Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-04
DANIELS0N AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

PUTNAM
 i Miss Sonia sheferts and Hyde Smith l are to be married Aug. 19 at Spring field, Miss Shefferts home city. One thermometer in Front street I registered 103 degrees in the sun at 3 l o'clock Thursday afternoons A This mornings parade, organizing in l Union square, is scheduled to start over its route at 10 o'clock.
 The Worcester Pros. is the team that l is booked to appear here Sunday l against the Putnam team.
 l There was trolley strike Thurs day, notwithsta anding rumors to that I effect that were in circulation here. Several of Putnam'S saloons are do- 1 ing considerable business selling near beer, a non- ntoxicating beverage. | The buzz of propellers attracted att l tention to an aeroplane flying over this
 city ana going in the direction of Bos- i ton "Wednesday evening"
 l Mrs. George Rawley and children are spending the month at Pleasant Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Kent are at Cres- cent Beach, where pr. and Mrs. J. M. Kent of New York are staying also. Rev. Boynton Merrill, new pastor of l the Second Congregational church of l this city, and his bride are expected to arrive here Saturday and will go to the Ben GroSvenor inn at Pomfret. Rev. MT. Merrill will preach at the services at the church here Sunday.
 Miss Mary Anderson one of the force of operators at the telephone of hce will be at the Blue Bell cottage at Crescent Beach for her vacation next week. pr. William Saretzki, who is now making his home in Danielson, is plan ming to come to Putnam to live, as he did before entering the service. Charles H. Brown. Charles s. Hyde and Edgar M. Warner. jury commits sioners for Windham country, are to meet here July fl to examine the lists of names submitted for jury lists by
 the selectmen of the various towns and will draw therefrom a specified number for each town.
 There'll be a big lineup of golfers on the links of the Putnam Country club today, for the tournaments that have been arranged have stirred up great deal of interest.
 On farms in this vicinity during Thursday afternoon some laborers called it quits under the driving bar rage of heat that Old Sol was directing toward them.
 A Manchester, N. H., man, J. c. Hef- fer, is coming to Woodstock this fall as principal of Woodstock academy. MT. Heff1er is described as an experi- enced teacher.
 Extra police were on the job Thurs day evening to see that the night be- 1 fore the Fourth did not offer an oppor- tunity for some of the overlively spir- it's to get out of bounds.
 Miss Charlotte Embleton, home eco- monies teacher for this county. has organized a cooking class of eleven members in the town of Woodstock It l is known as the Wecan Cook club.
 Funeral services for Miss Martha l Knight, who died at her home in | Thompson. were conducted by Rev. 1 George H. Cummings. Burial was in | Thompson. Miss Knight was mem l Der of a family long identified with the | affairs of Thompson.
 PufnaV0'S Y1la r1fc closed today and some of them will not | resume operations until next Monday. | giving the employees triple holiday. There was an exodus from the city on evening trains Thursday.
 This being a holiday, the Putnam postoff1ce will be open only on the | usual holiday hours. There will be the usual restrictions of service as on | other holidays throughout the year.
 Under an act of the last legislature, there are no more restrictions as to fishing days in Alexanders lake. Ex- cepting in the closed season for taking certain kinds of fish, one may fish there on any week day and not be sub ject to prosecution for so doing. Forj several years past fishing was permit ted only on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays of each week. .sj
 Soda fountain patronage has fn- creased this week-folloWing the ad- vent of wartime prohibition. but at some places where temperate and cool ing drinks are sold it is stated that the business has not increa sed in the de- gree that one might expect.
 The first in series of tests that will cover all boxes in the system is to be made by the fire department of this city. Two boxes will be tested each ! Saturday. The first of these tests will come tomorrow between 12 and 1 Q clock when boxes 12 and 13 will be rung in. This announcement was made by John B. Daigle. superintendent of the fire alarm system of the city
 Bremen who were on duty Thursday evening to be ready for immediate re- sponse to an alarm for fire worked out } plan that helped make short the passing of the hours. At their respec- 1 tive stations members of Hose 1 and Hose arranged suppers.
 Following are newly elected officers of the Social order of Putnam: Presi- lent, R. c. Cotton; vice president, ] Mrs Melvina Baker; past president, ( Leo Auger; chaplain Mrs. Isabelle Spatcher; treasurer. Leo Dubois re- ,ord1ng secretary, Addis H. Welch; { Miss Esther Franklin; mar iha1 Nellie Sullivan; musician, f Adolph Bernier.
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