Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-13
PUTNAM

PUTNAM I
 Miss Helen Phillips of Bolles street .fias gone to Hartford, where she will make her home.
 Mrs Hiram Brown left Putnam Tues day for visit. of several weeks in North Brookfeld, Mass At the Congregational church Thurs day evening there will be a special ser- vice in honGr of Miss Phoebe Beard daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Willard L.
 Beard, memter of the church, who will leave this country next month for Foo Chow, China, where she is to engage in missionary work. Dr. Beard, who is now at Oberln, O., will go back at the same | time. He has been missionary at Foo Chow for many years. At the meeting Thursday theer will be special music
 Miss Beard during her visit in Putnam has been the guest of her aunt, Miss Emma J. Kinney, and and uncle, Ebert Kinney, of Center street.
 During the thunder shower Saturday morning a large oak on the Ream estate in Thompson was struck by lightning. All the bark below the lowest branch which l is 30 feet from the ground, was stripped 1 from the tree and scattered in small pieces for many feet.
 MT. and Mrs. John Jarvis, William Jarvis, Adolph Jarvis and Miss Lillian. 1 Jarvis of Church street were in Webster. Mass, Monday morning attending the funeral of Mrs. Jarvis sister, Mrs. Anne l Lachance Latour. 51, who died Friday at her home in that town: The funeral service was at Sacred Heart church, with 1 burial in Sacred Heart cemetery Mrs. i Latour who had lived for 2s years in | Webster, was born in Putnam and lived 1 here until she was 2S. She leaves two 1 daughters. Viola and Blanche, of Web ster, and two sons, Edgar and Eldege. also of Webster.
 Daniel Alvin I.add.. 20, of WilIinaHtic, 1 has been confArring with Capt. John Bull ger of the Pu tnam police concerning an
 automobile which he claims he bought from a man 4t the Putnam railroad sta ton. and which proved to be stolen machine. Ladd was accused of the theft of the car, and last Friday Justice of the 1 Peace George H. Allen, in Windham, found probable cause and bound him over | to the next criminal term aof the su- perior court. In tlleA justice court Ladd 1 was charged with stealing afford auto mobile, the property of John T. Johnson of Mansfield Hollow The theft is alleged to have been committed June I It was in the first week of June that Ladd told
 Putnam police officials he bought the machine here. It was brought out in
 court that Johnson had left the car in i his barn on the evening of June 1 and 1 that the next morning it was gone The Willimantic police were notified, but they
 turned the case erer to County Sheriff
 Fred o. Vinton of EagleviHe, and Ladd
 was taken into custody by the sheriff. In
 court he pleaded not guilty ..Ladd told the Putnam police Tuesday. that he
 bought the car in good faith from the curb at the Putnam station. He gave 2
 description of the person. who he said.
 sold 1t to him. and the local officials are
 Investigating the story. ~ %.aIsr
 The case of Joseph Laferrier of Whit
 insville. Mass, held on a@l statutory
 charge upon the complaint of Abbie La
 point of Putnam, and to hAxe been heard
 Saturday before Judge. Thayer of the
 district count, Uxbridge, Ma sssi4lfas b4en
 continued to Oct. 2S. The defendant ha
 furnished bonds of sSo0 for his appear
 ance at that time. F
 Placing his 2 year old daughter on tbS
 seat of his Ford roadster, Max Levine
 School street lacked up the rear wheels
 ot the car in order to make. som repairs
 Tuesday morning, and then cranked the
 motor and started the engine Because
 he had forgotten it and left it in gear
 the automobile jerked once or twice and
 then started forward with no one but the
 baby as passenger. From. tbes Levine
 uoofHafu' where me car had been stand.
 ing, to the pond at the Prentice ic4hous4 is steep incline, and down this tti v ma
 chine started gaining momentum every feet of the way. Seeing that the auto.
 mobile was headed straight for he wa ter, MT. Levine made frantic effort ts [ change its course and pumped into the body, a tthe sar1e time trying to head the Ford into nearby tree He was moi able to turn it quickly enough and in. stead of hitting head on as he had nlan. ned the car struck the tree a glancine bioYH and then overturned cornnjetelIy The child was taken from the automobii, through the windshield which had beer shattered. A scratched finger was all th.
 little girl had to show for her perilou, 1 ride. MT. Levine was more seriousI,
 hurt. Aside from being stunned. he srf fered wound above the left knee. Thi,
 was treated by Dr. Edward F. Perry , who was called. The automobile light. were broken. the mudgusrds crushed ant
 the top of the machine left in genera scrder. That one new home Is being purchase,
 or built every month as the result of tn, 9 Putnam Building and Loan association ii l shown in the 11th semi-anhual report q
 that association, issued Tuesday after noon by the secretary, Mahlon H. Geiss
 Ter. The association at present has ;
 waiting list of those who wish te use iii } funds in an effort to buy or build homes which at present, owing to a scarcity Q dwellings, are at a premium. in Putnam
 The report shows that there are nov
 2,961 sh3;rs cl 'stl! G-nE, and that tn
 income is more than $5,oGo a month Tn