Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-11
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

crushed under the wheel of big truck that he was assisting to get out of where it had stalled in the snow near Wauregan, Monday eve ming.
 He was standing upon an embank- rhent of snow assisting in pushing the truck, which was straining hard to free itself, when his feet slipped and he slid down under a rear wheel of the big and heavily loaded vehicle. One of his feet was quite badly crushed, the other slightly so.
 It was impossible during all of Monday night to get a physician to attend to MT. Fasset, who was taken into a home near where the accident Eassett was brought in a sleigh to Danielson from Wauregan and from DanieIsen came through to Putnam in a motor bus a companion carry ing him from one vehicle to the oth- CT.
 MT. Fassett had been to Jewetti City on one of his regular trips when he stopped to assist the stalled truck.
 Superintendent D. c. Park of the Windham county temporary home for children in the Sswyer district said Tuesday afternoon that about SO [ of the l26 children at the home are
 
 the patients are regarded as being in serious condition and it is believed that none of the children are i'll with influenza.
 Mr Park said that difficulty is be- ing experienced in getting nurses, but the situation is being handled by the force at the home together with a boy who has been i'll and recovered and is now serving in the capacity of nurse attendant for other boys that are i'll.
 On account of the epidemic of ill., ness at the home, the Sawyer district l school of this town. where many of the county horne children attend. has been closed.
 Friends here learned Tuesday with 1 regret of the death of Rev Benjamin F. Benoit, 72, a French Baptist mis- l sienary, who for years made his headquarters in this city while con- i ducting his labors in this and sur i rounding towns. Rev. MT. BeDoit's death was due to influenza and oc- cured Monday in Providence, where 1 he has been making his home for a number of years. He was native of 1 Ste. Anne. P. O.. and became a Bap- l list missionary 5 years ago. There was little or no improve i ment in travelling conditions over the 1 highways hereabouts during Tuesday, ] when another snow storm kicked in i to muss things up.
 Out at the easterly end of Grove l street, at the cemetery, near Killing ] ly avenue, state highway department men Iabered all day trying to make ] that much used route a little more
 passable They dug deeper into drifts and they ran the seraper through the lane that has been broken out to l permit of the little traffic that is 1 moving that way. But when dark ness came Tuesday evening their earnest labors had contributed only 8 little toward restoring normal cendi- l tions.
 1 There's so much snow and it's packed in and frozen in so hard a
 mass that nothing but real thaw is going to help materially toward
 The bus line from here to Daniel
 son got cars through on Tuesday
 notwithstanding the big handicaps te
 be faced. but the trip was no joy : ride for anyone who undertook 1t
 The 'busses. however. were furnish.
 ing the only available overland ser,
 vice and it was greatly appreciated by those forced to travel. One ot ] the 'busses that broke down out a, l . far part of the afternoon and som, , of the passengers walked down t, 1, Davville, a distance of about fou miles
 One heard stories on Tuesday O commercial travellers hiking along tn , roads from town to town in this vi
 cinity. They were obliged to do thi or lose practically 2 day waiting fo
 train.
 | At St. Mary's church Tuesda, morning Rev. Arthur Routhier wa. celebFant of a requiem mass at tn funeral of. Quartermaster Charles Be , lair II. S. N, who died last week ii ! Philadelphia after a brief Hines taken to North Grosvenofdale fol :. burial.
 A request was received here Tues 6 day afternoon for action expected t z bring about the arrest of one of tw
 Eastford milk peddlers who, it wa s represented, became engaged in a n altercation Tuesday morning at tn
 Abingdon railroad station, the out
 come being that one of the men wa n struck in the head with a milk ca . swung by the other. The man wh : was hit is said to have been ecnsid I erably injured.
 ! Postmaster Alexander Gilman sai i5 Tuesday afternoon that it had bee :. | impossible up to that time to full
 restore the rural free delivery ser , vice on any of the four routes ou f ofA the Putnam office. The carrier go out daily and cover as much Q Q their routes as is possible but tn
 condition of some of the roads in tn
 country districts have not been open . ed, are choked with snow and ter : ribly drifted. Postma ster Gilman
 says that many subscribers on rura = routes call by telephone to inquir d why they are not receiving mail, an . it is always necessary to answe
 that where subscribers are not bein g served it is because of the impessi t bility of getting to their places. d Star route carriers to Eastfor, e and Woodstock are managing to ge
 through to Putnam over the stat t roads Inability te get supplies from tn ' wholesale markets for the past wee e has resulted in 8 shortage of a con e siderable number of articles of foot ' The fresh meat supply was runnin v very low here on Tuesday, and nc s much prospect of any immediate re y lief through shipments being receiV
 ed.
 s Charles Seder purchased at auetie ' Tuesday the McDuffee home, neal g the dwelling that Mir Seder alread = owns on Grove street. There wei 2 several bidders for the propert, which sold to MT. Seder for $40
 The household goods also were sol Q at auction and the sale attracted ' goodly number of buyers, the good