Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-05
PUTNAM

PUTNAM
 Private Aloysius Ryan, sen of Cap tain and Mrs. Joseph A. Ryan, reach ed here Wednesday morning from Camp Upton, where he was mustered out of service on Tuesday.
 Frank H. Cordier received Wednes- day morning a card from Armand Brosseau of this city. Private Bres- seau arrived from overseas on the Mauretania.
 Harry Roberts, who has been at tending an officers training camp at Camp Lee. Virginia, has returned to his home here. mustered out of the service.
 Letter Carrier George Clark said sales of thrift stamps total $50,O00 before the end of this month. Car rier Clark has made one of the best records in New England in the sales of the little war securities.
 A train load of colored troops, bound for Camp Deyens. passed through this city. Attached to the train were two cars occupied by wounded and in- valid white soldiers recently returned from overseas.
 A number of Shriners from this sec ton were in Hartford Wednesday to attend a meeting of Sphinx temple A meeting has been called to be l held at the Chamber of Commerce December 13 for the purpose of or ganizing a District Nurse association l The work done here in the past few ! months by Miss Victoria Linden, the district nurse, has been SC valuable i as to inspire the effort to make such a service as she has been rendering a permanent fixture of Putnam's so- l l-cial service work Some support of | the work has been obtained from va rious sources. The Rarent-Teac eachers' 1 association contributed about $200 from its funds and other and liberal contributions were received from some of the manufacturing concerns In ef- fecting an organization at the corning meeting it is also hoped O work out I some feasible plan for financing the association.
 Harding F. Hopkins, resident on 1 South Main street. died Wednesday morning at St. Vineent's hospital in l Worcester, where he had been a pa 1 tient for about a week. going there for a surgical operation. Nr Hopkins was 1 one of Putnam's old residents and for many years followed the carpenters 1 trade. Several years ago ne was in- l jured by a cave-in while working near | the pumping station, and it is believed that the effect of injuries he received at that time hastened his death.
 Bruno Simonzi, II, son of MT. and Mrs. Ralph Simonzi, was crushed to death at the plant of the Otto Heine- man Pin company early Tuesday eve ming when he was caught between the | floor of the freight elevator, which he ! is believed to have started, and a beam supporting the second floor of the building. The boy was pinned by the neck, which was broken, his arms hanging Imply over the side of the elevator.
 before his body was found. He went
 to the pin factory at about o'clock with a newsboy friend, As near as could be learned Tuesday, Bruno jumped on the elevator and started uI with it, playfully waving to his chum
 who stood below. Bruno did not come
 back down. so. after a time, his chum
 went away.
 When Bruno had not appeared al
 his home at nearly o'clock a search
 was started for him. and his body was
 found as described.
 The elevator on which the boy was r
 purposes and is operated ordinarily
 by none but employees of the plant who
 have specific cause for using it. It is
 in no sense a passnger elevator. Bruno was a student in the fiftl grade of Israel Putnam school an6
 was 9 bright boy,
 Judge N. H. GsissIer heard three
 cases at Wednesday mornings sessior
 of the city court. Joseph Livingstone
 all aged man whose matted white hail
 and palid complexion made him an ob ject of pity. was charged with hay
 ing been intoxicated. It was his sec
 end appearance in the court recently for a similar offence. He pleaded
 guilty.
 , Asked by Judge Geissler as to why
 he had not improved the chance to d.
 better that the judge had given him {; !. out into a tale of woe, describing hoy he had lost $30. which he thinks wa stolen from him.
 , The narrative was spinning on int '. considerable length when Judge Geis , sier insisted upon knowing why tn prisoner again had become intoxicated and the old man wearily replied f Well, I suppose because I kept put l ting me hana to me mouth" Tn 7 court said that it would remove hi . temptation to imbihe for a while an'
 imposed a sentence of 90. days in jai
 William Murray, 27, of Worcester
 was also charged with having been in , teXieated. He was picked up late ol
 Tuesday night and was in such a ba
 way that the patrolman had to call
 taxi to get him to the police station
 Murray gave an inkling through hi
 story as te what becomes of some Q the high war wages that skilled me have been earning. He said that h had been employed upon governmen
 work in Virginia and had been earn ] ing $50 to $69 week up to Septem
 Der, Then, having saved considerabl money, he threw up the job. He ha not worked regularly since, he sait
 but was in Providence on railroa