Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-11
PUTNAM

Public service ear chauffeurs, Guy Zite and Constantine Terzis, who have stations in Union square, engaged in an altercation that resulted in city court developments Tuesday after noon. Zito complained that Terzis had struck him after some words had passed between them. Judge Mahlon H. Geissler fined Terzis $5, which was paid.
 The machinery of registration was reported Tuesday as ready in this dis trict to be started promptly at o'clock Thursday morning Throughout the district where registration stations have been established registrars will be on duty at the appointed hour, and it is expected that the work of regis tration will proceed rapidly and smoothly.
 Here in Putnam Chief Registrar Mahlon H. Geissler will be on duty at the library of the superior court, the registration station. all of the day and will be prepared to answer any knotty little questions that may de- velop in dealing with unusual cases. Judge Geissler has held a meeting of the assistant registrars and has gone over with them the detail of the work they will have to do tomorrow.
 Other such meetings of registrars have been held throughout the dis trict An unofficial estimate of the number that will register in this dis trict which includes the towns of Putnam, Killingly, Thompson, Wood stock, Eastford and Ashford is 2,631. The final figures may be lower or high CT, but the estimate is believed not to be far out of the way. If the figures prove correct, there will be, including the men who have registered in the past, between 4,500 and 5000 regis trants in this district. Tuesday there was steady file of amen at the office of the local board seeking an oppor l tunity to register in advance. Those 1 who wanted to send cards into other | jurisdictions or who could show that 1 their business would take them out of | town tomorrow were registered and is l sued the little green certificates that show they have compiled with the law l Every mail brought registration | cards from district men who are scat | tered over the country, but want to be registered with their own home boards some of these cards coming from far l away southern states.
 The registration process is brief anc | will require no more than three to five minutes of the time of any man who IS DT6pdT6u lO answer Cnt questions that are asked of him.
 Registration stations for the distric have been arranged as follows: Dan ielson town hall; Putnam, superior 1 court library, q Elm street; Warren. vile, Bakers hall; Dayville, Columbia l hall: East Thompson, see -Clarencl Stevens: North Ashford, parsonage Eastford. Congregational chapel North Woodstock, town clerks office Quinebaug, Matthew T. Darts store Goodyear. office Goodyear Cotton Mills Inc; East KillihgIy. postoffice Thompson. probate building; Wood stock Valley, postomee; South Wood stock, fair grounds; Phoenixville | Wheaton's store: Mechanicsville Ken ney's store; North Grosvenordale court room.
 All registration offices are open iron ' a. m. to 9 D. m. on Thursday Sept 12th, 1918.
 The big auto chemical fire truck which has been out of the city fo many weeks. is back at it's accus toned place in the Central fire statiol and is now equipped with big pump | capable of throwing 500 gallons o water a minute from mains througl the hose
 The new pump was given tryou on Oak hill Tuesday morning and i said to have worked splendidly, throw ing a stream of water high in the air When being run to it's capacity, tn working of the motor and the pum cause the machine to vibrate consid erably, but this is said to be true. il greater or lesser degree, with all piece of motor fire apparatus equipped wit a pump.
 Bremen who witnessed the test wer pleased with the manner in which tn pump acted and it is felt that the cit now has a means of combat tting fire that would heretofore have cause ncuh worry. Some buildings hay the past few years in the hilly section of the city because. the water pressur was not sufficient to throw a strear to the height desired.
 The test carried out Tuesday wa at one of the highest points in tn city. What was so successfully don there establishes, that the pump wi do good service at any point withi the city limits.
 City Notes.
 At a meeting of the town scho, committee votes were passed coverin the making of contracts with teacher already engaged upon their work her
 Leodore Maynard. student at Wol cester Institute of Technology, return ed Tuesday from Erie, Pa.
 Wolf Den grange has invited men bers of Putnam, Killingly and Lit
 River granges to meet with it's men
 bers this evening. Putnam grams members will have parts in the pro gram of the evening.