Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-14
PUTNAM
Elm Street Thermometer Registers 16 Degrees Below Zero-New Boston Mill Damaged by Fire-Rondeau captured-NationaI Bank Election Man Rescued from Canal,

Sixteen degrees below zero was the lowest temperature reported in Put nam Tuesday morning. this from an instrument at a grain store on Elm street. From other sections of the city reports were made of 15 below and from that to below, but that was not all. There was a driving gale that made people who have had expe- rience with 40 and 50 below zero tenn peratureS in northern sections of New England say without hesitation that the cold of Tuesday in this latitude was more .unbearable than that in Maine and New Hampshire at 40 be- low.
 All day long thermometers in Put nam showed readings of zero and less and at 1 o'clock in the afternoon an instrument at Donohue's store was showing 4 degrees below and one at Eliiott's store read six below The betting was that the temperature this Wednesday, morning would show as low as 20 degrees below zero on in- struments in some sections of the city.
 Business was almost paralyzed on account of the intense cold. Few peo- ple ventured out. There was a cry for plumbers to mend bursted water pipes and a howl from householders who could not get the steam plants in their homes to keep the houses warm The cold had driven through into many houses. making conditions worse for heating than during severe cold spells not accompanied by a gale.
 Railroad locomotives felt the effect of the extreme cold and it was so diff ficuit to get them to steam" that some trains lost time. The Boston, New York express, bound west, arrived here about an hour late.
 At the high school building such difficulty was experienced in heating the structure that school was dismiss sed for the morning session. the stu dents coming back in the afternoon.
 During the height of the gale in the early morning hours windows were blown out a { a number of homes in the city and during the morning the large globe over an electric light on Union square was whipped from it's fastenings and crashed to the street Rural carriers from the local post office had a bitter day of it and the same was true of the carriers in the city. As a whole. the people who were obliged to be out in Tuesdays weather described it at nightfall as being as fierce as any they have experienced in many years
 Fire Damages New Boston Mill.
 At New Boston, a village on the Massachusetts border of the town of Thomson. fire dama ged the plant of the Fabyian wOolen mill. a two and a half story brick structure. during Mon day night. The first reports received here Tuesday morning were to the eff feet that the whole plant had been destroyed. but this report made the facts more serious than was war ranted. as only the picker house was burned and some of the machinery therein damaged, the loss. covered by insurance. being estimated at about sS.000. The fire was discovered early in the evening. Famed by a high wiud it made great headway and at one time threatened to eat up the whole plant and surrounding prop erty. Aid was asked for from Web ster and the fire department of that place, at the time engaged in fight ing a fire. detached it's steamer and 20 men for service in New Boston. The steamer was hauled over the run of several miles to New Boston by the auto truck of the Webster depart ment
 The fire was not extinglIished until the early hours of Tuesday morning 1 The mill was controlled by the Fabyian Woolen company. formerly Of Stafford Springs