Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-25
PUTNAM

Tomorrow (Tuesday) evening the 1 Parent-Teacher association of Putnam l holds a meeting in the high school sail | and gives reception to the new teach CTS.
 Attorney Irving H. Miron spent the week end~in Millbury, Mass, with rela- tives.
 Miss Elizabeth Wheelock of Simmons college, Boston, with a classmate, spent the week end at her parents home here. Nearly a dozen boys left here Friday l morning to attend the older boys confer ence at Hartford, held Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The boys represented the Boy Scouts and the Baptist and Congre- gational churches Alvan T. Sweet, who recently pur- chased the Durfee farm on Putnam ] Heights, across from the residence of At torney Charles L. Torrey, has brought his family from Springfield to their new | home.
 MT. and Mrs John H Moss, who have been spending their honeymoon in Der muda, were in town Saturday and Suh- day.
 Miss Nellie Bloxham, matron of the Day Kimball hospital is spending two weeks vacation in Sidney, N. Y. Miss Calkins 1 is acting matron.
 The junior choir of the Congregational church will take part in the exercises for the first time Nov z.
 At the Methodist Episcopal church par lors there is to be harvest supper. Victory medals for ex-serviee men con tinue to arriye,s but although the Ameri- can Legion has a committee which is pre-
 pared to fill out the necessary application
 blanks for any former soldier, which Is 4 necessary before 8 medal can be re- ceived, only fraction of the men entitled
 to the medals has put in applications.
 Reward for return of black handbag
 containing sum of money. lost between
 Putnam and Mrs. N. o. Ballard's, Pom
 fret. Phone 257-12 Putnam-adv.
 | There are about 2,050 voters in the town of Putnam.
 At the session of tho city esurt held
 Saturday morning, M. H. Geissler judge,
 William Brennan was charged with va
 grancy. Brennan stated that for the
 last Is years he has done no work For
 the first 12 years of this period he was
 an inmate of the Putnam town farm, but he stated that three years ago he walked iout and took to the road. Since then he has bought his daily bread with money earned from begging and posing as vet eran of the Civil war. In reply to further questions of the judge, he admitted that he had seen no service but he had found ) this an easy way of making a living He stated that he had gone around the coun- Il try posing as a former private in the l Third Rhode Island Heavy artillery Ac- cording to his narrative he appeared be. :. fore branches of the Y. M C. A. and a young and old soldiers alike and narrated
 his terrible experiences at the first anC second battles of Bull Run and that O | Pittsburg Landing. He would also de l scribe how he was shot through the legs and about this time audiences would be y gin to get Sympathetic and liberal. H ' seemed quite proud of his ability to mak '. profitable living by means of his imag ination and eloquence. When the judg 5 interrupted his narrative by imposing
 sentence of six months in Brooklyn jai ' he almost thanked the judge stating tha r he had always found Brooklyn jail to b | a very nice place in which to spend tn , winter season. and considered MT. Fiel( a the jailer at Brooklyn, very nice mar @ Joseph Savage was charged with intoz ii ication and being common drunkart Il He stated that he lived on School stree > with his wife and two children and was ,e woodchopper. He further stated that 2 IT this occupation he made from s11 to s1
 a day. His father-in-Iaw corrobated tn +o statement. When asked by the juds " what he did with this amount of none, to he said that during the rast eight weel H. he has given his wife more than BPS x- She was unable to be present at the tri. as because of illness. The judge sentence V. him to 80 days i'll Brooklyn jail on tt
 first count and SO days on the secor
 count but sentence was suspended.
 addition to this costs of s1014 were in
 posed and paid During the trial an il
 toxicated man in the court room create ee disturbance and was arrested ,a Next Wednesday afternoon at the Co, u- gregational church the cradle roll rece, II. tion will be given.
 ct Wednesday evening the Second chure
 club of the Congregational church gives !, costume social
 At Pomfret golf links Friday afternoo or the wonen's contest for the cup whic
 has been offered by one member of tt ss club resulted in tie. between Mrs. Al ,ir thur B. Lapsley of Brooklyn and MT
 Silas M. Wheelock of Putnam The t on will be played off this (Monday) aftel on noon.
 The second team of the Pomfret schot
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