Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-13

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 Elm Street Thursday-Local Guests
 to Attend Wedding Anniversary
 Endeavors to Increase BusinessMen's
 Association Membership.
 Walter Cain, who had his hands badly mangled in an accident at the Manhasset mill, will have the use of both hands when he has fully recov- cred, as he will in a short time.
 Hon. George A. Hammond was at Hartford Wednesday evening to at. tend the banquet of the lodge of Elks in that city.
 John C. Morain of Woonsocket was . visitor with friends in Putnam on Thursday.
 In a recent issue of a we'll known magazine there is an article of an elaborate nature on suffrage conditions in Colorado, the authors being Lewis Edwin Theiss and Mary Bartol Theiss, who have relatives in Putnam and who have often been visitors here. Two More Machines for High School.
 Two more sewing machines have been ordered for the High school by the town committee for use by one of the classes.
 Fourteen Awaiting Trial.
 Fourteen prisoners are in Brooklyn iaiI awaiting trial at the March term of the superior court, and others who are to be presented in the superior court to answer to criminal ch<rges are out on bail.
 Additional Afternoon Mail.
 Postmaster F. e. Letters has suc- ceeded in securing an additional aft ernoon mail out of this city on the 3.30 express for Hartford, and the first pouches were despatched Thursday afternoon.
 At a meeting of Putnam chapter, No. 46, R. A. M., Thursday evening the P. M. and M. E. NJ. degree was conferred
 The trustees of the Putnam public library have ordered for the inStitu- ton a set of the Historians History of the World, rated as the very finest of the publications of its kind
 Cattle Meet State Test.
 Cattle from the fine herds of E. NJ Wheatons farm, near Whites cross ing, have successfully passed the re- quired tests as to the condition of their health. and are to be forwarded to St. Albans, Vt
 On account of the lecture to be giv- en here on 8 date early in March by William Burns, the famous detective, Quinebaug lodge of Masons has chang ed the date of an important meeting for comforting degrees on a class of candidates to Feb. 19.
 Given Surprise Party. Members of the Tuesday club gave a ! surprise party to Miss Bessie Cham plin at her home on Bradley street,and were very Iespitably entertained.
 Gold Delays Trains. Cold weather again had it's effect on locomotives Thure lay, the coldest day of the winter, and afternoon trains were late in arriving at and leaving the Putnam station. The number of travellers was considerably below the normal average.
 Clergymen from this archdeaconry will move to amend at the diocesan convention of the Episcopal church next June the church law so that women of missions may vote on ques- tions pertaining to the business there l Of, as is now the privilege of the Wom- en in parishes in Connecticut. 1 On account of the eXtremly cold 1 weather of Thursday some of the 1 schools in Thompson were closed. In all school buildings hereabouts it was l'not an easy task to keep the build 1 ings warm, for the wind drove the cold into the buildings in a manner not frequently experienced.
 Elm Street Thermometer Registers 21
 Degrees Below. 1 ullIdIll was S1lppSu DN inS COtO | Thursday in a degree of intensity not experienced this winter. The mercury 1 barely managed to struggle above the zero mark at the noon hour but fur ther progress upward was halted, and ] early in the afternoon it began to 1 drop again, and citizens prepared for another Arctic night
 The lowest temperature reported ! Thursday morning was 21 below zero i this from thermometer at the Bos- i worth store, on Elm street, one of the i coldest points in the city. At Putnam Heights it was il below zero, at the Norman B. Beam estate in Thompson 1 it was Is below, and from South 1 Woodstock points came reports of 15 1 and Is below.
 1 Rural free delivery and star route carriers had q bitter day of it, the only 1 redeenning feature of the abnormal l weather conditions being that they were relieved from struggling along 1 through snow banks. They were able to make fairly good time over the 1 frozen ground and lost not an oppor- l tunity to do so.
 i The cold practically killed business 1 in this city With the stores, the the i aters suffered, for those who are very i keen for their entertainment would not venture out in the zero weather 1 and so the shows were witnessed by 1 small audiences