Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-23
PUTNAM

John E. Kennedy is chairman of a committee that has arranged for 8 big field day and outing for the Sacred Heart church, Mechanicsville to be held next Saturday. At ten o'clock in the fore noon there will be a baseball game be- tween the Putnam Knights of Columbus and the Knights of North Grosvenordale. In the afternoon there will be hundred yard dashes, tl1ree-legged race, potato race for girls, broad, standing and hop skip-and-jump, tug of war between the Putnam and North Grosvenordale Knights girls tug of war, boys pie eat ing contest and greased pig tchase.. In the evening there will be two boxing bouts, vaudeville and dancing. Prepa- rations are being made to handle large crowd.
 New planking has been laid on the bridge over Little River.
 Thomas Blake of Maynard Mass is the guest of relatives in the city.
 Attorney Robert Perry, who has been visiting relatives here, returned to New York, Wednesday.
 large number of local people went to Brooklyn fair Wednesday,
 Street talk relative to the fire depart ment's condition as to apparatus does not abate. Many expressions of alarm that the department is without means of getting ladders to a fire anywhere ex- cept within the business section are heard daily. There gre those who believe that if another citN meeting was called to vote an appropriation for a motor driven hook and ladder truck, it would not be turned down as it was few weeks ago. The use of horses to draw the pres ent antiquated truck is out of the ques- ton. It is impossible to procure horses. This leaves motor apparatus the only available solution of the problem. A few believe that some sort of motor-driven vehicle can be devised to pull the present truck. In answer to this it has been pointed out that if it were possible to do this, which seems to be doubted by those who have made an investigation, the old styled ladders are too cumbersome and too short for present needs. The mayor has recommended that, if some means is not devised to furnish a, hook and ladder truck at fires, the hook and ladder com pany be disbanded as a means of saving the city ar annual expense of $500 with no return on the investment There are many who take this view but there is an equal number who do not believe the i company should be disbanded, pointinc out that if occasion arises some way will be devised to get The horse-drawn truck to the fire When asked how this is tc l De acCO1npllSneQ there IS no QelIlllo du- swer, merely repeated Somehow" An effort is to be made to raise mors money for the Day Kirnhall hospital 1T order that the new wing, now under pro. | cess of construction, may be completed The amount available at present is $50. 900, of which $25,0e0 was contributed bJ the state and 25,o8os by manufacturing interests and individuals. It has beer
 found that the wing cannot be finished for the amount in hand. It will insure the completion of the first story, the side walls and permanent roof, but vii
 not admit of finishing the two upper floors The room is badly needed by the institution that for long time has beer taxed to capacity and nurses and patients have been housed in every available fool space, the corridors and sun parlor. The frequency with which automobile accident cases are brought in is adding to the burden of the institution as hardly . ] week passes that one or more of these l emergency cases does not arrive at tht hospital. Just how much more money ii needed has not been stated but 1t Is sait that the wing can be completed at a less cost now than if the work is stopped ana begun at some future day.