Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-13
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

Attorney Charles L. Torrey will be [ l Hartford today (Tuesday), to at | end meeting of the state board of |
 lucation.
 It was announced Monday after noon that 549 shares of the Putnam Building and Loan association. ninth series. had been sold up to that time. l sSales of shares are being made in a i way that is gratifying to officials of the association.
 In the superior court for Hartford county Mrs. Orise c. M. Cordier was granted a divorce from Frank H. Cor dier of this city.
 pr. Zones will speak this evening in the assembly hall of the high school on the subject of Dental Hygeine. School board members from a number of surrounding towns are expected to be in attendance.
 Frank Jarvais stated Monday that he has left the position he has been filling for the past eight years and is to go into bushes here for himself.
 Miss RosaIie B. SpauIding. a life long resident of the town of Eastford, is dead at her home in that place. Mis- Spaulding was a member of a well known Eastford family.
 Berbarr McFadden's physical cul- tqre girls in a vaudeville act of ex- CeptloudI4y pOpufdF tldluGe, as lnQl- cated by it's reception here, pleased | the audiences at the Bradley theatre Monday afternoon and evening. l Up to Monday afternoon no official announcement had been made relative 1 to any contemplated changes in the l fire department, which ~anv citizens are looking to see reorganized. ! A review of Putnan's industrial growth during 1919 shows that the 1 wear was evpentiO1la 1IX- foUo-a T,I. one to this city and that the promise l for 1920 also is very .encoUrag ging. Putnan''s sidewalks are in danger | ous condition. covered With ice and ] very slippery following the storms of 1 the past few days. Much sand and 1 ashes and other anti-slip materials are being employed to lessen the dang CT of. falling on many walks. but oth- CT walks are receiving no attention. 1 There is a persistent runcr here i that trolley service on the Putnam di- vision is to be discontinued. but this report has been denied at the office of tha trolley company at D7vvi'le No orders have been issued for a d;scon- l tinuance of service, though it is known that the local division is not l profitable and loss of the cars 'may come some time unless the revenue is | increased.
 Attention of aztomobilists is heinz called to the fact that they must heed the ruling of the state automobile de- partment and equip their cars with i lens that answer the law Placards and ! sets of instructions showing what | kinds of lenses will be acceptable by the state automobile department have been on display here for several weeks so, it will be held that there is no exe7'ee for not knowing what the law 1 requires
 | Daniel T. CsVaban of Boston has been the etest of E. c. Rogers, land lord of the Putnam inn.
 l The ceremonial Of presertng Swan son post, American Legion, a stand of col9rs, the gift Of the Crosvenordale e cornpany, proved exceptionally inter esting and impressive and brought to- gether al North Grosvenordale a large nunher of the residents of the town of Thompson.
 The grand list of the town of Put
 nam has not been completed by the assessors, but it is understood that
 the total of the forthcoming list will
 show 8. material gain in the total as-
 sessed valuation of the property in
 this town. Putnam is one of the towns
 hereabouts that has not had a general revaluation of property this year. l There is well maintained interest among the students at the night
 school, now well advanced in it's work of the year. and especially in the com
 mercial department, for which it has
 been found there was considerable de- mand.
 Sheriff Charles E. Aver and State | Officer Howard Elliott were engaged during Monday in summoning a large humber of witnesses whose testimony will be required in cases that are
 scheduled to be tried at the superior
 court in Willimantic this week. Knights of Columbus councils in this
 jurisdiction. are being urged to take
 up the orders programme for combat l ting radicaliSm. socialism and other T isms that are tending to create un-
 rest in this country and to undermine
 it's institutions. The Knights of Co.,
 lumbus now have well over LOGO mem
 bers in Windham county, and through organiZed effort. are in position to dc
 effective work along the lines indi- ; cated
 Miss Anna T. Furlong, teacher ir
 the intermediate grade at the Smith
 Street school, is ill. Mrs. Florence Gil
 bert Shaw is substituting for her : Supt. and Mrs William M Macdon- aid were in Boston Monday. Mrs , Macdonald is going to Montreal.
 where she is to visit relatives for
 few weeks.
 Coasters continue TO take all kind:
 of risks of being mained or killed by
 sliding in streets where there is muct automobile traffic and conseuuentl1 | danger of being injured