Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-21
PUTNAM

gf14flCo nominee for president passed through | Putnam on the f2:59 express to New < York Wednesday,. The train was few | minutes late, and when it pulled in, there | was a crowd of, about one hundred and I fifty gathered to hear the governor, Dur ing his four minute stop, GoYernor Cox remarked that anybody questioning him 1 would not be arrested, evidently referring l to one whb questioned Senator Harding recently and suffered that, experience. He l also stated he stood for. rpeace and pros
 perity, and for the freedom of Ireland. i He was enroute to Hartford. where he { was to speak Wednesday evening.
 At present there are six ex-seryice men taking vocational training courses at the ] local trade school. Most of them are from nearby towns, but the last to be enrolled comes from Virginia. It. was announced at the office of the Windham County Farmers association here Wednesday that a ditching demon stration has been arranged to take place on the farm of H. l. .Switzer, in Wind I ham, starting Friday morning at 9 30. T. :!
 J. Erslih of the Du Pont de Nemours company of New York is to conduct this' i dempnstra tion, in cooperation with the 1 farmers association. There are number of farmers in the county who are, interested ir ditching who were unable to attend the previous 1 co-operatiye demonstration in Woodstock 1 and Canterbury, conducted some time
 ago and this will afford an opportunity
 to some of those interested to onst've how the work is done,
 The big mills of the GrosyenerdaIe l cenpany at Grosyenordale and North 1 Grosvenordaie closed for the week We'd l nesaay evening, this arrangement mark l ing period of curtailment affecting cot
 ton manuf9cturlng centers throughout l New England. The mills in the GrqsYen- l ordales employ well over 1000 operatives
 a nd rarely in their long history have fouad l it necessary to cqrtail production, but the present unusual circumstances due to ] reaAiustment processes in the textile in-- dustry make the shorter hours of work i 1 imperative for the present.
 Forthcoming annual reports of the fcounty commissioners, who held one of their regular meetings at the county jail in Brooklyn on Wednesday, will be of special interest as indicating the difficul- 1 ties that the commissioners have had to face in administering county affairs dur ing the past year of high prices and try 1 ing problems. incident to unusual condi-
 ttons prev aflihg everywhere in the na- ton.
 1 The reports will show that the county
 jail ran behind during the past year, a
 period when there have been few pris-
 bars that were confined there before the advant of prohibition. In the old days, earnings of the prisoners, who in this
 county were given much work to do, at a profit to the county, amounted to thou
 sands of dollars and nearly always en-
 abled the jail to show a very .substqntial
 surplus instead of a deficit It will be
 good news to county people to learn that an excellent financial showing has been
 made at the county home where MT. and Mrs. D. C. Park formerly of this city, have demonstrated the same efficient management as has marked their entire
 administration in their important posts. Approximately $50 names have been added to the voting lists of the town of Thompson during the fall season. and , the lists are now being perfected for use fat the election Q week from Tuesday, The naw voters include about 300 women the | great majority of whom have affiliated : with the republican party Of the group of men and women voters made in Thompson Tuesday, 39 registered as re-
 plblicans and as democrats.
 Add to collection of Ford jokes and
 facts A Thompson man owns q Ford
 Occasionally he puts lubricatng oil into the crank case. He keeps the said oil
 in a can. Inanother can. exactly like
 the can containing the oil, he keeps, or Il has kept, molasses. On a recent evening, ] while in hurry, he picked Ep the wrong can and filled the crank case with molas- Eas.
 There are several versions as to what t happened thereafter The little car, which has been said to run even on its r9putation. immediately became stuck up , and started 10 act like a Fierce Arrrow ! of bank -account-destroying dimensions 2 much after the manner of a peaceable I man who suddenly feels the effect of 3 , shot of jakey.
 II h a distance of three miles the motor n had churned and pulled the contents o- the crank case into s6 worth of Ipolasse. : candy, The Ford owner pzid s to ge | lowed home and SS to have his engin, 2 oYerhauled; net loss after disp9sing o : the. candy and not figuring the cost o
 the molasses, s5,
 7 Up at the farm of County Commission z CT E. H. Corttis, in the town of Thornp . son, near the Massachusetts border, ' 1 long and earnest vigil is being kept for a
 | Irish, setter that is one of a group 0 't three dogs thaE has decimated Comnis $ sioner Corttis' flock of sheep reducin
 the number to ten. TWenty-seven since ' and lambs have been killed by these dog Il since June F, when the first visitatio
 by the raiders was noted. On that da 19 sheep and lambs were killed One c h more of the dogs returned in July an 's another raid was made in September. Is The setter, which is the chief offend
 CT, is believed to be owned in Dude, i-l which adjoins Webster and is only e comparatively short distance from tr Q Corttis farm. Although careful watc y has been kept to get this particular do; r. the effort so far has been unsuccessful
 MT. Corttis said while in this city Wet
 nesday,
 ! Wanton killing has marked the shee 3 raids of these rowing dogs Mir. Corfu
 loss is in excess of s40o. and this doe
 not take into consideration the discourag,