Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-19
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM


Putnam lodge of Elks, Tuesday evening.
was the usual splendid affair, the Elks
forgetting nothing that would add to the
pleasure of their guests. Bountifully
generous, as is their custom, the mem
bers of the lodge provided a fine ban
quet, served in the assembly hall of the
quarters. Lobster salad, Swedish rolls,
strawberries, cakes, French pastry, ice
cream, fruit punch and coffee, with
sailed nuts in tiny barrels, were among
the good things served with the attention
to detail that always makes the Elks'
banSuets especially attractive.
There were pretty favors for the ladies
and pretty table decorations. The enter
tanners of the evening were the Floren-
tine singers of Boston, great favorites
here in the past and as popular this time
as ever.
This year the Elks used not only their
own lodge rooms but Union hall as
well in order that the ladies' night pro-
gram might be carried out as the mem
bers desired it should be. Union hall
by Heys orchestra.
The cabaret singers entertained both
at the lodge rooms and at Union hall.
Elks and their guests were present
from all of the jurisdiction of Putnam
lodge, which includes territory from
Webster and Southbridge on the north
to Moosup and Plainfeld on the south.
Special compliments were paid the
committee in charge for the excellence
of every feature of the evenings enter
tainment.
OF special interest in this section is
the announcement that Henry Parker
Manning, associate professor of mathe-
mates at Brown university, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect in June,
after twenty-one consecutive years of
service, four as instructor eleven as as
sistant professor and fourteen as associ-
ate professor. Next year he will be
transferred to the pension list Of the uni
versity.
The Brunonian, the university publ
cation, says of him in the current issue
"As a scholarly teacher of high ideals,
his contribution to the development OF
mathematics at Brown has been great.
AS the author of mathematical papers
and books (including on-Euclidean Ge-
ometry, 1891, and Geometry of Four Di-
mansions, 1919 and as an associate edi-
tor of the American Mathematical
Monthly, the official organ of the Ma
tienal association, he has brought fame
to his Alma Mater from the fact that his
name has been starred in Cattells Amer
lean Men of Science since the first edi-
ton of 1906.
In 1909 he was requested by the edi-
tors of the Scientific American to serve
| as judge of essays submitted in compe-
| titon for $500 prize for the best pop
; ular expression of the fourth dimension
A score of these essays prefaced witt
a detailed introduction by Profession
Manning were published in 1910.
Professor Manning was born in Wood
i stock. this county October 3, 1859, ant
entered Brown university twenty year:
| later. He made a remarkable record
in his studies and won number o.
| prizes. He received his A. B. degree il
1888, and A. NJ, degree in 1886. HI
laugh in New York, Maryland and Yves
| Virginia from 1SS3-S9. During 1901
he was fellow and graduate student o
mathematics at Johns Hopkins univers
| ity at Baltimore, and we was granted
| there, in 1891, the year of his appoint
Inent as instructor of mathematics a
Brown, the degree of Ph.D.
DR.. Edward F. Perry, whose care wa
stolen in this city three weeks ago las
| Sunday night received a questionnair
Tuesday from the state motor vehicl
department asking him to make repor
of the circumstances surrounding al
accident in which his car figured o.
Thursday. May IS. 1t is evident fror
this inquiry that Dr. Perry stolen ca
has been in some kind of a mix-up, an
officials here were in touch with the de
partment on Tuesday in an effort to ge
farther information relative TO the mat
ter.
A message received here Tuesda
morning told of the death at the Soldiers
home at Noroton Heights of Charlie
Potter, for many years a resident c
this city MIR. Potter was a veteran q
the Civil war. The body is to be brough
to this city for burial
Professor w. C. Bronson of Brow
University, a graduate of Putnam
High school, is to sail, with MR.
Bronson, June IL, for England, wher
they will spend the summer. Professo
Bronson will avail himself of the oppoi
tunity to continue research work
certain branches of English literature.
Many members here Of the America
legion who have favored the granting c
a bonus to the men who were in the sci
vice, are not at all certain now that an
bonus will be provided for, and they ar
beginning to talk among themselves c
politics that is being played with tn
Measure.
delegation accompanied the spellin
teams that went from this city Tuesda
evening to attend the spelling match he'll
at ilIingly High school in Danielson.
Up to Tuesday afternoon no trace ha
bean found of the stolen automobile
Amenio Sebastino, which disappeared frol
the business section. where it had bee
left parked Sunday evening. 1t is poss
BILE that this car and the one stolen frcl
DR.. E. F. Perry was taken by the san
group of operators
: Byron Morse and Leon Woodwar
showed to their friends here the fine:
string ST trout exhibited in this city dul
ing the present fishing season. One ifs
in the string weighed two pounds an
there were serveral that weighed well /
excess of a pound.
: Operatives in mills hereabouts wer
,, discussing with interest Tuesday al
nouncements of wage advances in woele
and worsted mills in various textile cef
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