Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-09
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

When asked Saturday as to whether the Manhasset Manufacturing com pany's application for permits to erect seven neWD dwellings indicated further expansion of Fthis very sue- cessful concerns plant here, Agent A. D. Lown said that the company has some plans in mind, but that he was not prepared to discuss them at that time, though he might have some am nouncement to make during the pres ent week. It has been runiored for sometime past that the concern has contemplated the expansion of it's mill and the erection of about score of new dwellings. Upon different occa- sions since it was established here a few years ago this big tire duck con- cern has increased it's plant or hous- ing facilities, and it is indicated that it has notget stopped growing, some thing that will be great news for Putnam people, who have come to re- gard the concern as one of its great est industries.
 Putnam is becoming the Mecca for Worcester boys who leave home to start out to see the world. Evidently, to their bright young minds, Putnam is the first and best place to see, for they seem to flock here. The week end l found another group of five here, ar irving in the early morning hours on | train oN side door ,Pu1lmans. De- | training in the northerly section of i the city they started to timber up with a walk about the vicinity and it was not long before the attention of | Night Officer Laird was directed to l them He started to round them up and they started to run, and were i halted after shot was fired. not at | them, to bring them to a standstill. l They were taken to the police sta tion and held for the night.
 1 Telephone communication with l Worcester verified their statements as to who their relatives are, but the
 relatives. excepting in one case. were
 not strong on sending carfares and united on the proposition that it
 would be good lesson for the boys to
 walk home, a distance of about 25
 miles, or find other means of getting
 there on their own hook. as they had
 found means of getting out. Peter | Fournier. the father of one of the boys, came after him.
 The youngsters varied in years from
 12 to 15 Captain Bulger learned from them that they are Worcester newsies
 and that they had had been making
 enough money for a week past to loiter
 about Worcester buying lunches and sleeping in barns and out buildings.
 Finally they decided to travel and boarded freight train, Putnam first
 stop. ..--,-. .. -, Police in this section have been ask
 to be on the lookout for black horse
 stolen during Saturday night from
 the barn of Dudley Williams at Moos-
 up. The hrase hs no shoes on the
 hind feet. This is the first horse
 in a long time. Automobiles are the
 favorite attraction nowadays oi
 thieves who take things to be used in
 transportation.
 Night Officer Ernest Chandler gets
 the credit for the most extraordinary arrest" of the season in this city. His
 prisoner was a COW found ambline around the business section in the wee sma' hours O the morning Round CTS who were out late, and in a ba6 way after hard night were convinc- cd that they were seeing the appari- . tion of Old Demon Rum, making the first of the nightly rounds that it is said will be his lot after the first o1 July. It was ascertained that the COW is the property Of Joseph Maynard and that she had strayed away iron her anchorage and wound up with : , trip downtown.
 The Putnam Country club has sen out a general invitation to Eastern Connecticut golfers to come to tn, course on Thursday of this week ant