Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-19
PUTNAM

First Class Machinist Clement Cos selin U. S. N, is at his home here to attend the funeral of his brother, F'e- lix. who was to have been inducted into service next Wednesday.
 Private Frank Phillips, Hampton, the clerk in the office of the local board, is reported as improving, after having been very dangerously i'll with infiuen- "a.
 l Clark college students who have been at home during the influenza epi- demic will return to Worcester Mon day.
 Judge M. H. GeissIer held session of the city court Friday morning.. Two Cambridge boys who came here to work as freight handlers and decided 1 they didn't like the surroundings, were up for having trespassed on railroad property and attempted to steal rides | on a freight train. Judge Geissler dis charged them and they found other work in Putnam.
 The general condition of health in Putnam was deemed Friday not st1ffi- cIently improved to warrant the re- 1 opening of the schools on Monday, so the pupils will have another enforced vacation of indefinite length.
 Attorney M. H. Geissler has been appointed administrator of the estate of George Bageas, who conducted a restaurant in the Chickering house block
 Rev. F. ?. Sargent, pastor of the Congregational church. who is i'll at the Day Kimban hospital, was report ed Friday as resting as comfortably as could be expected, the seriousness lof his condition considered
 Members of Italian Alpine and 1 Sharpshooter regiments who are in this country to boom the Liberty loan passed through this city Friday morn ing on a train bound for Boston. All the men have received decorations for exceptional bravery.
 A number of the men being III, one dead and others having been exposed to influenza, the local board was fac ing a perplexing situation on Friday in making up its contingent of men due to leave next Wednesday for Fort ress Munroe, Va.
 The bodies Of Eugene Hiscox, 43, and John O'Neil. SS, who died during the night at the Day Kimball hospital, were taken to Danielson Friday morn ing by Undertaken L. E. Kennedy. G. Harold Gilpatric said Friday morning that, while subscriptions con | for the total of subscriptions in Put nam, where there has been a heavy over subscription, to reach the $600,- 001 mark, but it may.
 The death of Mrs. Lilly LavaIlee, 25. was reported Friday morning from her home on Chapel street. She had been ill with pneumonia.
 Seaman Henry RohiIIard, member of destroyer crew, received word while in this city Friday morning vis- itlng his wife, who is ill, that his mother was dying at Goodyear He has a brother who is desperately i'll with influenza at Newport.
 The funeral of Miss Margaret Coaan who died Wednesday morning, was , held Friday morning. with services at St. Mary's church that were attended by many relatives and friends. Bur ial was in St. Mary's cemetery. There were beautiful floral pieces. Druggists in Putnam have made ii : known that they are willing at any time during the prevailing siege of ill., ness to give service to patrons who are l seeking medicine, and that telephone calls will be needed in case the store is closed.
 From official sources it was report : ed Friday morning that 43 new cases of illness to which physicians had beer called were reported within A hours
 The great majority of these cases were
 not of a serious nature. however.
 On the Putnam -MechanicsviIIe high way late Thursday afternoon, a horse ridden by Miss Mabel Peterson of the ! town of Thompson was struck by ar automobile and the animals leg was 4 broken. The horse, which was a val uable one. was later shot The cal that figured in the affair is registered in the name of George Perron, 201 Main street, Webster. Another cal 4 was near at the time the accident oc- q cured.
 This falls hunting season continues to fail to develop any great supply o1 game birds. Some of the best hunt CTS in this vicinity have been out ir the fields and brush several days with out getting shot at a partridge ol quail
 Mrs. Ella Colt Fay, A. wife of liar. rjson G. Fay. formerly a principal o1 Putnam High school, died last Sat
 urday at their home in New York
 Burial was in Winsted Wednesday
 The family lived in this city for five E years, occupying a house on Center
 street.
 Edward w. Mulian, member of tht
 common council and nominated by tht
 democrats as candidate for judge O
 probate, is quoted as saying that ht
 does not care to accept the nornina.
 tion. MT. Mullan was not present a
 the caucus at which the nomination
 was made.
 Mrs. Eva LaVaque, wife of Pete,
 Lavaque, died at their home on Prov
 4dence street after an illness of nint
 days with influenza and pneumonia
 Mrs. Lavaque leaves her husband, twt
 daughters, her father and mother an;
 one brother. She was 26 years of age The funeral of Mrs. Napoleon Cue
 rin was held from her home on Mar
 shall street Friday morning with ser
 vices at St. Mary's cemetery. Mrs \ Guerin, who had been in poor healtl
 for years, died on Wednesday. MT. and Mrs. Seward Lowe, marie,
 this week in Dedham. have been call
 ing on friends in Putnam, where Mi Lowe formerly resided Mrs. Low \ was Miss Mary Davie, of Dedham. Very little progress has been mad
 this month on the constructio
 through towns hereabouts of the hig
 tension line for the Shore Line Eliec
 tric Railway company.
  ; RICHMOND = MT. and Mrs. Mark Leech of Prov