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Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
TO HOLD CLINICS
 IN PUTNAM
Putnam District Nurse Assocla. ton Planning Meetings of
 Instruction
Mothers to Be Instructed In Care of Children, Cooking and Sewing

The Putnam District Nurse Asso- citation is planning to hold clinics Tn different parts of the city. A room in the Smith Street school has been se- cured for one place and it is expected to get another room somewhere in the Manhasset village. The Home Econ omics League viii cooperate in the work and local physicians will be asked to give their services.
 At the clinics mothers may bring their children for examination, and they will be given free instruction in caring for them Those i'll will have their cases diagnosed and the moth CTS will be told what to do for the child in each instance.
 There will also be classes in cook ing and sewing. The work is valua- bie one to the community and is along the lines that the Americanization campaign is to pursue without in any way conflicting with it.
 To demonstrate the neeu oi super vision, it may be stated that the dis triet nurse recently discovered a six year old child in school suffering from tuberculosis and has made provision for it's care and taken it from the school Several children suffering from diseased tonsils and adenoids were also found and were taken by Miss Linden personally to Worcester for operations. They are saowin great improvement.
 The committee will hold meeting next Tuesday night to further per fct the plans for carrying on the work.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
WOODSTOCK NURSE RETURNS
 WITH BLIND SOLDIERS

boys would put courage into any heart. Torn and bleeding, they never whimpered, never a complaint from them. Tell the folks in New England that they have every reason to feel proud of their Yankee division. They were great lot of boys. Not one of them did I see who was not anxious to get out of the doctors hands and back to his outfit to finish the job he went over to do.
 q was in the battles of St. Mihiel, Verdun and the Argonne. We went right up to the front and shared the hardships of the fighting with our heroic soldiers and doctors.
 We soldiers worked day and night. We would go hours and hours, 50 and 50, without sleep. We widowed in the mud in rubber boots and never took those boots off for days. We lived for days and weeks through continuous rain with never a change of clothing uniforms always wet-and wetter blankets and tents in which to sleep, when chance there was to sleep.
 sWould l go through it again? ln- deed, I would. So would every other nurse. It was worth while to do our bit. If had missed it-why, it hurts even to think that I might not have been there to stand up with cur men end help carry on and do my bit. .
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
BYRON D. BUGBEE RETIRES
 FROM ACTIVE BUSINESS
HALF INTEREST IN DEPARTMENT STORE SOLD TO OTTO
 F. WULF OF NORWICH
Ralph Bugbee For the Past Eight Years Man. ager of the Business, Retains the Other Half Interest

MT Bugbee's son. Ralph Bugbec, en- tered his fathers employ and started to learn the business. He applied himself closely to the work of the store. and eight years ago was made manager of the business. relieving his father of many of the business cares and responsibilities He, with Mir Wulf, will continue the large bus mess that his father has built up.
 Mr. Wulf has also had most sue cessful career in the dry goods busi- ness. He started to work in the Per teous X Mitchell store in Norwich e years ago as cash boy, At that time the wage of cash boy was $2.S0 week. He applied himself faitA- fully to learning the business and his ability was soon recognized and pre- motion followed promotion and his positions increased in importance and trust
 For the ten years from 1898 Co 1906 he was confidential man and had general oversight of the financial end of the business When the firm was i incorporated in 1906, he was one sf the three incorporators with John ] Porteous and Archibald Mitchell. Mr. | Wulf was made secretary and treas urer as well as director of the corpsr- ation and in recent years was also store manager. He has been closely identified with the success of the Per teous & Mitchell company
 He is a director of the Uncas Na~ tional bank trustee of the Dine Savings bank, director of the Now London Mutual Fire Insurance com pany, of whose advisory board hs is chairman; president of the NorwiA | Wholesale Mems Credit associatiss. a member of the Chamber of Com meree and the Retail Merchants Bs- reau, of which he is director. Ho is also a member of Columbian con- mandery, No. 4, K. T., and the Ar canum club, and is an attendant at the United Congregational church.
 He has a wife and three childrn. Mrs. William S. Elliott. Oliver, - the ensign school at Harvard Unive9- sity, and Miss Helene R. Wulf.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
BODY FOUND
 IN RIVER
Walter Ames Disappeared From His Home In Daniel
 son Five Weeks Ago
Climbed Out of Window and Fled In
 Night Clothes

The body of Walter Ames, 37, ok Danielson, has been found. It was seen floating in the Quinebaug river by boy, who gave the alarm and it was recovered by some men. This clears up the mystery that has sur rounded the mans disappearance of five weeks ago yesterday
 Ames was i'll with a nervous disor- der, and one night when his compan- ion laft the room for second Ames climbed out of second story window and disappeared in his night clotheu. Searching parties hunted high and low, but no trace of the man could be found. He was reported to have been seen in various localities, but when the searchers arrived he was said to have moved on.
 It is now believed that Ames went directly west from his home, crossed the Assawaga river on the ice, and made his way to the swiftly fiowin9 Quinebaug and cast himself into an opening in the ice. At what poin1 he jumped into the stream is but con lecture. The body was recovered Monday morning.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
NEW BORN BABY
 FOUND IN BOX
Find Made By James Kelly In Woods Near Day kimball
 Hospital
T,,rus Over to Undertaken For
 Burial

The body of 8 new born female oa- hy was found by James Kelly, employ ed at the Nikoloff farm on the rom fret road, last Tuesday morning. The remains were in pastboard box. The box was about the size of an ordln- ary shoe box. but there were no marks on it.
 Kelly was passing through the woods on his way to build fence when he saw the box under tree. He opened it and saw what it was and reported the find.
 pr. F. A. Morrell, medical eXamin- ar wss notified and gave permlsslon for removal to Smiths undertaking rooms. Officers are inclined to think that the body was left near the nos pital as 8 blind.
 The matter IS under investigation hut so far no clues have been uh- aarthed as to who was the mother of the baby.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28

Byron D. Bugbee, one of the city's leading business men, and one of the most widely known merchants of eastern Connecticut, has sold his in terest in the Bugbee department store and will retire from active mer- cantile life, closing a period of 40 years in the dry goods business, in which he made a success and gave Putnam most up-to-date department store and important mercantile indus try.
 For the past t5 years Mir. Bugbee's son, Ralph Bugbee, has been associat- ed with him, and for the past eight years has been successfully managing the business. He will retain half interest in the store and will have as partner Otto F. Wulf of Norwich, who has bought the other half inter est. Mir. Wulf has been in the dry goods business for 42 years, and will sever his connection with the Por- teous X Mitchell Company of Nor wich, the concern where he started as cash boy 42 years ago, next Satur- day night, and will remove with his family to Putnam.
 Mir. Bugbee senior retires that he may take a rest and be more out oi doors.
 Mir. Bugbee was born in Millbury Mass, March 2t, 1864. When he was less than two years old his parents re moved to Webster, where he obtained his education in the public schools When lad of l5 years he left hom, to work as a clerk in dry goods store 1 in Turner's Falls, Mass, After fivt 1 years he went to Hoiyoke, where Ii, obtained position in a large dr, goods store Two years later he wen l to Wilhmantic and entered the stor, of II. C. Murray as clerk. He stead fly advanced and finally became asso ciated with Mr. Murray as a partne when the Putnam store was bough from H. c. Nesbit. This was Sep tember 21, 1888 MT. Bugbee bough Mir Murray's interest five years latel and has since conducted the stor, alone.
 Upon leaving school 15 years agc
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
FIRE AND WATER
 LOSS S3,5OO
Spark From Chimney Sets Home of John P. Sabin on
 Fire Saturday Morning
Family Has Found Temporary Guar ters While Home Is Being
 Repaired.

The home of John F. Sabin, School street, was daraged by fire and smoke Saturday morning, to the amount of $3,500. The house and personal effects were fully insured The family has leased the cottage of the Erastus Wheaton estate on Wal nut street and will stay there while their former home is being repaired.
 The fire caught from the chimney. A spark either sifted through the chimney or came out of the top and set the roof afre. The blaze on the roof was seen by Alfred Barber, who lives next door, and by Paul Wheaton, son of Mir. and Mrs. William E. Wheaton, Mechanics street. MT, Sa- bin had left for his work on Chapel street. The boys notified the family, who were at the breakfast table, and the Barber boy pulled the alarm.
 MT. Sabin heard the alarm and knowing it WAS sflcdl HID Hoihc Juhtpcu into his automobile and was there be- fore the fire department arrived. A fire had been built in the furnace and possibly created unusual heat in the chimney.
 When the firemen arrived they were handicapped by not having g suitable ladder One was borrowed nearby and it broke while Ernest Te treault was on his way up it to th' roof. Tetreault landed in tre' which broke his fall and he escape, without injury.
 Holes were chopped in the roof an several streams of water were poure into the house, so that when the fir was out there were three or four fee of water in the cellar. The ceiling and walls came down and the interio of the house was a "mess."
 The work of clearing up and mat ing ready for repairs was begun fol lowing the adjustment of the insui ance on Tuesday.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
REA ROW left Dani Ame Pea Ame Ballard Mgr Muroek Clemens

at Plainfield another year, and has the instiIled pep into the boys and also made them see the advantage of team work over individual play even though the individual player did not get him. self in the spotlight as often by pass ing the ball. The sacrifice, if sacrifice it is, was freely made for the good of the team and the better chance to win games.
 With the entire squad returning next fall, with the exception of Mur dock and Clemens, the outlook is un- usually bright and promises much to ward bringing home the champion. ship pennant to Putnam in 1920.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
MOTHER AND
 SON DEAD

Within four hours of each other, Edmond Paquette, 29, and his moth CT, Erminie Paquette, 70, died from pneumonia at their home just over the Putnam line in Pomfret.
 The son died at 10 o'clock Satur- day night and the mother at ? o'clock Sunday morning.
 The Paquette family are Canadians. They have lived hereabouts for some years and purchased farm on back road on the north west side of Perrin hill. The boy worked in the woolen mill.
 A double funeral was held at St. Mary's church Wednesday morning and burial was in St Mary's eeme- tery
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28

H,ss Dorothy Richardson of Wood stock. | Red Cross nurse, arrived at New York on the transport George Washington Wednesday with nine ssidiers who had been blinded in war uHder her care. When she first went abroad Miss Richardson served in Paris s.s an aide nurse. Then she se- cared aervice near the battle front and was for months in the zone Of fire. where she had to wear her steel helmet and gas mask most of the time. Eventually she was transferred to savenoy, where the American war-bljnded were concentrated. For nearly two months Miss Richardson has had charge of the nine men with whom sbe came home, and she will accompany them to hospital in Bal tsm ore
 Relating some of her experiences Miss Richardson said:
 "Of course, we were Tn the danger zose Boche shells were flying and bullets were whizzing by but we could not step to think about them. The doctors were busy trying to ease the main and save the lives of our brave Yankee boys. I suppose If we hadn .,ythi,g to do we would have been scared, for it was a pretty serious slt- aat1sss
 .sThe splendid heroism of our dough
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28

to try to improve playing conditions support of some of the other man agers in the league.
 The team developed high degree of efficiency during the season and at the close was working like piece of machinery. It defeated every team in the league at least once during the year. and most of them twice.
 The work of the second team tbaek row) was especially commendable and is important in that it provides ma terial for next years team and foi other years as long as the boys are al school.
 Much credit is due Coach Ellis, wht
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
MEETING LADIES' SOCIAL CIR
 GLE

The Ladies Social Circle of the Congregational church met at the home of Mrs. A. D. Lown on Thurs day afternoon. There were 45 la- dies present. The out-oftown guests were Mrs. Ella Clark of Hartford and Mrs. Charlotte Champlin of Cam bridge.
 The afternoon was pleasantly spent, the ladies sewing on refugee garments and aprons. Mrs. Nelson Lown favored the guests with some piano selections. During the business session it was reported that com bination (coal and gas) stove had been bought by the circle and placed in the parsonage. Rev. and Mrs. Pot ter expect to occupy the parsonage
 the first of next week. Afternoon ca was served.
 con included chicken and fruit salads, sandwiches, coffee, cake md ice
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28

The accompanying picture IS that of Putnam High schools winning bas- bet ball team. It did not win the championship, not quite, but there are those who followed the teams closely that still believe that Putnam had the best team in the league. The game lost to Plainfeld was lost under such circumstances that the fans are convinced that Plainfeld had an ad- vantage and that Putnam was handi- capped. These conditions, mostly hay- ing to do with the hall and playing court, it is hoped will be remedied an- other season. Putnam at least IS out
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
THE MAN
 EAST DRIVE
Campaign to Raise Putnam's Quota Will Begin Next
 Monday
This City Has Never Failed to Go
 Over the Top

Putnam has never yet failed to go over the top. Next Monday drive starts to secure about $l 300 in this town for the Near East relief fund.
 The city has been divided up and teams will work each section by house to house canvass. There have been four minute speakers at the theatre the past week telling the plan and what it is for.
 The money is needed to relieve the torture of thousands of people whom the Turks have driven into the desert. It is hoped that the outcome will be the making of Armenia nation.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28

wbi1e ns official information has been received by Mrs. Albert Breault, letters which she wrote to her hus- sasd have been returned stamped ..Deceased October 23. Verified by Statistical Division, A. E. F."
 Some months ago Private Breault was reported as missing in action but nsthing further had been learned sboxt the matter. His wife wrote to him and posted the letters on October IS and 27 at the local postoffice
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
EKS WIN AT
 DANIELSON

odge of Elks got into the running last night at Danielson ana nuIled out ahead of the Bohemian e,sb by IT points. This was the tniru
 .a. and the first the Elks have won
 The first leg went to the Bohemians hy ,Y points; the second to the bo- .amians by 28 points, giving them d lead of 65 points which the Elks went '. Dsnielson to cut down last night' The Elks did close up the gap' win ,;,o h, 1T points, so that the next -eet the Bohemians will ,er "ith d act lead of 3B points
 Last riaAts results were as fol lows: r,
 cagne S1, Thon.ps ,n-Labelie -' p;sh Tbnrston 10?, Il. s. Fran 'n- rass.tt IT. LaRose-Barnes 5S, aafd- nsr-W Franklin 78, Milot-Chapde- ,.;na st Total for the Bohemians ,51. Elks 322. A't, PooIMRobertson 60. r:rns 45i Trsban ldo, Delaney 59, And 'ews o4' Gagne 16o, Kennedy toe srpe ss Total. Bohemians S64; EiAs Io'
 R,Iliards-Keach ioo. Sherri' ! " nrbe "A. Lewis 100, Barber SS, J Rich 100. Campbell 80, Meehan O ro,a1 Bobemians 33s, Elks BIT.
 After the game had been run on .ore than d hundred who were at ..,d;ng were served buffet luncf
 U.,,a, W Murphy. assisted by
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
NO HOPE GIVEN THAT PVT.
 ALBERT BREAULT IS ALIVE

Within the week they have been re- turned stamped as above, which would seem to leave little hope that her husband is alive.
 MT. and Mrs. Breault were married just before the husband left for the front, and since he has been in ser vice child has been born who will never see its father. Breault was em- ployed by the Putnam Light X Power Co and worked at the gas house. He was among the first draftees to leave Putnam.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28

Mr. and Mrs. A Blanchette were in Hartford Friday to attend tie funeral of Mrs. Blanchette's sister, Mrs. Ad- elard Blanchette The funeral was held at St. Anne's church and MT. Blanchette acted as one of the bear CTS.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28

Christopher Garland, from the state where maple syrup comes from, was given 30 days in Hizzoner's court this Friday morning for being found drunk
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28

Miss Margaret Bulger, who has been the guest of Captain and Mrs. John Bulger, School street, returned to Burlington, Vt, Thursday morning.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28

Miss Martha Euvrard spent the weekend with friends in New Lon don
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Fiue More Americans
Murdered by Mexica1s
Previously Unpublished List OF
Victims Is Cipcn Out by
Protective association Here

The National Association or the Pro-
lection Of American Rights in Mexico
made public yesterday list of five
more murders of Americans in that
country, of which no record previously
had been made. These additions, says
the association, brings the total num-
Der of known murders Of Americans in
the southern republic to 1896. The list
of the five heretofore unpublished fol-
lows:
Mccoy, Allen, sr., at Ayutla, Jaisco
September, 1918, by men calling them
selves Carranzistas. Mccoy died from
his wounds later in the United States
after losing his mind. His wife, son
and daughter-inlaw were all severely
injured in the attack. The son, Allen
jr., is still an invalid.
Otto, Miguel, Sonora. June !, 1918;
Yaquis.
Pottenger, c. c., near Ell Paso, Tex.
1915; Bandits; a brother-in-law Of
General Roy V. Hoffman, who com
manded Oklahoma's troops in the worlc
war.
Saule. c. M. between Conelas and Ls
Mesa Guadalupe, Durango, 1915, by
armed Mexicans.
Wright, -, Chihuhua, by Villistas
murdered in the presence Of his wife
who wa then abued by number of the
gang.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Daniels Asks Congress
For Wireless Monopoly
Government Control of Radio
Communication Over the
Ocean Is Sought

WASHINGTON, July 2s.-secretary
Daniels, in a message to the President
of the Senate and the Speaker of the
House to-day, asked that Congress en-
act legislation at once making ship to
shore, transocean and international
radio communication from the United
States a government monopoly.
The message also requested that
either q committee of Congress or a
specially designated technical commit
tee be named to make comprehensive
study of radio problems within the
United States; asked authority for the
President to issue a proclamation gov
erning certain radio problems, and re-
quested authorization for the Navy De-
partment to use Immediately all gov
ernment radio facilities for commercial
and press messages.
Mr.. Daniels reiterated his statement
to the House last week that proper
control o fradio communication is Vita
to the commercial development of the
United States. The Secretary said fur
ther that the government always would
be compelled to keep up an extensive
radio organization for naval, military
and diplomatic purposes, and construc.
tion of extensive privately owned radio
organizations would mean unnecessary
and expensive duplication.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Packers Call Report
OF Trade Commission
''Cunning Propaganda

CHICAGO, July 2s.-Declaring that
the statements issued by the Federal
Trade Commission regarding the pack
ing industry were cunning propa-
ganda, unfair and erroneous, presi-
dents of the big packing companies
issued statements tonight in answer
to the commissions latest report.
Edward Morris, president of Norris
& Co., called the agitation against
the packing industry 90 per cent
premediated, cold blooded, cum
ming propaganda, engineered by men
of socialistic tendencies to fasten So
cialistic control on the business Of
this country generally.
J. Ogden Armour said the report
was rehash of differences and an
founded deductions contained in
similar reports.
E. A. Cudahy, president Of the Cud-
ahy Packing Company, said: "The high
prices are not caused by the packers
In fact, we are decided factor in hold
ing the prices down from what over
wise they would be-
The whole contention of the COM
mission that we control and manipulate
prices" declared Louis r. Swift, OF
Swift & Co., "is simply not based on
facts. Ownership of yards gives q
packer no control of prices or trading
methods"
The packers all contcnded the COM
missions statements were issued in an
effort to get Congress to pass the legis-
lation now before it.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Big g5'Packers
Charged With
Price Juggling ugg g
Can Determine Quotations
ON Livestock From Day
to Day, Says Report by
Federal Trade Experts
Competitors Eliminated
Have Interest in 28 of so
Chief Market Yards and
Control of 22 Others

WASHINGTON, July Disability of
the "Big Five" packers-Swift, Armour,
Morris, Cudahy and Wilson-to deter
mine from day to day the general
level of livestock prices was declared
incontrovertible in the third section
Of the Federal Trade Commissions re-
port on the industry made public to-
night.
Information obtained in the commits
sions investigation was cited to show
that the "Big Five" have an interest
in twenty-eight of the fifty principal
market yards of the country and q
majority of voting stock in twenty
two others. 1t was said they buy most
of the livestock sold at these markets.
"Ihey discriminate against and put
at great disadvantage Independent buy
ers, who are their competitors" the
report said. "They manipulate on oc-
casions the livestock market in such a
way as to cause extreme and unwar-
ranted fluctuations in the daily prices
paid for livestock.
Many Competitors Eliminated
"They have eliminated many COM
petitors and prevented new ones from
coming in. They have restricted the
meat supply Of the nation by manipu-
ating the daily livestock prices and
thus discouraging the producers Of
livestock.
"Of the meat trade in the hands Of
interstate slaughterers in the United
States the five big packing companies
have more than 73 per cent of the
total. They have the prices of dressed
meat and packing house products so
we'll in hand that, within certain
limitations, meat prices are made to
respond to their wishes"
Notwithstanding special advantages,
said to be enjoyed by the five big
packers, the commission declared it was
not demonstrable that they are more
efficient than the independents"
Bearer Warrant ATTACKED
In tracing the ownership of the
various stockyards the commission
in it's reports, devoted much attention
to the remarkable financial device 5"
known as the bearer warrants, which
it was said might be used not only
to hide completely true ownership, but
also was equally effective in making
possible the evasion Of income, cor