Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-08
PUTNAM

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 Members of Elizabeth Porter Put nam chapter, D. A. R.. will go on their annual pilgrimage on Saturday of this week, visiting at Lebanon. the
 home of three governors, on Saturday of this week.
 A number of Putnam people were at Goodyear Saturday and Sunday to l witness the baseball games between
 the Akron Goodyear team and the l KiI1ingly team.
 A drive will be instituted to secure l the $3.000 necessary to complete the Day Kimball hospital fund and there by make available $50.000 for the en- largement and improvement of the in- 1 stitution.
 L. H. Healey. North Woodstock secretary of the state board of agri-
 culture, has been at Springfield, di- recting the preparation of the Con-
 necticut space to be used during the Eastern States exposition.
 1 A Boston firm has written what is becoming known a well known me- l dium of exchange throughout the
 country that it has army blankets for
 sale. These. 4-lb., are offered at s5.e5 per pair.
 layout of several streets in the city
 will be given an opportunity to be i heard at the meeting of the common
 council scheduled for October '. | The no-ba thing, no-fishing signs at Alexander's lake. heretofore a popular resort for many Putnam people, have
 taken part of the joy out of life And 1 the joke is that the lake was stocked with salmon the past spring.
 Miss Elizabeth Child will have the members of the Kings Daughters at i her home for a meeting Wdnesday afternoon.
 about the city No more business is 1 being done in Pascoag Con Sunday. Business" used in this sense means i a whole lot to many people who make | haI in D,Yfv
 Road signs directing the traveller on his way have been put up at a num- l Der of important intersections in about 1 Putnam, but motorists continue to { find difficulty in following the Hart | ford Worcester Providence route through the city limits without get ting off the trail, especially in the very center of Putnam.
 Street department men, working un- der the direction of Supt Frederick Dumas, have been putting in concrete curbing in King street. Metal moIds are set up and then filled with con crete in the making of this curbing, which is very neat.
 heavy volume of freight is pass ing through the local railroad yards, an indication of prosperity. it is al- ways considered by railroad men.
 The republicans of Putnam are to nominate their candidates for town of fees on Friday of this week The election comes on the first Monday in October.
 J. c. Witter of Danielson has sold to Leland Sheldoa the property on Mechanic street, this city. known as the Helen F: Sumner place.
 As opened under reorga niza ton plans for the present year. the courses at the Tourtellotte Memorial High School have been arranged in a manner that. it is expected, will prove satisfactory.
 Putnam, Pomfret and North Gros- venordale are among the places in this vicinity where the State Bureau of Child Hygiene recently has estab- and the information obtained there from used as the basis to further the development of health work.
 Della Davis, daughter of MT and Mrs. F. O. Davis of Pomfret Center, is again at Deep River. where she is teaching as last year.
 State Officer Howard Elliott of Hartford was engaged on work of surrounding towns on Saturday.
 As has been the case since trolley service was resumed. riding on the cars was heavier on Saturday than is The buses, too. were doing a bet ter business.
 Following funeral service at the home of her daughter. Mrs. F. H. Top Tiff in Occum, Saturday, the body of Mrs. Sylvester W .Ames was brought to the Putnam Heights cemetery for burial. the services at the grave con- ducted by Rev. George C. $. Mckay the mother of Warren S. Axnes of this city where she had spent much of her time during the past few years.
 The registration of 1S5 students at Putnam High School last week is ex- pected to show some increase this week, as is usually the case during the second week of term. The early registration is slightly less than it was last year.
 The New Haven road siding assign ed to the use ot the Manhasset Man ufacturing company is now filled al- for the big corporation. which is us most daily with cars containing goods ing a newly built roadway in trucks to and from it's plant to the railroad.
 souvenir" W. H Taylor of Hart ford contributed a hit this past week to a comic picture strip in one of New York's evening papers. The Nobody" shows an eccentric figure leaning over a counter to tell cus toner: Sorry. we haven't a pound in prevents me from explaining why we can't get any sugar.
 When the new offices of the Put nam Light and Power company are they will be among the finest of their kind in this part of the state. The officers occupy the quarters that formerly served as the post office in the Union block.
 Summer residents Of Woodstock l Pomfret and Thompson have been leaving in numbers duding the past few days for their homes in cities in many parts of the country, although many members of the summer colonies will remain in the Berkshires of East | ern Connecticut until October.
 Members of the Putnam Country l club found Saturday one of the most l delightful days of the year at the | links which had been drying out un- | der the bright sunshine of the pre- ceding two days.
 The police record for the month | of August shows that there were IS arrests in this city and that three | of the persons taken in were given | iail sentences Thirteen ramps were | lodged during the month.
 This week will be marked in this | city by special activity on the part l of Congrega tionaIists. which denomin- | lan work ta l