Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-14

r., who was the guest a part of this week with her grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Kent, Church street. Putnam, has gone to Juniper Point, Me, to visit 1 Miss Rhoda Gilpatric, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. G. Harold Gilpatric of Put nam.
 Miss Caroline Berhauer, formerly teacher of modern languages in Putnam high school, and during this past year | head of the language department in the Adams, Mass, high school, will sail from New York for Germany Aug. 2S. She is to go to her old home in that coun- try.
 Miss Claire Bonneville, Woodstock avenue, was operated upon this week for appendicitis at a Worcester hospital. Wedding returns on file with Town Clerk David Flagg show that Tuesday | morning Arthur Lavoi of Hartford. and Miss Beatrice Tetreault, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Timothe Tetreault of Putnam were married by Rev. Arthur Routhier, curate at St. Mary's church. Wednesday afternoon Miss Mildred Durfee, daughter of MT. and Mrs. c. ". Durfee, of Put ] nam Heights, and Dr. George Abbott of l Bethel, Vt, were married by Rev. George Peck of Rutland, Vt. | The preliminary census figures issued by the bureau of the census, Washing l ton, show that there are now in the town of Putnam s397 inhabitants as compared
 with 62Se a decade ago, The increase, 1l17, represents a growth of 153 per cent. The figures for the city of Put 1 nam, show the present population to be i I'll, or an increase of fo74, which is
 growth of 16.2 per cent The city of Putnam is included within the town of 1 Putnam. These figures have. caused gen | eral surprise around this city to those
 who were acquainted with them, for os 1 the basis of the school census the popu- 1 latfon of the town was estimated at 1o,- 600. None of the city officials thought 1 that the population was less than 5000
 No one on Friday seemed to be able to l explain the small growth as indicated | by the census figures. There are many
 who believe that the census was not thoroughly taken here, One man on Fri
 day said he knew of a family of twelve
 and that not one of their names appeared 1 in the census takers list. Another citi- | zen pointed out that not single fanEE | on the street where he lived had been 1 visited by an enumerator, although this i street is in the very center of the city l Still another prominent citizen stated l that he was approached before the cen | sus wa staken with an offer to assist in | the work. He told the representative
 
 work if allowed to go ahead in such a
 manner as to insure a thorough census tions, and then having the work of the l He proposed dividing the city into sec enumerators checked up through confer ences in order to be certain that no streets had been omitted. To this propo- sal the representative would not listen and said that the census would be taken by wards and no comparing of records I 1xI AA1I merator finished, the books were to he citizen approached refused to assist in the work. The feeling that is to ue found in Putnam can be found in nearly all cities when returns are announced, and the same cry goes up every ten years when the census figures are made public. Mayor Marcy has expressed
 himself as not satisfied with the census bureau figures, and would like to see a census taken locally.
 MT. and Mrs. George Brosseau, and sons, Teddy and Raymond Wilkinson street, have returned to their home after passing two weeks in the White Noun tains.
 The call for special city meeting to be held in the council chambers We'd
 nesday has been issued by Mayor Allie W. Marcy At this meeting the citizens will be open from a. m. until 3 p. m. to exceed $9500 with which to buy q mo- tor hook and laGder truck. The polls will be open from a. m until p. m. The police were notified Friday after noon that little girl whose parents are connected with the carnival on Tatems lot, Grove street, has disappeared. The child was later found in tent not far away. where she had gone, she told the
 searchers to hide from her mother in the hopes of escaping her afternoon nap.
 Frank L. Davis, agent of the windhan