Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-05
TAX OF EIGHT MILLS
Fixed During Special City Meetins-
 Total Appropriations $34,3eo.

| A special city meeting was held at The municipal building Monday to make annual appropriations for the various city departments, in accord : ance with the provisions of the city charter. Mayor A. ". Marcy presided The attendance was small The list. of appropriations approved by the meeting included: police de- partment, $570D; city court, $17D0; highway department, s42o0; sewer up- keep, $500: general expense. 5000; street lights. $7200: city clerk, $500; city treasurer. s3o0; interest $350o; janitor, s480 fuel and light, $250: war bureau work $259: total, $S4,3sO. The tax rate for the year was fixed at mills
 To Keep After Vice Menace. For the present searching. out the vice spots of tho city seems to have ceased, but more may be heard about | the matter later The fact is reeog- rized that all of the places that may need attention have not received it, l but more than passing attention to keeping the city morally cleaner will be given in the future. it was stated
 Monday.
 Paine Farm Sold. Announcement was made of the sale, Monday. of the so-called Paine farm | in the town of Woodstock by Justin N. Greene of this cffv to Arnold R.
 Stone and Fred J. Darling: who are to engage in the stock and dairEing i business
 MT Stone. who for many years was resident of Danielson, but who has been in business in Broekton. said on | Monday afternoon that he will stock the farm with thoroughbred and grade Holstein cattle. MT. Darling is at present managing a farm for Mir. Stone in the town of Pemfret The Paine farm IS one of the finest in Windham county. It comprises | nearly 1s0 acres of splendid land and one the heavy crops that will be raised there during the coming growing sea
 son will be corn.
 Will Debate at DanieIson. l Misses Gladys Robbins, Sylvia WheeloclS and Ruth Bartlett will make up the debating team that will rep resent Putnam High school ffl the coming annual dehate with the team of Killingly High school. Miss Dor cas Bartlett win be the alternate.
 The P. H. s. team will have the neg
 atiye side in debating the proposition ItAUo0iNSAs 4Hdl tH5 EdllIOaQS or the Unitde States should be owned by the
 government. Tho debate will be held at Danielson the night of March 29 I Four More Corn Suppers. l County Agent B. W. Ellis said Mon day afternoon that four more corr
 suppers, such as the one held ir
 Brooklyn Wednesday evening of last week, have been arranged, The first of these will be at Ashford, Thursday evening of this week. There will be
 a corn dinner at Hampton next Mon- day at noon and the other feeds are te be at Canterbury Wednesday, March 1S, and at Woodstock, Friday, March tI5.
 1 Another Salvation Army Worker.
 Captain Fee of the Salvation Army IRnnounced Monday that she expects a lieutenant to arrive here this week to aid her in the work to be done in this City. The young woman who is com ing here is experienced in Salvation
 Army work to some extent She was one of those rescued when the Army ] training school burned recently. I Food conserxation Talks.
 Fhis is to be aL week of food con servation talks in and about Putnam This morning a sneaker from the Con necticut Agricultural college will Ispeak on the subject at the high school. On Thursday and Friday eve nings there will he. a food exhibit al St. J9hn's hall. Providence street, and pn Friday evening, in connection with 1 the exhibition, an address by Hon
 Georga N. Landers, relative to food conservation.
 l Heard and Seen.
 Captain Joseph A. Ryan has return led to duty and on Monday was greeted by many friends.
 l Many Putnam buyers do not relish being obliged to buy an equal quan- tity of some meal or cereal when or dering wheat -four, but the dealers have no option in the matter, so should not be blamed
 John B. Newton of New London was "a visitor with friends in Putnam Mon day
 Letters received here from some ol
 the Putnam boys who began army lift at Camp Devens last "Wednesday state
 that they are getting into the swine of the things at camp and are pro.
 gressing nicely. It is evident tha preparations for receiving the men art neW more complete at Devens thar when the first drafts arrived there Eearly last fall