Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-03
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM


 Editor Harold S. corbin, of a New Britain trade publication, is spending the Easter season at his home in this city.
 Putnam carpenters are asking for one dollar an hour. a scale that some of the contractors are not inclined to grant,
 Good Friday was an unusally dreary day. Business was suspended in Putnam after the noon hour and the rain drove about everyone off the streets.
 There is every promise of a pros porous season for the Putnam Coun- try club, which has applications for membership on file from IS persons.
 Trout, caught at the opening of the season, were served in a number of Putnam homes for Good Friday din- ners.
 Leonard H. Healey. secretary of the state board of agriculture, has been set yet for the fifty odd country fairs to be conducted in Connecticut during the late summer and fall. : | Monday will bring the reopenirg of Putnam's schools for the last lap of | the school year.
 | I. c. McGuire, who has been engag- 1 ed in business in this city for q num- Der of years, is opening another place of business in Danielson. MT. Mcclure also will continue in business here. l There is such a scarcity of pota- ! toes in towns in this section, even in the strictly agricultural towns, that there is worry about getting a suf- ficent quantity of seed potatoes for Maine and other parts of the country are to be depended upon to relieve the 1 shortage.
 Beautifully decorated aItars anc festival music will mark the observ. ance of Easter Sunday at St. Mary. church, where many hundreds gather ed for the Good Friday services. Thi. Saturday. morning the impressive services of Easter Saturday will at tract a very Hrge congregation. Miss Eleanor Livingstone of Vel lesley college and William Livingston, who is attending a college in NeV l York, are spending the Easter sea son with their parents, Rev and Mrs
 5. D. Livingstone of Thompson.
 A conference of the Sunday schoo
 teachers and workers-es Putnam is | , he held in the Congregational churc here April IA. Addresses at thi
 conference will be made by speaker l rom Hartford.
 Suffragists here were disappointe ) when they read Friday of the actio
 taken by the Delaware legislature i rejecting the suffrage amendment { : he constitution.
 The alleged threats of dire conse | 1uences to any persons who attemr : Q take the places of the resigned fire l nen of Hose Company, No. 2, hay l aroused the ire of the great najorit I If citizens of Putnam. The sentime1
 seems to be summed up in the follow [ ng remark of one prominent citizer I have no objection to the men rt g signing; that's their business. Bl
 10 man or set of men has any rigl z 0 threaten other men who would. tai s he places now vacant. This is lit s better than anarchy" . The northerIy side of Grove stre fl aas been plewed up from King stre $ 70 near the soldiers monument. Tn
 means that the contractors who q E not have time to finish the work laying the cement through this stre l. l before the cold weather set in la l. 1 fall are back on the job and anxiol
 O get it finished It is expected tn s an arrangement will be made wi l. he trolley road management for u ,r aying of cement through that part
 he street covered by the car line
 The trolley track is now a number 70 inches above the new grade of t le street in some places and will have T be lowered.
 n Following are the newly electt ,d 1fficers of the Putnam Country clu ,d President, G. Harold Gilpatri; fiji ,s vice president John G. Johnson SC TN n 'T 1 secretary. H, J. Smith; treasurer,