Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-30
PUTNAM

Among the new firms granted charters in the state of Massachusetts last week was the Putnam Manufacturing Com pany, of Boston and Putnam, which concern is to engage in the manufacture of cottons, woolens, and textiles. The capital of the new concern is one million dollars, and the incorporators are " B. | Nye and Fred L. Cook of Franklin
 Mass, and Jennie M. Laiug, of Brain tree, Mass.
 l The new textile concern controls the plant. of the present Putnam Manufac- l turing company whilA is located on l Prvoidence street in Putnam. The orig l inal corporation was projected in 1S47 l by. Hosea Baliou, and the mill is one of l the oldest in this city. Hosea Ballou 1 failed in 1861 and Wanton Vaughan of
 Providence acquired the property, which
 he controlled until his deatN when it
 passed into the hands of the corpora tion that has been running the plant un-
 til the reorganization of last week. The capital Stock of the old corporation was only $500, ,000 as compared with $1,000, 1 000 of the new enterprise. The mill l which the corporation wons in Putnam is of stone and the main building is six stories high. There are several | wings. The, company has been engaged here in manufacturing cotton goods and light sheeting. They have capac- 1 ity of nearly 500 looms. The motive
 power is water, which is supplemented by steam. Supplying the water is a fine | mill privilege. In addition to the mill itself, the company owns over A twenty l buildings where operatives live.~. Many of these contain two families. The mill
 employs over 200 hands.
 During this past year there have been persistent run1ors that large tire con
 cern was anxious to buy the plant of the concern to use as a mill in making the duck. After considerable negotiation 1 the matter wa6 dropped. Since then the 1 tire concern has purchased a mill in an other part of this county. Little infor-
 nation concerning the new textile con cerr, which received it's charter last week, is to be had in Putnam. The
 stock is owned by outside interests. l Among those. from Putnam who went to East Killingly to attend the. Old
 Home celebration Thursday were George
 Lewis, Dr. J. Bryden Kent, Ralph
 Thurston. Eugene Brosseau, Archie 1 Cotton, MT. and Mrs. Burt Mansfield,
 Mrs. Nelson Mansfield, Horatio N.
 Brown, Judge Mahlon H. Geissler. Miss
 Elizabeth Barnes, Attorney Irving H.
 Miron.
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 which supplies the water power that
 runs the dynamos of the Connecticut Company, no. trolley cars were running
 in Putnam Thursday morning. Service was not f2<umed until later, in the day when emergency steam boilers were pressed into service and power obtained l from theru
 pr. William K. Bath was in Willi-
 mantle Thursday. morning.
 Mrs. George Fine of, New London is
 the guest of her parents, pr. and Mrs
 E. L. Simpson. of Fremont street. l Deacon c. Dwight Sharpe led the mid
 week prayer meeting at tn Congrega-
 tional church Thursday night. This was the, last mid-week meeting until
 September, .,-
 1 Rev. and Mrs. Willard Beard of Foo
 chow. China. who landed in this, eoun- l try. last week are to come to Putnam l next week to be guests of Mrs. Boards S brother and sister. They are now in
 Shelton.
 Under tlies title, Connecticut Has Good
 Farm Bureaus: Excellent Work Being Done in Windhafn County, the July number of New England farm jour nal of high standing describes what is
 being accomplished in this county by | the Farmers Association which has it's 1 headquarters in Putnam with Frank l..
 Davis in charge of the work. The open 1 ing paragraph of the article character l izes the local farm bureau as one that
 merits the respect, confidence and loy- atty of the frmers of the county H. 7, frustrating the article are photographs of the farms of Ezra May and George | Brink in woodstock, and a picture of a valuable Hereford bull that is owned 1 jointly by the farmers of Woodstock. This animal was acquired through the
 Association.
 In a brief way the article, which is written in an editorial style, outlines some of the major activities of the local | farm bureau. It tells how in 1919 test 1 ing of seed corn was. emphasized with much success and noticeably better crops. At another time the bureau made
 Nn intensive study of the cost of milk production, and Showed that there is wide variation # throughout the county in what farmers are receiving in re- 1 turn for. their labor. A campaign to | instruct farmers in the use of fertilizers
 was also carrieS out by the Association. l At present the Association is parti- cularly interested. in soy bean demon
 strations that are heinz conducted -un- der the direction of MT. Davis This spring he secured four. bushels of rnedi- uI11s green VdEleIy= soy ,pednSs 1oE =Ine -uSf of farm bureau members. Mir. Davis is also arranging at the present time l spraying demonstrations in order that potato crops may not be ruined as was the case on some farms last year. The present membership in the association is nearly 800, and when the campaign now in progress is completed it will have reached the 1000 mark Each
 town in the county is representd by a
 man and a woman on. the board of di-
 rectors. The present officers. of the as- sociation are Everett F., Brown, Pom
 fret Center, president; H. S. Peclzham, Woodstock, vice president; Whitman Danielson, Putnam, secretary treasurer
 Frank L. Davis, Putnam, agent. G. Harold Gilpatric,. of Putnam, and
 Fayette L. Wright of Pornfret mem
 bers. of the republican. state central
 committee, have received the call for a meeting to be held in Danbury August A. At that meeting the time and place