Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-12
PUTNAM

Five acres of valuable farm land have been offered by the Grosvenordale com pany, through its agent, J. F. Riordan, as part of the route for the proposed stretch of state highway between West Thompson and Grosyenordale, which is provided for in a measure pending be- fore the legislature. Mir. Riordan made the offer on behalf of the company at a hearing before the committee on roads, | rivers and bridges. Opening the route for the proposed highway, which would l eliminate two dangerous grade crossings, would require it's passing through land now owned by the mill company, but for merly known as the Converse property. A cottage that stands on the route would thave to be moved.
 l The offer of the mill company is re- garded as generous one and may be an aid to obtaining favorable report from the committee on project that would in- volve the expenditure by the state of | $So.00 or thereabouts in building the road
 It was stated Friday that 1000 addi- tional trees are to be set in the big apple orchards on the Lapsley place, in the town of Pomfret, during the coming l spring. Another thousand trees were added to the orchards last fall. These l orchards, which have produced thousands of barrels of apples in the past, are among the finest to be found in this part of the state. ''
 Several hundred names have been eb. tained, it was stated Friday, to petitions against the approving by the legislatur' 1 of measures providing for amendmentl to the city charter of Putnam as' ap- proved some time since by the common council. These proposed amendment were intended to take the appointment of heads of the police and fire depart ment and the Resistant engineers of th' fire department and superintendent 0 I the fire alarm system out of politics. Tn |. petitions are addressed to the general as } I.senbly of the state
 There were several of the petitions il circulation on Friday and some of then
 taxpayers of the city. Chief opposition | to the proposed amendments is ,confn
 from residents in the Eortherly sectio of the city, where there is quite wide spread dissatisfaction with the fire de partment insofar as under, the present or ganization and location of the ire-fght ing apparatus these citizens claim, tha part of the city is not adequately pro , tected.
 2 Following are the newly elected eiheer . fof the Club of Advancement: Presiden Dr. J. F. Mcintosh; vice presidents, Al
 fred Bonneville, Regis Bouthilette; sec . retary, George Potvin; assistant secre l. tary. J. J. Dupre; treasurer, Joseph Pel . reault; directors, Napoleon Jette. Hects
 Duvert, Oscar Dugas, Joseph Plessis, 1 t A. Brodeur, Charles Richard, Joseph Dupre, David Beausoliel and Alfre
 Bonneville
 } The Connecticut Mills team, of Danie . son, has a basketball game schedule with the NightingaIe Mills teal of this city for next Wednesday evenin1 The Danielson team is not the Com
 Mills team that has been beeting ia, teams from all over New England, br the second team of the big tire fabr corporation.
 Hi As the winter wears on and the perie
 of unemployment for many lengtheT there come tales from about every tow where the textile industry is the chi
 basis for prosperity of increasing q mands for help from the towns. Ne.
 summers annual town reports will she
 heavy items of expense under the heal
 ing of outside poor. The agrieultur I towns of the county are not so hard
 as the industrial towns, another eyiden' \ that those who live on the farms al II really always more independent and le \ liable to financial misfortune, providil \ they are industrious than are those VI Il reside in villages and cities. Here E Putnam some of the able-bodied in
 who have applied for aid for their fan
 lies have reen required to go to the tov
 farm and cut up wood as a contributi,
 of work for the aid received, and mu
 of the wood cut has in turn gone to DO families who have no strong members cut wood when 1t is furnished by ( ' town.
 Jesse Davis, an agent of the sta
 hoard of educotion, is to address a me-
 ing of Quinnatisset grange of Thonaps Tuesday evening of next week. This E to be an open meeting and wll be Of sT ciaI interest to those who like to krt about the schools of the state and wf they are dsing.
 There ars SIS students enrolled at State Trade school in this city at pr ent. Director Ellis said Friday, and of the departments are filled. The nu
 Der mentioned includes all of those W
 are taking special and evan.ng cours
 The fact that business nas been depre I ee all winter in indust' al plants h
 and hereabouts has allowed many .
 have been idle 10 take courses in wh
 they have been interested for long til
 SanaaeI RoseR and Arthur Pepin h. l. returned here from trip on which u
 visited the Studebaker plants in Detl and South Bend as guests of the Stu