Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-08

mas trees to use discretion" in selec- ton Of trees this winter.
 1t Is pointed out by the secretary that the selection of the best trees in the woods each year is lowering the standard of the fir trees here. Organ lzatlons. such as Sunday schools, are i urged to use less shapely trees this year and to trim them into the shape desired after they have been cut. down. Secretary Healey also recommends ] that, should the branches of the trees l be too few, holes be bored in the trunk and stray branches inserted. Following are the newly elected of- l fcers of Quinebaug lodge, A. r. and A M; ". M, Ernest c. Morse; S. w., A. w. Marcy; J. w., E. S. Duffev: {, treasurer, Judge M. H. Geissler. 5 sec. retary, G. Allen Hawkins; $. D.. c. E. Richardson; J. b, E. H. Snow: S. Sc Archibald Macdonald, Jr.; J. S.. D.
 ;. Phillips; marshal George P. Mi
 nor; chaplain, L.. P Merriam; tyler. A A. Buchanan; trustees, G. E. Bros
 seau, G. P. Minor, G. H. Gilpatric. 1 The officers were installed by Past
 Master L. H. Fuller.
 Friends of Henry Dumas have beer
 congratulating him on his narrow es. cape from being killed or dangerousl,
 injured when the spare tire on the rear of the automobile which he was driving was just clicked by the loco. motive of q train speeding over crossing at Meehanicsville Had MT Dumas crossing been delayed even b,
 the fraction of second he probably
 would have paid with his life. As i
 was he escaped without a scratch. Harold S. Corbin, well knowr inewspaperman of this city. is now tn editor of the New Universal Mirror, shop periodical published by Landers
 F'rary and Clark. one of New Britain, big Industrial concerns.
 The periodical is issued monthly il the interest, chiefly, of the severa thousand operatives of the big com
 pany and is made a highly interesting :; medium of publicity. The first issu !, of The Mirror under MT. Corbin's di rection-the December number-is
 particularly interesting publication.
 A reminder that the Salvation Ar my never slaclxs on the job was givel
 the people of Putnam Saturday whe little hut. suggestive of Santa CIau i. and the Christmas season. wa. brought out into the business seaso
 to help in getting contributions tha will go into a fund to be used to bu, Christmas dinners for the needy o
 this city. In this splendid Christina
 work of the holiday season the Sal : vation Army here always has a prom } inent part, and the fine record it ha made during other years, not to men tion it's glorious record in the war, i l expected to win for it more generou gifts of money than ever before. ' | , teu, of East Killingly, and Game Pro tector Frank Whipple were in town , , along the Massachusetts-C -Connecticl border north and northwest of here o f Saturday afternoon guarding agains
 Massachusetts, hunters chasing dee over the line into Connecticut, as ha
 been done in other years during tn Bay state deer lHsslting sason, whic i for the hunters over the line closed o Saturday.
 s The newly elected officers of tn r Windham County Farmers associa 1 ton are: President, Everett E. Brow Pomfret; vice president. $. H. Peck . tham, Woodstock; secretary treasure Whitman Danielson, Putnam Heights directors, Ashford; Allen B. Lincoln Brooklyn, B. NJ M. Marlor; Canter bury. Mrs. Clinton F7rink; -Chaplil
 Frank Martin; Eastford Willial $ Warren; Hampton, Jerome M Wood n ward; Killingly, Louis s. BarstoN
 Plain1eld, Henry Dorrance; Pomfre J. R. Stromberg; Putnam. Alfred 2 Harvey; Scotland, Charles F. Breer : Sterling, John Tanner: Thompson, u U seph Baker; Windham, C.. B. Pome ', roy: Woodstock, S. H. Peckham. Miss Charlotte sEmbleton, hon
 economics demonstrator for the coul " ty, Mrs. F. B. Harrison of Woodstoc i l and Miss Helen Atwood of Waurega = were named a committee to sele,
 .Women directors.
 9 There was a rush of travel to tn V city Saturday, when the first real p,
 riod of Christmas shopping began, al : gave indications that this season W n bring the greatest holiday shoppir
 lrecord that Putnam has known.