Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

Of the 16S towns in the state 27 have not made report to the state comptroller of the number of children in these towns between the ages of and 16 years of age, as is required by law, and are liable to forfeit of their share of state aid for their schools, it is stated in Hartford Two of the de- | linquent towns are in Windham coun- ty-Canterbury and Eastford. The re- ports should have been made on or l before December ,.
 The enumeration return from Put nam shows 1862 children between the ages mentioned.
 Secretary Leonard K. Heaisy of the state board of agriculture, a resident of North Woodstock, has received letter from Former President William Howard Taft in which MT. Taft ex- presses his regret that he will be un-
 able to attend the farm and industrial
 exhibition to be held at the state arm
 ory in Hartford during the second | week in February. Governor Coolidge | of Massachusetts is among the nota-
 bles expected to attend the exposition. i Of local interest is the announce
 ment that the most important real es- tate transfer in Hartford in weeks in- | wolves the sale by Henry E. Church, | OL AIAAS Cllg, Ol HIS llOilIS Ut | B ArnoldaIe road, Hartford to Wins low Russell, vice president of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance com T pany. The residence is of colonial 1 type and through an arrangement of the Verandas and porticos and the
 layout of the grounds is one of the handSomeSt places in a beautiful Sec- tion Of Hartford.
 MT. Church, who still retains busi- ness interests in this city, is president and treasurer of the Freeman Church
 company of Hartford.
 On a charge of having stolen $75 from Frank Buekwheat, Nov. ,, Frank Anger was arraigned before Judge M. H. Geissler in the city court Friday
 morning. Auger was arrested Christ
 mas eve when he came here to spend
 the holiday with his family. In court
 Friday Auger pleaded not guilty to the charge and his case was continued for six months. Auger agreed to pay
 Buckwheat $50.
 , The affair developed out of a hap
 pcning that took place in pool room
 run by Joseph Bourcier. in the north section of the city. The men were
 Gr.Tking cider and Buckwheat was , displaying a roll of bills. Auger seiz- et' some of the bills, but afterwards : offered to give them back to Buck .I wheat, who would net accept them, i was testified in court. After time 5 Auger left the place and the next day
 went away. He has since been work. ) ing in Providence and in Westerly. T Foreman Frederick Dumas, of Hos,
 Company No. 2. Friday gave out f statement in which he denied that tn ' members of the company of which h. { is the head are in any way responsi r ble for the writing of an anonymou V letter to Alderman-at at-large-elec Joh n B. Byrne in which the writer threat . ems to make trouble if either "Kelley
 Arnold or Dick Sharpe" are named fo . chief of the fire department and stat : ing that i've want Remi Delarge fo ' chief"
 > A meeting of Hose Company No. :, was held on Christmas day to inves tigate as to the writing of the lette :, and Foreman Dumas statement fol II lowed on Friday morning.
 yt It is now believed that the unsigne i, letter was written to discredit tn members of Hose Company No. 2. : On the first Monday in Januar, q Judge NJ. H. Geissler will begin [ is serve another term of two years a
 judge of the city court of Putnam an 9 Attorney Archibald Macdonald J1 $ VIII Degln ms uutieS as clerk or tn r. court, succeeding Attorney Howar $ c. Bradford, who has been the eff d eient clerk for the past six years. Tn e terms which the court officials will be ,t gin a week from Monday are by vir e tue of legislative appointments mad is at the last session of the general as ,s sembly.
 0 Souvenir w. H. Taylor of Hartfor,
 formerly of this city. is still in com ,r municatien with nobility, according = the following story that has just ar n peared in a Hartford paper: )f Souvenir Taylor must ha7 J. thought that Lady Astor over in Eng 0f