Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-04
DANIELSoN AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

Hammopd- knowiten Silk Interests of
 Putnam and New London Merged
 With Hemingway Interests of Wa
 wn-Dissatisfaction Over News . of f.Train. curtaiiment-Latsst ciassi- = ficstions-.Waste of City Water. t Announcement is made of the mer- ger of the Hammond, Knowlton & company silk interests of this city with the interests of N. Hemingway
 & Sons company of Watertown, Conn,
 under the name Of the H. K. H. Silk company.
 Y The new concern, incorporated under the laws of the state of Connecticut, is Capitalized for s2,0oe,0oo, and at once
 becomes one of the greatest silk con- cerns in America. Both the Ham,
 mond, Knowlton company and the M.
 Hemingway & Sons concerns have for
 years been among the best known in |the silk trade and the firm names are household words throughout the couh- try, their products always maintain ing the enylable reputation they have enjoyed for many, many years. In this city there will be no visible change on account of the consolida- ton that has been brought about. The big Hammond-Knowlton plant here and also the Eureka Silk Manufactur- 1 ing company of Putnam and the New London Wash Silk company of New
 London all go into the new company | as the Hammond, Knowlton & com pany and all go in as concerns in the l Hammond Knowlton combination. 1 These combine with the Hemingway interests to make what will be known 1 as the H K. H. Silk company of 1 Watertowp. Conn.
 1 The officers of the new company are: l President, c. C. KnoWlton. who has been president and treasurer of the l Hammond -Knowlton interests; first vice president, George Driggs, Water
 bury, of the Hemingway company;
 second vice president, Theodore Thompson, of the Eureka Silk com Ipany; treasurer, H. Morton Merriman Watertown,y of the Hemingway com l pany; assistant treasurer, c. A. Ham l Shaw, of the Hammond -Knowltor company.
 The consolidation of the interests oi the two big silk concerns is in ths
 interest of economy in manufacturing
 and distributing products. Mills tha are especially adapted to doing certain kinds of manufacturing that come! 1within the field of operations of thu 5j company will be almost exclusively de .jyoted to that kind of work, tilis rule ! applying throughout the chain O fplants.
 ll At the present time the H. K. H
 company's mills are busy with impor tant government contracts and aIy
 turning out products needed for man. . purposes in building Up Uncle Sam , n1,Ir 1, 1 WatertoWn and New London are busi
 ly engaged on important orders an, this condition will continue, it seem very certain, for long time to come Train CurtaiIrent News Displeasins Forecasts of cuts in trains and trol ;, ley service, probably effective mex } week, gave Putnam people somethin , else in the way of war restrictions think about Thursday, when press re ports and other information concernin } the proposed changes began to com ) out
 'l Verify. this is some winter. and it 7 coming home to the people hereabout that the country is really at wal
 though the battlefelds are far, ia ] away.
 | Indications are that Putnam is go ; ing to lose four local trains, all on tn Worcester New London line. and som night expresses, in which there is no 7 so much local interest.
 The trains that it is said are to 7 taken off are the one due in this cit at 3.20 p. m. from New London, on due here at 3.18 p. m. from Worcester ! l one leaving here at 3.S5 p. m. for Ne' ] London and one leaving here at Az 3 p. m. for Worcester.
 Though the coal situation is seriou t this cut is a deep one into what is al , ready a very much restricted servic s on the Worcester-New London lin g Just what action may be taken b business interests was not clear her s Thursday.
 Still Cold; Freeze Ups Increasing. f ! seWe have at least 200 orders ahea
 of yours" was the way a man who's
 1 store piping service is frozen and ol
 l of commission had it put up to hil
 1 Thursday by one of the Putnam COT
 1 cerns that is trying to repair the dam
 age done by old Jack Frost during tt a past week.
 Though the weather bureau has bee }; handing out some very ossy repor' 5 for the past two days relative to mol = humane weather, shere wasn't ar y change worth mentioning to be note ' here Thursday, and meanwhile the ste r ries of more burst pipes piled up hol z after hour. Temperatures here Thur! n day morning were from zero to bs @ low. tes Fl Souvenir Tayior Helps Swell Mails sI Souvenir w. H. Taylor continues = make sure his title of being the grea