Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-23

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 izens Organize.
 Charles s. Sheldon, Fred E. Sheldon and Charles F. Sheldon. Woodstock brought in three coons of total weight of 36 pounds.
 Judge L. H. Fuller held a session of the city court Saturday morning. The lone prisoner was sent to jail for 30 days.
 County Commissioner John A. Dady was at Brooklyn attending a meeting of the board Saturday.
 Hyde Smith spent Sunday at his home in Worcester.
 Miss Julia Allston and Miss Sar- gent were leaders of the Y. P. s. c. D. meeting at the Congregational church Sunday evening.
 Judge F. M. Warner spoke on the subject Prison Missionaries at the Methodist church in DanieIson, Sun day evening.
 The Day Kinlba1l hospital at the weekend had about the limit of it's capacity of patients.
 Elected President.
 Principal Anson B. Handy of Put nam high school was elected president for the l916-17 season of the Quine- baug Valley basketball league.
 This will be a week of political raI- lies in a number of Windham county towns
 Local friends attended the silver wedding anniversary or GEr and Mrs. Frank A. Davis at Dan:elson, Saturday evening.
 Class Banquet
 The members of Alpha Delta class of the Congregational Bible school are to have their annual banquet tomor- row evening.
 Chairman of Local Branch.
 ]. B. Tatem. IT.. is chairman of the local hra nch Of the Hughes National College league.
 Fans Are Not Worrying.
 Fans here were interested in the an nOuncement made from Boston that big league players who have been talk ing port in pOst-season bali games, as in Putnam, for instance. are going to be punished hy the national commits sion. Well, Putnam should worry. Quite few of the big league players have been heen here and hereabouts recently. Most of them have been paid literally for their work here and some of them have received more than they were worth for what they were able to show here. Ty Cobb for one; so if the national commission takes D fall out of them it's -or the players to worry about. Having paid the price to see them. the fans can let the play CTS do the worrying. At the same time the fans are grateful for the live man. agement of the Putnam team in bring ing the stars to town,
 Reported Case of Paralysis.
 It was reported here Saturday that ] case of infantile parafvsis has de- -elopod in Eastford After the scare caused by the. child plague had Come .a1 nto the limelight again. One death hat recently occurred in Eastford is now believed to have been caused by paralysis. It is said that the disease 1ow develops in some cases with similar 10 those in grip and pneumonia cases and adults are being attacked.
 New Stretch of Macadam.
 It is said that the state highway de- 'artment intends to build, at the earl est opportunity, a long stretch of ma adam highway eastward from this ity toward tho Rhode Island line over he route that leads past the Little Dam tavern and Chi1drens Home and n to Chepachet.
 oad was built out toward the Little l Dam tavern, but this stretch of road 5 to be macadamiZed it is being 1 tated about town.
 Chimney Cleaning Important. At the beeinnirg of the season when | is necessary to keep houses heated | ttention is being called by the Nu- horities to the fact that the gr2Eat | ercentage of fires in this city ara | aused by deSective chimneys. Re orts of the fire department covering
 series of years will show that the reat percentage of all alarms Is for himney fires. With this in view at he beginning of the cold weather sea- on the attention of property owners } being directed to the desirability of aving chimneys carefully looked aft T and put in proper condition.
 Agrees to Accept Troy Trophy. Announcement is made that the ufnebaug Valley basketball league, 'hich includes the Putnam high chool team, has agreed to accept the fer of a Polythenic Institute at Troy ]. r., of bronze trophy for any team 1. the league that wins the champion nip in three different years. The tro- ny is in the form of a basketball layer mounted on @ pedestal. The lstitute also has offered to give a ,all placque to go to the team win ing this playing seasons champion hip.
 Crowd Attends Parish Bazaar. There was very large attendance acurday evening at the bazaar of St |