Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-12
PUTNAM

States Attorney and Mrs Charles E. Searis have returned from a vacation spent at Nantucket.
 Attorney and Mrs. Charles Torrey are spending week on Cape Cod.
 City Clerk Thomas Ryan has returned to Putnam from Pittsheld, Mass, where
 he has been the guest of his mother. Miss Elizabeth O'Brien of the office force at the Manhasset mill is having
 two weeks vacation.
 Mrs. Hermon Carver was operated up-
 on for appendicitis at the Day-kimball
 hospital Monday.
 Anna Chilkot, bookkeeper for A. Gill
 man & Co, is spending weeks vacation
 at Bridgeport.
 Captain of Police John Bulger Tues day night arrested Harvey A. Ayels of
 Springfield who was wanted by the po- lice of that city on a charge of non-sup-
 port. Ayels was employed at the carni- val being held on Tatem lot Grove street. The arrest was made following a telephone call from Chief William
 Guilty of Springfield. According to the
 story told to the Putnam police by Ayels he left his home and joined the carnival last Friday. and at that tine agreed to send his wife money for her support each 1 week. Since he had not been paid since joining the troup he had sent no money, Following the arrest, Ayels was sent to
 Springfield in charge of an officer. The manager of the show also accompanied
 him in order to explain the situation to the Springfield police, and to attempt to settle the trouble.
 Robert Spink, Is, son of MT. and Mrs
 Nathaniel Spink of Pomfret street, Put
 nam, was injured late Tuesday afternoon when the bicycle which he was riding,
 and a Ford automobile driven by John
 Rice were in collision on lower Main
 street According to witnesses, Rice was
 turning his machine around in front of the Cole store, and was starting for the
 center of the city. At the same time
 Spink, riding toward the Congregational church, caught the wheel of his bicycle
 in the trolley track. and was thrown in-
 to the automobile. Ernest Tatro, who
 was nearby, ran to Spink's assistance
 and went with him to the Day-kimball
 hospital. Examination there showed nc serious injuries.
 The executive committee of St Phil
 ip's Episcopal church is to meet tonight
 tThursday) in the guild room.
 Putnam manufacturing concerns. as
 well as merchants in this city will keen
 ly feel the loss of the trolley freight
 service between Putnam and Providence
 which has been maintained by the
 Rhode Island Company. and which will
 be discontinued for an indefinite period
 beginning September g. The trolley freight has been direct connecting link between this city and Providence and has been extensively used by local ship pers.
 Funeral services for Mrs. Joanna
 Reed, s1. widow of Charles Reed. and mother of Mrs. A D. Lown of Putnam were held in Fall River. Mass. We'd nesday afternoon. Mrs. Reed died in that city Sunday. Burial was in Oak Grove
 cemetery Fall River.
 In order that the responsibility for in. adequate fire protection may no longer 1 rest with the common council. that
 body. at an adjourned meeting held ir the council chambers on Church street Tuesday night voted unanimously to is. sue call for a special meeting Wednes- cay, Aug. IS. to see if the voters of Put.
 nam will appropriate a sum not to ex- ceed S9500 for the purchase of a motor driven hook and ladder fire truck Pres
 ent at the meeting were Aldermen John G. Johnson. Charles Dean, George Pad. Gett, Edward Duffy and Alderman al Large John B. Byrne
 Alderman Byrne, chairman of the fre committee which has been investigatine the possibilities of obtaining new piece ot apparatus to replace the now obso' F
 horse drawn hook and ladder truck, sub
 r'itted d written report to the mayor and
 members of the council. At a previous
 meeting the fire committee had reported the serious need of a new hook and lad der truck, pointing out that as the mat ter now stands there are no horses