Norwich bulletin., 1912-01-19
No TOWN CLERK
So Special Meeting Had to Be De. Iayed Till Assistant Was Sworn In- Adjournment to Today.

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 A combination of circumstances, happily not of a serious nature, pre- vented action on all of the business that was to have come up for con- slderation at the special town meeting Thursday afternoon. At the appoint ed hour, when some more than a half hundred citizens had gathered in Un- ion hall st was found that Town Clerk David Flagg was unexpectedly out of town on business. and as the meeting could not proceed to business without a clerk and as a majority of the board of selectmen were not present at the meeting and had to get in touch with one another before an assistant town clerk could be sworn in there was delay of more than half an hour before the selectmen came to agree on Chester F. Child for assistant clerk He was sworn in by Attorney Charles L. Torrey, acting as justice of the peace Then the meeting was ready to do business.
 There was no inclination to censure MT Flagg because of his absence, it being generally recognized that cir cumstances so shape themselves some times as to create such situations and also realized that Town Clerk Flagg is a capable, conscientious and pains taking official.
 Richard German was selected as moderator.
 The business transacted consisted in making an appropriation of $1,200 toward the soldiers monument fund, which has been i'll the process of en- larging by the local Womans Relief corps, for two years past; but the pro- sit ha cnf acs6 t,a monument on the new high school | grounds was unanimously turned down, this after discussion in which it was shown that there are certain legai technicalities to be met and cer- tain desirable requirements that should preceds such grant that have not been compiled with up to this time There was no expression of senti- ment to indicate that the citizens of Putnam would object to having a | soldiers monument on the new high school grounds, but it was pointed out that no one in authority in charge of the fund that is to pay for the mon ument and will have ownership of it i has formally rendered it as & gift i to the town, which it is felt should be | dOno and thereafter regularly accept | ed for the town at 8 town meeting l before it would seem wholly proper to grant a site owned by the town | for the memorials resting place. As ' yet the parties who hold the money | that Will pay for the monument have not offered it as a gift to the tOWr ! but there is no reason to believe that | they will not do 50 later, nor that the l town will not be glad to accept of it when such offer is made.
 Discussion of the matter was par 1 dcipated in by Attorney Charles L. | Torrey, ex-Mayor F. w. Perry, Judge L. H. Fuller, Richard German, and | others.
 Because of the lack of certain rec 1 ords that it was necessary to have | In the meeting, the clause in the warning relative to the towns declar- | ing it's intention as to making an ap- 1 propriation for state highway improve ment was put over until this (FTI- day) afternoon, at o'clock, to which I time the meeting adjourned to com plete action on tke business pending Masons Pleased at Sidney Bards Sue cess.
 Members of the Masonic fraternity | in eastern Connecticut towns express l general pleasure over the selection ol Sidney Bard of Brooklyn, member l of Moriah lodge of Danielson, as dis 1 trict deputy for the Ninth district o1 Connecticut, which includes Windhan and Holland counties, and are als; well pleased in the election of JustiI Holden of Norwich, who has many friends in this section, as grand mas ter for Connecticut.
 The delegates from nearby lodges who returned from the grand lodge
 meeting in Hartford Thursday were a, follows: George P. Miner, Clarence w Chase, Attorney NJ. H. Geissler, Quine-
 baug lodge, No. 106, Putnam; D. Fret Ienworthy, Sidney Bard, Norwich lodge, No. IS, Danielson; Ernest w Gustafson, Edmund s. Backus, Corner
 stone lodge, No. 116, Grosvenordale
 George w. Butts, Robert Rust, Putnam
 lodge, South Woodstock.
 At Bradley Theater.
 A premier act surpassing the usua run If vaudeville attractions was tha
 of the Hindu Karmi's at the Bradle,
 theater Thursday, highly entertain
 ing melange of mystery, magic, hyp
 notism, sword swallowing, etc, etc.
 ''The Gamblers" at the Bradley the
 ater Monday evening will be a show
 long remembered in Putnam.-adv,
 Local Small Notes.
 The fresh kid and his snewbaIiin
 stunt was much in evidence in Putnam | Thursday.
 James L. Davidson of Hartfert
 called on friends in Putnam Thursday Only four births are recorded a having occurred in Putnam durini
 November.
 Two cases of minor importance wer
 disposed Of in the city court Thurs l day.
 The continued case of Willis F