Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-22
DANfErSoN AND PUTNAM NEWS
DANELyCN


 i zf<=z1d Mrs Charles B. Greene of fH1R Loodon and Misses Mary and 'Ancsr Greene of Cambridge Mass, are to sp@d tho week end with their parents 70 celerrace their fathers, Deacon A. iCs Greene. ninety third birthday Satur- day, Sept 24. he having been born in ff.e. ThN is a long time to 1.-Two and only ono in a thousand attains to it. neacoa Greene. aside from lameness and hard cf hearing, retains his faculties and can ce seen on the streets attending 10 his household needs as in the days gone sJ. He Is a veteran Of the civil war, .-ucuabe- of tho G. A R. and quarter .-nazer Of McGregor Post of which he 1s an honored csmrsde.
 10 would seem that it is perfectly all right at times Co siam around a ton or 70 of dynamite and not blow a township aG the map. but it isn't good form to mako prac1ce Of it. according to H. E. Parmeiee and Joseph F. Caulfield. two Norwich men who are at the Brooklyn far.
 Ncirher of the gentlemen is handling dyuami-e as a business nor even for rieAsure. but they came in close con tac- v1th enough cf t 10 blast out half tlc ledEas in Poster when Mr. Parmeiee's machine vas struck at Brooklyn by a Fcra truck en route from Wuimantic to "a point in Rhode Island with box after boa Of the explosive aboard.
 The driver Of the dynamite car tried Co pass Mr. Parmelee's machine on the rirht side just as the Norwich man was coming 70 a fork of the road There was crash that tore a wheel off the truaS and sent .it kitiur. while only a hub cap was dented on the Norwich car
 Mes-s P1-meiee and CaulhelG did Hof think much about the little crash unul t1cy took a lock at the marking on the boxes ln tho other machine, Dyna- mite atsnd-us forth in large letters on each box, and there was a whole flock ef tho containers
 The Dynamite. however. not only failed to explode. but didn't even show signs of hecomin- no.s7- The car carrying the explosives is the property of a Rhode La.aad Consrlclon company, it is said. it was definitely stated by Commis- sioncr E. H Corrtis or Thompson We'd nesday. Ina; there will be no county tax tals year. This VIII mean a saving of t5o.000 Co the fifteen towns Of the coun- yy and win materially tighten the bur den of tae hundreds of taxpayers who uaually have to f.ot the bill.
 Wlndhsm county is particularly for tun1te in l,s board of county commis- tioners. Mr. Co-ttIs John A. Dady. Put aam and Crre.s LaFrance Plainfeld They have exercised the most judlcious haAinsss ablEy in the management oi -nmC affairs through a period of sev- sfal ys2r2 and ty the exercise of every economy ir handling tho financial af- fairs of the county have made it pos th.e 70 save the taxpayers s5o coo this year
 ne new state highway between Brook. iyr and Hampton is open for travel Drive-s who went over the route Wed -csdzy declare the new stretch of high EaY % Dc one of the best in the east srr part of the state
 The opening of this road is in a large measure eacgnsL for it will bring tho sas srn and western part of Windhau county il closer touch with each other ihau ever has been the case. Willimantil is -uly q miles from DanieiSon oyel ne new route and. by the same token the Thread city Is as near Co the bor 1u-h- These county towns have no -Hd much ln common ever. but the new highway viii change all this. and pu nlnic'snu into The same close relation t1t7 p!ih Wiinantic that it now cnjoy' Fiir Putnam and tho villages Cf h. own oS PIalnfe'd. sU long since con ssc'ef u7 h- state highways.
 WIlima1'i- and pa7ie'son certainly rii do more business with each othei .hsn ever hsf0re because ir will b, rasie- Co traeei from one to the other sy way 2 Putnam. the distance 10 Wi iuzn-c from Dl1Ie5son was 3S miles ~hLe vi1 Goodyear and Pomfrct Jandin, rough and uncertain route during sev sra months ct the year. the distauc ras e.. miles The new highway there lore. cgts o1 a decided amount Of mile tcs E
 The ro1d that is now open has bsnke, turns and e z- smooth and well bull hat fss- drivers win find difficulty n ,cntro'I-- their desire 70 step on i' hourh warnings against speeding hsv ,sen iss1ed.
 'rlI give you just 15 minutes to Ee 7T t1osc E-I-rtt' was State Offce Harold A. EuI0trs sslItation 70 a dap per loori1= yo--n- man who came wal>in Town trs u away sr thc Brooklyn fai NFdnesaay afternoon. "T have severs iorlulsziozs here" the dspper one saiC rvt the o1lcer was unreleutinz an hased The young man Co The gate He
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