Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1920-05-21
PUTNAM


police Of their home eity-Cambridge
Mass. II
Allen and O'Neil were picked up at 1.30
Thursday morning in Unian street by
Night Patrelmsn Ernest Chandler. The
youths told eenhieting stories as 10
their arrival in this city and their pur.
pose in coming here. One Of them was
carrying large screw driver, about
which they also told conflicting stories.
They were locked up as suspicious char
acters. Inquiry at Cambridge developed
that they gave their right names and adj
dresses, but the police were not able
to give off hand any information per-
tanning to them.
During Thursday afternoon they told
CAPTAIN Bulger a variety of conflicting |
stories One said the pair arrived here |
about o'clock Wednesday afternoon |
coming on motor truck from Prepi- |
dence, while the other insisted that they |
did not reach Putnam until 1880 p
| M Wednesday. Neither had any mon
ey.
| One said that the screw driver, with
| which the switch Of Ford car can be
| turned if one knows how, was, found
sticking up In a lawn just outside of
this city the other said that it was TAX
/ en- from a motor boat in Providence.
/ offieials here were not inclined to pro-
coed against the youths until they could
learn mare tbout them.
L
The police here received word Thurs
day merning that Alfred White, of this
| city, was being held fer them by the
Worcester police White, who has suf-
fered mentally at times in the past, and
who has been a patient at the Norwich
State Hospital, left here during the very
L early hours of Thursday morning on the
nerthhound State of Maine express. Be-
fore leaving he gave indications that he
was again suffering mentally. 1t was
arranged that Seleetman C. z. Pierce and
Officer Ernest Chandler should go to
Worcester and accompany White back
to this city
Putnam people heard with interest on
Thursday of the tentative plan of the
Connecticut company officials to estab-
fish trolley freight and express SER
vice over the lines of the New London
division with the possibility of the SER
vice being extended as far north as this
city and possible as far as Worcester.
This is a project that has been talked
Of here for years without any service
materializing, but there is hope in the
fact that the subject is being revived
On Saturday and Sunday, beginning at
| 11.S0 a. m. and thereafter until 10 p. M,
The Pellette will maintain a half hourly
service between Danielson and Putnam
adv.
. County Asen Davis said Thursday
morning that indications are that farm
| crops will be from Is to 90 per cent.
below what they were last year in Wind
ham county this season, Farmers find
that they cannot themselves produce
normal crops, as to quantity, because
40 one hardly can be interested in farm
work as labor when industries are pay
ing such tremendously high wages.
Mills in this immediate vicinity are
falling into line with mills that have just
! hnnaunPod adya in in, fba ;c
g textile centers of New England. In some
t | mills in this territory notices already
) have been posted. while the management
of other mills have indicated that it is
J likely that the general policy pursued
| of falling in line will again be pursued
in this section of the state.
Workmen are engaged in clearing NJ
/, ! the Union street end of the wreck of the
o Ghickering hotel building, which wa:
practically destroyed by fire last Janu
airy. The Union street end of the struc
ture is to be rebuilt to provide a similal
v arrangement of stores to what was Their
/, lat the time of the fire. Repairs are al
a SO being made to a section of the Fuinei
hotel facing on Front street. The cen
i trail section of fhe hotel between Eniol
J. and Front streets is complete wrecl
= with nothing but charred and topplin
walls and chimneys standing.
Y. 1t was explained Thursday morning
II that an alarm for fire was pulled in earl
Wednesday evening, from Box Al, at tn
3 i corner of Main and Front streets, be
x cause Of glare showing through tn
~ windows of Union hall, on the secon
floor OF the Union block, indicating tina
the big structure was aire. A numbe
of persons who saw the glare were cor
y WINGED that the interior of the hall wa
ID ahame. 1t was said that paper used
l 0ec0ra finnq for Of
Q; entertainment was being burned in
"a stove in the hall and that when til
door of the stove was opened that til
. glare showed through the windows OIL
+. ers attributed the illusion that a fiji
=, was raging in the hall to a glare frol
IN one or two electric lights, including re
p light marking an exit. In any event, IL
"a alarm stirred up much excitement, ar
Sd scores of people came scuErying out fro
the theatre and hundreds gathering fro
aY all directions, as Box. IL usually ind
cd Gates fire in the very heart of the cit
Clarence F. Bowen, Of Woodstock, hi
20, been nominated to be a vice president
!. | the Connecticut Historical society, whit
as is to hold it's annual meeting in the room
ay of the society in Hartford next week.
A Washington despatch stated that
at petition was received from citizens
q, Putnam favering the enactment of
ne law granting postal employees an in
rFease in wages commensurate with Il
ri increased cost of living.
FsllsBiaE the receipt from Leonard
20. Healey, Of North Woodstock, seereta
LA of the state beard of agriculture, of r
ISIS titiens signed by 81 farmers, milk pr
a. aueers and shippers residing in the t.
in ritory served by the Pomfret and A
ingten stations and asking for the re
toratien of train No. 112 to its old sche
ule. the Public Utilities commission h
ordered a hearing in the matter at t
capitol in Hartford today Friday,
no noon, daylight saving time.
An orchard demonstration 10 bel
'sd AIDE under the direction Of Coun
Agent Davis at the Frank Miller, fal
at Woodstock Hill and is proving of
: terest to many in this section who q
~ interested in fruit culture.
Carpenters being laid of at the sh
,,- yards in the vicinity of New London 9
'ul coming into this section looking for e
s4f pleYmeRt. In other lines, it is stat,
It'll there is a larger supply of labor beco
for ing visible in this section
Walter J. Bartlett, G. Harold Gilpatr
Nh r. G. BoswoFth, Mrs. F. ]. Daniels a
Miss Mary Wheaton constitute comm
tee of the Second Congregational chur
. to carry on the Congregational Wor
N Movement for the local church.
Mrs, c. Russell Bowen had members
the Altar guild of st. Philips CHURCH
hem home on Grove street for msetil
Thursday evening.