Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-06
PUTNAM

Sunday afternoon.
 PUTNAM
 Cook Clifford Trahan. who has been 1 in the service and stationed at Campl, Devens all of the time for more than | a year and a half, was at his home 1 here Monday. He expects to be dis charged from the Service on Satur- day of this week, at which time Ed-i
 ward Berthiaume and Elijah Berri-
 man also will be mustered out.
 Former Represents.;ve Hector Du- l vert of this city will be among those i who go to Hartford on Wednesday for i the centennial celebration of the Con-
 necticut general assembly. 1 Rev. Charles F. Bedard, pastor. of 1 St. Mary's church. urged his parish- 1 toners to invest in Victory notes. Put
 nam is over the top, put the sale of 1 the notes is continuing here
 Deputy Sheriff George F. Hobrook,
 accompanied Miss FIs:ence Bush to the l School for Girls. at Middletown, Mon 1 day, following action in the city court. The Bush girl was found to have been
 a habitual truant from school
 The third degree vslI be conferred on a class numbering more than 30 l being one of the features preceding the opening here on Monday next of the state convention u. the Knights of | Columbus
 When the temperature ran up to 30 degrees in Putnam Monday afternoon l there was blossom.ng of summer raiment such as has not been seen on the streets here since last year. l Arthur Maicney an6 Howard James, | members of the 14th Engineers rail way unit were greeted Monday byi I scores of their frienos who have not |. had the pleasure Of seeing them for nearly two years. The.r regiment. was out Of the United States just twenty one months to a day rom the time
 they sailed until their ship docked in
 Boston d few days ago-July 27. 't7-I | April 2. '19--and when they left Brest | they were told that their service over [ seas was the longest of any of the | , more than q million. troops already !.
 embarked for home
 Putnam looks good to Maloney and James, whose regimen: saw hard and dangerous service. For months they were engaged in moving ammunition up to the front over narrow guago rail
 ways and many times were under fire. Most of this work was done at night and was very hazardous. @.r- James also saw service as a chauf- feur and had a chance to see g great
 deal Of France as he, went about with
 { officers He also toured in Belgium ] and oR-pccasion went into the French Alps.
 Both James and Maloney will go back with the New Haven road. by
 which they were employed when thev r answered the call -or volunteers to 2 form railway engineers regiments 2 soon after the Unite4 u1ates entered the war. 4s. Maloney, who is particularly keen : observer and who has the capacitay f of skilled writer, wrote many highly
 1 entertaining letters home while serv- S ing in France. V In talking over various phases of his ,, experience he said Mon6ay: T used to s travel about great zeal as oportuni- l. ty offered. to look aboLr and sec what
 there was to be seen-and there was | much to look at. Getting something tp d eat was not difficult, as all .one. had v to do was to get into any mess line h And as for sleeping that never both
 cred ne. Before ! seTt home I used n to think always at night if I were y away, where l would sleep-but that e will never bother me any more.- Tn , France the great outdoors was our bed h room, so if we .coulcn't get in billets r we'd sleep out in a, field or any other If old piace-and, really, it isn't half $ bad,"
 Q The death at his residence, s2 Me. aa aa chanic street, of Mason " Leavitt 36, has brought to an end the life
 of really interesting man. the father Y, of the late Burton E.. Leavitt com v. poser of the Frogs of Windham and if failing healh since the death of his . other operas MT. Leavitt las h"e-1 in T son, in December, 1912. He had l.aen g making his home witr his sister Mrs. IF E. w. Clark
 al MT. Leavit was born tn Barton Yer. d mont, December 6, 1892 He first be- n gan to attract attention when. as & 1t young man, he went about with re4
 cruittng officers, seek4ag volunteers tor ; service in the Civil WET. aEs ears at i'd rallies, his patriotic songs stirring up fo great enthusiasm. Ar, Leayitt wa 3 l. not of robust constitution even .E his s early life and he could not be ac- 3 cepted for military service He was Q anxious to help, however, anC did Q -e great deal Trough his singing. thi, J. proving the opening up of a career fo" j" him.
 ofl After time he took 10 teaching m, ; le sic travelling from place to place. and at eventually he organized Leavitts Swiss at BeHrlESers. musical organization
 Which came to be well known throuSh- is out the country. He met with such 2 Id degree Of success in this venture tha, B he later organized two more com. i'd parles. and put them or the road. " With his musical companies fully 1- organized and travel,ng, MT. Leeyit, = found that he needed much printed = matrr in his business. SC h. estsh-
 lished printing office in W'iliiman-
 tic and in connection herewith some
 time. later began to publish a paps,
 called The Enterprise. This event
 ualiy developed into what Is the Wi. ay imantic Chronicle 0, today
 In the panic period of 1878. Mir rs Leavitt met with Financial reverse, IT. that forced his retirement from $ n number of his business enterprise; ha and few years later he came t, A. Putnam to make his home.
 CT The talent for music that he possess e. ed also manifested Itself in his son ny Burton F. Ieavitt, whom his fathe- ad s. vised and assisted in valuable degre ri in composing the operas that the youn, m man wrote and also in the staging an, u- production of them. Father and soy
 were greatly attached to each other ar and the sons untimely death had ITS ITS marked effect upon the father. nf Besides his sister. Mrs. Clark. NJ, -t- Leavitt leaves the following nephew, en C. N. Clark, Is Asccr place: New n York. who is now iu Putnam .x3J .eyyi 9o w, Orange. Mass, James B. Fred [, .,,Is- of Craftsbury. Vt. The bady is 4fo h pt taken for burial to Scotland, WiadhaT r-t,so 4I.a t