Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-10


 Barefoot Boy Jumps Into Hot Ashes
 Funerals Saturday - chsutauqua
 For 1918 Assured. 2,
 Louis Chnmplain. railway mall clrk. is spending week at Block Island
 Re- Enters Hospital.
 Alderman George L. Padgett. one of Che proprietors of the Wdndham County Observer. has gone to Bos- stomach trouble Mir Padgett was taken i'll while visiting in Boston three weeks ago and went to the hospital but felt so much better that he re- turned home last week but he grew, worse after he arrived here
 Progress on State Road.
 Rapid progress is being made in the state road work which begins at Mar shall street and is to be continued to the Woodstock town, line This road is one of the most travelled highways leading into the city and is the only remaining trunk line that has not been improved After 1t is completed the ingress to and egress from Putnam from the surrounding territory of which it is the business center will be made much easier and will be the means of bringing people from the out lying districts to the city much oft ener.
 Repairing Walks.
 Sidewalks in all parts of the city are being put in repair in accordance with an order of the common council. Where the repairs are not made the work will be done by the city and the cost taxed against the abutting property owner.
 MT. and Mrs. George A. Hammond of Oak Hill are entertaining Mrs. Hammond's nieces, Miss Phinney and Misses Isabel and Edna Breckindfdge of Northampton. Mass.
 Afr kA ( Hampton. occupied the pulpit of the Congregational church Sunday morn ing
 Union Services.
 For the remainder of the month the Congregational and Methodist church es will hold union services. August 18th. the services will be held in the Methodist church with Rev. MT. Legg of Danielson. speaker. On the 23rd the service will be at the Congregational church with either Rev. E. P. Ayre of Mansfield or Rev. Fodsick Harrison of Woodstock. On the s6th at the Methodist church with the pastor of the Willimantic Methodist church as preacher In the evenings the meet ings will also be union and the, lead CT will be chosen from the society of the invited church.
 Rev. Floyd L. Carr of Roslindale. l preached at the Baptist church Sunday morning and evening.
 Mrs. M. F. Smith of Fremont street | has returned from a visit of several weeks with her son, D. Roy Smith of Boston. at his summer place in Dover, | N. H.
 Fred Morrell of New York spent | Sunday with his parents. pr. and Mrs. | F. A. Morrell, South Main street. Jumped Into Hot Ashes. A little barefooted boy from the l North End of the city jumped into a | pile of hot ashes back of the Putnam ! inn and severely burned his legs so | that the flesh peeled off. Massachusetts Cavalry at Hampton.
 A train carrying Massachusetts cavalry passed through Putnam Sat- | urday morning enroute to Hampton. for the manoeuvres this week. The horses were in freight cars attached | to the same train.
 Horse Had to Be Shot. | A. w Barber lost a horse Friday afternoon in a peculiar manner. The | animal was out to pasture south of the l Monohansett village Some boys | chased the animal and it stumbled over a root of a tree and went down breaking its leg and had to be shot | This is the second horEe MT Barber has lost within a month