Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-04

Dreft-City Settles Compensation
 Claim for lsai Marion's Death-Two
 Special Railroad Constabies Sworn
 in to Take Infantrymen's Place.
 Louis Levine, serving in the United States navy, is at his home here on brief leave of absence.
 In Critical Condition.
 Berchard F. Blackmar was reported Tuesday Afternoon as in critical con- dition at the hospital
 The injuries to Robert King, Dan ielson. now a patient at the hospital here, are not as serious as was first indicated, although he Is badly hurt.
 At the office of Attorney Charles l.. Torrey, member of the military exemption board, good progress in arranging registration cards in prep aration for the draft was made Tues day.
 Mail Unclaimed.
 Letters addressed as follows are unclaimed at the Putnam postofice: gan, Arthur Reeves, Clarence. Rob ertson, Clarence E Winslow. Mrs. Minnie Arnold, Mrs. Mary Bowens, Mrs. Mary Gray. Helen senyck. came here Tuesday to spend the hol- iday with his father, George H. Tay- Tor. MT. Taylor was greeted by scores Of friends.
 Will Return From Baltimore. N. Waldo Kennedy, who as national director of the Loyal Order of Moose has been stationed at Baltimore for months past while he has been en- gagged in a membership campaign in Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia will conclude his sea sons work July 13 He is expected here for the summer. Military Enumeration Increased
 oF ,,uvnhars op ton cards filed here June means that the total of military enumeration here, as taken for draft purposes, will be increased somewhat over the total of e47 announced following the reg istration.
 Building Net CompIeted.
 Though it had been expected that the Mother house of the Sisters of the Holy Ghost on Church street would be ready for occupancy during June, 1t was stated Tuesday after noon that the Sisters will not occupy it for two or three months. so it is not likely that the headquarters of the Sisterhood in the United States will be removed here before Septem- A detail of infantry that has been on duty here returned to their home station Tuesday.
 A number of Putnam parties have arranged to be in New London today
  the Putnam people will be a number of the members of the local lodge of Moose.
 EIks Confer Degree. At a meeting of Putnam lodge of E1ks Tuesday evening candidates last meeting of the organization be- fore the annual grand lodge session In Boston next week.
 Redeeorating St. Mary's Church. The interior of St. Mary's church is now a forest of staging and deco rators are at work on the elaborate plan of redecoration of the edifice. Beautiful electrical fixtures also have been provided, so that when the work at the church is completed few weeks hence it will be one of the most beautiful places of worship in Con necticut-
 Motorists Obey Law. Practically all of the automobile owners who are driving their ma chimes at night have compiled with the state law requiring the use or l shaded lenses on the headlights. A | few drivers who have not yet equip ped their machines with special lenses are driving with the dimmers" on. Putnam men who went to Alexan- der's lake to enjoy the first bass fish 1 ing of the season did not have the l luck they anticipated. Only a com paratively few of the gamey fish were taken from the deep waters or the 1 lake Tuesday, this tending toward a prediction that the fishing is going to be much the same as 1t was last year-after the first day. At New Haven Meeting. Mrs. W. J. Bartlett was at New Ha- ven Tuesday attending a meeting of the War Work committee of the Con- necticut Woman's Suffrage associa- tion. This committee has plans for activities that will continue through out the war.
 There was heavy holiday traf- | fic on passenger trains run through 1 this city Tuesday and among the pas sengers were many men wearing uni | forms of Uncle Sam's army and navy, these men, for the most part, being en route to their homes for the Fourth SpecuIating to Towns Quota. There is much speculation among the young men of Putnam who have been required to register for military service as to how large this town $ draft quota will be. Some have fig ured that it vii be no more than 20. I others that the number vii be las | high as 35, but all figures are spec ulative. An announcement is expect | ed from Governor HOlcomb during the present month. giving the quota | for each town, these quotas to be on 1 d population basis, it is understood. CLAIM SETTLED u--