Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-25

toilette they will fyisf relatives of Mrs. 1 Dllgas s
 Everett Davis reported to the, Put nam police Sat turdaxi morning S:that., some one had left a bicycle near his home on Pemfret. road, The wheel Hay beside the l road for an entire day. and then Davis took it to his. house where lie is holding
 Miss RoEcs.s Bartlett. has returned from Block Island. <
 Members .ct the WsonsocIet Country club were guests. Saturday afternoon at the Putnam club. !, As The state hishwey department has l installed at Ayerilf corner in Pomfret, 1 which has been sythe site of moro acci- l of the county. a new devise to warn automohilists of the sharp turn, Tie i device consists of prisr1s. of red glass, | arranged iii a fifteen inch square. It l is hung from an arm about four. feet | high and is so placed on the edge of | the road that at night the headlights of
 approaching ma chimes throw their light upon it, causing a large red glow of such brightness that 1t cannot fail to at- tract the attention of drivers.
 | CSasieI No. 4s. L.Union. St. Jean Bap- 1 tiste,. of Putnam, is making arrange l ments to celebrate the. golden anni- yersary of the, society ir this city. The l exercises will be held. on Labor Day. September g.. Plans are incomplete, but i the days progra mrre will include mass 1 at St MarS's church in the morning and ein.- the eveningsa reception and con- cert in St. Jean hall. Providence street There will at that time also be a speak
 CT of considerable reputation.
 military fuaeral fer rrIvat. Ray
 nond Bensons q, son of Mrs. David
 Hicks of North Woods,o e. and the
 first Woodstock boy to be killed on the 1 field of battle in the world war was held Sunday afternoon at, 2 o'clock, in the North Woodstock church. Private
 Bensors body arrived in Putnam Tues day night. from Hoboken; where it was landed July 10th. Upon the request of
 the family, AnseIn7 Mayotte post of the
 American Leyion,ssPutnanl, made arrange
 ments for the burial of the body with 1 full military horors Former soldiers
 from alll parts of Woodstock, and a
 special detail from Putnam, were pres
 ent at. the funeral. and were in uni
 form, The Putnam post Of the legion
 furnished the firing squad, which was in
 uniform. Rev. Boynton Merrill nastor
 of the Second Congregational church in
 Putnam, and post chaplain. !oficiated al
 the service. Burial was in North Wood.
 stock cemetery:
 Raymond Benson. enlisted in the ser. vice Of his country at Boston, July s1 1917. He was first. assigned to duty at Paris Island, South Carolina In Feb
 ruary, 1918. he was ordered overseas
 and reached France that same month He was a private in the 51st Company
 of the Fifth Regiment of Marines, Thi, 1 regiment took part in many important
 engagements. June H. while in battle |, Private Benson was struck with a piec, 1 of sfrapnel and sdied on the field. mi: was near Belleau Woods Private Ben son was born in Vermont, but for many , years had made his home in Woodstock , He attended Woodstock .AcsN5 efny for two years and later went t6 wIliistor f Academy. At the. time of enlistment h, was employed in a. Boston bank. Tn,
 body was accompaIiied from Hoboken by 7 Frank Macluse, of tPier 21 Casual De i tschrnent. The casket had been drapet I with an Arne-ica flag which Is the -if i to the marines mother, from MT. Mer - Til .-.
 MT and Mrs. Herbert Smith; Churcl r 1 street, ehsve returned from Mt Desert 2 Maine, where they have been spendin, , tw weeks. .sss 45.
 d Funeral services fer aTIItst Robbln. !. 3S, who died at the Norwiche Sate Hos s Pital- Wednesday, were held at the Eas s Thompson church Saturday morning a
 II. o'clock. Burial was, in East Tnomp h son cemetery.
 Robert T. Hurley, the newly appoint n ed superintendent of the state polio
 has filed wikth State Treasurer. G. Hal d old Giipatrick of Putnam a bond of 918, s Oeo which is required before he as
 sunles. control of the. office Many of hi a Putnam friends have written to, Sup r Hurley within -the.s past two days con
 graduating him upon his appointmen
 and wishing. him success.
 s Agent Frank T... Davis of the Windha, e County Farmers association has maile ii to directors of fhe, organization a oua1
 terly review. which in detail tells of tn :. work that. the association has been dc ,e ing In the last three months >- Fac zt year a. yearly report is sent to all rner II berg, but this it the first time that V quarterly report has been gotten ou .- MT. Davis intends to continue issuin
 such, report each quarter for the her m eft of the officers nd town directors. IT Y following figures from the report sho i'd something of the association. agents a, - tivities:
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