Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-17
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

A. A. Houghton died Friday morning just after eight o'clock at the home of Grove street. MT. Houghton had been ! resident of Putnam for half a cen- tury.
 MT. Heughtpn came from an old family of manufacturers in this sec- tion. In hYs early life he followed that business which he learned under the supervision of hisafafher, who died in Putnam in 1899.
 Some time ago Mir. Houghton's s heart became affected and he has been confined to the home several moths past. so that the end was not unexpected.
 Alexander Augustus Houghton was born September 2. 1850, at West Glocester, R. l., son of Augustus and Elizabeth s(Hawkins) Houghton. Mir. Houghton was but six months old when his parents moved to Worces- ter. When he was IS his parents moved to Putnam, where he attended school and later completed a commer- cial course at Wilbraham Academy
 At the age of 19 he entered the yarn mill of his father at East Putnam, to learn every detail of the business. He became superintendent of the plant, position he held for three years. 4.
 Later Mir. Houghton topk a saw mill in West Glocester and erected a three story stone mill on the site and under the firm name of Hawkins & HouEhton did an extensive business in the manufacture of cotton yarns. He continued in this business for 14 years, and at the end of that tinre leased his interests to James Stock ard. The mill was destroyed by fire 1 in January, 1902. Since that time MT. Houghton has been engaged in mat ters concerning the large estate of his father and his own business interests. In politics MT. Houghton was a strong republican and served on the republican town committee for years. For three years he was h selectman 1 and in 1902 was elected representa- : | tive to the state legislature. July 1. l 1888 he was elected director of the First National bank, and was re-elect- i ed at Tuesdays meeting, continu- ous service of about 32 years. l MT. Heughton was member of 1 the East Putnam Baptist church. He I belonged to> Quinebaug lodge of Ma sons and Putnam chapter He was a
 member Of Israel Putnam lodge of | Odd Fellows the A. o. U. w. Putnam council Royal Arcanum, and Putnam Lodge of Elks.
 July 4. 1888, MT. Houshton. mar ried Miss Anna Mary Cady. Of this l union three sons were horn: James l Ebert. born Sept. 20. 1871; Winfret 1 Augustus, born Jan. 5, 1875. Harry Alexander. born July 27 1884.
 Besides his wife and three sons MT Houghton leaves a sister. Mrs De. l Witt c. Park. matron at the Wind.
 ham County Temporary Home.
 The southerIy end of the chickerin.
 hotel may be rebuilt, to provide quarters for the Putnam News com pany and Charles Miron, barbor | whose places of business were in tha end of the building. which was prac
 tlcaily destroyed in Thursday morn ing's fire.
 Many incidents were being related
 Friday of the narrow escapes that tn l guests of the hotel had in gettins from the building Regular boarder
 at the hotel got away in a number o
 cases with not much more than thei
 union suits and such outer garment as they could slip into in record time
 That none lost their lives is now re
 garded as very remarkable. Street department men were bus during Friday chopping a way throug
 the ice that covers the entire lengt
 of Union street to the depth of sev
 eral inches. so that the thoroughfar Is blockedto traffic much to the in
 convenience of firms doing bushes : there.
 Immense quantities of water tha flowed back from the fire and ineo tn
 street congealed almost instantly dur ing the fire and all of Thursday whil
 streams were being played on tn hotel and has made a frozen river c Union street.
 The entire southerly end of the ho tel is sheathed in ice and a ladder C : the fire department that rests agains , the charred walls is frozen in and hid , den under an ice covering that. make the rounds as big as mans arm. William c. Mason of Thompson hs i. 1 been ordered to appear in a justice court in the town of Thompson thi
 (Saturday) morning to answer to
 charge of violating the motor vehicl
 laws. He waa arrested by State Office
 Howard Elliott.
 In the opinion of all motorists wh l use the highways between this cit
 and Providence and this city and Dan ielson and other points to the sout
 something must be done to regulat
 the operation of the big motor truck | that are now running in such mum bers through his section. A rnajorit
 of the drivers of these monster vehi cles simply ignore the rights of a other traffic and many of them oper : ate the trucks atshigher rates of spec than is allowed under Connecticu laws. The manner of operation such as to a menace to other traffit especially now that the roads are slip
 pery and the big trucks are. given t sliding about. Many of the drivers ( these trucks pay no attention whateve 7 to signals from cars that wish pass them. and assume an attitud 5 that is highly irritating and unfair {
 other users of the highways. At the Thursday evening prays meeting at the Congregational churc
 a puyrse, Of $1e0 was presented L. (
 Williams, for many years until re , gently organist there, the presentatio being made bya Rev. Bownton Merri and members of the congregation. Former County Agent B. w. Eli l and the present county agent, Fran L. Davis, attended meetings of the lo calls of the New England Milk Pro
 ducers' association held the past weel , and which were we'll attended and success throughout. A great deal C ], interest was shown in the marketin , of milk, one of the principal farm pro
 ducts.
 Some of the topics under discus
 sion at these meetings were plans c taking care Of the surplus of min , advertising milk. and matters of or fganization.
 Taking care of the surplus scene |. to be one of the most difficult prob
 lens to solve, and is one of the thing