Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-24
DAlHELSOK AND PUTNAM NEVIS
PUTNAM


 Misses Mae, Bessie and Marguerite o'Brien, Hammond street, who have been spending two weeks at Sound View, day
 Golfers from the Putnam Country club were guests on Saturday afternoon of the club in Woonsocket, and in the l match that was played on the links wer Ivictors by a score of 23 to 22. A num- Der of Putnam ladies accompanied the team, and were entertained with cards at the Woonsocket club house.
 Pupils in Putnam public schools this Tuesday, morning begin the last two weeks of their summer vacation. School opens for the fall term on September z. Henry Wheelock, Lucius Merriam, Louis Girard and Ralph Bradford, who have been taking an automobile trip to Canada, returned to Putnam Saturday.
 Sunday afternoon on the ton of Bald Hill, in the town of Union, a vesper St;r- vice was held which was conduetel by Rev Willard Beard, president. of Foo chow College, Foochow, China. A num- Der from Putnam were present, includ- ing MT. and Mrs. c. Dwight Sharpe
 Miss Emma Kinney and Ebert Kinney Everett Lamereaux, more commonly known in Putnam as Peter Lovely, and Lavina Lamereaux, wife of Alex Lamer- eux, brother of Everett, were before Judge Mahlon H. Geissler. in the Put nam city court on Monday morning. charged with adultery. Both pleaded not guilty. The Putnam police, and County Detective William A. Jackson, have been looking for the pair for several weeks. Lamereux was before the Putnam court this spring charged with theft. and a that time was placed on probation. A few days later he ran away, and at the same time his brothers wife disappear ed, and it was believed that they had gone together. Sometime later Detective Jackson learned that the pair were i:i Middletown where they were employed. as man and wife, at hospital. Last Friday night Mir. Jackson went to the institution and arrested the couple. In court Monday morning he testified that he had gone to the room where the cou- pie were living and found them there to- gether under conditions that warranted their arrest. When he confronted them, Jackson testified, they refused to admit that they had ever. lived ia Putnam, or that their names were Lamereux. They were living under the name of Lamore at the hospital Later they told the of1- cer that this original tale was untrue and thats they were the couple he was after. Alex Lamereux was placed on the stand by Prosecuting Attorney Ernest c. Morse, and he identified the woman in the prisoners dock as his wife, and the man as his. brother. Pauline Lan1ereuX g. told the court that the woman vas her mother. She testified that she had been living in Middletown, though not with her mother. She had been board ing Frequently she had been t3 visit her mother and her uncle. ami she told tf., judge that the latter abused her Ee- cause she would not call him papa. She testified 10 cetrain events that enabled l the prosecutor to establish his case Judge Geissler found the pair guilty and bound them over to the next tern ! of the superior court having crmin1 1 jurisdiction Bond was pIa sd at s6Gt l apiece and not being able to furlisr i this the two were taken to Brooklyn jail As the two prisoners wcfe beins brought to Putnam from NndHetJwI i Saturday night. they had 8 narrow es cape from injury when the machine 1T which they were riding, .'riven bY De tective Jackson and Sheriff Elme- Young
 of Willinantic. plunged through a fence : on the roadside near Bolton otch. anc
 down a seven foot ernbankment. The ac 1 cident occurred. when the lights on th' car suddenly went out causing th' | driver to lose control of the car througf i; his inability 10 see the road.
 1 Funeral services of Mrs Cordelia Le. | Clair T6 widow of Narcisse LeClair. O ! Smith street were held from St. Mary
 church Monday morning at 10 o'clock Burial was in St Mary's cemetery. Mrs LeClair who had been in i'll health fo mary weeks, died at her home Frida. morning.
 The body of George s. Cutler, 5s. wh, died Saturday in Milford. was brough
 to Putnam Monday, and from here vii ! be taken to East Putnem for burial. MT Cutler formerly lived in East Putnam Full of enthusiasm and loud in thed praise of what the American legion ha
 accomplished throughout the state 0 Connecticut during the past year, Dr Edward F. Perry, Attorney Archibald Macdonald, Jr., and Malcolm M. Willie! have returned from Bridgeport wher last Friday and Saturday they attended the state convention of the legion as thu representatives of Anselm Mayotte Post
 o. 15, Putnam. The Putnam delegation played an important part in the business that was transacted by the fourth dis l trict in which it was included, and witt ] the representatives from the posts il 1 Danielson, Willimantic Mansfield. Staf i ford Springs, South Coventry and Nortl 1 Grosvenordale formed combina atiol ! that gave this part of the state consider
 
 able strength, In nearly all matters 0 | importance the delegates in this distric voted as unit. which made them a fac
 tor to be reckoned with. In selecting the delegates that will represent thi
 state at the national convention of thu
 organization. which will be held il Cleveland during the last week of Sep l ternber. a Putnam man was. chosen. At
 torney Archibald Macdonald, Jr.,. vii attend the convention as state dele ] gate. His election gives to the Putnam
 post considerable prestige. In the selec
 ton of the convention committees tht
 Putnam. post was well represented. At
 torney Macdonald was given a place ol
 the important committee on constitution
 and bylaws, and Dr. Edward F. Perry commander of the Putnam post. wa
 chosen for the committee on legislation Other Windham and Holland county del egates who had places on committee
 were as follows: resolutions. Bernard R Casey Danielson; auditing, G. S. Torrey
 Mansfield; service division committee. F 1 T. Edgerton South Coventry; American