Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-02

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 PUTNAM
 August i brought another boost tc 1 the high cost of being comfortable, ir | certain ways in Putnam. The price | of ice jumped from 65 cents to $1 a 1 hundred pounds--or. SEQ ton, as con | sumers of small quantities of the cold 1 stuff will be caf4ed upon to pay. 1 Putnanrs ice crop was short last | winter. What was harvested has been \ abuot used up, 50 from now on the ! great bulk of the ice that will be used | the north. some of it from Maine, it is l said. The cost of this ice and the | freight charges upon it makes it nec- essary to jump the prices to s1. While ioe is coming in from Maine it will be remembered that scores of thousands of tons might have been obtained for use in this city on lakes in Woodstock. There was good ice there last winter, late in the season, but, living on the hope that another cold wave would come and make cut ting possible here, it was allowed to melt away. Interest in a comedy young widow, Mrs. George Bageas. had something to do with getting Nicholas Anagosto- pou1os into trouble Thursday evening
 
 breach of the peace, before Judge M. H. Geissler in the city court Friday morning.
 According to the story that the man told in court he went to the store of Nicholoas Poulos, on Main street, Thursday evening. Mrs. Bageas is em pioyed there He related that Poulos did not seem over pleased at the vis- it. and finally urged him to leave the store.
 The urging finally developed some thing more, serious and, it was charg ed. Anagostopou1os speeded up the festivities by taking wallop at PouIos later hitting him over the head with a soda bottle. The men if nalfy struggled in the street, witness es. declared, and Poulos was being Threatened with a stone held in the hand of his antoganist.
 Mrs Bageas who was in court but did not testify, smiled as Anagosto- polos told of his special interest in her and so did the gallery of spectators and witnesses when the prisoner said Poulos on the head with soda bot tie and that he did not intend to throw the stones he had in his hand.
 Judge Gefssier told the prisoner that he did not believe all that he had been telling the court and found the man guilty of a breach of the peace. The fine imposed was $1o, which with the costs of prosecution brought An agoStOpoufoS assessment up 10 S12.4O, which he paid.
 Members of the Chamber Of Com. merce who have been planning for several days to put on additional mo tor busses on trade runs out of this city were disappointed Friday after noon because they had been unable to arrange for the institution of this extra service by today, the best trad ing day of the week. There was con- fidence here on Friday, however, that the additional busses will be secured and the schedule that has been plan ned put into effect
 Four busses are to be brought here from Bridgeport. These will be em- ployed to establish half-hourly ser vice between Putnam and the Gros- Attawaugan. Dayville and Goodyear to the south Two of the vehicles will be on the nortferly route and two on the route to the south.
 These with the busses now in ser vice, should give even better trans portation facilities than was afford ed by the trolley line. with it's hourly service, and in large measure offset the loss of trade to Putnam that is due to the strike this referring especially to city through the fact that the electric line between Webster and West Thompson remains in operation.
 Incidentally, it is noted that the
  not making any protest over running cars down over the tracks of the Shore Line. whose union employees are on strike, though this is their regular custom on that particular stretch of line.
 It was being claimed here Friday that passenger traffic out of the Gros- venordales toward Webster over the trolley line is 75 per cent. higher than it was before the strike This can mean onIy one thir11-1ost trade to this city, the natural trading center of the people of the villages. to the north. vts
 It was also being charged that stories being circulated to. the effect that there were no bus connections at West Thompson for Putnam and that exorbitant charges for the bus rides were being made. both stories untrue, has had much to do with turning the drift of the trade from Putnam to
 It, is to remedy this situation that the Chamber of Commerce is so in. tenseiy interested Tn getting it's mo- tor bus lines in operation.
 No definite statements have been forthcoming from the Shore Line of ficia1s as to when resumption of ser vice on their local division may be expected Omer Miiot, chairman of the Mefchants' comnittee of the Cham Der of Commerce said Friday after noon. The resumption of the service, 1t is understood, is dependent upon conditions and developments, and that IS too vague proposition for the bus mess men of Putnam to wait upon. Busses are the answer of the situation and they are to be obta ifred and mt in operation at the earliest possible mo ment.
 There is also this angle to the transportation situation: If the bus lines get well established it is likely