Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-03
PUTNAM

Sergeant Hyde Smith of Camp Dew ems spent the holiday with his par ents, MT. and Mrs. David Smith.
 Private Archibald Macdonald, Jr, | of Camp Devens spent Sunday with his parents, Senator and Mrs. Archi- bald Macdonald
 Judge Kellogg will preside at the weeks sessions of the superior court, opening here on Thursday morning.
 Malcom Wiley is acting as messen- ger of the superior court until he re- turns to his duties at Clark college, late this month
 James Carnack of Woonsocket wis ited here with his brother, Louis Car mack, of Mechanic street Many Putnam people were at Wild wood park Labor day for the danc- ing.
 Several applications to register al- 1 ready have been received at the office of the local board.
 | A number of parties metored from l this city to the fair at Norwich La Dor day.
 All the schools of the city will open l this morning for the fall term. The i teachers who have spent the summer
 out of town had returned by Monday evening.
 | The pressure of business continues very heavy in the local freight yard, where a great deal of transfer work
 is done.
 Effort to CamoufIage Drink Evil.
 Statistics showing what the gov l ernment will lose in revenue on bone dry law are being displayed in Putnam, where there is to be con- test over the license question this l fall.
 There was no special observance of
 Labor day in Putnam. During the af- l ternoon the streets were deserted, practically all of the business places
 and many offices being closed for the l day.
 Additional cellar space is to be ob- tained at the Manhasset mill by ex- Cavating under a part of the mill re- | gently constructed
 1 The state council of defence has in-
 terested itself in an instance of what 1 has been described as the careless use
 of some of it's form letters by an off, cial in one of the nearby Windham county towns.
 l A dress rehearsal of the Garden Girls concert was held, Monday eve ming in Pomfret. at the hall | The registration at St. Mary's pa sochial school today is expected 10 prove the largest ever. The school is l in charge of the Sisters of the Holy l Ghost. a teaching order whose Mother house is on Church street. this city. To Address Grange. 1 Miss Charlotte Embleton, home l economics demonstrator for this county, is to speak before the mem- i bers of Senexet grange of Woodstock 1 Wednesday evening. Her subject will 1 be Conserving and Preserving. Up- to- 1 date methods of preserving and con-
 serving food will be demonstrated. Undoubtedly the biggest time that Elks hereabouts have had a chance to participate in for long time will be
 at Rockville Thursday evening of next week, when a new lodge is to be in
 stituted. More than 50 Elks, and l perhaps twice that number frcm this city, will attend.
 The sale of the baby war securities continues in a pleasing way in this city. Totals shown at the postoffice indicate that the people of Putnam have absorbed a comfortable fortune
 in these little aids to the winning of the war. and many of the buyers are
 young people.
 No Local Names on Casualty List. | Putnams remarkable good fortune in having its large number of young
 men who are in service escape with
 out injuries continues to hold good,
 after r months of warfare No Put ham boys name has appeared in the
 casualty lists. and this is something
 that few New England towns the size
 of Putnam and with as many men on the fighting front can claim. WiIli- mantle, Killingly, Plainfeld, Moosup Mechanicsville, Grosvenordale, Wood stock and other places in this section have young men in the service who have been wounded
 Orders have been received by the local board to keep all registrations oi
 British subjects in a separate file that they may be ready at any time
 for inspection by representatives 1T 1 this country of the British recruiting mission. This list of British subjects } also will include Canadians who have
 not become citizens of the United , States.
 In the Rebel Class.
 Putnam men who drove their cars
 Sunday, without any real necessity f for so doing. came in for some cen sure Labor day, when the subject was
 one of general discussion. Probably 9S per cent of the car owners of Put r nam obeyed the request to stop using l gas Sunday, but there were some, as : was the case everywhere, who disre-
 garded the request and drove as mucf ] las suited their fancy. v The tide of travel of persons whC t have been spending the summer il : northern New England was heavy : through this city Monday, the nigh
 expresses carrying many who were $ bound for New York and points fur f ther south.
 Sportsmen are inquiring as to thu effect of new game laws that hav'
 been enacted by the federal govern ment at Washington. Men who ar : interested in knowing just wha changes have been made may learl :. by inquiring of the fish and gam
 commission at Hartford. f During September the superio court here will be occupied with tn Q ] trial of cases of a civil nature. Tn
 session of the court for the trial o q criminal cases does not open until Oc f tober.
 Hot ,in Georgia Camp. h Cards received here from this dis T. tricts quota of young men who left = week ago Monday for Camp Green
 leaf, Ga. tell of their safe arriva .- there and of the little incidents of tn n I trip, which became wearisome be
 cause of its length. The boys hay
 found it hot at Camp Greenleaf, bu
 they. know there will be compensa = tions next winter. when the snow i d piled up in New England. e It is proposed by the Paris journs 1t LOeuvre to pIovide for it's reader Il gratis lessons in English by means l. the phonosraphA The, lessons wi i %ta1S l.