Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-13
Concert and Social Tubbs' Band PONEMAH HALL
 TAFTVILLE Friday Evening, February B CONCERT 8 to g DANCING g to 12

UAINCIfV0 , to lZ his own vehicle and which he stopped i to give assistance to thA stalled truck Dr. E. F. Perry, comma nder of An l selm MayotGe post, American Legion. i said Thursday morning that plans are l not yet completed for the service that 1 is to be held WaShingt0n's birthday in connection with the presentation, in l the name of the government of France | of certificates of honor to the next of l kin or other relatives of American 1 soldiers who gave up their lives in the world war. DF. Perry said that four 1 of the certificates to be presented have l been received here.
 1 Joseph LeiseIIe, member of the nieht l sWitcher crew in the local reaIroad l yards, was injured during Wednesday | night while assisting in re-rai1ing some cars that had dropped off the l iron in the yards. Loiselle was slightly l crushed when his legs slipped under 1 the wheels and was in imminent dang i CT of being killed. His injuries were ! reported on Thursday morning as not of a serious nature
 l State Officer Howard E. Elliott is iII at the home of his mother at Rocky l Hill. near Hartford. Officer Elliott. 1 who has been making his I1eadquarters ] in this city much of the time since last i fall, became i'll after making an of- 1 f1cial trip to the Avon Mountain re- 1 zion. He proceeded as far as possi- ] hla in a sleigh and then riding horse ! back. completing the trip. His illness l is believed to be due to the exposure 1 he suffered
 Plans are complete for the meeting 1 of the Norwich District Ministerial l association to be held at the Methodist church here on Monday and Tuesday of next week. The meetings will be ] open Monday morning at 1o.50. Min ute Men, Unit Leaders, Sunday school workers. Epworth League officers and delegates from wonen's societies are being urged to attend. Nearly 50 clergymen are expected to attend the
 meetings.
 There is no comparison as to quan- tlty between the amount of snow now on the Streets of Putnam and the banks of it that were deposited here by the great blizzard 6f March, 1888,
 Judge l.. H. Fuller, a resident of Put
 nam for over half a century, said on
 Thursday As an illustration of how
 the streets in the business section were
 buried under the masses of snow in
 'SS Judge Fuller cited the fact that
 drift in frent of the Eiks' building
 and directly opposite the entrance to
 Burts store reached to the sign over
 the doorway, and 2 high post there at
 the edge of the sidewalk was buried.
 This post supported mortar and
 postal and an eagle-and only the
 eagles head protruded through the snow
 In observance of Lincoln's birthday ] banks in Putnam were closed Thurs
 day. Pulips in schools also were given
 d haKholiday.
 Attorney Charles L. Torrey appeared
 for a client in the town court of
 KilIingly at Danielson, Thursday aft
 ernoon
 Poultry dairy, bees. pigs and crops
 will be discussed at an extension
 school to be held at Abingdon March B. 1s.. As there is much interest in the
 lecture to he given. large attendance
 is anticipated.
 The capacity of the hospital here to
 care for patients has been so tested
 that it has been necessary to place
 some patients on cots The hospital
 serves Putnam and all of the sur
 rounding towns and there is ever in
 creasing evidence that it's capacity to
 care for patients should at least be doubled.
 L. NJ. Keith is president and A. c. Keith secretary treasurer of the newly incorporated Keith Trucking and Garage company of this city The Putnam High School basketball
 team went to Danielson Thursday ev- ening for a game with the Killingly High School team.
 It was possible, under improved con- ditions of overland travel for the bus line to Danielson to maintain it's reg u(ar A minute schedule of service on
 Thursday.
 , 4 lecture in a Home Nursing course is scheduled to be given today (Fri- , day) at the chapel in Eastford Anoth- CT such meeting is planned to be held , in Horticultural hall at South Wood
 stock on Wednesday next and one at r East Woodstock next Thursday. l l Attorney Eric H. Johnson is to ad- l dress a meeting of the Civic club plan l ned for February 26.
 Il According to an item sent out from | North Grosvenordale. the sales oi f | Jamaica ginger have increased one : hundredfold since prohibition came
 into effect and men have been seer
 staggering about the streets The elimination contest for ths
 choice of the Junior class team tC compete for the Inter class Speaking contest, twas held in the High Schoo 2 Auditorium Thursday The efforts O . the contestants were all above the av. l Ci oesS. anu tifc SC1CCblOftS were dGtiVHF- 7 ed with such ease and effect that il : made decision by the judges particu- . lariy difficult. Miss Helen Thompson ' was first cE-aiee. Miss Phillips was = second choice, and Henry Breusseat
 was named as alternate with honorabl,
 mention. The speakers and seIectioni
 were as follows: The unkown Speak.
 CT, Alfred Barber; The Hell Gate ot
 Soissons, Henry Brousseau; Effort O
 Endeavor. Eunice Boissoneau; Swee
 Pea, Willheini1a Frost: Gettys.
 burg, Margaret GeissIer; The Ballart
 of East and West, Helen Phillips,
 Commencement. Helen Thomson: Th,
 Message of Garcia, Henry Peterson.
 The judges were Mrs Leon Nilsson
 Mrs. Silas Wheeler and Miss Dditf Kent.
 It will pay you to go to DanieIsor
 Saturday to the Keystone Store ss 7i
 cent ssle.-adv.
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