Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-30
DAMHSeN AID PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM


 ,f the Salvation Army, which is conduct ing a drive for funds in this section and | to raise funds for work in this city The campaign started Sunday, r the f22d, and continued through the week. i Saturday was Tag day and a good sum | toward P1itnamis sS:5ee quota was raised | Captain Carpenter brought in a good sum l the trains Saturday,
 Had Putnaza Hixh had little oyercon- | ddence, Woodstock Academy might actu- ally have defeated the local team Satur- day As 1t was, if the visitors had re- peated their work of the first two innings in. the other innings they would have gone home with victory. Donlon was sent in in the third inning to relieve Annes who had allowed the visitors five runs in the two innings in which. he .itched. In the sixth Putnam hit Me Ciellan for seven runs, thus putting the game on ice and with one run in the seventh and eighth frames winning the game, IS to '. Pike was the heavy hitter for the visitors knocking out three dou- bles and triple out of five times at bat The local team hit several two-basgers
 The three plays given by high school players in the school auditorium were wit messed by a good sized crowd.
 Travel through this city was very heavy Saturday and Sunday because of the. large numbers going away for Me morial day.
 Frederick H. Sanborn. manager of the Sanborn Chemical company, returned Sat urday from business trip to New York city.
 In spite of the heavy rain which had fallen about church time Sunday six veterans of the Civil war were present at the Memorial day services held at the Baptist church. A few veterans from the Spanish American and world from the Grand army attended, A. A. Buchanan, Joseph Mckenzie, T. Chaun- cey Moore, Charles $. Monroe, Richard Gibbney and Louis Lucia, About midway through the service the na ' tional anthem was sung, accompanied by the heavy thunder and the fire aalrm. Putnam troops of boy scouts had a good representation.
 A fire alarm was rung in about noon, Sunday, when some wires were struck near the Manhasset Manufacturing company. When the 1remen arrived
 no fire was discoverable.
 l Provided the field is not too wet the Putnam baseball team will play a New ] CMonday) afternoon. This is the first
 home game of the season for the local i team.
 Considerable happened in police cir
 cles, Saturday night and Sunday
 morning. About midnight Saturday, Patrick Roach was picked up, charg- | ed with intoxication. He will appear | Tuesday morning in city court where he is 3 familiar figure. Sunday morn
 ing about four o'clock, While John
 Murray. formerly captain of the local
 police force, now a railroad police of
 fcer, was patrolling territory along
 the Norwich and Worcester railroad
 tracks, he saw two men carrying a suspi-
 cious looking bag. He tried to stor
 them to find out what they were doing l on railroad property at that time ot
 night when enc of the men hit him or the side of the head with a hammer The cop put up a fight but the mer got away. They left the bag whicf | was found to contain a number O dead chickens. Capt. Murray is dis.
 posed to make light of his injuries, bu1
 he was quite severely beaten up.
 Chickens had been stolen from the
 roost of Attorney Howard C. Brad; ford. MT. Bradford on seeing thl
 chickens from the bag at the polio,
 station declared that they were not his
 but he has had 3 number. of chickens
 stolen from him in the past week.
 ThemAs L. Taylor, who so far a. known, is the only survivor of thu
 sVl 10 sluspnls eul ol eHods 'IolluoF
 Putnam High school Friday afternoon
 at patriotic exercises.
 . According ,te newspaper accounts twt or three years ago, seven or" eight 0 the. Monitors crew have died. As ia as known Taylor is the only survive of that battle. He still does a day work and is one of the six Civil wa , veterans who last year marched tn full course of the Armistice day pa rade.
 MT Taylor spoke for about a hal 7 hour, giving something of his life his , tory as follows: He was born in , small North Carolina community i 1S46. He was slave and worked O a plantation until the outbreak of tn Civil war, when with number of >othe a slaves he escaped and joined the Unio
 lines. He was assigned to a shore uni but had no actual fighting until he wa l assigned to the Monitor and was 0 board the union craft. when the Merri 1 mac was doing so much damage ther, < He said the shot thrown against tn sides of the Monitor sounded like ha
 stones, but the Northerners had the ad . vantage of the fight on account of tn ', revolving turret. He has lived i :. Worcester, and Putnam ever since h = has been discharged from the servic :, but has been back once to the planta II ton in North Carolina where he ha
 served as a slave.
 t Amos A. Buchanan, another survive n of the Civil war, told something of th
 battles of AntietAm and Winchester z Rev. John C. stoddard, of the Bas T. tist church will be the speaker at tf Memorial service at East Putnam. e s.3O this (Monday) morning. Re, e John Romey of the Episcopal churc Putnam will speak at Putnam Height e These exercises will be in charge !; George w., Childs post of the Sons a Veterans, assisted by the school chi 70 dren.
 r All Henors to Princeton Ia Why scoff at fresh water colleg, ,t when the Princeton crew, trained (
 artificial lake, shows it's rudder to u
 salt water Navy eight, champions zN bA Orld Dr-ox