Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-26
PUTNAM

At the Windharn County Home for Children in the Sawyer district of this I.towna Thursday, 12o little people sat down to a beautiful Thanksgiving dinner to which they did full justice, their ap- petites unspoiled by the dreariness of the weather.
 Just through months siege with the
 measles, 56 of the children being afflicted with the disease during the course of the epidemic at the home all were in good health on Thanksgiving day and prime for the enjoyment of one of the big feasts l of the year at the institution. This year roast pork with an almost i endless array of vegetables,N fruit candy and other good things were served. Or dinarily chicken is served the children on Thanksgiving day. but no great amount of poultry was raised on the home farm ] this year so roast pork substituted and proved wholly accepted to the young
 people.
 During the day many relatives and | friends of the children called to pay them i a holiday visit.
 i At the Putnam town farm the r in- mates were served a. splendid Thanks giving dinner of roast chicken, vegetables, icranberry sauce and all of the other 1 fixin's, the day being made more than or dinarily enjoyable in comfortable sur roundings. Nearly all of the foodstuffs used for the holiday dinner at the farm were grown on the property. l There are ten women. six men and a boy at the farm at the present time. At St. Mary's church Thanksgiving
 morning in the presence of relatives ana ], friends Miss Matilda Durand of Wood ; stock avenue and Leo Dubois, also O
 this city, were united in marriage by Rev Charles F. Bedard. who also was eel | pbraOt of fha pHnti2l TnaSe
 The couple were attended by Mis- Clara Bonneville as braidesmaid and Au gust Durand. brother of the bride a | best man.
 ; Following a reception the bridal coupI left for their honeymoon. They will mak . . their home in Putnam.
 The body of Mrs. Emma James, A |, who was struck and killed on the mai = line of the New Haven road near Pom . fret Wednesday about s:3O. was brougf
 to this city and taken in charge of by n local fundertaker. Mrs James. who wa
 employed at the farm of Mayotte I D 1 Wright, had left train at Pomfret sta
 tion and was walking along the trac Q back to the Wright farm when she wa
 overtaken by another train, struck an e instantly killed.
 II Weonsocket inspectors who came her
 to ascertain as to whether the Bradley J. and Shacketts, held at Brooklyn jail fo . robberies in Pomfret and Woodstock. ha
 1 anything to do with a series of simiIs a robberies in and near Woonstocket iay r !obtained finger prints. at the county jai Q and will compare them with other prin 5 on articles handled in houses robbed II | Woonsocket.
 = The executive committee of the Earn r lers' association held a meeting recentl Those present were: c. B. Pomero
 Willimantic; Whitman Danielson. Pu
 nam; Henry Dorrance, Plainheld; Lou
 S. Barstow, Killingly: John R. Stron
 berg Abingdon; Mrs. Willis Covell. Por
 fret; Mrs Edith M, Kennedy. PlainfielC
 Mrs. Grace Sweet. Sterling; Director
 J. Baker of the Extension Service: ar /. County Agent F. l.. Davis In the a - sence of s. H. Peckham, vice presider
 a temporary chairman was appointed
 The farmers association has received
 limited supply Of the bulletin entitle
 ''The Protection of Fruit Trees fro
 Mice and Others Rodents" by S. P. He