Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-06
PUTNAM
Impossible to Find Joseph Gahan's ReIatives-Out of Town People Seek City to Wed-BeIief That Henry Johnson Was Struck by Poker.

Joseph Gahan, who died of pneu- monia at the hospital here during Wednesday night, is supposed to hail from Waterbury, but the difficulty that prevented any of bis relatives be- ing communicated with before the end came continued through Thursday, when Selectman Luther M. Keith. The body of Gahan is at l.. B. Smiths undertaking rooms in this city. Thurs day afternoon Selectman Keith; with First Selectman Hiram s. Franklin of Killingly, went to Attawaugan, where Gahan has been employed with road building company, to see if any of Gahan's fellow employees knew any thing as to his relatives.
 Anxious to Marry Though Not 2f.
 Town Clerk David Flagg was obliged to turn. down on Thursday a young man who came here from Worcester looking for a marriage license because the applicant was just three months under the age of 21 years. The case | was one in which the sympathy of MT. Flagg was aroused, but he could do nothing to help the young fellow out. The applicant for the license told MT. Flagg that he was employed in Worcester as machinist doing fine | work on automobile crankshaftS. He | said he earned never less than $13 week and often earned as high as SIS | a week, all of which he was obliged to l give up to his parents excepting $1 a | week. He claimed that he did not get a sufficient allowance to even keep de- | gently clothed and, having found a | fine young woman who was willing to | marry him, he proposed to have a home of his own. He had tried for a marriage license in cities in Rhode | Island, he said, and had been refused on account of being under age, but left the local clerks office with the deter | imitation to be married before he went back to Worcester, So it is likely | that the young man became 21 years of age before nightfall Thursday, He left here for another nearby town to get a marriage license.
 l Necessary Precautions Taken, l Cases of diphtheria that have ap- peared in the city have caused some ap- prehension. but physicians say that there is nothing in the situation te be- come alarmed about: Necessary pre- cautions have been taken.
 Hit by Poker.
 It is claimed that the accident to | Henry Johnson, which occurred in the railroad yards Thanksgiving morning was due to his being hit with poker which was pFetruding from the cab oi the locomotive that so badly damaged Mir. Johnson, A bad burn on MT Johnson's eyeiid, which has partly dis appeared, indicates that the poker hit him there.
 MT. Johnson, who is well along in years, is showing wonderful grit and insists that he will be out of the hos pital and calling on his friends again | in a short time. He is far from recov- cry as yet. however.
 Grange Elects Officers.
 The folloYing are the newly elected 1 officers of Quinatisset grange ot Thompson: Master, Miss Pettis; over- seer MT. Munyan; secretary. Mrs
 Bates; lecturer, Miss Logee; treas
 urer, MT. Ryan: chaplain, Miss John son; steward, MT. Johnson; lady as. sistant steward, Miss Reyes; Ceres
 Miss Whitman: Pomona, Miss Soper Flora, Miss Young; doorkeeper, c Ryan: assistant steward. Mir Young. Randolph H. Chandler of the grang,
 has offered prizes aggregating $150 fo best essay, best declamation, best vio linist, best vocal quartette, best voca soloist and best musical entertainment 2 during the coming year.
 f Dr. Darmer Home.
 Dr, F, w. Darmer.s who has been !
 surgical patient at the Day Kimbal
 hospital, is at his home in this city : He is recovering from the incisio !, that was made in his neck to reliev | the trouble from which he suffered fo E long. time, the wound healing finely . M. M. Dwyer Travelling Salesman. e M. M. .Dwyer. who is now living in . home that he has leased for his fam t fly on Woodstock avenue is travelin
 salesman for a firm with headquarter
 in Boston. He is to travel principal
 in southern New England devoting z good part of his time to Connection r Malbosuf-Guimont.
 Y Joseph Malboeuf AT. giving his oc n cupation as an agent, and Marie ] 1T Guimont, 43, mill operative. both ( t Killingly, were married here by Jude