Putnam patriot., 1920-07-09
Charges That Liquor Is Being Sold and Crap
Games Flourish Thinks Police Should Have
Identified Some of Mob---Arrests Expected
Health Officer Wants Meat Inspectontmates Diseased
Cattle Are Being Saughtered.-Pig Pen Up For Air
ing.-New Rules Passed Regulating Explosives.


teen years and it was the most dis
graceful affair | have ever known of, !"
said Mr.. johnson. IF there is any,
thing we can do to put backbone in the
police force we should do it." he said.
! 81 do not think the matter should be
left to one woman. The police should
have known who some of them were
and should have had men in court this
morning. | for one wish to enter a
protest" he said.
/ Captain Bulger said that the affair
was most over when the police ar
rived He said he dressed and came
down and that the mayor also came
down. At that time the trouble was
waning.
Turn On the Hose
Alderman Johnson said he thought
there should have been real alarm
and that the hose should have been
/ turned on the crowd.
The captain said that he suggested
it.
Mayor Shoulders Some of Response
bility
Mayor Marcy said that perhaps he
was indirectly responsible for taking
the lid off, and not prohibiting the use
of blank cartridges. He did it think
ing that last year there was no oppor-
tunity for celebrating. and that per-
+ L. - IA 10 81 oh hi
der regulations in effect in former
years. He realized the situation the
police department was in and that he
did not think it would have been wise
for the men to go into that bunch
and try to clean them up. The hose
company would have stood behind the
men but it didn't seem advisable to do
anything at that stage of the game,
as the trouble was practically over.
1.-The men on the street were out to
make trouble and would have well
coined free for all fight, and the only
way to have COPIED with them was by
force of men large enough said the
mayor. He hoped they would be
brought before the court and made to
take their medicine.
Young Men Defy the Law
Alderman Johnson said that it had
been stated that many of the crowd
were drunk. He said that this Is an
other deplorable condition during tins
no license time. de said that late at
night one might see men reeling out
of public houses, and that games OF
crap were being played. ~ Dung boys
are getting to defy the law, he SAID.
II do not wish to be thought of critl-
cizing the police officers said the al
derman. with all of the ground they
have to cover and these men knowing
it | realize that the can not see all that
is going on But we are in bad at the
present time That is what ! mean to
infer, he concluded.
Meat Inspection Asked For
Peter A. Gardner, health officer, APP
peared before the council and stated
that there was slaughter house in the
outskirts of the town where cattle are
being killed and 1--WE don't know what
they are" He said that cattle had
been sent tc Massachusetts, and re-
turned back and had been killed here.
He recommended meat Inspector for
the city and said it would be no ex-
pense as the fee of rs cents per head
is paid by the man who Kills the cat
tie. To-day we find cow in pasture
so sick she can not stand up. 1t dis
appears" He said that there are
children in the city prone to tubercu-
losis and while it can not be traced to
cases of this kind, something is need
ed to protect the public. He said he
had visited the slaughter house and
found the conditions bad.
1t was suggested that the siaugh-
ter house being out of the city limits
it might be a situation for the town to
take up. Mr.. Gardner suggested that
the same man might be appointed for
the city and town. He went to the Sc
lectmen's room, where the board was
in session. and when he returned said
that the selectmen would confer with
a committee of the council relative to
the matter.
On vote, the mayor appointed the
health officer and Aldermen Wheelock
and Duffey tc the committee.
Brings Up Pig Pen For Airing
Alderman Byrne stated that while
nuisances were under discussion he
wished to bring up the matter of a pig
pen near Tatem street which had been
complained of. He said that the health
officer and members Of the board of
health had been spoken to and he was
sent from one to the other. He said
the pen was in close proximity to four
houses and one could smell it any day.
He did not blame the health officer, as
he had done all he could and inspected
the place regularly.
Mr.. Gardner said the pen had been
examined by Drs. Perry and Murphy,
two members of the board of health.
They did not think that the place was
so bad that it called for its being abat-
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