Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-31
DANlELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

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 Friday afternoon at gathering of i young ladies at the home of Dr. and | Mrs. J. ]. Russell, in this city, the 1 engagemenf of their daughter, Miss Catherine Russell, to John Hill Moss. l son of MT. and Mrs. John Mass, of ! Athens, Ga., was announced, l
 Miss Russell was born in this city l and attended the public schools, grad
 uating from Putnam High school in ] the class of 1916. Later Miss Rus 1 sell entered the Emma Willard l school at Troy, N. Y, from which she | was graduated in 1918. MT. Moss is a graduate of Georgia 1 Technical school. He served, withl the rank of lieutenant in the United 1 States army, aviation section, during l the World war and was overseas. For 1 some time past MT. Moss has been | with the MAnhasset Manufacturing
 company of this city and is learning 1 the tire fabric manufacturing busi- l ness, making his home with Agent A. D. Lown, of the company. State Policeman Howard Elliott and Deputy Automobile Inspector Ralph c. Young continued in this city ] during Friday their inyestigations 1 relative to where at least three cars l now owned in this city. came from. 1 Officer Elliott said Friday afternoon 1 there were certain suspicious cir
 cumstanees pertaining to these cars that warrants the careful investiga- 1 tion that the. state officials are now | engaged upon.
 As indicating what he meant, Mir. l Elliott cited the fact that one of the l cars, a, Cadillac, has had every num- l Der that would help in tracing it's his 1 tory and ownership removed, and "tfe ] job Of taking off the numbers was the l sHckest l have ever seen,'' said Mir. Elliott.
 The two other cars that are claim l ing the attention of the officials are l Bucks. The officials believe these l ears came into this territory from Boston and that further investiga- tions will develop the fact that there
 are other cars in the Putnam terri
 tory that will come under the same l category.
 Two experts who know about car | insurance and whose activities in oth- l CT fields pertaining to automobiles
 may lead to unravelling the knetty
 problems that the officers were facing 1 were in Putnam on Friday and thor
 oughly inspected the cars in question. l Up to Friday evening no. action had
 been taken by the officials other than
 along the lines of Investigating to discover all that it may be possible
 to know about the machines.
 Friday approximately a dozen per-
 sons in Putnam were very ill with
 what some physicians describe As
 hard cases of the grip, while others
 pronounce the patients to be suffering
 with influenza. Whatever the nature l of the cases. the patients are really very i'll, some of them running tenn
 peratures ah high as 104 In homes l | fhd fsc 1 precautions are being taken to pre- 1 vent the communication of the dis
 ease to other members of the house. ! holds, but no quarantine has been es-
 tabhshed, nor is it indicated that
 there is any present need of such re- striction. It was believed Friday
 that none of the persons who are sick . were in any seirpus danger. although . some were facing the possibility of
 pneumonia developing
 } At his home on School street, Fri day afternoon, at o'clock funera l services for Charles w. Bradway were : conducted by Rev. ,Boynton Merrill oi : the, Second Congrega tional church [ The service was attended by relatives and friends, the business interests ot the city being represented. Buria 2 was in Grove Street cemetery.
 I Captain Addy of Norwich was tht I speaker Friday evening at one in a series of special meetings arranged tC $ be held here under the auspices ,oi the Salvation Army. This evening | and Sunday evening there will be ad l dresses by Captain and Mrs. Sowers
 of Hartford. All the meetings are [ being given special features to make s them unusually attractive.
 MT. and Mrs. ". N. Herrindeen ob. served the silver anniversary of theil 5 marriage at their home in Woodstocl Friday. Their guests were represen : tative of nearly all of the places ir
 that section of the county.
 l Gordon. Fawcett Hamby, who wa, t electrocuted at the New York state l. prison at Sing Sing just before mid e night Thursday died showing tht 1 same utter contempt for death as ha, l marked his attitude during all the
 time he was in the death house, ant s he died declining to receive any re- T ligious consolation. There was par. D ticular interest in this. great crifni- nal, for he paid with his life for hay l ing murdered in Brooklyn, N. T., or 2 Friday, December 13. 1918, Dewitt c
 Peal, whose home was in Abingdon |. and Henry Coons, another emplovs
 of the Brooklyn, N. Y, Savings bank Putnam not lnfrequently noWadaY, ? is short of accommodations for ths
 travelling public, and the situation 2 has been made somewhat more acute : through the loss of the Chickerins e hotel, destroyed by fire during thu : present month. The Putnam inn anC
 ! CiSy hotels at times are so filled witl I guests that people who would stay 1T i this city have to go to nearby towns
 to find aeeommodations this applying e to rooms for the night.
 | James Francis Shea and Mrs. Delis y Lucier Cutler, who were married her,
 January 23, have returned to Putnam : after their wedding trip.
 ; From Orlando, Fla, word has com, , 1 to Mir. and Mrs. James Perry of thi
 l city that their son, Arthur Perry, il q in a hospital in that city reeovenins e from serious injuries received in al t automobile accident; that is, MT : Perry was driving out in a horse S drawn vehicle when it was struck an, IT TaxnlJ Trora an1d1o4ad h~ Dc- N;I