Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-26
PUTNAM
Registrar Receives Nearly 100 Applica- tions-A. Vito Company Gets Three Road contracts-SaVing of $1,ooo in Teachers Salaries-French to Work for Jodoin.

D. r. x. McAvoy has gone to Wor cester to receive treatment for his eve which has been giving him considera- ble trouble.
 Joseph Smith, formerly a wine clerk at the City hotel, is seriously ill at his home in Ballouville.
 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F'lagg of Franklin. Mass. came here Saturday for a visit with relatives at Harris vile.
 Miss Sarah Welsh left Saturday for vacation to be spent in Providence and Newport.
 A veranda service for members of | the Congregational church was held at the home of Miss Mary A. Wheaton | Sunday evening. Scripture Memorized was the subject.
 | Rev Wallace Stearns will be the | leader at the prayer meeting service | at the Congregational church Thurs | day evening.
 Progress on State Road. | The contract for state road over | Perrin Hill is being rapidly advanced, but will not be completed, it is expect ed, until about Dec l.
 Tidings from Calgary.
 M NJ. Dwyer formerly proprietor of the Chickering hotel in this city, writes from Calgary, Alberta, that he will re- turn to the states in about week MT. Dwyer recently visited at Bamf.
 Nearly 100 to 5e Made. Hermon c. Carver, registrar Of voters. says that between f5 and 100 applications have been received from persons who desire to be made voters in Putnam before the fall elections,
 Business Brisk.
 At the plant of the Putnam Woolen company work on repairs to the bulk head was being done Saturday. The repair work will also be continued Labor day, Business is brisk with the lcompany
 ElIery Going to Utica. l Fred Ellery, chairman of the strike committee that led the revolt at the plant of the French River Textile company at Mechanicsville early in the summer has been in this vicinity lately Ellery said he was going tl Utica to take part in strike that the | w. w. is conducting in that city.
 A. Vito Company Lowest Bidders.
 The A. Vito Construction company of Thompson is the lowest bidder fol three contracts that are to be awarded this week by Highway Commissione. Macdonald for state road work. The bids are for .6.535 feet of gravel roaC in Plainfield, 1s.s60 feet of gravel macadam road in Ellington and fol 12,750 feet of gravel -macadam to b' put in in the town of Somers. the tOta value of the contracts being abou S67, 000.
 Notice of Reward for New YorE II Crooks. : Capt John Murray has received from the police department of the city of New York the circulars that an } bounce a reward of s5,000 for the ap } prehension of Gyp the Blood and Left! Louie, two of the gunmen wanted il ) connection with the sensational killinl } of Herman Rosenthal. The two crook were reported about two weeks ag' : to be in this vicinity.
 Legal Restraint Withdrawn. , Local newsdealers have been noti , fled of the withdrawal of the legal re straint placed upon them in connee
 ton with the suit for islander brough
 against Boston paper which they sell
 the said paper some time since havini printed an article about a resident O
 Dayville and an employe of the Con
 necticut company running as motor
 man on the Putnam lines to whicl ,' serious exception was taken. . . Saving $1,o0c in Teachers Salaries,
 The town school committee of Put
 nam is saving about $1O00 in teachers
 salaries by combining the positions O principal of the high school and su
 perintendent of schools in this town and the committee believes that tn teachers engaged for the coming yea are fully as competent as any teach c ing force that the town has had.
 French Voters Will Stand by Jodoir
 A prominent French Canadian resi- T dent of this city said Saturday ths h Raymond j. Jodoin of Sprague woul | have very strong support from hi -,l countrymen in his effort to secure tn : nomination for congress as a demo 4 crat from the Second district. and ths q in case he gets the nomination the Il would also be with him at the election p Mir. Jodoin is better known in tn # section of the district than is Mayo d Bryan F. Mahan of New Londo n prominently considered for the nom n nation.
 g Potatoes to Be Plenty and Cheap. From towns in this part of WinC z ham county come reports of the proi a pect of potato crop far ahead !