Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-13

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 for Gypsy aMoth'caterpiIlars- ] to Answer for Defacing School Building.
 l Formal protest against the playing 1 of Sunday baseball in this city was
 made Wednesday, to 4Rrosecuting Att
 torney Eric 1T. Johnson, tSvho said, in I the afternoon, that he had received a petition asking that the law be en- 1 forced.
 1 Mir. Johnson said that heawould en- force the law, so this means that there will be something doing if @ game is ] staged here next Sunday, as 1t was l amounted last Sunday would be done, although no advertising announcing
 a game had been put cut up to We'd nesday night.
 The fans are up in arms over the 1 forcing of action on the Sunday base 1 ball matter and it is an assured fact 1 that if Sunday baseball is stopped there will be a demand for the screw l ing down of the lid on Putnam's Sum- i day activities in a degree that will make the shades of the framers of l the old Blue laws applaud with ghost l ly enthusiasm.
 This means that a demand will be made upon the prosecuting attorney 1 to close up all ice cream, soda, and ci- 1 gar stores, stop the sale of Sunday newspapers and close the garages so that no cars may be hired, gasoline | or other automobile supplies or &C., 1 cessories sold. Nothing is threatened against the livery stables. The Put nam Country club, it is said, will be also placed under the ban as a place where golf is played Cn Sunday. The fans do not intend to have anything handed to them in the way of curtailing their Sunday amusement plans without coming right back strong at everyone else who is en- gagged in violating n1Ouldy laws. The fans do not deny that to play base ball on Sunday is against the law of the state, but they do contend that it is no more against the law than the transaction Of secular business of Va CiOus kinds. violations that are wink ed at as accommodations.
 Prosecuting Attorney Johnson vol unteered the statement that he be- lieved the action taken against Sun day baseball will mean the closing of Putnam tighter than a drum. He said that the petition handed to him had about a score of names appended. He had returned the petition, he said, but 1 declined to give out the name Of any person whose signature is attached to it. Inquiry in various quarters failed
 to bring to light anything of particu-
 lar interest concerning the petition or those who signed it, other than that the petition merely asked that the state law be enforced.
 Putnam well remembers it's experi- ences a few years ago when, after
 some dilly-dallying over the Sunday
 question and the securing of a writ of
 mandamuS forcing the late Attorney
 Huber D. Card, then prosecutor, to
 act, the lid was nailed down with such
 a degree of tightness as to cause the
 old town to squeak on Sunday morn
 ings. All kind of subterfuges were
 indulged in to get by the rigid Gppli-
 cation of the laWs-and after a time the situation became such that there was relaxation and things gradual ! ly drifted back to the old status, with
 out formal objection from anyone. The fans in the city feel that an- other dose of the real old unadulter- ated Blue Law medicine is just what
 and they insist that they will see that
 it gets it, if they can't have Sunday
 baseball.
 Manager Albert Forni was out of
 the city Wednesday,, so ne could not
 give the statement that he is expect
 ed to make in behalf of the baseball
 organization, which has just fitted
 playing field on the old fair grounds
 Fairgrounds Opened.
 After an unexpected delay of two
 days the playgrOunds at the Israel Putnam school were opened Wednes-
 day morning, Miss Natalie Dion in
 charge as supervisor. Children came
 early to enjoy the swings, the sand
 boxes and other amusements that
 have been provided and there was in
 dicatiOn that the grounds are going
 to prove a great attraction for the
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