Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-11
PUTNAM

rState HlEhWay sCommlSS1oner ChaS. .sI J. Bennett has awarded the contract T for sTe building of ss37 feet of con- crete highway in Grove street. sthis
 city, to J-inRerg and Street -ef Bos- ton, for 900. it was announced in
 Mir. and Mrs. Herbert J. Smith mo+
 tored to Pleasant View Wednesday af-
 ternoon to remain until Friday eve-
 ming. Il The trial of the Jacobson bonte }. civil suit was continued in the super Il for court here Wednesday before Judge Hainez
 Grosvenordale Wednesday morning
 Rev. John Quinn was celehrant of 3 high mass of requiem for Francis I Stoll, who died at his home in the
 | town of Woodstock. Burial was in St T Joseph's cemetery.
 i Complaint has been registered here
 1 that drivers of vehicles carrying soda botsles and other such bottles do not I broken glass from the highway when
 cases of bottles fall off and break, and
 l that the tires of cars are greatly en- tdangered by this negligence.
 | Buyers again hOcked to the Brad I ley estate at Pomfret on Wednesday
 :; to attend the auction sale being con
 ducted by Auctioneer y. Carl Witter. I Quantities of the goods that were sold
 but among the purchasers were resi-
 dents not of all towns hereabouts, but 1 of towns in Massa chusetts. Rhode Is-
 land and New York.
 I Though, apparently, there is not a i great deal of new construction work 1 in this immediate vicinity. it was stated here on Wednesday that more I carpenters could find work here than 1 are availa ble. / | Ralph X. Bugbee is spending a few l A fund that will be the nucleus for ! the cost of constructing a new St. I Mary's pareehiaf school building has 1 been started among the members of St. Mary's parish in this city. The ! parish is free from debt and. it is ex Pected. will be in a position in the not l distant future to erect a new school 1 building.
 | A new form of tax list, prepared by 1 the state board of equalization. will | be available for use of taxpayers in 1 making out their lists in this town ] this fall.
 l Gypsy bands that have been fitting ] about towns hereabouts in automo- piles recently have attracted the at i tention of the police. who regard the visitors unwelcome company Citizens who interest themselves in an analytical way with town and city finances continue to call attention to 1 the need Of consideration at the com ing annual town meeting of the mat ter Of general reyaluation of the | towns property. if an increase in tax rates is to be averted.
 Though there isn't any physical req son why there should be- there is in tense interest here in the strike of the Boston policemen and papers publish i ed in that city were bought up early here Wednesday morning.
 The work of rebuilding the wall and section of highway that caved in ear ly in the summer near the plant of the Put%aan- Woolen company is practical ly completed. The roadway, which is open for traffic at the risk of those passing. was nearly all graded on
 Wednesday,. Erecting 9 fence on the
 new section of wall and other such sinishing work remains to be done
 All of the men who came. here to
 operate cars on the trolley line when service was resumed three weeks ago ! resident in this vicinity, so the cars
 are now being operated with what are
 known as local men. The company had many applications for the jobs left by the striking crews.
 Windha<n county responded with in .terest and enthusiasm to the first
 movement in connection with the rais
 ing of the Pilgrim Memorial Fund in
 Connecticut, when sixty of the cler- l
 gymen and leading laymen of the
 county sat together a a generous din- l sner in the par1ors of the Congrega- 1 tional church in Putnam on Tuesday 1 night, and afterward heard the ar gument and appeal of the cause ably |
 B. together party which was delightful in itself and promised well for the i'm portant movement started there. |
 Following the dinner, Ernest C. Morse of Putnam, as member of the Connecticut Fund commission. wei comed the guests and introduced the subject. He appreciated the honor which Windham county has in being declared in answer. we are going to put it over" He then introduced Rev. William s. Beard. who is director of the campaign in Connecticut, as man well known and loved throughout the county. MT. Beard, after warmly expressing his appreciation of what those present owed to the dear ladies in the kitchen" and paying a tribute to the former pastor of the church, Rev Frank D. Sargent. introduced | Rev. Herman F. Schwartz. DID,. of New York, executive secretary of the commission.
 Dr. Swartz made an eloquent pres entation of the cause. starting by men ton of it's inspiration. the three hun dredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims. We propose to erect to them memorial, he said. not of cold stone, but of living provision for the men who are carrying on their work. Too long the heroes who. amid dis and at unreaiiZed sac rif1ce, are building character into the life, not only of New England but of the WnQl6 country, nave Qeen SuneFfQ to struggle on with pitiful pay. so small that they can barely support their families. to say nothing of giv-i ing them the advantages social justice should assure them, ana after their |. years, they face depend ence and it's shame. pr. Swartz men toned a few pathetic instances of what pitiful condition is too often the fate of the old minister. The result is inevitable Not jonly are men leav ing the Congregational ministry and are their sons stunning it. but the standard of those who are in it is de- preciating. The ministry is losing it's prestige. We must return to fidelity to our Pilgrim history. It has been demonstrated. said the speaker. that the minimum living amount for a fam fly of five in these times is s1.500 a year. Yet over two thirds of the Con sregatonaI churches pay $1.000 a year ] lr less and orlIN one thirtY-third of