Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-04
PUTNAM

OuO6S 0SOI6c IaltIII1dn WILL QTG- side at this lThursdayl mornings i session of the superior court in tAis city.
 The state police department have taken action to stop the sale of so- called policy tickets in this city. Wednesdays warm sun started a 1 flow of water such as has not been seen in Putnam's streets for many days. 1 The. Hoyt Musical Revue company closed a very successful engagement at the Bradley theatre, Wednesday, i playing to capacity business. ] Herbert Smith continues to improve from day to day, after an illness with | pneumonia.
 Repairs are being made to the Con- gregatioral parsonage, damaged by 1 fire in January.
 Alfred Bonneville was named a member of the board of selectmen of Putnam to succeed Joseph Lapalme, who died recently. Mir. Bonneville is the democratic member of the board.
 Mir. and Mrs. Hyde Smith have re- turned from visit with relatives in 1 Worcester.
 ! Congregational clergymen from var ious towns in Windhan county and a number Of lay de.egates will come here today (Thu. sday) to attend the Windham county conference of Con- gregational churches. The morning session will open at ten o'clock and the afternoon session at 2 o'clock. A lunch is to- be served at noon by the member of the Ladies Social circle Rev. Sherrod Soule of Hartford will be the speaker at the morning. session and in the afternoon the speaker will be Rev. George L. Cady of New York, regional director of the Congregation al World movement.
 Social, civic and religious better. ment are given as the objects to be worked for by the newly organized Men club of the Congregational church, which starts it's activities with D members enrolled. Officers elected include. President, William L. Mac donald; vice president, Ernest C. Morse; secretary treasurer, F. J. Dan- iels.
 Daniel Maley, of Pomfret, who some time since was discharged from the regular army, after long and faithful service. has a service record of which any man may be proud He saw twelve years of service in the Philippines, and his recital of the re- nlarkable advancement of the F'ili- pinos under American administration served with the United States forces is highly interesting. Mr. Malley also that took part in he suppression ot the Boxer rebellion. He was in the San Juan fight also. While in the service of Uncle Sam he has served and visited in many of the out of the way corners of the world and his re- cital of his experiences are high en- tertaining.
 Two sto.en automobile eases hay, been adjusted, after q conference be. tween the state police, representative of insurance companies that paid tn, losses on the cars, men who bough them here and Arthur Pepin, who solt them in transactions that are now re ] garded as relieving him from any re sponsibility for having intentional, handled cars that had been stolen. MT. Pepin paid a total of S1350 t recompense the buyers of the ma chimes know as the Delisle and Jodoil ) cars. This action is described in of 3 ficial circles as buying the cars back. ? It is understood that the. agree Q parties concerned was such as to b
 quite generally satisfactory to all an Q a means of clearing up bad tangie.
 Lieut.. Robert Bridgefnan of tn Q state police paid generous tribut , to MT. Pepin over the manner i ' which he assisted the officers i 0 strengthening out the difficulty an 0 for the general good will he shove 1 during the investigation.
 Putnam, is going to have dayiiqE q saving in force again this year. Th
 common council has adopted a resc q lution providing for such an arrange n ment and clocks here will be ad 2 vanced one hour on the last Sunda n in March.
 o The matter was presented to th 0 council by Prosecuting Attorney E. Q Morse who said that he appeared . Q the representative of the chamber ,
 commerce and at its direction. I'll
 measure, he said, was unanimous,
 favored by the directors of the chan
 Der, all of the merchants in the ma
 section of the city and the nanaeel
 of all the mills with possibly one e,
 ception, that he had been given to LII
 derstand that the French River Te,
 tile Co. and the Grosvenordale Go. a
 so favored 1t. That 1t had bee.a r- a<
 a law by many large cities incluflir
 H@ctford. Providence and Pawtuckt
 and that in his judgment other small
 cities would follow suit, which wou 70 mean re-enactment of the law by col
 gross.
 The trains, the post office and tl
 banks would have to conform to u
 different time, he said, but he did n
 consider that it would work any gre
 inconvenience, and that 1t would H>tl
 CT the farmers but little as it appli,
 only to the city. He added that
 thought that it did not make any di
 ference to the successful farmer, tn
 the opposition from the agricultur
 sections had been the result of a gen