern part of the town of Putnam Wednesday night, and it was only with considerable difficulty that the heavy vehicle was lifted out and again put in the way of continuing it's trip to Oakland, R. l., to which point it was bound.
 The bridge that collapsed under the strain of the heavy load was a small planked one The blanks crumpled and let the rear wheels of the machine down. Selectman c. E. Pierce assist ed in strengthening out the tangle.
 The failure of the bridge to hold up under the strain of modern highway traffic is another proof of the wisdom and advisability of adopting the meth cd of instructing the selectmen when making renewals of bridges or culverts hereafter to replace with reinforced concrete the wooden structures of the present time.
 All highways in this section are yearly getting an increase of the heavy automobile trucking traffic and the sentiment and necessity of the case both point toward improved bridge construction as fast as it can reason ably be provided.
 Telephone Building Contract to Nor
 wich Firm.
 Doyle & Murphy of Norwich have the contract for the construction of the new telephone building, to be To- cated on the site purchased by the $. N. E. T. Go. on Grove street It is understood that preliminary work will be done on the structure this fall The beginning of work on the new building means much in the way of | telephone improvement for the Putnam division, which in area is one of the | largest in the state. A common bat tery system will be put in to replace l the magnet service now in use. Reception at High School. Interesting details are forthcoming as to the plans made for the reception to be given at the high school building | next Friday evening under the aus | pices of the Putnam High School as | sociation. The event will undoubtedly | afford not only an opportunity for an l evening of real enjoyment for the members of the organization and all others that attend, but a time for the making of acquaintances between
 the members of the teaching staff of
 the town and many of it's people A feature of the entertainment plans will l be a farce in which l.. o. Williams
 Principal Merrill F. Paine of the Is-
 rael Putnam school, Miss Marjorie
 Mann and Miss Marion Warren will
 have parts.
 Meeting of Common Council.
 The common council will hold its
 regular meeting for November Tues
 day evening of next week, the meeting
 having been postponed from last Tues day evening on account of the election Gardner O. Benson, formerly a ho. tel clerk in this city and in other Con-
 nectfcut and Massachusetts cities, i!
 to leave in a fe wdays for Camden, s
 C., where he is to be clerk in a hotel
 as he was during last winter. Manufacturers in this section wht are in part dependent upon water fo
 the running of their plants, were no at all opposed to the heavy rainfall l of Thursday afternoon and night Tn streams have been so low as to fore } some of the plants to stop some of tn
 machinery at times during the pas } few weeks.
 Union Thanksgiving Service. ; Plans are being made for the unio, Thanksgiving service which is to b
 held at the Congregational church. . Putnam now has the fewest grad , crossings within it's limits of any tow , its size in the eastern part of Connec : ticut. There is only one within tn . city limits-May street.-the othe I | crossings being either below or abov z grade.
 MT. and Mrs. L. H. Williams C
 Woodstock avenue have been enter < taining John H. Williams of Derby. @ City Notes. s Putnam manufacturers continue f c advertise for help, of which there i e something of a scarcity in this sec e ton.
 A meeting of Elizabeth Porter Put s nam chapter, D. A. R., is schedule = for next Monday afternoon. A pumping station to supply wate y for the institution is being built 2 e the Pomfret school.
 Rev. and Mrs. c. E. Gordon of Derb- Vt, are visiting Pomfret friends. e Ladies interested in home mission ary work are to meet in the Methods church this (Friday) afternoon, whe
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