Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-20
PUTNAM

 Geissler Saturday, morning, that of Ed | ward Gay, charged with stealing slo | from Franklin's Lunch cart. Livery | street. The robbery was committee more | than year ago, but Gay escaped and has been living in Massachusetts. He told i the court that he was out of work, and had wife and baby two months old to support. Judge Geissler gave the man thirty days in Brooklyn jail, but sus- pended sentence for six months, pro vided the man borrowed or earned ten dollars to replace the amount stolen.
 Captain Bulger announced Saturday afternoon that he has got into communi- cation with the Jordan Hardward Co.
 of Willimantic, in regard to the repairs
 to the railing on Grove street, nearly
 opposite the s. x. F., Tel Co.'S office
 The car, driven by some one connected
 with the firm, crashed through the rail-
 ing Thursday of last week and knocked
 several large stones off from the wall
 upon which the railing is built. The
 three foot drop over the wall. appar- ently didn't hurt the car any for it pro- ceeded without notifying the local police 1 of the accident. Someone told the cap tain the number on the car. however. and he has been endeavoring 10 get in com
 munication with the owners since the ac- 1 cident. At last he has succeeded. and 1 the company has assured the local police that it will settle for the damage done | the fence. .t.F---
 Abeut three s'elsck Saturday afternoon | the Putnam inn got rammed by l fiivver. registeration number Conn. s7-1ss How it happened is no known. but while i the driver was backing around in the
 square by the station and the Putnam | inn, he apparently, pressed the wrong
 pedal. and instead of going frotwards
 in hurry the Ford started to go back
 wards at the san>e time. It kept going. 1 and banged. into pair of doors in the hotel, opening them and damaging them slightly. The hivver got bent lenders,
 and broken tail light, | A Buick touring car 77-0s5. which re- I gently suffered considerable damage in an accident in the southern part of the
 county, has been brought to Putnam for repairs. The left fender is badly bent
 and nearly torn of. the left wheel smash
 ed front axle damaged. and the wind
 shield and top demolished
 The 10 a. m. train from New London
 Saturday was over an hour and a halt
 late. Trouble with the engine was the
 cause of the tardiness
 The stores Saturday began .te. show signs of brisk Christmas shopping.
 Most of the colleges and preparatory | SCnOOiS nave .clOSeQ TOT the CnrlSIn6i recess and the students gre returning tt their homes. Among those returning t Putnam are: Thomas 'Dobson. who i taking four year course at the Spring , field Y. M. C. A. school. Mfr. Dobson wa q graduated from Putnam High school las > year He was a member of the champion : ship basketball team which Putnam ,. turned out last year. He is the gues l. of his mother during the Christmas re s cess. --7-
 + Miss Edith Gilson from willimanti [, Normal school is at the home of he ', parents for the holidays.
 l, Charles Maher, a student at Norwic 7, university, at Northheld, Vt, Is home fo J. the holidays
 j. Misses Sylvia and Elizabeth wheelocl
 students at Simmons college. Boston. al !. at their parents home fo rthe Chris is mass recess -.,
 s Pomfret school closed Thursday for q ,e holidays. Sessions will be. resumed af r CT three weeks vacation Thursday. Ja NV 3. 1e21.- There were three parlor ca is cn the west-bound express Thursds ,f morning to accommodate the stude, ~ nwhose homes lie in that direction. is Befsre a crowded han Friday erenin re cast of over sixty High School st re dents presented Pilgrim pageant
 romrnemoration of the three hundred v- anniyefsary or tho landing or the P .s grims. Friday evening was designat m Parents Night by the Parent-Teachei
 association and was considered suitat
 time to present the pageant The D s geant was public and the High Schc "i players have been rehearsing for it { " two months. The evening was also [ u date of. the presentation of memori; III to Mary Eden Ttstem. and to Ellswor dC Hopkins Sabin, who were killed Oct 'e- by an electric shock Miss Child del es cred an address on Miss Tatem. who n- death occurred in 1915. Miss Tstem V 'n- of nigh literary tastes and the incoi eo' from the fund established in Ier rai ld- will be used 10 buy books for the me IS Der of the High School graduating cl; nt- who for the last two years of his m her high school course has had the b
 general average. and has shown the m sIy interest in American literature Ceoi he Child of the senior class. delivered ta- brief address Of presentation in conn ec- ton with the Ellsworth Sabin nemor iss Pictures were shown illustrating er- hardshps of the first winter. and show st. many of the old residents in. New El Ldy land. Plymouth Rock was shown { an- Principal Snow. of the High School { en- some stories about the historic stone er- The pageant proper was in five ra. sodes. The first represented The La i've ing of the Pilgrims and the success ril episodes depicted The First Winter,