Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-02-12
PUTNAM

PUTNAM
Miss Alma Harrison. who is training
at the Worcester City hospital to be-
come a nurse is visiting at her home
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar rich and Will
fred Chapdeiaine are spending a few
days in New York
Miss Josephine Clifford has been the
guest of friends in Hartford and Mid
dletown.
Mrs. Edward F. Ferry is reported
from Bridgewater. Mass, to be con-
siderably improved in health
Henry c. Stearns of Worcester Wis
tied friends in Putnam Tuesday
Ice men were rushing Tuesday to
harvest a good supply o: ice. The
ice now being cut is of excellent
quality, entirely free from snow.
/ Students m the schools Of Putnam
will observe Lincoln's birthday to-
day.
| A telegram received here announced
| the safe arrival at Newport News of
| Miss Isabella Bryne, head nurse of
! Mobile Operating Unit. No. !. which
has been overseas for several months
Miss Bryne was formerly at the
| Roosevelt hospital, New York. She is
! expected at her home here within
4 few days,
Mrs. Mary Jane Davis -. widow Of
Sc s'ord Davis, died at her home here
| Tuesday morning. Mrs. Davis had
| been resident here and i'll this vicin-
! lty for a long time.
Elks from Putnam and ali %he towns
| in this vicinity greeted District Dep
| utE Exalted Ruler Joseph Z. Ivers Of
Bridgeport when he made visitation
10 Putnam lodge Tuesday evening.
| Officers were nominated for the ensu-
ing term. There was 81 special pro-
CRANE of entertainment.
The members OF the executive COM
! mittee of the Windham County Farm
| erS' association met at the aSsocia-
tons rooms here to discuss the extern
sion of the Home Economics depart
ment work OF the organization This
work viii he pushed with vjgor in all
parts of the country. Miss N. Estelle
Sprague of the Connecticut Agricul-
ture college will assist in organizing
the work.
| The committee also decided upon 2
membership drive. which Will COM
nence April /. and viii re conducted
in conjunction with a state wide
movement Of the kind Whitman
Danielson Of Putnam. T.. II. Picket of
Woodstock and C. B. Pnmcroy of
Nillimantic were appointed a COM
nlittee to make arrangements for this
drive
Chief Clerk Irving H. N;-on of the
local board Of this dislrlcr and Miss
Carmille Edyerard. assistant clerk
will probably be ordered to Hartford
to assist. with clerks from Other
boards in the state, in closing UP Con-
: necticuts draft records. Chief clerks
will be assigned to the aaiutant gen
erals Office and will be concerned will
) completing all records relative tc
d2linquents and deserters. while as.
| siStant clerks arc needed to work If
the governors office on special mat.
ters pertaining to the clnsirg of the
draft records. The local hoard rec.
ords are complete and ready to for
ward to Hartford, or elsewhere. a!
, soon as the necessary orders are re-
ceiYed.
. In the spring the work of conaplet
ing tie line of water main from thu
) Little River bridge through P0nfre
f street to Church street HiIl be com
2 tmenced. This is the new line tina
: twas put in last fall and which extend
| from Harrisville, where Tie pumping
t station is located, into the city lin
, it's.
l Putnam soldiers who have beer
t overseas with the 56th Coast Artiller,
Regiment, tell among 1nAny othe
interesting things, CT the German sol
r der cemeteries that We're scattere'
] over that section Of France from
s which the local boys outfit helped t
drive them. These cernet cries hav
\ beer laid out with the almost matho
= matical exaCtitude that marked tn
o work Of most of the Germans and sue
: detail attention had been given t
q marking the graves that the buria
n centers Of the enemy dead almost in
:. variably proved attractive lIsces 70
: | American soldiers to spend an id
hour-whe1 they got onr.
Some OF the grave markers whic
were mostly Of wood, mad been arts
tically carved and marked, the in
scrlptions setting out in detail the sol
Idier's name, his army, corps, battalion
regiment ana company his age an
the name of his home town.
Some of these cemeteries were ia
back of the German lines when tn
first of tl1ir dead was placed With
them, but the fortunes Of war finalI
brought them within the lines of tn
victorious allies. It was during tn
days that the Huns We're recklessl
tlinging their men. by counties
thousands, against the allied lines th5
the cemeteries received thci" first llar
vest of German dead but these wer
added to as the pressure of the allie
became more and more G3sertive.
The Americans, particularly, wei
interested in these cemeteries,
which. occasionally. would be foun
the last resting place of some allie
soldier. Untle Sans boys 5narvale
at the caref,lI carving on many of tt
wooden monuments and also, at or
cemetery near small city, at hig
brick wall, that had been built wit
materials taken from destroyed hou<
es, built entirely around the GENE
terry. Many thousands of German
were buried there. victims of their ne
TONS mad ambition to rule the worl
Apropos of the state road work tn;
citizens of this and other towns here
abouts are being urged T.. have al
complished during the present yea
there seems to be a VARY general il
clination here in the CITY &c endeavt
to have the state highway depar
ment take q hand in the uu7rovemel
of Grove street which thOuph O 81