Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-18

T it's water mains through the Villa &t streets. so very little piping renal ris I to be done to get the water into each | of WauFegan's homes.
 A purn ping station of brick with slate foof has been erected on land at the southwesterIy corner of the lake which has d wealth of splendid wa ter. sufficient to supply a village 20 times the size of waureean.
 ] PUTNAM
 Putnan's purity record has gone to l smash! There was a drunk in the city court at Thursday mornings session, the first drunk that has appeared in 1 that net often lonesome tribunal since war time prohibition went into effect. | the first of the month. It was as ! though "a ghost of old Demon Rum | walked Fhursday morning when Judge ] M. H. Geissler asked the prisoner,
 Timothy Esaey s; ys wn1 to claams aaand n anl | plead to a charge that he had been ! intoxicated.
 Timothy admitted the indescretion. | His difficulty wasn't due to the indis- l cnin1inate use of z.75-he had been 1 taking a short at Jakey. one of the remaining means Of awakening the pink elephants and green hfppos and making them go on the summer cir- l cult. Timothy hadn't made his purchase in Putnam; in fact. he was so consid- crate as to blame the sale son another town-Webster-in anofherss states Timothy came to this city, one of his old stamping grounds. to celebrate, however. arriving here early in the week. fs
 The prisoner made weak effort at
 pleading with the court not to send
 him to jail, but Judge Geissler could not see it that way and ordered 30
 days at Brooklyn for Healey.
 Mir. HeaIey. therefore. has the doubt
 full distinction of being the first man
 sentenced to jail for intoxication from
 a Windham county cout since prohi-
 bition went into effect. He may all
 so have the consolation of knowing
 that he will contribute for the next
 four weeks to keeping Jaffer Field from
 is fast fading away, and it now looks
 as if there will be nobody home in
 the not distant future. unless the sup
 ply of Jamaica ginger gets flowing too
 freely. So far as is known, Healey's
 commitment for intoxication is the
 first made in Windham county for that
 reason snee July 1. -esd
 There's n lively exchange of cor
 respoffdence on between Mayor A. W.
 Marcy of this city. the state highway
 department and H. H. Davenport, of Pomfret, supervisor of the state high way work in windham county
 The series of letters being written
 had it's inception when Mafer Marcy addressed the state highway depart ment headdlarters at Hartford. di- highways were being oiled in Putnam and other towns hereabeufs and the oil left unsanded. this creating dangerous condition for travel and one that had resulted in accidents. Mayor Marcy's communication was written chiefly in the interests of the people in this city.
 In due course of time the mayor re- ceived a reply from the state high way depa rtfaent, telling him that his communication1h had been referred. ~tos l Mir. Davenport, and rsubsedhentlyt the mayor received a letter from Mir. Dav- enport that has somewhat Tiled the !! usually even temperament of the city's executive head because of the nature of the missfve.-
 When asked about the matter on Thursday morning Mayor Marcy said that he-vas stM proceeding with the matter, T have another cha pter of it | in letter now in my pocket" he said 1 The mayor fntirnated that he didn't like the tone of Mir. 'Davenport's let ters and that he may later decide to | lie, Il
 Pufnan's public school teachers may get what will amount approxi- mately to i've per cent. advance sin | salary if tn town school cprnnfittee carries out a proposal to take action i under the statute passed at the 1919 1 session of the legislature.
 This sfatute-Sectfon s4s-provides a state grant of 8 per pupil for the average attendance at schools in any town be made available by the State, this money to be aPportioned among the teachers as a bonus, intended tof stimulate interest among a larger number in the profession of teaching: to induce larger, numbers of high school graduates to enter normal ~~fze4<N NIe~<. q w~.-~ | otherwise assist in rescuing the cafl-i ing from the constantly growing and wide spread Assertions that it has had to face in the past four years The scarcity Of teachers and the difficu1- ty of securing proficient teachers is held to be chiefly due to the low wag- es pair them aS compared with what it is possible for such well equipped per sons to earn in many other occupa- tions.
 Under this new statute, Putnam. it was estimated here Thursday would between s2.5oe and B 300. The procedure for securing the grant. is to nave the town school cornmittee ar- | prove of accepting it. No other ac- Thursday.
 There Is one little hitch. however, n the hurry of putting through leg ected to pass bill providing an ap- 1ropriation for carrying out the nro vision of Section 343.
 It is contended here. though, that his was manifestly the intent of the | egislature. and this being true that owns may proceed under the new tatute ad nauti1orize. through theirt chool committees, the payment of the xtra money to their teachers, depend ng on the next session of the legisIa- ure to pass a deficiency appropria- ion bill and thereby reimburse the owns for the money they have ad- 'anced. This is what will be done in many towns. it is believed here so if 'utnam doesn't do it it will not be re- ieved of paying it's share of the ex- "a cost of maintaining the teaching | ystena. which cost will be distributed 'ver all towns by the state
 School committees are empowered to th money received under the , lew act on an equal division basis for acn teacher or give extra awards to 1 specially efficient teachers. It is felt, owever, that the equal division basis : s the better 0nA