Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-20
PUTNAM

master Alexander Gilman said Tues day afternoon, on the remodeling of the two center stores in the Unioc hlock for use as postofice quarters | The work will require about tive months so, it is now expected, the | office will have been relocated by the end of January,
 This getting at the work of refit- ting the stores so as to provide new postoffice quarters has been delayed for many months by litigation over the evicting of one of the tenants, who, it was claimed in court. abrogated the lease he held of one of the stores, when a plea of guilty was entered in the city court to a charge that gamb- ling on pool games had been allowed in this particular store. The charge, in a sense, was technical one, but it resulted ill a long drawn out series of legal actions that caused a long delay in getting at the work now to be undertaken.
 Postmaster Gilman has personally prepared the, plans for the new office, which will contain 2500 square feet of floor space, nearly double that of the present quarters, which has only 1859 square feet. There will be a large central lobby for the use of the pub lie, and around this in a near-horse-
 
 pertinent windows and mail boxes. Postmaster Gilman said Tuesday that he has given considerable thought to the matter of choosing between key boxes and combination lock boxes. and after endeavoring to learn public sen l timent on the matter. has decided in 1 favor of the key boxes.
 ] The public entrance to the new of l flee will be on the Union square side 1 hut there also will be entrances on 1 the Union street side. these for the use of the rural carriers and other of | flee employees
 l Commodious quarters for each de partment will be provided in the new | office, which will be very conveniently arranged for handli~~ t''0 r-o'''- 4o bo ! done. The fixtures have been ordeped and are now being mi,ue ,,IIu tue Iut- niture for the office is expected to ar rive here in ample time to be placed | before the date set for the opening of | the office.
 The government has a ten years 1 lease of the new quarters. which are | in the same building as the quarters at present occupied as 2 postofTice. l The present uarters will be occupied | it is stated. by the Putnam Light and and Power company. for Office
 Mir. and Mrs. Earl TourteIIotte will | be buried today. and tl~ face again | brings the attention of the public to | the deadliness of the influenza -pneu-
 monia epidemic which this city has l experienced this fall Mir Tourtel- 1 lotte's death was reported in The Bull | letin Monday morning The death of 1 Mrs. Tourtellotte 23, occurred during I Monday night. Mrs Edith Elizabeth
 Tourtellotte was the daughter cf l Ephraim and Annie Gerber Smith ard
 was born in the town of Thompson l Mrs Tourtellotte was so i'll at the time of her husbands death that her life i was despaired of it being stated then | that she could live but a few hours.
 MT and Mrs. Tourtellotte leave an in
 fant son.
 Albert Wheaton. S2. a farmer whose
 home was in the town of Pomfret, died l during Monday night at the Day Kim 1 hall hospital, MT. Wheaton a wid- 1 over, had been in poor health for l some time. His body was removed to the rooms of one of the city's under i takers. MT. Wheaton was the son Of 1 George w. and Ruma Robbins Whea-
 ton, of the town of Thompson. He had lived practically all his life in
 towns in this section of the county.
 With the obligation of furnishing
 more men for the army. and navy ser 1 vice practically completed although | there continues to be the possibility of calls for a few men for the navy .or marines. it may now be stated that a76 men have gone into service from
 the district made up of the towns of Putnam, Killingly, Woodstock tThompson Eastford and Ashford since
 June ,. 1917. Of this number 421 were
 sent to cantonments, army posts or government schools. The remainder
 131-were given permission to enlist
 It should be remembered that the. ( figures cover registrants only, between
 the ages of 21 and 31. and make nc
 were mot in the draft" but who were
 real patriots and voluntarily went cut
 and offered their service to the coun-
 rty This fact is not in any way {
 reflection on the men who entered
 through the selective service, but k
 set forth to show that a, great many more men went into the army anC navy from this district than is showl , by the record of the local board. Tht district may well be proud of tn showing that it made in the war, an( , it is very probable that it has fur 1 nished upwards of 800 men, but thi
 only the final records will show. Figures in the hands of the commit 9 tee late Tuesday afternoon show tha 7 the contributions to the war fun: ? drive in Putnam up to that time to = tailed $9049.6S. The indications ar D that Putnam will nave over s10,00C Some of the manufacturing concern : had not had their contributions re a ported up to Tuesday afternoon.