Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-07

highways in this part of the state:
 Town. of Canterbury, Westminster road, completely graded, bridge un- der construction and will not be fin- ished for two months. Detour provid- ed.
 Pomfret- -Abington-Road practically completed and open for traffic,
 Town Thompson-Brandy Hill, road work stopped for the winter. Open for traffic. Il
 Town of Plainfeld-Canterbury road nearly finished. Good detour propired.
 At it's January meeting the town school committee elected Miss Edith i Bigelow of the Worcester Hospital Training school and graduate nurse, school nurse for Putnam. The selec- ton is for a period of twelve months | at a salary of s100 a month. Miss Big elow has taken up her work here l and will devote her time to safe guarding and advancing the health of l the pupils of the schools. It was stated Tuesday by Q mem | Der of the town school committee that l through the examinations. as to their physical condition, that have been con ducted by Dr. c, T. LaMarche, as l school physician, among the pupils of schools in Putnam. about 6S cases l of suspected tuberculosis have been 1 discovered, and the examinations of l pupils is not much more than half i completed. The cases where there 1 is a suspicion of tuberculosis will be referred to Dr. Campbell of the Nor wich sanatorium for examination.
 State Officer Howard Elliott stated Tuesday that he and Officer Mere Co., 1 derre had been at Thompson, near the Massachusetts line, during the day,
 and had procured the head of a horse that it is believed was suffering from
 rabies. The head has been forward ed to the state bureau of lpaboratories
 for examination.
 | Officer Elliott said that, about a
 month ago. dog that, apparently was
 mad, came to the Jewell farm in
 Thompson and was walking toward
 Mir. Jewett,. who was out in the yard, when MT. .Tewett made a kick at the I animal and drove it away. The dog
 made for a carriage shed, but when
 Mir Jewell went after it with a club the dog crawled through hole at the rear of the building and made off Shortly afterwards Mir. JeweIl's brother-in- law drove in and incurred !. about a strange dog that he had just seen out by the watering place and ? mentioned that while the horse was
 drinking the dog had bitten it in the , nose.
 Until last week the horse appeared normal, but during the week began to
 act suspiciouslv and by Saturday was
 biting at itself and kicking in a frightful way. Officer Elliott said on Tuesday afternoon that he had been
 informed that a Dr. Harder who lives
 over the border in Massachusetts was
 called to see the horse and after sec ing the animal had it shot.
 Just before the horse was killed its
 mouth was filled with bloody froth and , it is believed that it was suffering from
 a well developed case of rabies. The dog has not been seen since the horse
 was bitten.
 oficer Elliott said Tuesday that he
 had received a complaint from John J.
 Benklow of the town of Thompson that one of his sheep had been bitten . by a dog The outcome of this case is
 yet to he determined.
 The dog that bit the sheep is be- lieved to be another than the one that 7 bit the horse.
 MT. Elliott said Tuesday that he is
 going to give close attention to clear ing up the situation in Thompson pnr-
 taining to dogs. He believes that
 prosecutions of. individuals will bring 7 better results than a general quar- . antine order for the dogs of the town. Another biq real estate deal was nut through here Tuesday when the farm of F. N Wheaton, one of the finest in eastern Connecticut. was sold to George W. Fawley of Canterbury, Conn.,, and two other men who are to have a financial interest. The names
 of these men do not appear in the rec crds of the transaction. but Mir. Wheaton said Tuesday afternoon that
 one was resident of Springfield, the other q resident of Hartford.
 MT. Fawley, who is to be in direct | A.Y- sion this morning
 The farm, located just south of the
 city, below the fair grounds, conpris- es approxinna teIy 400 eres including many acres of splendid tillage. It has long been considered one of the
 show places of all the farms in. this part of the state and has been esti- mated by many as worth, with its herds and equipment. not less than
 $30.0o0. No mention, however, Is
 made of the price at which the place was sold.
 With the farm the purchasers get Mir. Wheaton's splendid herd of cat tie, many of them thorouehbreds. numbering II head. The sale does
 not include Mir Wheatons residence. Mir. Wheaton acquired the first of the farm property in 1893. and since then has purchased a total of ten
 tracts, now combined into rernarlsa- by large and splendid rarm for fhis
 section of the country, and within
 the shadow of a live and rapidly grow ing city.
 Within the past few months Mfr.
 Wheaton, who has been one of the
 heaviest real estate owners in Put
 man, has disposed of large part of
 his property, including number of
 dwellings in the residential section of
 the city.
 His host of friends viii regret to learn that Mir. Wheaton will leave on Thursday morning for Rochester, Minn. where he will enter the Mayo
 hosnital to undergo a serious surgical operation. That the operation will be successful and that MT. Wheaton will return hereTestored to health will < be the fervent wish of many hundreds of Putnam people, who have long a i known him as one of Putnam's fore most business men an da man who
 always has been rated a citizen of the very highest type.
 Louis Wolf, head of the DayviiIe Grain and Coal company and of the Putnam Buick company has arrived at his home here after undergins s medical treatment in New York, for several weeks Mir. Wolf Has not as a 1 yet regained his strength, but is grad ually doing so and is exr~~.--l to be