Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-14
PUTNAM

Total figures on the registration in this district were not available late l Friday, though the work of cornpiia- ] ton was being hurriedly done by the | trained clerical force of the local board.
 Putnam stands at the head of the towns of the district as to the 1unber | of men registered. Late Friday after | noon the total for this town was 1,02l. l but these figures prebatZy will be sub ject to slight revision refdre the final total is arrived at, and may show slight increase. KilliAgly comes next in the list, with Fridays total at Ssg. this also likely to be slightly in creased as cards come in from other districts. Approximate total figures for the district Friday night were in the vii cinity of 2,sD0, which is 300 in excess of the official estimate for this dis trict
 On the whole the work of the regis trars in the various towns was very
 we'll done, though few of the cards
 Of course, are not as completely filled out as might be desired. but this ap- l plies to only very small number of the cards, and in each case the inform ation desired can be obtained with
 very little diffeuIty.
 Cards were collected from all over the district Friday morning and by noon the first classification work was we'll advanced.
 The Windham County Farm Bureau | issued this statement Friday after noon:
 Housewives, before you start for | the Fair at Woodstock or Brooklyn
 make a count of your home canned ! fruits. vegetables, and meats; take a ] census of your iellies. jams, pickles
 and preserves. At the Farm Bureau exhibit in the Council of Defense tent | there will be an opportunity to regis | ter the amount of food you have con-
 served this season, and. to help se-, cure for your town the title of Cham | pion Gamer. Miss Charlotte Emble-
 ton, home demonstration agent. has | prepared splendid canning exhibit
 which will be part of the Home Econ omic display at the Woodstock Fair | and the Brooklyn Fair. One feature | will be the registration of achieve
 ment by the home canners of the ccun- | ty. The registration will be open at | the Farm Bureau office until November | 1, when it will be determined who is
 the champion home canner of Wind | ham county.
 | The Connecticut Trade Educators association opened two days series | of meetings in this city Friday. Fri | day mornings meeting opened at the l high school and was addressed by | Charles D. Hfne, secretary of the state
 board of education and F. J. Trinoer,
 supervisor of Trade Schools in Con
 necticut Messrs. Hine and Trinder
 have just returned from Canada | where they made steady of what is I1.., I.s q. s..i.- l ment in educating the wounded and i'll front. More than 100. 900 Canadian sol-
 diers already have been invalied home, it is said.
 1 Connecticut may soon witness the development of plans to care for the
 education of wounded American sol
 diers and the trade schools of the state
 likely will be the scene Of such activi-
 ties
 The delegates attending the meet
 inrs represent a number of places in
 CCu~ectieut. Wfile here they are
 finding much to interest them aside 1 from the meetings
 Toirofrow brings the third of the
 io' ridelcss Sundays. Here in Putnam all but a very tiny percentage of car owners and drivers have arrived at tbs
 conclusion that 1t is better to obef ] the request of the national fuel ad- ! miris.rator, and this position of theirs has been strengehtned by this week: I announcement that there is a reduction of the price of gas in sight.
 Albert Mozetts, whose name appears
 in the army casualty lists as severely wounded made his home in this city T at the time he decided to enter tht : war. He is Q native of Italy, but - very patriotic young American, as he il - now entitled to be called. anxious t, e risl, anything for his adopted coun - try.
 Promotions of selected men of thi D district who have been at Camp Dev ems since last year have been an c nounced: Sergeant Michael Daigle | this eityi to he sergeant nrator:: Pri yates Tlijah Berriman and Edwar ] Berthiaume, of the utilities company . 10 be sergeants. S;ergeant Major Daigl l. expects soon to be ordered oversea.
 The State Council of Defense ha requested grocers here to limit thei x | deliveries to one day. Mrs c. T. ThEyer and kyfwar z Thayer visited relatives in Danielso l Friday.
 : The Putnam baseball team will go t
 Jewett City tomorrow to play thu a | lOui LII SdLlb OA II1S ScTleS WlbH bH 7 Ashland team. The series now stand
 to 1. in favor of Ashland. Edward S. BacKus of Thompson
 not to be 3 candidate for republica
 sepator from this district, it has bee e announced.
 e No more liquor to be taken of tn $ premises is being sold by Putnam y dealers after 8 p, m.
 Lester Craig. Danielson, who is i T the chemical warfare branch of tn U United States service. das visitc 'l here Friday.
 Captain James M. Kent, M. D., ha = been recommended for promotion { '. the rank of major. He is in active SCI " vice in France. Captain Kent is tf
 son of Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Kent of tn e' city.
 11 Brevities. s. Malcolm M Wiley has as his gue IS Leon Cook, of Natick, Mass, a co !; lege friend who is to engage in chem l. cal work for tha government J. Miss Florence Sergeant spent Fr ). day in Boston.
 ss Miss Elizabeth Donovan has resign
 ed as science teacher at the Putna |. High school.
 m There is constant complaint fro ,a automobilists about the practice 70 some drivers of coming out from b or hind one car and trying to ste os through in the right of way V cars coming toward them-a bad al I ] dangerous practice.