Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-21
PUTNAM

morning people who are interested in the welfare of the city and who worry over recurring labor troubles. It was announced that the strike of jouFHeymen carpenters, which has been on for just over two weeks, has been amicably settled. The men are said to have re- turned to work on the basis of the com promise offer of S7 1-2 cents an hour When the strike was declared the de- mand was for s1 per hour. Previous to the strike the en had been receiving 75 cents an hour.
 William Stein, who was struck by Q trolley car and seriously injured in an accident at Elnville, his home village, Saturday evening, was reported Tuesday as not resting we'll MT. Stein is a pa tient at the Day Kiball hospital in this city, where he was taken following the accident.
 Just what high wages being paid to labor in industrial plants means to the farmer was indicated Tuesday morning by David E. Clark, who lives out on | Killingly avenue MT. Clark, well over l eighty years of age and born and raise on the farm where he lives, stated that the 150 acres that he ewns-fine pro- duetive land, where hundreds of bushels
 
 ducts not to entien many tons of hay have been produced for half a century back-will remain idle this year. MT Clark. unable to work the farm himself | has found it impossible to obtain help in competition with the high rate of weekly wage paid in the industrial establish | Hlents of this city and neighboring com naunities. Enough foodstuff to feed 50e | could be grown on the Clark farm dur 1 ing the coming season, but it will not | be grown because there is no one tc 1 grow it. This is the situation that 1 causes the high cost of living and nc numbers of dozens of overalls worn 1T protest of high prices will serve to offset l this primal consideration for even tn, period ef single dinner. Netwithstand ing, MT. Clark was in the city Tuesday morning to pay his taxes on a farm that Is now non-productive.
 1 MT. Clark's splendid farm is right al the gates of the city, yet its fertile l acres must remain unproductive this yea because no one is sufficiently interested to ake it worth more as a feeder of th' people than waste acres of the isolated Quadic areas.
 The Clark farm Is an outstanding ex ample of the utter futility of com plaining against high living costs unti there is some readjustment that will brin, once again into reasonable relation tn, value of the labor of the industria worker as compared with tn, value of the farm worker up on whom the real comfort ant security of the American millions rests The country will be able to resist nor calmly and eomplaeently decided short age of manufactured produets-and fo a much longer perioSA-than it will shortage of food stuffs, which shortag looms aminously nearer this season,
 Asa Ross, son of George F.. and Bes sic Ross, died here Tuesday morning The child had been in a serious state o health for some time past and numbe of physicians had been called in consul tation.
 Putnam people may have to pay nor for water service during the comin year. This is not certain. but such
 prospect is forecasted for patrons of tn municipally owned plant. The talk Q 1 advance may be chiefly accredited to tn fact that the city of Putnam will called up next year, if present indica tions signify to provide for the retire ent annually of $10,o00 worth of wate bonds, issued when the city plant wa IPUFCHdStQ HUH llS uttdA WdtST C9IH pany. At present Putnam's moral de velepment provides a pleasing increas in revenues each year, as the result C the extension of services and the aC dition of new services, but even thes gains are not sufficient to meet the II IquiFements of the retirement fund an
 other expenses. The city sent upward
 of S50,000 two years ago in improving tf
 water supply service in the city. Tn
 consideration, taken with others tn;
 must be thought of, brings the. wat,
 beard face to face with consideration
 increased revenues An advance ma
 be escaped this year, but unless cond
 tions change an increase in rates ca
 not long be avoided.
 Emergency calls were being sent o
 Thursday afternoon for assistance
 fight serious forest fire between Broo
 lyn and Elliott. Fire fighters to sa-
 valuable woodland were assembled fro
 territory nearby in the Putnam tel
 phone division and also in the Danielst
 division. The fire burned over mal
 acres on this first real spring day b
 fore the blaze was brought under co
 trol.
 Freight service was further improv,
 during Tuesday. It was stated he
 that the congestion in the local freig
 yard which is one of the eight princip
 transfer points on the New Haven sy
 ten, had been practically cleared u
 Freights that had been pulled off the
 runs are resuming service, much to u