Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-19
PUTNAM

I the State Council of Defense, dealing with the subject of slackers on Li- herty loan and war stamp drives may bring them into disrepute, as IS 1n- II dicated by case that mas arisen in r this district One of these letters, .scathing in it's nature and suggesunS that persons who decline to subscribe to government securities, should, Tn case they are enemy aliens, return to | their own country, has been mailed to resident of town in this dis | trict
 The letter bears the signature of d 1 man who is an official of the town i in which the man Whe received II resides. Far from being an enemy alien the man is a citizen of the United States, born and bred, as were him. The same is true of his wife. Both are eligible for membership in everyone of the patriotic societies of America passing rights to membership On ancestral patriotism.
 And over and above all of this the couple have given three sons to bat tie for Uncle Sam in the present war, ali the sons they nave. Tor a man Of this unadultered degree of Ameri canism to be insulted through the mails as he has been seems inexr | cusable Yet such Is the case. The fact that his sons. for whom he wears a three-s star service pin, are fighting 1 has placed him temporarily in such | q financial position that he has been unable to get enough money to buy
 var securities, though he is more than anxious to do so.
 The state council of defense would | do well. it seems, to ctrcularize it's 1 representatives throughout Connecti- l iS1 1,n ff
 lnent in putting out such letters as fthe one here referred to. Ten min utes investigation relative to the man who has been made the victim of the | injudicious use of the state councils 1 form letter would have established to l the satisfaction of any intelligent per
 son that he was a good and true Am 1 erican.
 Private Edward Barbour, who has caused the government much difficult
 ty in keeping tabs on him, again has
 been taken into custody to be re-
 turned to Camp Upton, and the pre-
 diction has been made by govern ilent agents Nthat he will likely not
 so frequently appear hereabouts in the near future.
 Private Barbour was arrested at East Thompson by a party of eight of which Deputy Sheriff William N. Bates was member. He had been at East Thompson for days and his ac tions there had come to be little less than a scandal. from the viewpoint that he was neglecting duty while
 other town boys were off to war or preparing to go. while he was absent from his regiment without leave. A relative of Barbour's appeared
 at the office of the local board here
 on Saturday to express satisfaction over the soldiers arrest He told
 something of Private Barbour's his
 tory during the past ten years and
 the narrative contained recital of
 Barbour's coming and going from the parental home, of his association with cheap vaudeville companies and of
 difficulties in which he had become
 involved for transgressions of the civil law This relative, d very close
 one, said that Private Barbour all ways has shirked work and that he , was ashamed of him.
 During rhe last time he has been , at East Thompson he has acted l strangely, hiding much of the time l as though in fear of arrest. agaiT ! stealing out, while wearing a woman's , skirt. and going into pastures to pick , berries, which were sold to get money
 with which to purchase little luzur- a ies with which he regaled himself
 This is the day that the electors o
 the city of Putnam again will pas. a upon the matter of appropriating s75,
 coo to meet the cost of laying another ! line of main pipe from the pumping 2 station at Harrisville into the city
 The people have heard much as t; f the city's need of this improvement o and have once, at a special city meet Q ing, authorized the expenditure F Through circumstance, the actioI n again has become necessary. The vot
 ing will be by ballot today and it i i, expected that the number who vot !, will be greater than was the cas-
 the last time the matter was up. Miss Ruth Bartlett, who is to ac q as assistant to the junior Chautaa n qua leader who was in charge of tn : Putnam Chautauqua, left here wit a the leader Saturday morning fo e Johnsville, N Y. Miss Bartlett wi II remain on the Chautauqua circuit fo
 at least two weeks and possibly ma 6 continue her engagement until Sep ,f tember s, all of the time in town in New York state.
 'f Putnam Pointers. ,- The choir of the Congregations II church left here Saturday morning fo
 the annual stay at CFeSCent pedCI
 Chorister L. o. Williams is with tn v party.
 . Miss Viola Cane spent Sunday q s her home in Millnury, Mass. r. The Thompson union Sunday schoc y picnic is to be held at Bates grov n on Wednesday of this week
 In addition to Archibald Macdonal D of this city. Melanchton Riddick
 Woodstock and E. S. Backus ( d l Thompson. are being mentioned a
 candidates for the republican nonnin ls alton for senators from the 18th dis 1T trict.
 Judge M. H. Geissler spent sunda 's in Boston.
 te Mrs. W. J. Bartlett is at Pleasu, m beach for stay of two weeks. tt Miss Barbara Weaver of Thompso
 is visiting at Washington. D. c. wit 'e her sister, Mrs. Louis Ream. v Members of lodges in nearby towr T attended a meeting of Putnam lode Is of Masons at Woodstock Saturda evening.
 l. A number from this city went
 WilIimantic on Sunday for the cam ee meeting.