Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-28
PUTNAM
Six Added to Voting List-Lanphere Girl Goes to State SchooI-Demorats Plan RaIIy-Piece of State Road CompIeted,

Girl Goes to State SchooI-Demorats Plan RaIIy-Piece of State Road Completed.
 Miss Irene Champeau was the guest | Saturday of her aunt, Sister Loretta, | | at St. Mary's convent, Willimantic. Mrs. W. l.. Beard was leader of the | Y. P. $. C. D. meeting at the Congre- | gational church Sunday evening. Miss Bessie Champlin is spending | several days with relatives in New York.
 M. M Dwyer of Spencer. formerly proprietor of the Chickering hotel, was in Putnam Saturday. Mrs. Fred Cunningham's Funeral. Funeral services for Mrs. Fred Cum ningham were held at Abingdon Sat urday. The deceased was AS years of age.
 The Webster fire department is 10 l have motor driven hook and ladder | truck.
 Rev. John E. Merrill, the newly ap- pointed secretary of the apportionment plan of beneVolence, is to speak at the Congregational church next Sunday morning.
 Miss Mary Wheaton. Judge E. NJ. Warner and Lindley Cain have been attending the c. E. conference at Hart ford
 Chimneys Should Be Cleaned.
 The usual fall trouble with chimney fires has commenced in Putnam. Chief Engineer Mark Wilson of the fire de- partment is of the opinion that nearly all chimney fires could be avoided if proper attention is given to chimneys as to cleaning them out.
 A supply of specimen ballots for the national election, a week from tomor- row (Tuesday), have arrived in Put nam. They are the largest ever used In Connecticut.
 Six More Voters.
 Six more new voters have been made Five more Putnam men will not be- come of age until just before the cleo ton, but will be admitted as electors on the day before election, week from today
 Mrs. A. l.. Mansfield and Mrs. A. w. Bowen are in charge of, the matter of securing old papers, which are to be called for by collectors on Friday cf : this week
 A number of Putnam people made automobile trips to Webster, Quine- baug and Douglas Sunday for the pur-
 pose of inspecting the work that is be- ing done in constructing the Grand ! Trunks extension through that part
 of Massachusetts,
 Taken to State School.
 Miss Fife Lanphere, 15, who was talk
 en into custody Friday, has been or dered committed to the state school I for girls at Middletown and was taken ] to that institution Saturday morning, : in charge of Constable Hermon G. Carver.
 ' EIks Plan Charity Ball.
 J. B. Tatem, Jr, William Wilson, Ralph E. Thurston Isaac Champeau r and Prosper Viegiard have been named : as a committee of Putnam lodge of 8 Ellfs to make arrangements for a
 charity ball. This will be the first af- g fair of the kind to be given by the To- , cal lodge.
 Democratic Rally. g Leading democrats of Putnam an v nounced Saturday that arrangements
 have been made for party rally to be held in the Bradley theater this week
 One of the speakers is to be ex-Gov- ernor Higgins of Rhode Island. This :, will be the first democratic rally 1T II Il this section of the county. n Burial of Mrs. Michael Franklin. e The body of Mrs. Michael Franklin = has been brought here from Hydt !. Park, Mass. and buried in St. Nary Il cemetery. Mrs. Franklin and her hus = band, who died several years ago, wer' z at one ti->c --~'dents of this city.
 26 Tables oF Whist.
 The whist party given in Rents hal
 Friday evening under the auspices O
 the Children of Mary of St. Mary
 parish, was very much of a success | s.tx toa ,F r,Io
 the entertainment that was provided. Ia Remodeling Front Street Building. e James B. Tatem has started contrac V tors on the work of remodeling tn n brick building which he owns on Fron ,f street, opposite the Bradley theateI IT The plans are such that when tn ,- work now under headway is complete a there will be three stores fronting O. l. the street. Plateglass windows are le be put in and the arrangements of tn IS interior are to be such as to mak v some new and very attractive bushes Il places in the business section of tn n city. Where the present front entranc
 now is an alcove is to be built throug
 which entrance to the stores will b
 obtained. There is to be another an l. side entrance opening from the drive m way at the west side of the building 'n The second floor of the structure is t IS be fitted as a hall, which will be 50 T. 50 feet.
 It. Taking Parish Census. ot Rev. Charles F. Bedard, pastor an ,s his assistant, Rev. Adrian Dykeman V are engaged in taking the annual cen 1,es sus of St. Marys parish. St. Mary Ir is one of the large parishes of tt al state, having all of the Catholic popr . lation of the city whereas in the large ne cities there are two parishes or more
 Ordering 1913 Cars.
 The size of orders placed by lOc .st dealers in automobiles indicate the ot confidence that the season of 1913 is on be the greatest in the history of u he industry. Many local people have a ts ready declared their intention to oN gh a machine next year, the majority col ed templating the purchase of small car re Sure of Election. es One thing politically as regards Pu t iio nam is assured and that is the pr st' gressive party here is certain to ele II. candidates for justices of the peac ve No matter how the party vote may II M iio for other candidates on it's ticket, t a ei fact that the democrats failed to non ' mate the full quota of justices Of t a4 peace on their ticket means succe he for the progressive candidates.
 Fine Stretch of State Road.
 The final work on the state ro o, running past the Day Fimball hospit af and toward Pomfret will have be oL done within the next few days. Tho or who have not seen the stretch of ro' of since work was commenced upon at during the summer, but were prev nc ously familiar with 1t, will be great tic surprised at the decided improveme
 that has been made, if they drive ov