Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-09
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

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Nearly 15e Odd Fellows gathered onI
tuesday evening at the quarters of Is
rael Putnam lodge to witness the con-
ferring of the second degree by a Dan
ielson team upon a class of candidates
of the local lodge. After the business of
the evening refreshments were served.
Fourteen make up the class that will
be graduated from Tourteilotte Memorial
High School on Friday, June Is.
Final exercises in the commencement
programme at the Marot school for girls
in Thompson were carried out Tuesday.
The students are for the most part leav-
ing at once for their homes.
Souvenir" W. H Taylor of Hart |
ford, formerly of this city, has forwarded |
$50 flags for distribution among the |
pupils of Israel Putnam school, theI
flags to be used in the Flag Day exer-
cises that are planned Souvenir studied |
for several years in the Fifth District |
school, now known as the Israel Putnam
school,
There were Putnam guests at the we'd
ding,in Hartford, of Miss Elizabeth Anne |
Flanagan, of Hartford, and Ray L.
Tucker of Holyoke. Miss Flanagan is
well known in suffrage circles in this
part of the state. Recently she has been
engaged as a writer on Hartford paper,
of which her husband is Sunday editor.
The town school committee voted to
employ an additional teacher for ser
vice at the Israel Putnam school, This
teacher will instruct the pupils of what
will be a composite grade made up of
overflow" pupils from the crowded low
err grades of the school. The new teach
er, whose work will begin in Septem-
Der, has not been elected as yet.
There was elation in some circles in
Putnam and deep set resentment in 9TH
ers Tuesday over the decision of the
United States supreme court in the pro-
hibition cases. The remarkable thing
about the situation here was that there
was very little discussion of the sub
| ject, but the surface readings We're there
| for all who cared to look at them. It
may be mentioned that the Jakey dealers
were not weeping.
AnseIm NTayotte post American Lee
| gion, may arrange patriotic demonstra-
| ton for the city on the Fourth At
meeting of the post the matter came up
for discussion and was referred to the
/ entertainment committee
The post also took action toward es-
! tablishng memorial and permanent
quarters by voting to set aside $500 to
be used as nucleus for such a fund as
will be required to carry out the worthy
object
AS to summer activities. the post con-
talked of holding an outdoor carnival
sometime during the summer months.
John j. O'Brien. of bingham. Mass.
has been elected principal of the Israel
Putnam school in this city for the school
year beginning next September, it was
announced Tuesday morning at the office
of the secrstary of the town school COM
mittee. Mr.. o'Brien is highly recon-
mended by the superintendent of schools
under whom he has been employed.
He is a graduate of the Bridgewater
| Mass. Normal School and for three years
taught at Amherst. He entered Har-
ward university as a junior, but gave ur
his studies to enter the army service OF
the United States during the world war
He was in France nine months, spending
part Of the period in one of the army
military schools, returning to this coun.
try with the rank of second lieutenant
Mr.. O'Brien is now teaching at Wilton
n. H, where his work is regarded as
highly successful. His salary here will
be $500.
jury will be called in to serve In
the superior court here in the specia
session opening this morning, Judge Keel
er presiding. to hear the case of Mis-,
Gertrude Wardell vs. the town of Kill
ingly. 1t was stated here on Tuesda,
that there is a prospect that this cas-,
will occupy as much as three days O
the courts time, as there are many wit
nesses to be heard.
; Notwithstanding all the warnings tina
have been issued locally and from tn
headquarters of the state automobile de
partment at Hartford, big motor truck
continue to operate with heavy overload
in violation of the law, over state high
, ways in this part of the state. It ha.
been plainly evident for months pas
that warnings are of absolutely no avail
!, in checking this excessive loading of mon
ster motor vehicles, a practice that j
tearing the roads to pieces and Maxim,
them unfit for reasonably comfortable
touring. While the great value of TIL
motor trucks as a means of furnishing
quick transportation is fully recognize,
and appreciated, this recognition does no
carry with it the privilege of destroying
the state highways, intended for the rea
sonable use of all. Until arrests of driv
ers of overloaded trucks begin and unit
adequate penalties are imposed upol
7 their drivers no relief from the wreckin,
: of the highways may be expected. TIL
/ men who are violating the law hav
clearly shown that they regard tn
warnings as a joke.
D A Chautauqua, banner flung high abov
l and across the Main street at the Unio
= block Tuesday morning served to hrin
\ / to the minds of many that one of tn
summers events for this city is not ia
in the forefront.
n According to Boston papers, about 10
600 quarts of milk are daily going to tina
city from this section of eastern Con
: necticut. This 2lonth the price the farm
ers are receiving is one cent quart low
> er than the price paid them by the Bos
: ton contractors during the month of Ma!
! | The milk from this section is now sal
e to be costing about 9 cents a quart,
e o. b. Boston. Milk trains running on
g more convenient sche<a1e for the farm
r ers is said to be responsible for the il
n creased shipments of milk going into ths
city, and into Providence, from easter
Vt Connecticut farms.
l. Out at Hartford the papers, quotin
: Deputy Labor Commissioner John ]
e Burke, are telling the people that Il
d factories in this part Of the state al
= running ny four days week Tn
10 will be surprising news to thousands
o operatives who continue to work on
full time schedule. No four day a Wee
y plans of operation are in effect in tn
n city, nor anywhere in the immediate v
~ cinity. One plant in this city-tl
!, Putnam Wooden is elosed-but the OF
= =, er plants are running on their regul;
- full schedule of hours. The same is tn
in the town of Killingly, another b
textile town.
- That the income, excess, surplus al
g other special government taxes haver
"a entirely impoverished the members
/ the wealthy summer colonies at Woo
l. stock, Pomfret and Thompson, is inc
1t Gated by the squadrons of brand ne
il and highly priced automobiles that thu
TX are bringing here for the touring Sc
w Of