Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-17
PUTNAM

Wilbur Earl, charged with non sup | port, was before Judge M. M. Geissler | in the city court Friday morning. Be | fore coming here in May, the couple | had lived at Norwich Falls, Yolun- town, Glasgo, Jewett City and West erly. Their family difficulties have been brewing for some time. and the wife, | | in connection with the non support charge, alleged that 8Arl had interests other than those centered in his fam | fly. Earl countered with a like accu- sation, but this feature of the case, 1 being non essential to the matter un der consideration, did not develop to | any extent.
 | After hearing all of the evidence, | Judge Geissler ordered the case con. !, ing which Earl will have his oppoT- tunity to make good with his family, | which includes his wife and four chil- | dren, three of whom are at the county home for childI en in the Sawyer dis trict.
 p. G. Wright Will to Be Contested. Announcement has been made that the will of Phineas G. Wright, who died this spring, is to be contested. A notice of appeal from the admission of the will to probate has been filed in the probate court for this district, and it is claimed that this action has been taken in the interest of one Phineas Wright, who lives at New London, and is represented as being nephew of the testator.
 Gard Wright, as he was familiarity known here for many years, won much notoriety by having inscribed on his tombstone in Grove street cemetery Going, But Know Not Where" Gard left an estate of much value and his grandniece Mrs Hattie Miller, who cared for him during the last years of his life, was made his chief beneficiary in the will that is to be contested. Under the will what was left of the estate after the specific be- quests were satisfied was divided equally between the hairs at law, share and share alike.
 It is understood that the residium was small and that the will provides
 that any beneficiary who might con-
 test the will should be cut off. If the appeal is perfected the matter will come before the September term of the superior court in this city.
 Preparing to Meet Draft Call. Accepting as a foregone conclusion 1 that congress will raise the draft age . to 45 years, number of men of this city who have no chance, for exemp-
 tion or who will not avail themselves . of any opportunity they may have for ? deferred classification are beginning to
 set their affairs in readiness, that they 9 may meet call for service. Z, i Putnam has not a few men over 31 i years of age who will become Class IA I men when the new regulations go into l effect. For the most of these, who are , as general rule better placed in life
 and more settled in home life than are f the majority of younger men, going , to the war represents, from a certain
 viewpoint, a greater sacrifice, but they 9 are preparing to make it with the . same whole-hear arted good will that has I marked the departure of the youns
 soldiers.
 Vincent McAvoy who has been. fight
 ing in France, has written relatives
 here of being gassed while the town
 where he wa stationed was under a Nail of enemy gas shells. He was sent
 to an American hospital in the war
 zone and is now rapidly recovering
 He says that his experiences at the
 front changed him over night from a I wild kid' to a real man. McAvoy
 formerly was employed at the Bradley
 theatre and later was with a circus
 advertising car.
 | T.
 States medical corps, has written from
 over there" to Judge M. H. Geisslel
 of the city codrt that he is treatins
 gas cases at base hospital far away
 from the big noise." Lieutenant Perry
 says that he has become intensely in
 terested in his work, which he is do
 ing in southern France, at one of tn, great debarkation ports assigned tt , the American forces.
 Before being called into the seryic,
 Lieutenant Perry was one of the phy
 sicians who conducted examinations o selected men of this district. and tt
 many whom he passed as qualified h. was in the habit of remarking: "Tl
 see you over there"
 chautauqua Big Attraction. . Chautauqua, which has been held i, ,, Putnam throughout the present weel has again proved a great attraction [ for the people of this city and SIT
 rounding towns and will be welcome 2 back next summer with renewed en thusiasm. It has provided diversio, g of high class for hundreds of peopl
 who have cut vacations to save none
 to support the war and given them i
 their home towns the equivalent of
 sojourn elsewhere. Robin Hood. on
 of the best attractions offered her
 in any Chautauqua year. was witnesse
 by an audience that exceeded the seat