Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-14
DANIELSeN AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

States Attorney and Mrs. CharleS E. Searls have returned to their Thompson home after spending several weeks in the White mountains. They found the wealth CT unusually cold for this time of year.
 Some evening this week the Boy Scout band of Willimantic will come to Put nam. The band will be sent here to give a concert by the Willimantic lodge of Elks, which holds a big outdoor carnival the last of the month The band was here during the carnival of Putnam lodge and played exceptionally well. Many people have made 1t point to motor over the Senexit road, where 125 girls are occupying Camp Utopia. Twen- ty-five are in a house, but the others 1 make up a tent colony. It takes about S5 employees, including cooks, to care for the l campers. This is the first season of the camp and it has been a decided success There has been no shortage of water | for the mills along the Quinebaug river | this summer This is unusual, as nearly every summer the factories have to shut down a part of the day on account of | lack of water power.
 Secretary L. H. HeaIey of the state board of agriculture entertained mem, bers of the board Friday at his home; Echo farm. North Woodstock. The party
 motored from Hartford and on the way
 stopped at the Wolf Den and looked into l the cavern where General Israel Putnam
 shot the wolf that was stealing the | farmers sheep. It was noted that the bronze tablet set to mark the place by l the Daniel Putnam association was not | in place It was stolen some weeks ago | and then mysteriously returned. The tab
 let is in Putnam at the home of one of l the members of Elizabeth Porter Putnam 1 chapter, D. A. R.
 l Soon after the arrival of the board at l their destination a business meeting was 1 held, after which the S0-acre farm was | inspected Commissioner PhiIo T. =Platt
 presided at the business session in the 1 absence of the governor. The department
 as usual will send it's delegates to the 1 different agricultural fairs this fall tc
 offer specific recommendations for the improvement of the fars. although the
 state police will have immediate super
 vision of gambling. It was voted to make i a recommendation to the state board ot finance that an automobile be purchased l for the use of the department. Before leaving for their homes the guests were
 served a lunch by MT. and Mrs. Healey
 Labby MassicOtte, the year old so1
 of Mir and Mrs. Frederick Massicotte, i.
 recovering following an appendicitis op
 eration performdd Friday at the Da!
 Kimball hospital.
 The clinics conducted every day tn,
 past week at the Day Kimball hospita
 by Dr. Harry Foster, New York special
 ist who has been passing the summer q
 his home on the Putnam Heights road
 will be concluded this (Mondayl after
 noon. Dr. Foster has operated upol
 from 14o to 150 patients, most of then
 being children from Putnam. Thompson Pomfret and Woodstock. The operation
 were for adenoids and diseased tonsils
 Clare Heath. family and friends hay left the city to set up camp on Cap
 Cod overlooking Buzzards Bay. The will remain several weeks
 The next golf match of the Putnar Country club will be played Saturda
 next. when the Putnam players go t Woonsocket for a return match, Woor S socket winning the match on the Putna1 ! links.
 : The waterwheeI at the mill of tn . Putnam Woolen company has been rt : paired and 1t is expected that the mi will begin operations this (Monday ' morning.
 Mir and Mrs Edward H. Burt an ! Miss Mary Johnson left at an early hou
 this (Monday) morning for Niagar
 Falls.
 f Postmaster and Mrs. Alexander Gi = man returned home Friday night from 2 weeks trip through Maine, New Haml : shire and Vermont, stopping at Nortl U field, Vt, to visit Mrs. Gilmans brothe 0 Motorists using the Providence pill 6 find 1t in very bad condition betwee - Gloucester and Chepatchet. Surveyors t the state of Rhode Island are workr
 on this stretch and it is expected that |, will be repaired and widened before ne: II summer,
 |. Little stands for selling ice cream ar :, soda and others in which fresh vegetabl T, are sold spring up along the trunk lii ~ highways like mushrooms over nigi Some Of them remain doing bushes ,i while others in time D&ss out of exis "A cnce. The large number of these lit ,r shops seen evidences that the business
 being overdone.
 Mrs. N. W. Kennedy of the Gener h Lyon inn, Eastford, is planning to