Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-03-18
PUTNAM

PUTNAM
Miss Gladys Josephine Gagne, 81,
only daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
l. Gagne, died at their home here on
| Monday after long illness. Miss
| Gagnc was born in Putnam and stud
| led in the schools of the city. Many
| friends grieve at her death.
| The announcement that Commodore
| Frederick G. Bourne, head of the Sin
| ger Sewing Machine company, Who
died last week at his home at Indian
| Neck Hall, L. l.. has bequeatfed $10,-
Geo to the endowment fund of the
Eomfret. school and also has given
| the institution 200 shares Of the
CITY and Suburban Homes company
| stock created lively interest in Pom
fret and in this city. Commodore
Bourne had been a trustee of this
school for many years and always
maintained lively interest in it, The
stock that he has given the school is
said to be valuable
1t was stated here Monday that an
administrator of the estate of Ernest
| Nj. Arnold likely viii be appointed this
week. Up to Monday tha assets of
the estate T7TT '--0''0 f-0awn Of
iamounted to only a very small sur
| This (Tuesday) afternoon an impor-
t2nt meeting Of the Ashford Baftist
association is to be held at the Bap-
list church in this CITY Among the
SPEAKERS Will be Rev. A. B. Coats. D.
T., secretary of the Baptist state as
sociation; Rev J c. Wright and !
L. Case of Norwich and w. A. Hill O.
Boston. Representatives Of various
I churches in towns in the sllrroundina
district will come here for the meet
ing
Next Tuesday evening Putnam lodge
Of Elks will confer q degree upon n
class of candidates. This order has
, Shown splendid growth during the
past months and it has a constant
: stream of applicants The lodge here
{ las many members in the surround
i1g towns.
Announcement has been made bv
, the Nindham County Farmers asso-
! citation that Junior short course viii
be Etven at the Connecticut agricul-
tural college March 1920 Inclusive
e Ire course will be divided into four
= sections. Garden. home economies
t poultry and swine. Morning sessions
viii be occupied in work directly re-
lated to each section. The afternoons
will include judging. and demonstra-
7 ton contests of various kinds Even
ings will be taken up with educational
l moving pictures and othor forms OF
entertainment The course is planne d
. for juniors of Connecticut who are IN
/, terested in farm and homo problems
> and is especially adapted for those
S Of from twelve 70 twenty years oi
1 age.
Rev Charles F. Bedard. pasto- O
= ST. Mary's church. will reach The sill
= Yer anniversary of his ordination tc
the priesthood during ETat. Father
n Redard, following his ordination frs
e served as CITRATE at St. James
d church in Danielson.
In some quarters of Putnam there i,
4 | q growing demand that all meats
= fered for public sale should be SO of
- fred only after the animals from
n which they come are inspected b,
: competent veterinarians, who shall
Il certify as to the health OF the animal
: This demand is being urged in tn
interest of public health At the pres
cnt time large quantities of local.,
killed meats are being consumed b
the city's population Undoubtedly
high percentage of this meat is fror
y | healthy animals but there is a feel
. ing that every pound of it Should b
! subject to such inspection as the fed
u eral government insists upon in tn
y case of the so-Called western meats.
= There is no reason why even large
Is quantities of home grown meat
,, should not be consumed here, it i
II contended. for such mea Is may b
- made available to the public on sue
=, a basis as to lower the cost of tina
- part of the family ration. The poin
that is being urged is that this loce
meat industry should be surrounde
= with every safeguard, and this woul
- be an advantage to all concerned. tn
cattle grower, the men that sell tn
IS meat and those who consume it.
l. The strike of mill workers at Mort
GrosTenordale is a thing Of the pas
) A great majority of the strikers VIII
lie left their looms and other machines i
ct The big plant in the village to tn
lie north. of this city are back at wor
again. Only a few who were instru
ID mental in causing the labor troubl
Sc which did not spread among the oper
IF atives in the degree that the stril
S leaders anticinated will not be take
back by the company.
a The strike is one mat may be wrft
ten of as a failure. The strikers di
10 not get the concessions that they ask
ed for. These desired concession
had nothing to do with wage scales {
sr working hours, but over minor mat
" tiers that the company felt were exclu
StNSlV WlIilll the COtlEOl OIL the com
p&ny, with which view a majority {
- the employees, who remained at worl
were in agreement
Putnam automoboists are please
1 over the prospect that people VIII
{ drive teams on the highways at nigh
during the coming spring and sum
Z uer will be required to equip such We
J hicles with proper lights-somethin
/ very few of them have done, althoug
there is a statute commanding thu
they shall do so. II they fail to ODE
\ this law this year, they will likely fin
themselves as rigidly followed up .
I are the motor car drivers who fail
, Z keep the lights on their machine
i showing properly. Teams withol
| lights have been a nightmare to me
\ Tor drivers who are out at night and
1 danger to all the fast moving trait
4 that one now encounters.
M Rev. ]. j. Papillon will be the Ler
ten preacher at the services at S
- Mary's church this evening.
A large number was out for the S
Patrick's night entertainments a,
ranged by Putnam Division, A, Q. T
and Putnam lodge of Moose.
Misses Dorcas and Ruth Bartle
| are recovering from illness that h