Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-07
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
DANIEISON

Philip Roberge, winner of the dls- guished service cross and of the Crolx du Guerre, is to return here this week, much improved in health, from the Day Kimban hospital at Putnam, where he has been patient for seV- eraI weeks. Mir Roberge's health has been seriously impaired as the result of hard service and wounds received overseas. Mrs. Harold F. GIendining, secre- tary of the home service section of the Danielson chapter of the Red Cross, said Tuesday morning that the chap .ter's rooms in the Windham County National bank building here will be open the usual hours, beginning on Thursday of this week. Miss Char 1otte Owen. New York, field supervi- sor of Red Cross work. has been visitor in Danielson recently.
 kiIIingIy High school will remain closed today Wednesday, Principal Ernest r. Warren stated Tuesday af- | ternoon. It has been established that the tubes in the boiler that heats the building have gone bad, having out lived their usefulness. Today me- chanics from a Worcester firm will be here to repair the boiler, and it is hoped that sessions of the high school ! may be resumed on Thursday morn l ing, though this is not certain as yet. At Quinebaug lake the work of har- l vesting Danielson's ice crop proceed ed steadily during Tuesday. The ice being stored is over Il inches thick, hard and clear as crystal, free from snow and declared by Herbert D. l Keech to be of the finest quality ever stored by him at Quinebaug lake.
 High school boys, released from ! their studies through the failure of | the school heating plant to function
 are at work harvesting ice and are | joyfully hustling as they think of the l 50 cents an hour compensation that is coming to them for the labors they are performing.
 Mir. and Mrs. Arthur Aldrich ot
 East Killingly have returned from 3 l visit at Rosedale, L. l.. with MT. and l Mrs. Henri I. .Baer. MT. Aldrich is manager for MT. Baer of the Palisade Kennels at East Killingly.
 l MT. and Mrs. Lester A. Bill. recent ly married at Orleans, Vt, have beer
 visiting here with Judge and Mrs Ar. 1 thur c. Bill and with friends in town
 MT. and Mrs. Bill are going to New
 Rochelle for a visit with relatives an;
 thence for trip south. Later the!
 will return to Vermont for a time
 Eventually MT. Bill expects to engag
 in business at New Rochelle.
 Chester w. Hutchins, who has sue
 ceeded H. H. Starkweather as agen
 of the American Railway Expres
 company here, has been connectet
 with the express buiness heer for tn
 past 15 years. MT. Hutchins stated O
 Tuesday morning that he expects tn
 arrival of a motor truck in the nea
 future and through the use of tn
 machine to expedite the delivery t
 consigneesi of express matter.
 Mir. StarkWeather, the retirin . agent, has been in charge of the eX l press office here for the past 3S year 3 for years representing the Adams EZ press company, for another period tn l United States Express company ant
 since the war, the American Railwa 2 Express company. Mir. Starkweathe . said Tuesday morning that only or
 of the proprietors of stores or othe
 business places in the business sectio : who were so engaged when he frs l. started out as an express agent, is dc
 ing business here today. That man A. H. Armington. The head of cy er 1 ohter business enterprise then en
 gagged here has passed out of the con
 merciai life of Danielson. In two case
 the sons of proprietors of stores ths g were doing business 38 years ago al y continuing the businesses. These s0r , are A. Putnam Woodward, son of V . 1 Woodward died several years ae q In. those long past days MT. Stark | weather's compensatio for makin
 deliveries of eXuress and collection = thereon in Daniels0u was S20 pC II montb In recent years some sing . . shipments leaving the Danielson offit v v have carried a. greater remnueratio , for one day. The growth of the ez '' press business here in Danielson
 1 indicated. at least in some degree, L ,; citing the lone fact that five bi : steel express cars leave the plant : the Connecticut Mills company ever f week for various points in tn cour h try where tire manufacturing plan = are located, much of the fabric goin
 to Ohio. And these shipments al '. merely the carload lots sent out b
 express by these mills. Daily shiE : ments go by regular trains Otht V mills give the office here a heavy ez
 press business. and there is a flood ( - other matter for business firms an f individuals
 The express office here has iu! . been changed from a commission
 Q salary office. and Mr. Starkweatf
 CT resigned, preferring to give his -at h tention to his other large bushes e interests here.
 S . Miss Shirley Putnam, daughter t Herbert Putnam, director of the l.
 brary of Congress, at Washington,