Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-19
DANIElSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM


 | Napoleon Miour was before Judge NJ. TS. Geissler in the city court We'd nesday morning to answer to charge that he had violated that pro- vision of the automobile law which requires that a person coming into possession of an automobile on which numbers have been changed or ob- liberated shall report the fact to the state commissioner of motor vehicles. It was claimed by. officials repre- senting the state automobile depart ment and the state police department that Miour possessed such car and that he failed to make such report as is required.
 The car in question is one of the so- called group of stolen cars To- cated in this city during the past ! month by state officials. MT. Miour bought the car from a local man, and knew nothing of it's history. In their search for cars alleged to have been stolen state officers irl- spected Mr. Miour's car on January 27, and discovered that numbers that would help identify it and trace its history had been tampered with. A few days later the car was taken out of MT. Miour's possession by the state officers and on Wednesday ac- | tion against MT. Miour followed in court
 MT. Mieur, who was represented by Attorney Arthur s. Macdonald, de- nied all knowledge of the fact that l the numbers on the car had been l tampered with until after it had been inspected by the state police and his l attention called by them to the fact. After hearing all of the details of the case Judge Geissler found MT. Miour not guilty and the case was dismissed
 The section of the motor vehicle laws under which the case was brought provides for a fine of not l more than $500 and not more than six months in jail as penalties against those who knowingly possess an au- tomobile on which the numbers have been changed or obliterated and who does not report the fact to the com missioner of motor vehicles.
 Writing from Tampa, Fla, where he has been spending the winter, William S. Johnson of this city tells of experiencing only one rainy day during his stay south and of tenn peratures varying from 75 to 80 de- grees in the shade. Cooling breezes from the gulf temper the air. MT. Johnson says, so the days are splen- did, This week MT. Johnson is de- voting the daily attendance upon the SOUlH ldlI, -W4lCll lS OIl6 Ol the big events of the February sea- son down there. Tt seems good to have fresh vegetables and fruit every day and to see the shrubs and flow ers' MT. Johnson writes, and his many friends. here, wading through snow and slipping over ice, will agree that this is very true from New England viewpoint.
 Tho funeral of Selectman Joseph 1f monia. was held from his home on Wednesday morning with solemn high mass of requiem at St. Mary's church, Rev. Charles F. Bedard. Rev. Adrian Dykemans and Rev. Arthur Routhier being the officers of the mass, which was attended by a very large congregation of relatives and friends, city officials, town officials and delegations from the St. John Baptist and other societies. Burial was in St. Mary's cemetery.
 Street department men began on Wednesday the work of carting away the heavy accumulatiops of snow in the business section of the city. Mild and sunny weather that contributed to the softening Of the frozen mass made the work easier than it would have been at almost any other time recently. Putnam's street ran with water during WednesdaE, when what may have been the beginning of the long expected thaw set in. The -ruins Of the Chickering hotel are to be cleaned up when the wealth CT permits. R. II. Bradley, owner of the ruined structure, said Wednesday. No attempt will be made~ to rebuild the hotel though the southerly end of the structure, the least damaged of the entire building, will be rebuilt so as to provide quarters for firms that were located there at the time of the fire, including the Putnam News com pany, which had it's place of business in the corner store for many years.
 Ash Wednesday services at St. Aiary's church was attended by many hundreds of persons. At St. Mary's Sunday will begin mission for the English speaking members of the parish.
 An alarm from Box S4 called out the fire department at 12.50 D. m. on Wednesday for a chimney fire in the Van den 1Noort street section of the city. The ringing in of a box alarm for such a fire created the, impress sion down town that a blaze of se- rious nature had broken out.
 c. Dwight Sharpe. who has been seriously i'll with pneumonia, was re- ported on Wednesday as much im- proved.
 Charles T. Thayer, who has been seriously i'll with influenza at his home on Grove street, is above to be out
 ShoYelers are engaged in cutting away snow banks that line the space cleared in the state highway by state highway department blows in the town of Thompson. The open way is being made sufficiently wide to permit of two vehicles passing read fly.
 It was stated Wednesday that there is now enough coal on hand in the local railroad yards to supply the immediate need of the locon1o- tives that coal here. Wednesdays thaw was appreciated by the railroad men as a big aid to removing the troubles caused by the storm.
 Taking advantage of Wednesdays mlld weather, the state highway de- partment motor blow was put to work on the Putnam -Attawauga1 route pushing aside masses of snow to make the open way wider than it has been since the storm,
 It was stated here Wednesday that a drive is to be made in this section or the county to sell bonds of the Irish Republic.
 Judge L. H. Fuller has just round ed out 52 consecutive years in busi- 1 ness in this city, and is still going 1 strong
 William W. Allan and Edward Me- Keon are named as the delegates i