Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-19
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

| John Moss of Lowell passed Sunday in
 Putnam.
 Miss Ruth Child led the Y. P. S. c. E. service at the Congregational church
 Sunday evening" Miss Harriet Brown spoke CT the international council sessions
 at Boston which she attended as a dele gate from the Putnam church.
 pr. Harry Foster of New York held clinic at the Day kimball hospital Satur-
 day at which time twenty children had
 tonsils and adeneids removed.
 Miss Esther Rouse returned to Putnam
 Friday from Fairhaven, Vt. where she
 had been the guest of her sister, Mrs.
 Volney Durfee. Her mother, Mrs. Arthur
 W. Rouse, who has been several weeks in
 Fairhaven. returned also.
 Miss Elizabeth Ryan and Miss Mar
 garet Ryan of Jersey City. N. J., are
 spending two weeks in Putnam, the
 guests of their brother, P. J. Ryan and Miss May Renillard and Miss Beatrice Gagnon of the Peoples store are having a weeks vacation.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. E. Euvrard left Put nam for Hartford Friday evening. Their daughter Camille, student nurse at Hartford hospital, was operated upon for appendicitis Friday.
 Funeral services for Alfred Turgeon. 63, who died Wednesday, afternoon at the Day kimball hospital, were held at St. Mary's church at o'clock Saturday morning. Burial was in St Mary's ceme- ! tery.
 James Maher. Ponlfret. is at the Day Kimball hospital, where he was openated upon last week for appendicitis. Among the appointments made by | President Wilson under the provisions of l the army reorganization act, and an- nounced Saturday, is that of sCol Mark l l.. Hersey brigadier general The 1 brigadier general was a classmate of | Lieut.. Ambrose Moriarty of Putnam and | last week, accompanied by his wife and daughter Miss Alice Hersey, was a guest I of his friend at the Putnam inn. In the | national army Brigadier General Hersey held the rank of major general. but upon l Returning to this country after overseas ! service reverted to his former rank of colonel of infantry The general returned 1 from Germany in July of last year, hav- 1 ing been in command of the Fourth di- | vision of the army of occupation. He was i one of the officers selected to proceed to | France in June, 1917, to observe methods | of warfare which were being pursued both ! by the allied armies and by Germany
 After some weeks spent in France he re- | turned to the United States and trained a | brigade at Camp Dix, N. J., returning to i France in the spring of 1918 and taking part in the battles of Chateau Thierry | St. Miliel and the Argonne. For his con. duct in this campaign he was made a major general He displays distinguish
 ed service medal for participation in the l Spanish war / Q Philippine insurrection 1 the China relief expedition (Boxer rebel l lion), the Cuban occupation and the Mex. ] ican punitive eXDedition He also Wears
 a Victory medal bearing one silver sta1 {, and three bronze stars. The republic oi | France has decorated him with the Croil l de Guerre with palm, the palm signifyins that he was mentioned by name in Frencl army orders. and he has also been made
 an officer of the Legion of Honor. As h, was about to sail from Brest in July 1919. he was presented silver replica O the Lion of Belfort. the gift being mad, by an admiral of tke French navy wht was specially detailed for this purpose b,