Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-25
PUTNAM

Donald C. Johnson, son of Attorney ! and Mrs Eric H. Johnson. will sail from New York Sept. Sd for Porto Rico, where he is to teach for ten months at govern l ment school. Mir Johnson was to have l gone last week, but the opening of the high school where he will be a member of the faculty WAS postponed until Sept. 22 During the summer he has been at the home of his parents in Putnam. KIT. 1 Johnson is a graduate of Putnam High school, class of 1916, following which he went to Bowdoin college, Brunswick, Me. | He then transferred to Yaie university. from which institution he received lis bachelors degree the past June. He will be in Porto Rico until next July. A. E. Burt, for the past year head of the carpentry department of the state trade school, Putnam, has resigned and will leave Saturday, as he is to be with an industrial concern in Whitinsvilles Mass. His successor has not yet been appointed. MT. Burt goes to Whitinsvills Monday.
 Miss Doris Carver, secretary to Difec- tor H. H. Ellis at the state trade school, 1 is having two weeks vacation. Her place is being taken by Miss Clara Kel- l Ter.
 Work has been started on building l to be used for a garage located at the junction or SchoOl ana EIOnt StTtetS. 4He ] patchwork has already reached the first story.
 MT. and Mrs. J. o. Wood are to close Camp Senexet Tuesday and return to 1 their home in Columbus, o. Today 1 (Thursday), Friday and Saturday the 20 1 boys at the camp are engaged in the final 1 contests of skill, and camp championships i in various sports are being decided. Sat urday night comes the banquet and 1 blowout" at which prizes will be 1 awarded the winners of the various events. Sunday will be spent in resting i Monday all hands will turn to for the packing, and Tuesday the start for home will be made.
 The drive for new members being un- dertal1en by Court Joffre, No. S9. Franco American Foresters, Putnam, got away with flying start Tuesday night, when 50 applications were received. Peter Per- reault, an organizer from Manchester, 1 conducted the meeting Tuesday night, which was held in St. Johns hall. Ori- glen Touchette, Aldor Guertin and MT. Perreault are the committee in charge of the campaign for new members in this city. Mir. Touchette said Wednesday that 300 members is the goal. Sept. 4
 the initiation will be held. and a special program is being prepared. Wednesday night Mr. Touchette, who is secretary of
 the local court, and MT. Perreault were II in Webster Mass, to assist at the initia-
 tion of a class of 100. Mir. Perreault has
 been conducting a drive there for the
 past two weeks. He is to remain in Put
 nam during the local campaign.
 Word has been received in Putnam oI
 the death earlier this week in Boston of
 Charles H. Blake. Mir. Blake was brother
 of Mrs Isaac Fenno, who with her hus-
 band made her home in Putnam for
 many years Mir Fenno was a former
 head of the Putnam Manufacturing com
 pany.
 Funeral services for Nelson King. S1,
 were held at his home on Grove street
 Wednesday afternoon at l o'clock. Rev. John C. Stoddard of Putnam Baptist
 church otilcated and burial was in Grove
 street cemetery. The bearers were his
 sons, Allie S. King and Arthur King, his
 grandson, Walter King, and son-in-laW, c. II. Smith.
 MT. and Mrs Louis Wolfe of Putnam
 and MT. and Mrs. Samuel Pariser of New
 York left Putnam Tuesday for an auto-
 mobile trip to the Catskills.
 1 pr. sBernard P. Murphy has purchased
 the Nathan w. Kennedy house on Sunny
 side Heights Dr. Murphy has been liv-
 ing there for six months.
 Mir. and Mrs Ernest B. Kent &re at Alton Bay, N. H. They made the trip there by automobile.
 Those injured in the Diaaond-NIoPraTty
 automobile accident last week who were
 taken to the Day Kimball hospital are
 recovering. James Clifford, who it was at
 first thought was the most seriously in-
 jured, has been discharged, and Miss
 Gladys Brewer will leave in day or two.
 Miss Elsie Diamond. it has developed
 was the most seriously injured It will be necessary for her to remain at the
 hospital for several weeks more. Her left arm was badly fractured between
 the elbow and shoulder and has been placed in cast that encases the upper
 part of her body and makes it necessary
 for her to remain in bed.
 Miss Ruth Bartlett, daughter of Mfr and Mrs. Walter J. Bartlett of Main
 street, who is with the Swarthmore
 Chautauqua as a junior worker, is this week in New Hope, Pa. The tent with ] which she travels went to that city from Bristol.
 ; J. Harry Mann, who is spending Au- !. gust with his family at Gales Ferry passed Wednesday in Putnam. James E. Murray, teller at the First