Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-12
PUTNAM


 this city during theN coming week. There is nothing definite about this, all depending on the weather and the speed with which lice that now covers the rails in many places disappears.
 Superintendent Hope of the Putnam lines of the company was here on Thursday for the first time in a month. MT. Hope, who has been at Norwich, was looking over the situation and making plans for the resumption of service at the earliest possible mo- ment.
 Though the tracks of the company are free of ice through much of the open country where the line runs be- tween this city and Dayville the rails are still hidden where they run through the streets. Most of this ice must disappear before the company will attempt to fully clear the line and make it ready for ears again.
 No cars have been operated here since Feb. 4. and the tieup is the long est in the history of the road on ae- count of storms.
 There was no change Thursday in the strike situation at the plant of the Waterman Wersted company The strikers, who have been out about two weeks, were going to the office of the company on Thursday to get such money as was due them, it being pay day. The strikers seemed confident 9n Thursday that they will win event ually, but there was no sign in sight If a quick change from the present situation.
 A big and powerful "quad" moter truck owned by Bayer Brothers of the own of Thompson left Putnam Thurs lay just before II o'clock in an effort | 70 make it's way through to Providence via Chepachet, a trip that no moto' 1ehicle has been able to accomplish | since that much travelled route was blocked by the big storm of Feb. 1. The truck was loaded and on a mis- 1 sion for the Manhasset Manufa cturinf company of this city. The crew ey- l pressed confidence that their hig ma l ,hine would be able to make the trip l nut they made no predictions as to l how long it would take. They sai6
 hey simply had orders to break a way | trough. and they were going to do il
 f it were in the power of a motor
 ruck to do it.
 This particular truck. recently equipped with special type of low
 rear to give it tremendous pulling | power made it's way through from
 Worcester to Thompson on Wednes-
 lay. and it's crew believes that tn, | 'hepachet route will not offer an,
 rreater difficulties than were encoun- | tered on that trip. during which tht l yreat wheels, equipped with hug,
 rheumatic tires. wore practically ou
 If sight in drifts at times
 The drivers expected to meet witl
 rreat difficulties in getting through tt
 Providence and carried along shovel
 with which to attack drifts that migh
 ereve too formidable for their ma [ ~hine
 The success of this trip is general, : honed for and the effort will b ] watched with interest Getting tt 'Ehepachet route onen again waul | mean great deal to the rlanufactu } ing concerns here and in other town
 n this vicinity.
 |, 1 Rev. H, N. Brown of. South Man ? l chester. formerly pastor of the Pen $ tecostal churches in Putnam an | Danielson, was q visator in Putnam O Il Thursday. Mir. Brown stopped here f Y transact some business while en rout $ to Providence to confer with anothe fl | official relative to the, annual Fla. if | Douglas tional cam Y meeting. of which he is the eener, II secretary. MT. Brown stated that tt 2 dates for the eamn meeting this vee
 are July 16-s4. and that more peon n than ever before are expected to he f attendance. Mr Brown has hoe l nreaching at 2 Hartford church durir : the winter months.
 q March 26 has been set as' the da r for a meeting of taxpayers to he call, Il together to see what action they wi. 2 10 take relative to bringing about e ~evaluation generally of the proper l. If the town. Such revaluat tions a z demanded by state law, but here Il Putnam the statute has been ignore Il though many increases in valuation ' have been made by the assessors du IT tng the past few years.
 IS TAe fact that both town and ci J. need more money to meet eynens y, TOW at their highest levels in histo Q. taken with the censiderat ton that | le combined town and city tax rates nr 1t amount to st 1-2 mills is tho reas l. hat many Putnam citizens have h le come very much interested in securi, ie an arrangement for a general revalu 1t tton
 1t The, attempt to bring the revalu le lion matter to the serious attention sr ffe voters is being made by [ IS Cha mber of Commerce.
 m The ouinebaug river and oth !. streams in the vicinity of Putnam a I'll steadily rising. Up to Thursday 2 ternoon the Quinebaug. the largest
 the streams heFea bouts, and the mo D dangerous in case of flood, whi
 many have feared for the nast mon IVY had not risen sufficiently to cause a IS alarm, but it was gaining steadi sh Great quantities of water have pour 1i l into this river during the past we IL from all of the watershed that drains, and it is now at a height whe
 one heavy Fainstorm would be we re apt to cause trouble,
 he Along stretches of this swift ru D. hing stream in the vicinity of Putn: in the river is free of ice, but over t