Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-30

broken wires, trees and poles to match any destruction of the kind seen in this territory for years. Giant elms were ir- ciuded among the trees that succumbed to the ice in this particular territory.
 A number of social affairs and other events scheduled for Tuesday evening were postponed on account of the storm.
 About two inches of snow fell in Put nam during the early morning hours of Tuesday. but this was changed to slush during the period of extremely heavy rain that followed during the forenoon hours and continued with more or less violence throughout the day.
 Quinebaug lodge, No. 1oe, A. F. and A. NJ. has it's communication scheduled for Thursday evening of this week.
 A lone lodger, drifting in on the wings of the storm. found refuge at the police station Monday night Weather condi- tions having grown worse instead of bet ter by Tuesday morning, he was loath to leave and the officers, taking pity on the unfortunate, who was poorly lothed and poorly shod, permitted him to remain during the day, and saw that his meals were forthcoming from their homes.
 Five cows of the pure bred herd of Hoistens at the Mantup farm of E. C. Rogers, east of this city, have just com pieted tests for milk production and for butter. One of these COWS. Pauline Fair fax, 2d, produced 5006 pounds of milk and PAP pounds of butter in seven days. The record of another senior COW, Queen Segis Pontiac Posch, was 475.7 ter in seven fe!s.
 The following group of three year olds made these records Maplewood Butter fly, 5476 pounds of milk, 23.17 pounds of butter; Gladiator Pontiac Pieterje. 463.S pounds of milk and 1890 pounds of butter; Lady DeKol Segis Konigen, SS45 , pounds of milk and 17.S6 pounds of but ter-all of these being seyen-day records made under supervision.
 Emil Kaiser of Rockwell Center. \. J., has purchased the Roxie Bartlett place in the Tucker district of the town of kiilingly, just south of East Putnam, ana is to take up his residence there in the near future.
 Members of the town school committee have practically decided on a new super intendent of schools to succeed William L. Macdonald who recently resigned There have been numerous applicants for the appointment that has been open in this city, On account of the severity of the storr, Tuesday morning the no school signal | was sounded at the usual hour, and was hailed with delight by hundreds of little people who did not relish the thought of facing conditions under which they would have journeyed to school
 There continued to be difficulty on Tuesday in reaching Worcester and other Massachusetts points by telephone. One routing for Worcester was via Providence and Brockton.
 Miss Katherine By~re was in Boston Tuesday on a busines trip.
 Rev. Richard Larue Swain will preach again at the Baptist church this CWed. l nesday) evening. giving one in a series of sermons that have been proving oi special interest
 State Officer Howard A. Elliott of the state police department was in Putnam Tuesday on business trip.
 Among the names mentioned for the appointment of chief engineer of the fire department is that of Ralph Thurston who has had much experience in fire de- partment work in this city
 Mrs. F. C. Rogers has been spending a few days with relatives in Boston
 Kenneth C. Sharpe is to leave during February for a voyage to the Mediterra- mean. and during his trip will visit in Egypt, the Holy Land and many other points of interest. He expects to return to Putnam in May.
 A train due in this city at 6.O5 Monday night was delayed by poles that had broken under a weight of ice and fallen across the tracks of the New Haven road a few miles east of this city.
 Nearly 800 telephones were reported Tuesday as having been put out of ser vice by the ice and sleet of the past few days. Conditions were particularly bad in Pomfret, Thompson and Woodstock 4 large force of plant department men were engaged in the division on Tues. day, working right through the storm in a mighty effort to restore service to nor nal a tthe earliest possible moment These repair men came from widely sep arated sections to untangle the storm trouble in this locality
 Members of Putnam grange will be at Plainfeid Saturday to attend a meeting of Quinebaug Pomona grange.
 NIT. and Mrs. J. H. Converse and fam fly, comprising MT. and Mrs H. L. Con- verse and daughter Hazel, MT and Mrs L. E. Converse, Mrs. D. s. Elliott and Mrs. W. F. Logee. her daughter Mildred and little son Allen. were guests of Mir and Mrs. F. W. Martin and sons, William and Luther, at Nlark corner saturday Nov. 18th, to celebrate the birthday of Mir. Converse and Mir. Martin. It has been the custom of recent years to mee alternately at each others home to eX. change greetings and congratulations or their birthday. This years was the 75u for MT. Converse, Mir. Martin not being so many years both fall on the sam. day of the month. MT. Converse is 1T good health, looking after his East Sid, View farm and federal tested Jersey herd and is active and alert.
 The dinner prepared by Mir. and Mrs Martin was a veritable old New England | Thanksgiving feast The birthday cake: ! made by Mrs. Martin and Mrs. L. E. Con verse were way over the top, that O Mrs. Martins displaying lighted candles