Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-07
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

FO lNAIM
 T am a preacher of the gospel and follower of the Lord" declared George rliynn, 32. who claims 35s W. 145tE street, New York as his home and who vas taken into custody by Captain J. H. Buiger and State Officer Howard Elliott. When they apprehended Flynn the offic- CTS believed they had a man named Shultz, who recently escaped from the state hospital for the insane at Middle town. j.. F. King, who came here from the Middietown institution to idetify the man held here declared that Flynn was not Shultz, so Flynn was released and allowed to go on his eyangelistic way.
 Flynn, who is a well educated young man and claims to have earned a college degree, told the officers that he has made four preaching trips across the continent The first of these trips took him Nom New York to Brownsville, Texas, on the Mexican border. The next trip was west ward to Yellowstone park, The next up the Connecticut valley to Fisher Falls, on the Canadian border and he is now travelling northward from this section to the Canadian line.
 T feed the hungry with truth, he told the officers. Asked as to his parents he declared that his father is dead but that his mother is living in New York. She clothes the naked" Flynn declared and when pressed for elucidation of this statement he said she's a dressrnaker. !" All of this was in serious vein, Flynn told of healing the sick by his prayers and faith and declared that this is possible for anyone who would become a healers if they have sufficient faith. He told MT King of the Middletown in I--4sA Ar II Islip for observation during the period of the war on account of his declaration relative to being a conscientious objector, After lengthy questioning by the ofie- CTS, Flynn who acted like a gentleman, was allowed to depart.
 Members of the town school commit tee have selected for another year nearly all the teachers now engaged in Put nam's schools. This year the commit tee is confronted, in securing teachers, with condition that is common through out the country. There is a shortage of teachers throughout the nation and 1S,- GOO schools have been forced to close Meagre salaries paid to teachers as com pared with the liberal earnings that are open to talented persons in many other | lines of endeavor is the reason given for thousands of teachers retiring from their  Putnam. is no different than esewhere ir the nation, though the condition may not be so aggravated here as it is ir some localities.
 1 Considering this condition, the town school committee has agreed upon a new method of fixing salaries for the graded l or common schools of the town of Put 1 nam. Under this new arrangement, the maximum pay for teachers in schools within the city imits is to be $1250; tht 1 minimum within the city for teachers without training, ss5o; the minimum I within the city for teachers with training l S95o. Outside of the city, in the out ying districts of the town, the rates art to be s1o0 less per year than the abov' schedule, each teacher to be increased s5l a. year until the maximum is reached For principals and eighth grade teach 1 CTS an addition $50 over amounts men 1 tiened in the schedule is allowed. l At the office of the town school com nlittee the following list of teacher elected YVES given out!
 Superintendent of school, w. L. Mac donald, s3250.
 l Israel Putnam schoel-E. E. Ellsworth principal and seventh grade, s1700 ;'Mis M. Etta Whiting, sixth grade, s1250
 Mrs. Carrie c. Gascoigne, fifth grade s1250; Miss Emma J. Dutton. fourtl grade, $1250; Miss Ethel Strahan, thir grade. $1100 Miss Natalie M. Dion, sec ond grade, s100 Miss Mary Burke, frs grade 500; Miss Gertrude c. Warner
 first grade, s1.0oO; Miss Edith M. Kent eighth grade Gin high school building
 s1soo.
 l Smith Street School-Ella l. Ballard
 principal, teaching grades 7-S, $500 Miss Anna I. Furlong, grades 5-6, s1050
 Miss Marion L. Renshaw, grades B. s115o; Lucy M. Farrows, grades l.: is1,0eO i Sawyer District-Miss Bertha (
 White, principal. s12oo; Miss Mary Wi
 bur, primary. s11oo; Miss Edith E. Flo County home schooD s75o.
 Putnam Heights-Miss Mildred
 Torrey, $500.
 East Putnam-Nsis E. L. Cutler, $50,
 Gary District-Miss Ernestine Davi i$SOO. 4
 1 Snow, S2600; sub-master, Eugene W. Fl 1 lis, $2300: Miss Abbie Keith, Englisl $1400; Miss Lucy F. Rice, Latin an History, s14e0; Miss Minnie L. Cannon l commercial, $1400.
 The committee has deferred the eIe. tion of kindergarten teacher until
 
 continuing the kindergarten classes ca be found for the next school year. IT i, Israel Putnam school, where the kindel garten is located, is becoming mol
 crowded every year and another influx pupils sufficient to tax the capacity 2 the building to it's utmost even without kindergarten is expected next fall. Lik ly provision will have to be made ft another grade at this building and 7 this prospect yroves out, the kinde 1, garten will be forced out for lack quarters, as it is now occupying the on | available room for new grade. It
 possible that an addition may have to l built to the Israel Putnam school The is a disposition on the part of the scho : lcommttee to continue the kindergarte if room for locating it can be obtai :, ed.
 Mrs. Martha Pearson, widow of WI f liam Pearson, died at her home here - 1:30 Thursday morning. Mrs. Pearson, f native of England, was born January 2 z 1927. She was daughter of MT. al f Mrs. Leonard Caulkins. Mrs Pears, = has been a resident of Putnam for abo
 half a century and before coming he
 lived in woodstock. She leaves ty