Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-25
PUTNAM

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 Elks from all sections of the iuris- dlcion Of Putnam lodge gathered here Tuesday evening. There was ini-s q t1atlon of candidates and social time Of more than passing interest
 Sophie Zippen was in court Tuesday morning to answer before Judge .Geissler of. the city tribunal to al charge filed by Samuel Friedman, al Providence street butcher, that she was the person responsible for the disappearance from his store of $92 in cash, which had just been paid him by member of the firm of Benoit and Benoit and. which he admits having thouglltlessly laid down while he at tended to pressing duties about his market
 Friedman based his theory that Mrs. Aippen got the money on the ground that she and one of her children were the only persons about his market at the time the money disappeared Mrs. Zippen positively denied hav- lng taken the cash and there was no evidence introduced to prove that she dld. Various circumstances surround ing the case would tend to exonerate Mrs Zippen from responsibility for the disappearance of the money. She was found not guilty. Arthur S. Mac donald was counsel for Mrs. Zippen < 1t was stated here Tuesday that the state highway department stands in readiness to cooperate with the city I Of Putnam in laying an improved highway surface through Grove street, | the state to pay 75 per cent of the cost, which. it is estimated. would be about s10.o00. gross. | This is an improvement that Put nam people have been wishing for a long time.
 Although they still figure, on the prospect of a last minute order setting aside the wartime prohibition act, which is set to become effective next | Tuesday, the score of Putnam liquor 1 dealers have made plans, if need be, 1 to close their places of business at II o'clock next Monday night.
 l No effort. it is said, will be made to
 dispose of the stocks on hand. for there is we'll established belief that the president will declare the army Idemobilized not many weeks hence
 and that the. dealers then will be able
 to proceed with their business in the
 usual way until national prohibition
 under the eighteenth amendment te the constitution. goes into effect ir January next.
  $59,000 worth of liquors on hand ir
 Putnams licensed places and the fig. lure may be much higher than that. Al Is1o to s15 a gallon. prices now beins asked, the joy water runs into money very rapidly.
 The stocks here certainly will no ! be disposed of by next Monday night
 It is said that the places doing busi.
 ness will be locked up tight and tha
 the dealers will await the lifting of tn, | war time prohibition ban before at tempting to close out the stocks ol
 hand.
 l Tuesday, July 8, is set as the wed ding date of Miss Marcia Smith, tn daughter of Manager David A. Smitl of the Bradley and Empire theater l. and Mrs. Smith. and Daniel Asher, 0
 Worcester, in which city Mir Ashe and his bride will make their home.
 Putnan1's ice supply, which was no of over r-abundant quantity at tn
 opening of the season, is said to b i rapidly diminishing. and this fact an the prices that the dealers mus
 charge this season is a cause of muc , worry to many Putnam families. Wit many housewives it seems to be
 tossup as to whether ice should
 bought at high prices or whether a ! attempt be made to get along withou | the ice and stand the losses on per : ishable foodstuffs. It is very likel, l it was said, on Tuesday that ice ship : ments from other places will have t : be made to Putnam before the seaso u of hot weather is over.
 Il Putnam people are interested in tn
 announcement that MT. and Mrs. Sl mon Farley, formerly of this city, ob
 ! Cr If Ioi n wedding at their home on Pawtuckt t avenue, Pawtucket last Sunday an d that they greeted many guests. M 0 Farley was engaged in business t this city for a number of years an e had residence on Woodstock ave t nue.
 Members of the Sunday school ( f the Methodist church will go f Greens grove at Quadic on tn e Fourth for their annual picnic an : outing. The trip will be made wit e motor vehicles. a The State Trade school has an r nounced an innovation in the way ( a tea room, where it is expecte many will be attracted during tn , summer and interest in the institutio : heightened among the public at larg Tuesday afternoon the state hign . way on Killing1y avenue out of thi city was being shaved of bumps an > rough places. The recent applicatio . l of oil have softened these rough place ', so as to permit of leveling them ou I, The Ladies of the G. A. R. recent s decorated the graves of their decease ? members in local cemeteries and burial grounds at West Thompson
 Grosvenordale and Danielsen. The police note that some motor ve e hicles are being operated about tow : without showing rear number. plate