Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-20
DANIELSo AND PUTNAM NEWS



Woodwsrd Wireless Station pisnan-
fied-DanieI Williams Fought IN the
Spanish War-pernnissio fsscs5vsd
TO Organize Red crsss Branch--New
Haven Company Awarded Hassam
Paving contraet.
Donald Arlington has been elected
president of Boys and Girls Garden
school. The members viii plant gar
dens and next fall will write compo-
sitions in which they will tell Of their
agricultural experiences.
Station DismantIed.
A e. Beauregard on Thursday dis
on the woodward building, Main
street. This station has been used
daily to get time at noon from the
United States observatory at Airing
New System for Moosup.
The cut-over of the Moosup tele-
phone division, changing the service
from the magnetic to the common bat
terry type. was carried out with re-
markab1e smoothness and Thursday
everything was working to perfection.
Emanuel Pilling of Charlestown,
Mass, visited here Thursday with Mr..
and Mrs. George n. Pilling; Luther
mMu NoB StAtHSos
Letters addressed as follows are un-
post ONCE: F. c. Brown. Joseph Ron
deru. Clifford Jordan. Charley Suther-
land.
Coroner Arthur G. Bill was in VIII
ifmaneic Thursday making an inves-
tigation of the case in which Wyotek
Russek was shot and killed Wednes-
day by Myrtle zengel.
Rumored- Killing.
The shooting affair in which infan-
try guards at Putnam figured during
the early hours of Thursday morning
led to a report here that one of the
guards had been killed. in accordance
with the usual exaggerations expected
as matter of course in all such in
cidents.
Fought in Spanish War.
There were no developments of spe-
cial interest Thursday relative to the
finding on Wednesday of the body of
Daniel Williams. in a field not dis
tant from East Killingly. 1t was
learned, however. that the man was a
veteran of the Spanish war. though
not a member of the local post
: Employees of the town have been
engaged this week in giving spring
borough. The road scraper has been
at work clearing out cutters and
street surfaces, the inn
provement being marked.
PERMISSION TO organize Branch.
Mrs. Alfred L. Reed received notifi-
cation Thursday morning, from Wash
ington, d. c. that the petition for the
formation of a branch of the Ameri-
can Red Cross society in Danielson
has been granted. Accordingly. at this
evenings meeting, which will be pub
lie and held in the Offices of Back and
Darbie, a permanent organization will
be formed and officers elected. 70 is
expected that several hundreds will
eventually come into the Danielson
branch of the society.
Hassam Pavement Contract Awarded. |
The contract for the construction |
of the haSsam pavement that is to be |
laid by the state highway department |
IN Main street has been awarded to |
The Connecticut Hassam Paving COM |
oany of New Haven. The contract |
calls for commencement of the work |
on April %. and for it's completion |
Within so days.
While it is expected that the work /
will be undertaken promptly. it is not /
1t all probable that the work will be |
completed within the time limit set,
though Il limiting clause is usually |
written into such contracts by the /
state highway department.
Already there is an expression Of a
rom the borough line of the pavement
hat is to be laid. One resident who l
ives a few hundred. feet beyond the 1
borough line said Thursday that he
would willingly give $500 to a fund for
he extension of the pavement for an
,ther fifth of a mile.