Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-23

It has been five years since Putnam lodge of Elks has held a field day and clambake, but Thursday the organiz- ation proved that it could come back and come back strong, too. This fact was demonstrated to the entire satis- faction of the 250 members and their friends who gathered at Phillips grove on the north shore of Alexander's lake. In all the details of the arrangements not even the weather was overlooked, the day being one of the finest and most delightful of the summer.
 Hello Bill, good old scout" might be regarded as the password to the session of good fellowship that pre- vailed throughout the day, and the Elks from Putnam, Norwich, Willi- mantle, Danielson, Webster, not to overlook Georgiaville, R. l., and even Texas, had one of the best times of their lives.
 Only one untoward incident marked the pleasure of the outing and that was an accident in which Alvarez Muire, clerk in Church's store in this city, sustained a fracture of the right leg at a point about midway between the knee and the ankle when he went to slide home while engaged in a game of ball. The severe injury to Muire,
 
 hospital in this city, after receiving first aid at the outing grounds, for a time cast gloom on what had been a happy throng, The accident happened shortly after noon, Muire evidently caught his toe on the home plate, the strain snapping one of the bones In his | leg. e Thirty-flve automobiles were parked about the grove during the afternoon | one of the indications that the antlered | ones Is an organization that is not particularly disturbed by the cost of l high living, A fine gathering of good 1 fellows came in these machines. They were all mighty glad to see one an other and entered into the spirit of | the gathering with great gusto Among l the visitors from distant parts of the | county, Mayor Daniel P. Dunn and | Charles Gates of Willimantic were mo- | ticed, as were persons of political 1 prominence from various other sec-
 tions in this end of the state, and in
 a way the gathering in some phases 1 was suggestive of the legislative dinner at Savin Rock a few days since. But politics was only a side issue.
 ADpetites for fun and eatables were l brought along by the eleven o'clock | men and they had to be satisfied. Lunches were served soon after noon, but the big bake was not put on until
 o'clock. Believe me" said one cpl | cure. this is one corking good din ner,'' which was echoing the sentiment
 of the entire assemblage. There was
 everything that one could reasonably
 expect to get away with first class
 shore dinner, lots of it, and prepared
 in a way to tempt a dyspeptic to eat l himself into a nightmare.
 A man from Texas who had never
 seen a clam until Thursday, probably
 broke all the state records for feast ing. He had stood by and watched tho
 preparation of the bake-the piling o1
 barrel after barrel of cleanly washed
 clans over red-hOt stones, the addition
 of bushels of sweet and just plain po- toes, dozens of ears of corn, abou' half a cord of Holsters, and all the oth-
 CT good things that need such cooking
 and 20 with such a dinner, saw then covered with wet cloths and half z cart load of hay. Turning to a frienC { he said: Well never saw anything like that in my life, but it looks lik' the real thing: just watch me when
 eat" The healthy appetite that h
 exercised was only the equal of thos
 of many others when the eating be
 gan.
 Owing to MuireS accident the game were cut out, except that the ball gam
 was finished. the married men winning
 to 4.
 Rev. Father Van den Noort Leaves fo ] Holland.
 Rev. John Van den Noort. belove
 pastor of St. AIary's church in thi : city the past .23 years, and dean of tn 2 clergymen in this part of Connection f left here Thursday on the afternoo ' express for Hartford, from where s will go to New York, thence to hi . old home in Dongen, Holland.
 f Father Van den Noort's going ava, f in respect to hls wishes was quie . and only few of his parishioneI a were at the station to bid him fare 2 well. To the few that gathered aboi e just before the departure of the tra