Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-27
PUTNAM

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 George Tattoon, colored, for long period a resident of this city, died of pneumonia Thursday morning. Mir. Tattoon formerly lived at Lebanon, this state.
 J. Herbert Smith, who was strick en with pneumonia a few days ago following an attack of influenza, was reported Thursday afternoon as re- maining dangerously i'll.
 Louis Wolfe has been appointed administrator of the estate of his brother Joseph Wolfe, who died re- centiy.
 The March term of the superior court will begin here next week, fol- towing the short calendar sess-on to be held this morning.
 Another traffic tieup followed in the wake of the gale that ragged during the early hours of Thursday morning throughout all of this section of the country. Even the "a lroad trains were hampered by the great Quanti- ties of snow that was blown in upon the tracks, and one passenger train due here from Boston shortly after 10 o'clock arrived nearly six hours late, after being stalled. in the snow near East Thompson. Conditions began to grow bad during Wednesday after noon and it was midnight before the Boston-New York express, due here at TIA p. m. from Hartford reached this city. This train was held up by drifts on the line near Manchester.
 Highways that had been broken out and made passable for travel since the storm of February 4 were again blocked by drifts on Thursday. Milk that usually arrives here from <,F ;- for shipment on the early morning train for Boston could not be gotten through to this city by sled until noon and ali of the rural mails were delayed.
 Between Putnam and Danielson ev- i cry effort was made to keep this i'm portant line open and this was ac- complished. At some points along this route, however, there were heavy drifts that had to be cut through to make the road passable. All but a few of the motor trucks that have been kept in service to sup ply pertshable foods stc towns in this section were withdrawn from the reg ular runs OF Thursday. The food trucks managed to struggle through 1 however
 Around the city paths that had been opened with difficulty were fill ed level full with fresh snow blown about from the surrounding country side, and the snow shovel brigade | was again forced to get out and tackle a job that has become very lrksone.
 Up in the town Of Thompson the I drifting snow played havoc with the open transportation lines and practi- cany all of the roads will have to be broken out again.
 | Town officials are viewinq with alarm the manner in which the costs fer shoveling snow are piling up. In Windham county towns many thous- ands of dollars have been spent So far-and the end is not yet In this end Of the county alone it is likely that the cost of shoveling snow and pushing out Of the highways with blows will cost the towns and the state not less than $10,000 for the month of February and 1t may reach a much higher figure.
 The state highway to Providence has been blocked since February 4, and it is also next to impossible to get through over the highways from this city to Worcester. The long continued blockade is the cause of an accumulation of troubles ! and inconvenience. As to this, it may be mentioned that some owners of live stock who buy hay to feed their animals are having difficulty in get ting this commodity for them. as the roads to farms where 1t may be pur- chased are impossible.
 The letter of appreciation author ! tzed by the common council to be sent to the Danielson fire department and also the check of $50, voted as 2 i token of appreciation, has been sent 1 to Danielson. Newspaper comment i by 9 publication in the neighborine 1 town created a ripple of displea sure as related to the size of the sum ap. propriated, but an apology has 1 strengthened out the tangle and it i: i now conceded that everything ha. | been ironed out pertaining to tn, 1 case-and that all is well that end. 1 well.
 There is Woodstock interest in tn, l announcement of the sudden death il 1 New York of Miss Henrietta Will Hams, who succumbed to an attacl
 of apoplexy Miss Williams former l ly lived in Woodstock, where her par
 ents owned what is now the Congre
 gational parsonage. Miss Williams
 was a niece of the late Dr. George A Bowen.
 Here is a sample of the difficuitie | that Putnam manufacturers are ex
 perieno4ng iu getting yarn througl from other New England cities dur
 ing these days of snow blockade: :
 shipment of yarn, by express wa
 sent out of Woonsocket to Worces
 ter, from Wos it came to Put nam, but time could not be given t
 unloading it from a passenger trai
 running late. It was carried throug
 to New London and then back agair
 arriving here Thursday morning. B
 the. overland route Woonsecket 1 I only a little more than score O
 miles away and ordinarily 8 true
 would bring the yarn from that cit
 to Putnam in little more than tw
 hours.
 Mrs. D. 3. Angelo. who fell on tn
 street near the rooms, of the Salva
 ton Army. is patient at the Da
 KimbaIl hospital
 l Lenten services are attractin
 large congregations to St. Mary
 church.