Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-05
PUTNAM

Deputy Sheriff George F. Holbrook, who has been ill at his home on South Main street, was reported Thursday as considerably improved.
 Quinebaug lodge of Masons of this l. city conferred the master Mason de- gree on candidates and elected officers | at Thursday evenings meeting. . Miss AIine LeClair was elected president of the Putnam Girls, club, Miss Rose Ethier first vice president, Miss Fannie Keller second vice pres- ident. Diane Riendeau, third vice president, Miss Bessie O'Brien, secre- tary, Miss Mae Pye financial secre- | tary, Miss Pauline Lussier. treasurer |
 Thursday brought the coidest morn ing of the year, with the temperature | only about five degrees above the zero | mark.
 It was stated authoritativeiy Thurs 1 day that c. D. Arnold. formerly chief 1 Of the fire department, will not be a | candidate for re-appointment to that | office.
 Mrs. George L. Padgett is patient at the Day Kimbsli hospital.
 Judge M. H. Geissler presided at a l session of the city court Thursday morning. disposing of one case by irn- posing a fine
 Mrs. Mildred Carpenter of Worces- ter visited relatives here Thursday.
 The state board of control has passed resolution making the Amer ican legion the organization through which will be disbursed the fund es- tablished by the state at the last ses- soin of the general assembly for the benefit of soldiers, sailors and their dependents. State Treasurer c. Har- old Gilpatrie of this city is a member Of fhn hnn r6 0f Secretary L. H. Healey, North Woodstock, of the state board of ag- riculture, is preparing a circular which he will have sent out to the trades exhibitors at last years state agri- , cultural and -s industrial exhibition.
 This years exhibition is to be held at
 the state arnory in Hartford during the week of Feb. ,.
 A writer in state paper says; Wonder if there will be any birth day anniversaries after Souvenir w. H. Taylor gets through keeping track of them? 1t seems as if somebody ought to look up Suvenir's biography
 and see if he has any birthday As an opening tip it may be stated i that Souvenir was born in Arctic, R. l., but the date is a secret He be- came famous while a resident of Put nam. The annual meeting of the Windhar l County Farmers association is sched- uled ta be held here today 0F7riday) and is expected to attract x members i from many towns of the county The l meeting is to be in Odd Fellows hall on Pomfret street and is to open at Il o'clock for it's business session. Mrs. | A. H. Benton of Andover and Richard {. Pattee- Boston, manager of the New England Milk TToducers' association,
 are to make addresses.
 ] Mill workers here and in surround 1 irG towns were efatcd Thursday over ] the announcement that thev are to re- ceive an advance in wages effective ! from December 1. The Christmas sea
 son will be frightened for many hun dreds of these workers, whose pay en- ! velopes will be swelled in the aggre- 1 gate by many thousands of dollars ] each week. It may be stated that the i present Christmas season seems likely l to be the most prosperous in the city's 1 history.
 1 Six communities hereabouts are now organized and ready to begin work { in the, home, nursing course. The [ course consists of six lectures and demonstrations to- be given by Miss 1 Maude Hayes representing the Con \ necticut Agricultural College. Miss | Hayes is a nurse. The places and the dates for these demonstrations are: South Woodstock, Agricultural hall, Dec. g: East Woodstock chapel, Dec.
 Il: EastHord- chapel. Dec. 12: North
 Ashford, Mrs. Collins, Dec. 19; Dec.
 31. South Woodstock, Agricultural hall.
 Recent gifts by manufacturing con- cerns in this and surrounding towns
 to the Day Kimball hospital include: lAssawaga -Woolen company, Dayville, S100: Manhasset Manufacturing com pany, s1O0; Connecticut Mills. Daniel i son, $10o; Nightingale Morse Mills $100; Alta waugan company. s1O0; Floyd Cranska, Moosup, $50; French
 River Textile company, $50. E
 Attention is being called to the fact that had Samuel L. Clemens. Mark ! Twain" lived until Sunday he would have been S4 years old, He was born 1 in Missouri in 1885 and died in 1910.
 The Mammoth cave at Hannibal, Mo-, known as the Mark Twain cave, and named in honor of the great Ii humorist. is to be used for a new pur- pose. The grand lodge officers of the
 Knights of Pythias of Missouri will adopt a class of 50 members in the pariors. It will be the first appear ance of goats in the cave. Mark Twain spent his boyhood days in Han nibaf. ---
 In the neighboring town of Pomfret,
 there is a cave known as the Putnam
 Wolf den and General Israel Putnam : was the first and last to enter 1t in
 pursuit of game, showing that "he
 dared to lead where others dared to follow General Putnam got the wolf, but would the degree teams of the local fraternal organizations get
 the goats of their candidates if they initiated them in the wolf den.
 Up to thursday afternoon no clue , 1, had been obtained that promised to. be helpful in securing the return of the s55O diamond ring stolen from the store of G. E. Shaw of this city by strangers who came in to look at pre-
 cious stones.