Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-30

A Edith B. Barnes will teach the Putnam Heights school, and Ernestine Davis the Gary district school Edith L. Cutler is to be at East Putnam school.
 At the high school this fall marked changes in the curriculum are to be in- troduced in that all girls taking the com mercial and general courses will be re- quired to take what are to be known as home making subjects. In these Will be taught the science of home management, including practical work in sewing, laun- dry work, cooking, etc. In order that these courses might be properly taught, two new rooms have been fitted up at the school and new equipment purchased. A washing machine has been obtained. Two new teachers will give the instruction in this department, which comes under the state trade school. The work is being introduced into Putnam through the trade school authorities.
 southbound trolley car of the Con- necticut company that left Putnam Gen. ter shortly after 6.30 Friday night ran off the tracks on Grove street in front of the Soldiers monument. The rear truck jumped the rails and went off on to the pavement while the body of the car swung around at right angles, stretching out across the road. The forward truck did not leave the irons. There have been road repairs in progress on Grove street, and crushed rock has been used It is thought that piece of this was on the track and caused the car to jump. The road was tied up for more than an hour while the wreclzing crew was putting the car on to the rails.
 Mir and Mrs. Edward H. Snow and daughter returned to Putnam Saturday night. Mir Snow has passed the sum- rner at a boys camp in New Hampshire and Mrs Snow has been at Cundy's Har- Dor, Me
 There will be meeting of the ,woman's board of the Day Kimball hospital We'd nesday afternoon, Sept. 8, at 3 o'clocl; in the rooms of the Putnam Chamber of Commerce. At this time annual reports will be heard and officers for the coming year elected.
 Funeral services of Everett, Jr., Is, son of MT. and Mrs. Everett Spencer of Pomfret, were held Sunday afternoon at 2o'clock in the Pomfret Congregational tery in Pomfret.
 Captain of Police John Bulger has been entertaining his friend, John Wade of Northampton, Mass.
 When an officer of the Putnam police department took John Whally, 65, to Brooklyn jail Friday, following a 3o-day sentence for intoxicatiou in the Putnam city court, it was discovered that he had escaped from that institution about three years ago. The identification was made by Jailer Fields. Whalley is now being held on a charge of jail breaking In the city court Friday morning Whalley told the judge that he had never seen the in side of jail.
 A Woodstock woman who drove into Southbridge Friday afternoon had a mar row escape from what might have been a serious injury, and at the same time gave some residents of that town few thrills, when she rode over high tension trolley wire that had broken and was stretched along one of the main streets. Before the wire could be picked up by electricians, or the power shut off, the woman, driving large gray horse hitch ed to an express wagon, came down the road, and apparently did not hear the screams of men and women who tried to warn her of her danger. The horse stepped over the wire, but did not touch it. As the wagon passed over the wire there was brilliant display of fireworks on the steel rims, but no damage was done, and the woman drove along, seem ingly unaware that there was anything out of the ordinary transpiring. although bystar1ders thought that both horse and woman would be electrocuted.
 Frank l.. Davis, agent of the windhan County Farmers association, said or Saturday that the ditching and tractor demonstrations held last week on two farms in the county were successful iron every standpoint. The demonstration ir the north end of the county was on the fo nf AJ1ept nar ia1e oI, the state road from Pomfret to Soutf Woodstock. Thirty eight touring car. and trucks brought over 200 people iron surrounding towns to the demonstration Representatives of two commercial trac tor companies demonstrated what thei machines could do, both blowing low, we land. MT. Davis stated that under tn, conditions, which were somewhat severe both machines did excellent work, an, showed clearly how valuable such ma chine sare for agricultural work. Fol 1 lowing the tractor demonstration, T. J i Enslin, an expert in the use of explo sives, arrived with the dynamite set fo | the ditching demonstration. The charg
 blew ditch four feet deep and betweeJ eight and nine feet wide Mir. Ensiil
 also demonstrated the mud-cappiGg o
 rock, and the blowing of stumps
 | Twenty automobiles assembled ln tn
 afternoon of the same day at the c. S Hyde farm in Brooklyn, where MT Ensli
 gave another ditehing demonstration, an
 was very successful in mud,capping
 large rock. Using six sticks of dyna
 mite with a mud-cap, he was able t
 shatter the rock so that large amour
 of it could easily be removed. In com
 menting upon the demonstrations, Nil Davis said that great interest was show
 in them, and already a number of tn
 farmers present plan to do their ditch
 ing work by the use of explosives. I
 this way it will be possible to bring int
 use in this county considerable area C land that now is uncultivated because C
 proper irrigation. By using the explo
 sives, Mir. Davis says, the land can b
 drained at cost that makes it profitabl to undertake the work.