Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-14
one, Mayor Marcy does not wish to med

one, Mayor Marcy does not wish to med de with it.
 Putnam will be represented at the ter centenary celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth and at the his torical pageant Which is to form q part of the program. Mrs. Genevieve Letters of Grand View has been elected dele gate from the Connecticut Society of Mayf1ower Descendants to attend the ninth general congress of the general Society of MayhoweI Descendants which will be held at Plymouth from Sept. to g. Next week Mrs. Letters is to be the guest of friends in Woburn, Mass, and will also be present at the Pilgrim pa geant at Plymouth. This pageant was to have been held this week, but owing to the rainstorms last week it was post poned. The pageant. in which there will be 1000 actors and 200 singers, has been arranged by Prof. George P. Baker of Harvard, and it will not be merely an historical representation of the scenes of 300 years ago, but will also be tribute to the Pilgrim spirit by American poets and musicians The pageant will be in IS scenes, and the resentation takes two and a half hours. The scene is laid in Plymouth harbor and centers around The Rock, with Coles Hill serving as a seat ing place for the thousands of visitors who are to be present Mrs. Letters traces her lineage back through ancestors who came to this country on the May flower.
 Miss Mabel Clark of Hartford is the | guest of her uncle and aunt. Mir and Mrs. Florenus Clark. Grove street. | Governor Lake has leappointed Dr. S. B. Overlook of Pomfret as member of the Connecticut health council for a six year term.
 There was meeting of the Euarantors of Putnam Chautauqua Wednesday night a tthe home of the president. Mrs. Wal ter J. Bartlett, on Main street.
 Facts developing from the suspension of Patrick F. Canty as chief of police ir ] Webster are being watched closely by 1 city officials and members of the police department in Putnam. Canty was sus- pended Monday night by the Webster selectmen. acting on evidence gathered by the district attorneys office and the state police department. in which it is alleged that he accepted graft money from at least one booGegger who wa: operating in the town to the north. Or Tuesday affairs took another turn. ot much interest to the Connecticut authori ties, when it was announced that an elab
 crate system of blackmail was being | levied on liquor runners and that an al
 fidavit had been signed by motorists whC
 allege that they were held up at the poin of a gun Thompson road, near th'
 Massachusetts line. and compelled to pa!
 $50. It is understood that out of thii
 holdup the suspension of Canty grew Putnam police officials are not inclined
 to put much faith in some of the storie
 circulating into Putnam from Webster il
 which it is stated that complicated sys tenn of bootlegging is in operation. Tn holdup on Thompson road does interes
 them, however, since this is not far iron , the Jurisdiction of the local department
 which has been keening, close watch fo bootleEgers There is also general in
 terest in the suspension of Chief Cant
 because of the fact thal he is we known in Putnam and has worked wit , and conferred with the local departmen
 Mir. and Mrs. Clinton S. Andem l Grove street are planning 10 spend At f gust in Chicago, where they will F guests of their daughter.
 The annual meeting of ineorporatol C of the Day KimbaH hospital, Putnar