Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-12
DEEEESDN AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM


 truck owned and operated by Alphonse Bourcier. of this city, failed to function properly as the machine. was rounding the sharp curve from Killingly avenue into Grove street, about noon, saturday. the car careened across the highway, strnck a telephone pole, and Bourcier and his companion, Ernest Broduer of Taft | vile were thrown through the windshield, Bourcier received cut over the lip and some minor bruises. Broduer receiver severe cut on hsi left thigh. The lacera- i tion caused by the broken glass Of the windshield severed a large muscle. He was also cut over the eye and received numerous bruises. Dr. E. F. Perry, who was called took the men to the Day-k11n- ball hospital here whe dressed their wounds. Bourcier is an ex-chief of the Putnam fire department. Broduer was married last Monday and was spending his honeymoon with relatives on Cleve- land street. It was suggested that he remain at the hospital for a few days but he insisted in being carried to the home where his bride was. The truck was a wreck.
 Malcolm Nj. Wiley, son of Mrs. Helen Wiley. Putnam, and his cousin, Richard Holmes, son of r. and DMrs William i H. Holmes of Mount ernon. N Y, re- | | have covered over a thousand miles in ! less than two weeks over the highways of ! Connecticut, Massachusetts. New Hamp- ] shire and Maine without cent paid for ] railroad fare. Mir. Wiley is a student at ] Columbia University, New York. MT. ! Holmes, whose father is superintendent | of schools in Mount Vernon, is a student i at Clark CollelA Worcester The young i men decided that for their vacation, aft i CT finishing work for the summer, they ] would take what they termed a bum
 ming trip. Equipped with a pup ten, 1 blankets, cooking utensils and such per
 sOnal property as was absolutely neces- i sary, they set out. The rule to be fol- ! lowed was that they should accept all ! rides offered, but were not to ask for a 1 ride. The first day they reached Penni- l cook, \. H., and from there continued ! through the White Mountains to Maine. Post cards received from the travellers
 en route evidence that it was an easy ] mode of travel and that they were fin a
 Quandary as to which offer to accept when
 two large cars stopped simultaneously
 and the drivers of each invited them to step in. During the time their camp was
 pitched, usually near some farm house,
 they were visited by the curious country
 folk and when the curiosity had been sat
 isfted some child was sent outwith a
 cake or pie from the farm house .arder
 People are all very generous and kind 1 said the returned travellers Tt was a
 great trip and we believe we could circle
 the country, if not the Elobe in the same
 way"
 It is possible that the criminal term of
 the superior court scheduled to open ir Putnam the first week in October. may
 be nut over a week as States Attorney . Charles E. Searles and Public Defender Charles L. Torrey have cases coming UT before the supreme court of errors that week
 William F. Jackson. county investigat
 or of the states attorneys office. wa. In the city Saturday, in consultation re
 Earding criminal mat.ec coming befor,
 Ihe October ten of oorlt.
 ! States Attorney and Mrs Charles E
 SearLs spent the weekend at Easten
 Point Groton.
 . There is apparently but little interes I Tn the forthcoming election of town offic
 CTS and it is anticipated that there vii be few if any changes in thu personne
 of those who administer the town af 3 fairs.
 An undercurrent of unfavorable com e ment concerns the size of the gas an, S electric light bills that the citizens O { Putnam are receiving each month Som % ufhe gao, committee of the chamber O - commerce was appointed to make an in d | vestigatton with a possibility to havir
 gas rates reduced in Putnam as has bee , successfully accomplished in some of th s other cities of the state. A charge of s per thousand feet for gas plus a servic
 charge of fifty cents per month is deem
 cd to be excessive. Almost any owner z
 nome paying money to the Putna, Light and Power company is heard f . heard to say that his monthly bills hav increased nearly a hundred per cent. me past few years. People would r u pleasingly interested if the committee or a trusted with making the investigate
 would make a report.
 Members of the Woman's Relief Corr
 are anticipating the coming, Tuesda e next, of Mrs. Cora Hall of Wi11inoor+i IL assistant state department inspector ( L. relief work The meeting to be held ; Il Odd Fellows hall will be followed bv = luncheon.
 Ie Frederick A. Burwell. who has hee n connected with the Patriot Press durir r. the summer months, has left to resur 10 hrs studies at the Harvard TTnivers;4 ! l. ish his graduate work.
 Governor Everett J. Lake is comIr =, to Woodstock Thursday next, it VIZ a announced Sunday by Representative ,4 M. Keith of this city. Some time sin . 1t was stated that the governor mig Id be present in Woodstock this week al
 1t is now definitely known that he W
 be here. Governor Lake is q native tn Woodstock and very well known in ; is the towns hereabouts. His Thursd; to visit will include an address. n- George V. Hamilton, lecturer Quinebaug Pomona grange, will be t .s' speaker tbs (Monday) evening at re meeting If Putnam grange. The Pr uI nam gr7.nge will engage in an effc Iy to increase its membership during t so fall .a- Dr. Hugh E. Campbell of Norvi nj will come to Putnam Tuesday to co tb duct clinic for tuberculer patients tv the Day KimbalI hospital The clinic vn scheduled for 1 o'clock.
 he Alphonse Bourcier, formerly chief at the fire department was injured on S;
 urday, but not seriously, when the z P. tomobile he was driving crashed into nd pole when something went wrong W ct. the steering gear out on Killing.y a-
 nue. MT. Bourcier was on his way ho