Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-18
PUTNAM

More troops bound from southern | points to be mustered out at Camp Deyens passed through this city Tues l day morning.
 Announcement was made that the local board will be dissolved with the i , month.
 few new cases of influenza were reported Tuesday. but the cases here now are very mild compared to those | or the early fall and are not regarded as particularly serious. ! The postoffice force is preparino to handle the Christmas rush of mail. | which will begin to be felt in increas- 1 Ing volume from now on. The depart ment is asking the usual care in wrapping Christmas packages, plain " addressing them and marking re- turn addresses in a corner.
 Four teachers were reported i'll on lqesday-Aiss Abby Keith, High Putnam school Miss Edith Fox of the l.hlIdren's home school and Miss Ade- llne Rabbit, Israel Putnam school. Mss Rabbit became i'll with f,<aenza and later developed appendicitis, for which she was operated upon
 An entertainment by the sixth grade pupils, scheduled to be held at the Is- rael Putnam school Tuesday. was postponed. the school being closed un- til the first of the year
 D. M. Wheaton of this city was elected member of the executive Of the Windham County Agricultural so- cIety, which holds the Brooklyn fair as representative of the town of Put nam.
 Up in the town of Thompson there . IS more than passing interest in q. 1 disagreement that has. developed among certain members of the faculty cf the Tourtellotte Memorial High school. One teacher is understood to 1 have rendered her resignation Mrs. W. J. Bartlett was a member icf the Connecticut delegation that par tlcipated at Washington on Monday in q demonstration that was featured by - the burning. of some copies of Presi- dent Wilson's speeches. The suffra gIsts were members of the National Nomap's party
 Enployes in some manufacturins plants who are not residents of Put nam were protesting Tuesday because s they were being urged to take mem hershlp in Putnam in the Red Cross . roll caly. It has been difficult toa con- } fNlnce a small number that enrolling s4 here should make little difference to ) them. They all live ;n the territory s of the Putnam district and all of the money is going into the same general fflInd5 In addition, they are helping g the concerns where they are employed 2 10 reach the 109 per cent. zeal they s are so earnestly striving for. r Town Clerk Frank T. Preston oi Killingly spent several hours at the office of the local board here Tuesday going. over the records. for the pur- pose of compiling a complete and ac- curate list of all Killingly men who have been inducted into service. that this record may be retained in Killing ly through the years to come.
 At Tuesday mornings session of the city court Judge NJ. H. Geissler had tbefore him three prisoners charged with having been intoxicated Two
 were railrSad men who were needed
 on their jobs and got off without d
 jail sentence. The third, Napoleon
 Martin, of the town of Killingly, was
 given 30 days in jail. His appearance twas the second in the city court in q
 comparatively short space of time. The
 court told hira if he got into court
 would receive six months in jail
 The work of the gypsy moth crew:
 is continuing with vigor during this
 cold weather season. The men ir
 charge of the work are greatly en-
 couraged by the splendid results that
 have followed the work of the past
 two years, The sprea& of the pest has
 been arrested and several invested
 areas have been cleaned up Tn;
 work has been very carefully conduct
 ed
 Following are the newly elected of.
 ffcers of the recently formed District NTTrCn oe-cn
 Katherine Byrne; vice president, Mrs
 Ernest c. Morse; secretary, Mrs. s
 Nikoloff; treasurer, Miss Harrie
 Brown: custodian, Mrs. Irene Gilpat
 ric; board of directors, Alexander Gil
 man; Byron D. Bugbee, Dr. Freeman
 A. Libby. Chester M Elliott, Mrs W
 L. Macdonald. Mrs. J. J. Dupre, Judg, d F. F. Russell. Miss Ellen Wheelock
 Mrs, W. R. Barber, Mrs. Walter W