Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-08
PUTNAM

i Der have siEnif1ed their intention of
 participating ih the parade. and many
 floats are being arranged for. The re-
 ception to the returned soldiers and
 sailors in Putnam Labor Day
 promises to be one of the biggest eel ebra tions Putnam has ever known. Rev Boynton Merrill led the mid week prayer meeting at the Congre-. l gationa1 church Thursday night. l The report of the Putnam visiting nurse for July has just been issued and shows that 122 calls were made ] The highway committee of the Put | nam common council has granted per- mission to the firm of Gagne and Cor dier for a gasoline tank near their place of business. | John Backus, former principal of l Putnam high school. called on Putnam i friends Thursday. 1 Dr.. William II. Holmes of Mount with Mrs. A. W. Macdonald and fam 1 fly on Oak Hill. The strike situation, as far as Put nam is concerned. remains unchanged. Interest here centers. now in the pro- posed plans Of the chamber of com | merce to establish automobile service to points north and south of Putnam. "Wednesday a representative of the Jitney Bus Association of Bridgeport arrived to survey the territory prepa- tory to sending two or more buses to this city. According to a member of the merchants' committee of the chamber. this representative was i'm pressed with the possibilities of run ming a 1inesto West Thompson and toI North GEAsvenordale, but he was not so certain that it would pay to estab- fish line to Dayville. Danielson, Goodyear and other points south. This rather upsets some of the commit tees plans. for it is to points south
 that they are particularly anxious to
 get. The service to West Thompson
 is good at the present time. and can
 l@<,
 other machine. xhieh can be readily
 acquired here in Putnam Unless
 this Bridgeport firm will send buses
 toward Killingiy well as to Gros
 venordale, we don't need them at all. l
 There is no occasion to bring any
 more iitneys here to run north. There
 are enough as it is" This was the
 statement made by one Putnam mer-
 chant Thursday S 1t is disputed question as to just |
 how much Putnam trade is suffering as result of the strike. According to 1
 the best informed merchants. it is ab- | solutely impossible to determine this, for with prices higher than ever. and
 no accurate records to refer to. it is
 almost impossible to compare this years business with the correspond ing day year ago. Unless accurate sales records are kept. not only of act
 ual money handled. but of the num-
 Der of customers that enter the stores. no comparison can be made-and but | few merchants keep such detailed rec ords. It is known however, that troll ley traffic from points north of Put nam into Webster has increased 75 per cent. since the strike began three l weeks ago. and Putnam business men who read the signs right declare that all this extra traffic can be explained in only one way. and that is that business that ordinarily came to Put nam is going elsewhere.
 Whether not the Bridgeport au-
 
 service to Grosvenordale and North Grosvenordale will be established by the chamber by Saturday. If the
 Bridgeport concern does not agree to then the chamber will go ahead, and meet the situatio by seeing that ser vice is obtained from somewhere else.
 Miss Phoebe Beard of Oberlin. Ohio, is the guest of her aunt Miss Emma of Center street
 A large number of new books has been added to the public library this week. Many of these are juvenile works. The books are the gift of the state.
 Word has been received here of the in Hartford last Saturday afternoon, at St. Johns Episcopal of Miss Irene s. Potter. for ret, formerly of Conantville. MT. and Mrs. Barrett are to live in East Hart ford
 A pamphlet on the subject of news paper associations in Connecticut.t written by Everett E. Hill of Hart ford has just been received in Put l nam. It is of particular interest in this city because it tells of the es- of the Wolf Weekly Press Association, founded by Souvenir Will liam Harrison Taylor. former Put nam resident and newspaperman. l.. Q. Williams, of this city. was one of the original members of the organiza ton. In recent years it was united with the Connecticut Editorial asso- 1, ciation.
 City Clerk Thomas P. Evan, at thei request of the common council. has written a letter to the Shore Line Electric Railway. requesting them to , move poles and tracks on King street, l : Putnam, in accordance with specifica-i t -ions sent them some time ago by City Engineer George W. Perry. This street is to undergo extensive repairs. and [ ,urbs are to be put in place. The : poles and track interfere with the plans. and work cannot start until the ! trolley company moves them. Fear I ng that ready reply might not be ] forthcoming, the common council has [ authorized the highway to take what c ever action may be necessary to see hat the work is done. if no answer I o Clerk Ryan's letter is received [ within one week. A similar request \ Q move poles so that a. sidewalk may d De built has been sent to the Southern New England Telephone Company These poles that are to be moved are F 'n Church street. north of Smith ? 'treet.
 The entertainment committee of thei !, Putnam post of the American Legion z If Honor has announced a smoker for : iext Tuesday evening in Eagles hall, ' Union block. All other meetings have ,een for business purposes. but this . me will be devoted to a set-together md social time.
 Putnam Methodist church is to be ;losed August IT and August 24 to 'ermit attendance at the Willimantic amp meeting.
 The body Of George Brott, 52. who lied Monday in Hartford, was brought O Putnam Thursday afternoon and vas taken to Thompson. where fu- lera services were held at the home