Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-10
PUTNAM

Ladies' Night at EIks' Lodge = Man
 Found in Automobile Sent to Jail
 District Has Furnished Total of
 294 Men-Thirty to Be Called Soon
 For Physical Examination-Wri of
 Error Filed in Union Block Case. 
 The annual ladies night entertain ment of Putnam lodge of Elks brought together here Thursday eve ming happy party that was splen- didly entertained by the ever generous and hospitable members of Elkdom.
 The members and their ladies came from all the surrounding towns over which the local lodge mas jurisdiction and found awaiting them an evening Of pleasure that showed the attention that had been given to arrangements by the committee in charge. From to 1915 there was dancing, to music by Fay's orchestra of Prov l idence. This dancing period was fol- lowed by an intermission during which lunch was served. The menu l included lobster salad and the usual accessories, cake and ice cream. There were flowers for favors.
 | Philips and McGowan, Boston. en- tertainers, delighted the party with some of the new ideas from the amusement world.
 l After the entertainment dancing
 was resumed and continued an hour
 after midnight.
 Sent to Jail.
 Thomas Block, who has been en1 p1oyed in Providence, was sent on Thursday morning from the city court by Judge M. H. Geissler to spend 30 days in Brooklyn iail.
 Block, who was charged with hav- l ing been intoxicated, was found sit- ting in the automobile of pr. Mar guerite Bullard. at the garage. He could not give. a satisfactory expla-
 nation as to how he happened to be there.
 He told Judge Geissler that he had come from Providence to Putnam in an automobile, but his story relative to this journey was not quite as clear
 as it might have been, though it seemed probable that Block is a com paratively harmless man.
 Polish Recruits Needed.
 Sergeant s. J. Krayewski, recruit ing officer for the Polish army that is getting volunteers from Polish col onies throughout the United States
 was at the office of the local board
 and took a list of all the Polish young men whose names appear on
 the boards records and who have
 claimed deferred classification on ac-
 count of being aliens. Sergeant Kra-
 yewski found that there are 36 such young men in the district made uu
 of the towns of Putnam, Thompson Killingly, Woodstock, Eastford and Ashford. and he also made mention of the fact that not one volunteer fol , the Polish army has been obtained il this local boards district, the onl, ; district in Connecticut of which thi : may be said.
 ! Sergeant Krayewskis mission her ' is to arouse the Polish young men 6 D eastern Windham county towns t : align themselves with the militar, f forces that are fighting for the end for which the United States is nov desperately engaged, that Poland ma 6 be restored and again take it's plac Q in the world as separate natior . backed by glorious traditions of tn
 past.
 r. In the near future Sergeant Kra
 yeWski is to arrange for a recruitin e rally here. Speakers will be brough e to this city to address the Polls
 young men inStheir own language an
 it is hoped to arouse their patriotisr
 to degree that will result in tn : procuring of enlistments.
 e Already mare than 20,O00 for thi e Polish legion have been obtained i = the United States and more than 15 " coo in Canada. The battalions ar n being trained in Ontario and will SC q service overseas, fighting under tn q direction of the French governmen
 which sponsors the formation of wha o is to be wonderful fighting fore - Sergeant Krayewski will labor $ all of the towns in this vicinity { o procure recruits for the service - which he has offered himself. Vo tt unteers for this service will be trair 2 Led and of1icered in France by con Y naanders of their own nationality.