Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-24
PUTNAM

AIidl VI tue case OL JeuHl6 M. w HIS ya
 N. A. Ballard and M. J. Kinney was not
 resumed in the superior court Thursday
 morning because of the illness of Attor.
 ney Charles E. Searles. one of the coun- sel in the case Mir. Sears was in the
 court room pluekily determined to go on with the trial, but i,s. hefore ten o'clock
 it was deeped advisable to postpone fl ther consideration ei,e matter until further notice.
 Witnesses, members of the jury and others interested in the case were told that the case my not come up agin until sometime in October or possibly Novem- Der. This is becuse other cses are as- signed for trial and will get first consid- eFation.
 MT. Searls was suffering on Thursday from the return of an old and trouble some difficulty, but he was not consid- l cred as at all seriously i'll and will very likely be ready to go on with his court work within a week.
 Putnam is to receive visitation from
 Everett J. Lake, republican nominee for l governor. 1t was announced here Thurs l day. MT. Lake will be guest next l Wednesday evening at the banquet and l opening meeting of the season of the Putnam Mems Club at the Congregational | church. Members of the club were very I FaCsSoCo ObCI NH 1ldhe ; COIliIlS dHu lllc indications are that they will turn out | CT masse to meet him.
 1 The solid manner in which delegations l from Putnam and neighboring towns are 1 aiigping themselves behind the candidacy | of Byron D. Bugbee of this city who has come out for the republican nomination for congressman in the Second district | is indicated by the following circular
 letter sent out Thursday from Putnam: To the delegates of the Second Congress sionaI District:
 We wish to present for your serious
 consideration as our candidate for con- gressman from the Second district, MT. Byron D. Bugbee of Putnam. MT. Bug bee has been successful business man 1 in Putnam for over 30 years was mem-
 ber of the Connecticut legislature in 1899
 and a member of the Constitutional con
 vention. and is ably fitted to represent
 this district in Washington. It is our be- \ lief that in solving the many problems winch this country has to face we need the counsel .and advice of good sound business men. We earnestly ask your
 support of MT. Bugbee.
 Putnam-Silas M Wheelock, Charles P Dean, Irving H. Miron, Joseph Pies i, sis.
 Plainield-Arthur E. Mott A. A. Chase M. D.. F. H. Tillinghast. Samuel L. King . Pomfret-John F. Ash, W. W. Averill F. H. Paine. T. s. Clapp.
 T Killingly-William E. Labelle. Arnolt . P. Rich, Thomas J. Awkward, N. Lorn, Greig.
 Thompson-George E. Whitney, Free I. . L. Bonin. William N. Bates. MT. Bugbee was born in Millbury Mass, March 21, 1884. He~studied il 2 the schools of Webster and during va U cation periods followed his bushes
 bent by taking employment in dry good l. stores. while other youths were spendin D their time idling. MT. Bugbees ances B tors are described as of old New Englan > stock. reaching back to the days of tn s Pilgrims. Some of his early ancestor d were residents of Muddy Brook no d known as East Woodstock: l. His fathers name was AlorIo A. Bu. m bee and his mother was Aseneth Bate ly Of a family of proinence bot hin Mas ne achusetts and Connecticut. Having cor r. pleted his studies MT. Bugbee in 1879 e Ve tered a dry goods store in Turner's Fall ,d>l Mass, where he remained five years ar n- then went to Holyoke and remained the
 fo rtwo years in the same line of bus ed ness.
 d. In 1886 Mir Bugbee entered the er e. ploy of H. c. Murray. then operating he dry goods store in Willimantic and vi yn shortly afterwards opened bran' re store in Putnam, Mir. Bugbee being a s. mitted as a partner. Soon afterWar nd MT. Bugbee purchased MT. Murrays i p- terest in the Putnam store and event
 a ally butt up one of the most successf or business houses in this section oi caste
 Connecticut, retiring only recently, [ o- business now being conducted under [
 firm name of Bugbee and Wulf, Mir. Bu
 bees son, Ralph x, being member ti- the firm.
 q" High praise is being given in the ore eo to the Connecticut exhibit at the Ea: gre ern States exposition at Springlie m- Mass. The exhibit is in a corner of on machinery building and was arranged me Leonard H. Healey of North Woodstol as secretary of the state board of agric, all, ture. The Connecticut exhibition boo gh is done in blue and white and there nd lattice work that gives 1t, a semi-' li lonial effect The most striking featr led
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