Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-19
PUTNAM

Cautious Preparations For Possible
 Railroad Strike-Sociai Affairs on
 St. Patrick,s Nieht-Funerai of
 George L. Prentice-Murray-L Laparle
 Engagement Announced = Police
 Guard Railroad Property.
 Strike talk filled the air here Sat- urday afternoon. but through all of it ran a current of comment expressive of a general belief that there would be a last hour agreement and that the strike would never take place. The public showed unusual interest in the acute situation that had developed be- tween the trainmens brotherhoods and the railroad homogeneous, this fn- terest chiefly due to the fact that a strike would bring home, directly or in- directly, to about everyone, some unpleasant inconvenience or monetary loss.
 Trainmen and other riIroad employees were pestered with questions as to hourly developments and at the station here there were anxious onlookers, waiting for something "to break"
 State of Maine Express Suspended.
 Traffic on passenger trains through this city was unusually heavy, and numbers of strangers who were await ing trains for home points admitted that they were hurrying out from un- der though there appeared to be no need of such hurry. as there has been no threat of immediate suspension of passenger service It was significant, however, that the State of Maine ex- presses through here were ordered suspended after their Saturday night runs. A freight embargo also went in- to force here Saturday on all ship mentS, on account of the in11ninenee of a strike.
 Saturday afternoon at the ticket of- flee al the station a notice. ordered by the division superintendent, was post ed to the effect that owing to the im- pending trainmen's strike, passengers were to be notified that tickets were being sold only subject to delays of trans.
 Special Police Detail.
 Captain Joseph A. Ryan. of the eity's department, received a request during Saturday for four special officers for duty on railroad property and two of them went on for night duty at D. m-, Officer Welch at the railroad sta tion. Officer Gagne at the coal chute ficers went on duty Saturday, and this guard arrangement was, according to Saturdays plans, to remain in force until the strike situation clears. Students Leave Early.
 The last of the students at Pomfret school, most of them resident in New York and points farther west, got away
 
 CTS left Friday afternoon and even ing. The young men were not to leave flor the Easter recess until Tuesday of this week, but owing to the strike pos sibility led the school management to order an ending of the winter term at once. to allow time for the young men to get home before a tie-up be- came effective.
 St. Patrick's Party.
 At the home of Mrs John Sabin on Saturday evening. Misses Elizabeth Donovan, Bertha Lewis. and Agnes Os- borne, teachers in town, gave a St Patric1xs party for the teachers and the members of the faculty of the high school and trade school and their wives.
 The favors were green roses and the place cards had decorations in the form of shamrocks and pipes. There was a green luncheon.
 Misses Dorcas and Ruth Bartlett en- tertained with songs and musical mon- ologues, their programme introducing number of we'll known Irish melo- dies.
 Miss Gertrude Jones was a guest of the hostesses.