Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-08
PUTNAM

i , in the municipal building on Church street, for the transaction of yearly , business other than the election ot offic- | CTS. A tax rate. of 3-4 mills for. general expenses was voted. The recommenda- tion of the council was that the rate be 10 mills. At the meeting A.. W. Marcy recommended a 8 12 mills rate. the com promise being just between the chief ex- ecutive's recommendation and that of the council. In addition the usual two, mil : tax for payment of interest on and re- ! duction of the sewer debt was voted.
 i The appropriations for, the various de partments were voted as recemmen ended by ' the common council and as previously published.
 1 Plans are underway for the or9anIza-
 ton of a Vegetable Growers association : in Windham county. County Agent Frank L. Davis said Monday morning. This is
 a matter in which number ef farmers i in variouss towns Of the county recent ] ly have become interested Announce ] nents relative to the plans of the pro- ! posed organization will be issued this ! week from the office of tn eFarmers as- ! sociation in this city. .,, 1 Judge James, H. Webb will preside when the superior court for Windham county comes in here today tTuesday) te hear cases that have been assigned for l trial A jury will be in attendance. Two l cases are assigned for trial today. Helen | Kubaska is the plaintiff in one case and ! Paul Kabaska in the other and in each case Joseph Ruzenas is. the defendant.
 The first contested divorce case fer
 trial in Windham county for a =consid-
 erable period is set down special for
 Tuesday, of next week, March IS. and is
 of more than pasning interest because of 1 the fact that the plaintiff, Mary M. Gra-
 ham, formerly of Woodstock, alleges cruel .. treatment on the part of her 7. husband.
 Rev. Hugh F. Graham, who as well as being a. clerg! man is author. Mrs.
 Graham is about 3e years of age. whie
 her husband is about 55. Torrey and 1 Ceissler are counsel in the case for Mrs. |! Graham while Rev. Mir. Graham. who de-
 nies the allegations against him. is to be
 represented in court by Attorney Ernest 1 l.. Morse. A number of witnesses will testify in the case, some Of them coming | from as far away as New York state where Rev. MT. Graham formerly held a pastorate. I
 When Ralph E. Thurstsn. of the Put
 nam Light and Power, company, let here
 Monday on q business tFip to Prs> ldepce lie had along in hIs machine as paSseng- CTS Angelo Iiicci and Ant.iia Vicconi.
 each II years of, agf. The youths had ! taken 10 the hay in a barn at East Put nam Sunday evening when they were found and brought into this city. The boys had set out on walk from Prov 1 lGence lo Putnam ha rlng sdh cred an at tack If spring fever CT s,lne similar Inal-
 auy to incite rowing had become tired out
 and tlscke~ away ill barn for the night when Word was telephoned over to the Putnam poiice about them. MT. Thurst3n went out and brought them in in his car l-and kindly took them back to Prov dence when he started out Monday. r.,:
 boys were not charged with any offense. Iney spent the light at the po4ise station. Notwithstanding every reasonable ef-
 f-rt O. stA.e AlsnMay Gea,;.. L4ll> Il
 trunk Iilie nIsnHays Ill this svc.IJ.i of tI.e l state have bevn- oadiy tIt Lp t4le past i IeW days as Lne result ui hoLEy traHll au1 autvrse weather cundltivpS under
 .ulch the lrosJ has been cu.nIng out Uf
 the ground. It is appartnt to oDserT-
 CTS that some If the s-ate highways putt , hereapouts durng the past lew Years are not sufficiently substantial 10 %iLIlS. .and tie strah Of carrying the neaVyt aI>o l lrL:k traffic that has deVelopeu so re- lnarKably during the past four Years and
 that the breaking down of the highways is due more to their structural mcapaciev | to withstand the tests to which they arc
 being put than to failure to keep them
 in repair. State roau crews have not
 missed an opportunity to improve them
 as much as possible for nearly a montr past but the efforts of these workers has
 not prevented giant motor Vehicles .car-
 rying tons of weight from crasnins through the top surface at weak places .
 the highways and cutting ruts that event.
 ually, under the wear of the genera
 traffic, have been expssded into auaS- nlire. .-
 The, highway between Putnam and
 Dayvil1e, over which much heavy traffic
 moves, is about as badly smashed just now as af.ar the. severe winter season of 1919-20. Only heavier built roads
 will eliminate such spring and late win
 ter trouble with state highways as has
 been experieI ced in eastern Connecticut
 during the past few years. -r touring car registered in the name
 of Jeseph Dumas of North Grosvenor. dale came to grief ia Thompson on Sun day afternoon, when,, owing to some difficulty with either the wiring or the motor. the car blazed and was practical ly destroyed before the flames could ba
 evtinguished.
 Many cf the employees of the New Haven road making their headquarters . in this city are being continued on a
 schedule of five days a week untl
 baa;iness conditions improve. Some ot l the men are eff duty on Mondays, others on Saturdays and others on some otker working days of the week.
 Putnam Is all set with the rest of li' section of eastern Connecticut for Ln other period of discontent, due to- da, light saving, that will endure, according tc present plans, from the last Sunday ir March until October. This will b1 brought about by the putting of the pas senger trains on the New Haven road or what practically amounts! to. a dayligh . saving basis, an arrangement under
 which hundreds of people hereabouts will be forced to lose an hour each work ing day and be. put to various inconven.
 fences on account. of the change: Mrs. Lewis T.'Chamberlain is a patien'
 at the Day kmiball hospitaE
 Another of the special Tuesday evening
 services for the Lenten period will b< fheld at St. Mary s church this, evening"
 Patrick Scott of Ponfret was beins
 held at the police. station in this city ,or
 Monday to answer to a charge of. hayinr been intoicated.- =. .-.-.. 2.
 l.. S. Basstow of East. KilinEly was visitor in Putnam Monday.
 Mrs. S. W. Wilcox, of New York. will ht
 the speaker Friday afternoon at specia
 devotional service, of the ,Wonan's Mis- sionary- society of the. Congregationa
 church. .a William B: ChamkerlaiH. SC, who die, recently at the "home;4'of his daushter l BETTER THAN GA[ONE[.