Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-19

fair to tell in what one.'
 The judge sent Egan and Garland do"n to Brooklyn for 50 days In addi- tion they will work out the costs
 At the fire Tuesday night eaused when a bolt of lightning struck the te%er Of the Putnam municipal build Ing, on Church street. the value of the motor bumper was fully 'demonstrated By means of this the firemen were able to throw stream of water clear to the top of tie blazing tower, and quickly eAeingulsh the flames. The pressure of the water direct from the mains is not great enough to reach such height and since the fremen had no ladders they would have been seriously handi- capped without the high pressure that the pump afforded. This was inc first ire since It was installed at which the pump was obviously needed and Put nam cltlzens who watched it work Tues day night expressed themselves wednes day as certain that without it the loss on the municipal building must have been large. Examination Wednesday of the damage done by the lightning dis closed that the fire was confined large iy to the outside of the steeple Ii will probably be necessary to erect stagings to repair the tower.
 Rev. J. L. Roney of scheneetadv. N. r., to whom a call was extended last week by the executive committee of St. Philip's Episcopal church has accented and It is expected that he will come to Putnam soon to assume the rectorship of the parish.
 Putnam, Wednesday spent the day cleaning up after one of the most se- were electrical storms ever experienced here. Not only was the storm Tuesday night accompanied by unusually vivid lightning but the rain fell in torrents
 ana the Wlnd blew at an alarming rate Farmers throughout the town of Put ! nam and in Thompson were looking over their corn fields, where the stalks were beaten flat to the ground In l Woodstock the storm was not so se- l were and there was no damage to crop l According to Frank L. Davis, agent ot the Windham County Farmers Asocia | ton, 1t is hard to tell whether or no
 the corn has been seriously damaged
 since unles it is broken off at the roots | 1t will in all probability straighten LII
 as soon as the sun come out. For thi!
 reason he is discounting somewhat tn, tories of damage to crops, circulating l Wednesday morning.
 1 Superintendent of Streets Frank Du
 mas had his men cleaning up the de l bris in various parts of tke city Smal l branche torn by wind from the tree
 were carried in the gutters to the sewe
 heads, and here clogged up the the fiov l of water, which flooded out into tn, street at many points. Tuesday nigh the water in front of the Peloquin blocl
 on Main street was more than a foo deep. On many other streets great gull lies had to be filled, and it will be sev
 eral days before the work can be com l pleted. Telephone and electric lgh | company employees were having. thei troubles Wednesday,. Hundreds of tel I ephones were knocked out of order b. the storm, and fuses in electric light ing systems were blown. At the Chil l dren's Home, on the road to Thompson the lights went out while the childrel
 were being given their supper, Lamp 1 were pressed into service, and by tn light of these the youngsters were pu ! to bed. Many dwellings in Putnam