Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-20

First International Treaty. The First Thanksgiving and Pilgrims of a Later Day. The High School orchestra played several selections
 The challenge which Tourteliotte Mem orial High school recently issued for a | typewritting contest has been accepted by | killingiy and Putnam High Schools. The contest will be held at a meeting Of the | Parent-Tea chers' Association during the winter or spring months. Lawrence Perkins. of Pomfret left Fri 1 day for Alberta. Alabama. where he win spend the holidays with his brother. Rus l sell Perkins. whose summer home is in Pomfret. MT. Perkins has shooting place on the Alabama river.
 Miss Florence Sargent of Worcester, is at the home Of MT. and Mrs. J. B. Ia tem for a short visit
 The Dean pin factory on Mechanic street, announces that beginning today tMondsy) the plant will be closed for one week. From this time until further notice the pin factory will run only II every other week. This mill has been running five days week until this change.
 In a recent advertisement in Spring field papers. appears the photograph Of Miss Alice Adams. of this city, but student at Bay Path Institute there. Miss , Adams recently passed a typcwTitng tes; I
 
 certificate of membership in the Order i of Accurate Typiets. Miss Adams also | . won medal in typewriting at the Put {? 5 nam High school from which she grad Q uated las year. s Joseph Rita. after an absence of four : years has returned to Putnam. He was g in the Italian army for four years. serv- t ing throughout the world war. He was l. not wounded. though his brother. Charles n who came to Putnam several months ago. t received numerous shrapnel wounds Mir. l. Rita formerly had stand at the rail-
 road station. If he can find a job, he q intends to remain in Putnam.
 r Fishing through the ice usually has many devotees about this time of year. h but there being no ice this extraordinar- ,r fly pleasant December. Mechanicsvilie
 and West Thompson fishermen are try k ing out a new stunt-hshinE for roast -e beef. and are king great success of l. it. One man cA1ght two quarters of fine
 dressed beef in the river near West 1e Thompson Friday morning and other l. fishermen had almost equally good luck. n The answer to what may seem like the rs after-eforts of iakey jag, as set down " here, is that when Gaguon's truck of at this city was struck by train and
 thrown into the river at West Thompson, . Wednesday afternoon, fine load of n, dressed beef and other provisions went in to the bottom of the river. tb The water Of the stream bNag less IT, than one-hslf of one per cent. it WIS .d quickly established that the meat prob- rs' ably hadn't been spoiled. SO ErapnlinE ,le irons were gotten out and the fishing "a. for the sunken provisions undertaken ,ol Fishermen have been on the !oA ever ,o- since and have made some good hsuls h. Today (Mondsy) the meeting Of th' ale Windham County Bar Library associaa .,b ton is 10 b. held in this city in tho lofF,. ,F s1,-s ola .F .t-. ;v. Provisions are to he made for the ar ,s. rangement and indexng Of books in thu ,ss law libraries in Putnam and Williman me tic. according 10 the notices sent out b, me Clerk Edgar N. Warner.
 m- The sudden death in the ChiekerIni ass hotel here May %. 1915. of John Xii or 5ourn. a travelling salesman of osweEo est \, r.. is recalled by heading held her ost this week in connection with an investigs rSe tion being made by representatives of tn Commercial Travellers Mutual Acciden ec- association. in which Mir. Kilbourn va ial. insured and heirs of his estate. the The heirs. who were represented her ing by attorneys. are Jordan R. and Milde ng- Shiper. of Mexico. x. r. They claim tha ma Kilbourn's death was due to a fall result old ing in a fractured skull 'nd they ar
 asking that the insurance company pa api- the policy of S5,000 that kilbourn va
 
 tive pany is contesting payment on th The ground that KiIborns death vas due
 natural causes.
 - n. J. E. Kent. medical examiner. vh
 viewed Kiibourn's body in that capac IT ey, was one of the witnesses called low give testimony here the past week an
 William O'Brien, who came to kno' IS. Kilbourn during the time that the sale ars, man was a guest at the ChickerinE h' nm. tel then being operated by Mir. Hart. ner Kilbourn's death has been asserted !, IT, he tue to a fractured skull, which it = claimed he received when he fell in h
 room ad struck his heaI on the narb
 slab ot a rash stand and it also hs ,or, been claimed that death was due v4d heart trouble induced by over-indulgenc s Though nearly four and a half yea loss have apsed since his death. the Cor the merc.al Travellers Mutual Insurance a am soc:atioh has not paid the policy it hs of issuel 10 Kilbourn protectit 9I against accidents It is recalled that aft this Kilbourn's body had been taken to osW
 go for burial it was exhumed. that | careful examination might Se ade the head injury. . The reduction in wages ts cotton m b., operatives announced in notices post , ot in various mills hereabouts Monday and last week will become effective tod; wife tMonday). The few days since the n ging tices of the reduction were posted ha llns brought TO developments 10 indicate th InIe the cut in rates will create any distur I fo ance in the cotton industry hereabou | to Unpleasant 4s the reduction is to { rms workers who still have employment ev T in on part time it is regarded as preferat
 to idle plants and no work to do and R. money. coming in. January holds a prol
 . ise for much better business. it is ciail
 ed by some cotton manufacturers. a . if the lower wage scale will bring a
 vival of industry there will ha1e be G some compensation.
 MT. and Mrs. George BurriIi. ,rho n
 at East Putnam, observed their 4S
 wedding anniversary last week. Ccmmandant John Slater of the
 visionaI headquarters at Hartford spo
 here Saturday and Sunday evenings
 special meetings arranged by the Sal'
 ton Army.
 The Spirit of Generosity was the sv
 ject and Mrs. G. C. S MacKay the lead
 at the Young Peoples society meeting
 the Baptist church Sunday evening. 2 District Deputy Edward W. MuIlan a suite will be in Oar ielson Tuesday ev'
 ing to confer the third degree up
 class of 15 candidates of Rose of Lii
 council, A number of members of c
 gill council will attend the degree. wh
 will be the last of the year in this
 cinity. --.-
 David Smith of Worcester was '