Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-10

the district court in Webster this (Sat- urdayl morning.
 Nathaniel s. Child, s7, died Thursday at his home in East Woodstock
 There is still much discussion in Put nam concerning the demonstration early Monday morning which was part of the Fourth of July celebration. In trying to satisfy himself as to why mob of 200 men and boys would go to the extremes of bombsrding private homes, insulting one prominent citizen of Putnam, has '.e- cided that the blame, if anyone aE all is to blame, rests not with any particular
 individuals or with any department of
 the city government but with tho nnd- nicipality as whole. E,s believes that because no formal program had been or- ranged for the holiday the crowd eel.- brated in an unorganized way. and srcn it's behavieT degeneFated into abuse of privileges granted to eslebfSters. Said this man Friday: Those fellows were going to celebrate they had their minds all made up to eele z 1te, and the ene-gy
 Tnasrnuch as the city did not supply any means of orderly celebration, nothing in the nature of prepared program for
 the days entertSiERaents t.,e crowd let it's
 energy loose in it's owd way"
 While this is a somewhat ingenious
 theory, the fact remains that the affair last Monday was & disgrace to Putnam. In speaking of it at the meeting of the common council Alderman John G. John- son said: T have lived in Putnam HOW for If years, and the rowdyism last Mon day is the most disgraeefuT thing that has occurred since I have been here. am tot s~t-z out the rfngIeaders of the crowd who were behaving in direct violation of law and order, and they should have been in court the following morning. wish here at this council meeting to enter my pro- | test against this disgracefuI affair."" I Alderman Johnson explained that ht did not think the police could have gone | into the crowd and made an arrest while the celebration was in progress, but he saw no reason why names could not have been taken and offenders brought into court the following day. He realized, he said, that the police were far outnumber- ed. "It is too bad" he went on, .that we didn't turn the fire hose on those hoodlun1s I was boy once, and know
 the fun of celebrating, but when fellows go about to destroy property and make g
 nuisance of themselves. halt should be | called.''
 | Alderman Johnson ended his discussion 1 of the situation by declaring that the city of Putnam at the present time is ''ir bad" ''Anooher. deploFabie condition her, I is drunkenness" he emphasized. "In ; I town with no saloons we find it on oul streets, and getting worse. Come hon1 late at night and you will find men reel ing from public houses. and men playinl craps on the corners. It is deplorahle. fo young men are getting hold of the thing and defying law and order. I am no hard on the police. for know that 1t il difficult for men to patrol the large terri tory the police have to patrol in Putnam I know if is easy for men playing crap and even those who are intoxicated, t evade the police. But what do mean t infer is that we are in bad at the pFesen time
 There was some evidence Friday after noon that the Monday episode has no been forgotten by the authorities and tha arrests may follow. It is rumored tha many names were taken during the cele bration and that these have been hande. over to the authorities during the las day or two.
 Clerks from business houses and shop
 in the north end of Putnam and thes from the stores in the south end of tn
 city played ball Thursday afternoon o
 the high school grounds as means o celebrating their hais holiday. 4 bo
 score of the game is pot available, for tn
 supply of scoring blanks gave out befor
 the game was half over. The north en clerks won. and the available figures sho, the score to have been 25 to 5. Charro
 and Smith twirled for the south enders
 while Chase was behind the bat Incl dentally he had but little work to do s
 but few balls got past the batters of tn
 Providence street team. Faucher an Dubreii were the battery for the mort