Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-30
PUTNAM


 Miss Esmcrelda Macdonald, who is E teaching in New York, is visiting her parents, Senator and Mrs. Archibald Macdonald. is
 Corporal Leon Talbot. member Of machine gun unit that was sched- uled to go from France into Germany has written his father that orders nave been countermanded apd that he hopes to get orders for home in the not distant future. l.. E. Smith was in Boston Thurs day on a business trip
 Given good weather today. the q members of the Putnam Country club iI anticipate a great day at the links. T March play starts at 9.S0 this morn 1 ing.
 i Souvenir w. H. Taylor of Hartford expects to spend the holiday with l friends in Putnam, his old home city. l Dr. and Mrs. F. L. Simpson will mo- 1 tor to New London to spend the l week -end with MT. and Mrs. George | M Fine.
 I Thursday beautiful silk flag, made by high school girls. was presented l the cadet corps of the school and will be carried in today's Memorial pa
 rade. Men were at work Thursday get l ting the baseball field at the old race track in condition for the opening | game of the season. There were many at the Ascension day services at St. Mary's church on
 Thursday morning.
 The demand for flowers for Memor-
 ial purposes has been so great this year as to wholly exhaust the supply of some varieties of plants that are much in favor for decorative purposes.
 John R. Strombere of Abingdon and E. s. Fletcher, of the Ream estate at Thompson, are two Windham county : men in charge of farms who have pur- chased thoroughbred Guernsey bull l calves. The animals were purchased < at the Mixter farm at Hardwick, , Mass.
 The members of Quinebaug Pomona Z grange will be in session at the War renville church. The meeting. during . the lecturers hour will be of a pa , triotic nature.
 The post office will be open from Y 6.30 10 11.30 a. m. today, a holiday. The money order and postal savings
 departments will be closed. The city 9 and rural delivery services is sus- pended for the day
 In order to accommodate the extra l traffic, the Shore Line Electric Rail- | way will run extra cars over the local n division this afternoon and evening"
 Irving H. Miron will spend the hol-
 iday with relatives in Millbury, Mass. :, his former home.
 A troop of Boy Scouts has been or 5 ganized at Woodstock and Rev. F. B.
 Harrison has been named as scout 5 master The patrol has been named = the Eagle and will be in session to- si day.
 At the L. s. Barstow farm at East " killingly, several plots have been planted for silage corlt, seven varie- 1T ties being used. This is demonstra- :, a tion field and the work is being done V under the direction of the Windham e County Farmers association. Each . plot has been marked with a sign to show the variety of corn and passers- e by will have che opportunity to watch 10 the growth of the different varieties. 7 the object being to find the most suit 10 able kinds for use in this county. Y. John Dady and James Halt have |. been spending the week enjoying the T fishing at Rangely lakes
 . A request was made Thursday that aa many flags be displayed in Putnam u today in honor of the veterans of the
 Civil war. Especially is it desired tha! 'e flags be seen on homes. ,,tt Warren Root, E. M. M. Barber, N. G. ,e Williams. Arthur H. Walters, all ot , Brooklyn, James Sayles, Elmville. c. II B. Pomeroy, Fred Rosebrooks, WilIi- ., a mantle, Walter Brown. Pomfret, Har- ta ry Chesbro, Scotland, and John Dor ,e ' sey and County Agent B. w Ellis ot
 this city made up a party of Wind
 ham county men who are interested il in Guernseys who went to Hardwick in Mass. this week to leok at a herd C. T. thoroughbreds of that breed. Also il in the party were John R. Stromberg O le Abingdon and F.. $. Fletcher o I" Thompson, each man buying a bull re County Agent Ellis said Thursda! l. that the interest of Windham count, al farmers in getting thoroughbred t. stocks is increasing steadily and tha 1T. there will be many fine bred animal at shown at this falls county fair a at I Brooklyn.
 he w. H. Rhea, extension dairyman a at storrs, also made the trip to Hard ms wick.
 Rev. Frederick Leeds, who has bee lis rector of St. Philips church in thi an city, has been appointed rectof o re Grace church, New Haven. in Pcmfret has special election sche rS. duled for Monday in order to name he successor of Hon. c. o. Thompson of probate judge, who will retire fror to office next month on account of hay re ing reached the age limit of TO- he This Friday) morning at the Eas r's Woodstock cemetery there will be me in morial exercises and the graves of tn ar soldier dead there will be decorate Ter with flags and flowers.
 n While there remain nearly 125 chil e. dren at the county home in this towr he only a few have come 10 the institu
 ton recently. while a number hay ,e+ been put in good homes that hay p been opened for them
 it. Putnam people are reading with in ,s- tereSt Detective Robert Hurleys stor VII of how he worked up the case tha ng resulted in the arrest and convictio at of Frank E. HoWarth and Lindle ,n. Cain, who were sentenced for settin as number of fires in this city. M cy Hurley has withheld much of the 'il n's side stuff'' about this case for abou he six years, but what he has to sat no' ed is mighty good reading just the sam D. The case brought MT. Hurley int y's country wide notice. and it is though
 was his stepping stone to the captain .4 cy of the state police department. VI It was stated here Thursday ths w. steps may be taken to erect a perma "' nent honor roll of the towns men wh = fought in the world war. Many of tr '! towns in this section of the state hay III nroVided such memorials