Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-24
PUTNAM

makers and machinists in this vicinity who can be convinced tha. they can perform a greater service to tnelr country in these times of stress IS De- ing undertaken by Travelling Examin- CT Robert McNeeiy. who has his head quarters at the rooms of the War Bu- reau in the Union block.
 Mir McNealy said Wednesday after noon that he already has secured be tween 9 and 90 men who are will ing to leave employment in the trades | mentioned in this vicinity. to go to | New London where many houses are badly needed and much government | construction work is being done, or to Waterbury, where there is urgent | need of craftsmen to speed-Tp the vast l amount of government work central l ized in that city and vicinity. l
 Labor here is not being eeuscript- | ed. This was made very clear by Mir l MeNeely. The men are being asked to volunteer to work where there is ] great need of their services. Such men IS are wanted are being sought l out in the big manufacturing plants 1 in Putnam and vicinity. in carpen- ter shops and among the organizations of contractors and builders-Eferev-I CT they can be found
 The government has great need of the services of these men, but it IS not coereing them to accept service elsewhere, merely pointing out to them how much more of value they can be if they accept work where the government most needs them.
 This districts quota in men is .5eO It is to come from the towns of what is called eastern Windham county Putnam, Kiltingly, Thompson, Plain field, Brooklyn, Sterling, Canterbury I Pomfret, Woodstock. It is recognized 4 that it will be a difficult task to se- cure these 800 men, but the patriot ism of the workers will be appealed to. The government, of course, has the authority, to command men for this work that it desires done, but i'll is evident from what MT. McNeely ! said "Wednesday that he does not de- sire to take summary action He as al government representative much pre- fering that the men should volunteer | for the work, which is well paid for | by Uncle Sam.
 i A case to excite pity came to the. attention of the members of the local board in this city "Wednesday after noon, when Private Henry c. Caspar, I Company, 35Srd Infantry. was ! brought into the office of Edward Peal, kindly Pomfret mar who had interested himself in the soldiers. l case.
 Private Casper is mentally Hnbal- anced as the result of his experiences I in France, and it developed, after care I ful questioning and subsequent inves-i tigation by telephone, that he had, wandered away from the Norfolk ' County hospital in Massachusetts, I where he has been receiving treat 4 H1ent for several weeks since he was l invalided home from France. | Private Casper, whose home is in l Runymede, Kansas, has a depression l in his skull to which undoubtedly is I attributable to his present mental state. His mind appeared te be quite clear at times, while at other periods i he seemed to be daZed and very un- certain about many things concerning 4 himself. A hospital clinic sheet, which ] he had on his person and to which he
 elpng with the greatest teraeity, es-.
 abolished enough about Casper to per l init of getting a line on where he I came from. A telephone message to l the hospital brought the information that he wandered away several days I ago and since then all trace of him had been lost.
 ] Casper's chief ambition when he
 was brought to the local board office
 was to get d ticket to Wichita, Kan -1cLH, 1l0fI NiitCH GIlE, IiS Sdlu, lie I could easily make his way to his
 home. He was anxions to see his
 mother, he said.
 l Casper, wao was in uniform. is an upstanding westerner, 32 years of age.
 He had been several months in 1 France, his papers showed, but he
 could recall little of what he had been l through there.
 l He is held here pending the arrival l from the hospital of attendants who l will return with him. In the mean 4 time he will be well cared for. I Forty men assembled from various I sections of the dizSriet. left Putnam ! Wednesday morning for Fortress 1 military training. The contingent that 1 went out. including a number who had I been on the alternates' list was made
 up as follows:
 l William Maertens, Putnam (cap-
 tain).
 Earl A. Potter, Putnam. I F1orien Hanel, Putnam
 Walter A. Hewlett, Ashford. II Omer Provost, Danielson. I Henry T. Gaffery, Killingly. I Byron Floyd Mason, Danielson. 4 Donate Sacco, Goodyear I Ovila Cournoyer, Putnam 1 Origene Bedard Futna:r 1 Napoleon J. Salyas, Putnam.
 Leo Joly, Danielson.
 Herbert E. Keenan, West Rutland
 Mass
 I Onesieme Roy, Danielson.
 Edward Bourgeois, Putnam.
 John E. Russell Attawaugan.
 Ennilien Breault, Putnam I Harvey N. Colburn, Abingdon.
 John Ungerer, Quinebaug.
 Uldoric J. Paquin. Daniclson. Bruno Kitka, Webster
 Norbert BIain, GrosV odraIe.
 Albert T. Deprey, Southbridge. Earl Newton Marcy. Southbridge.
 Eugene E. Bernier, West Thomp- I son.
 Joseph B. Norton, Killingfy.
 Adelard J. Cournoyer, Putnam. Eugene Diotte, Mechaniesvifle
 Nalmore Lafiviere, >Grosvenordale Louis ]. Levesque, Grosvenordale. | Richard W Olson, North Grosvener- da1.
 Flpreme Rerte. Putnam \ Isadore Duff, Lowell
 Antonio Lanciano, Norwich c. D. Weeks, Putnam.
 Fred Domino Danielson.
 Joseph Cruszyna, North Grosvenor. i; dale.
 Il Thomas Gallichant, Danielson.
 Arthur Lasrandeur, Putnam II The hcdies of MT. and Mrs. Edmonc BosGuet, who died in Southbridge , were brought here Wednesday after.
 poon for burial in St. Mary,s ceme. 1J tery. The death of this young couplt r within a few hours of each other ha. {, been one of the greatest shocks spf 5 fered by their many friends in Put
 nam, where their parents five. BoH