Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-10

ed from an automobile tour which tcck | them through Canada. MT. Macdonaid 1 who is deputy state automobile commits sioner, returned to Hartford, Wednesday,
 The state fish and. game. commission brought B cans of fngerling trotu to Putnam Wednesday afternoon. The flrst were four to six inches long. The con signment was distributed ny members of the local fish and game club O~ot|a |" this section.
 When the new hook and ladder truck arrives it is planned to have an inspec- tion of the Putnam fire department. arpenters painters and nasons will will start work this week to renoVate, repair and strengthen the fire neadquart- CTS building according to plans made by l mayor and fire committee at meeting 1 Tuesday afternoon
 l Mrs. Ida Klebart, 61. died at her home on South Meadow street, Tuesday even l ing Mrs Klebart had been suffering 1 from heart trouble, but wa saDie 10 be about and was sitting in ! chair when she expired Mrs Klebart was mem
 Der of St. Philips Episcopal church and active in the Woman's Relief Corps and | the Rebekahs She had lived in Put nam the past twenty years. son, Mark Klebart, and daughter,s 1nez, surYlVe. | Announcement has been made of the | engagement of Miss Bridella Brownie, daghter of Mir. and Mrs. Robert Brown l lie, to Francis w Crabtree. Both are | well known in the city.
 l machine standing on the counter of
 a local drug store is kept to nip of the | end of cigars and not the end of lady l fingers. A little miss of seven exercised i her prerogative of feminine curiosity and i wanted to see how it workeU. py4v lA~u
 no cigar to try the apparatus on but used | her finger instead. Now she has a rag | friends to let their daddies play with | cigar cutters If they will but advises | her playmates to let such nippers alone.
 MT. and Mrs. H. o. Preston, of South 1 Main street, who recently observed their l 55th wedding anniversary have a guest i in their backyard that at nine o'clock ] each morning, standard time performs
 his ablutions in a little pool of water 1 formed by recent rains. The bather is
 a toad and MT. and Mrs. Preston watch him or her, nearly every morning The toad splashes abot uin the water for the better part of an hour and then sits in the sun to dry. The time of the toads S i appearance varies but few minutes each morning.
 A Ford touring car and a motorcycle collided at the corner of Front and Liv- cry street, Wednesday afternoon The
 automobile was coming out of Livery street and the motorcycle was passing
 along Front street. The only damage
 was to the headlight of the motorcycle Rev. N. B. Burton, pastor of the Meth
 odist church. and Mrs Burton are spend-
 ing two weeks vacation on a motor
 trip through Maine.
 Charles Dumas, whose automobile
 ride to the Day Kimball hospital with
 John Jarvis, Tuesday, ended in an opera
 tion for appendicitis, is resting comfort
 ably.
 They are here, 76 strong. Notwith standing the railroads are having their troubles the 126 D. m New York rx- press pulled into the Putnam railroad station Wednesday but five minutes late
 Hitched to the parlor car in the rear was a day coach. In that coach were . 76 kiddies from the East Side tenement
 districts Two women were in charge
 and as soon as the train came to stor the child aggregation from Little Olo F New York alighted and formed inc
 Down through Main street the visitors marched, to the home of Mrs w. J = Bartlett, chairman of the committee ot
 arrangements. Here on the lawn the
 children stopped. One yougster was 7 heard to say to his companion. probably | ,. ye suppose dere doing? De cons Fl ge :. us if dey catch us on dis grass" There ] were cops nearby but they were tiiert y from curiosity and not to warn iittIt
 children away from the greensward . Some of the children carried travelins
 bags, a few dressuit cases, but most hac their extra clothing in bundles done u
 in newspapers or in pillow slips A = were properly tagged and tiaketed tc S their destination in the country Nt
 sooner had the children thrown them r selves upon the grass than quantities O e cold fresh milk appeared. There wer,
 glasses for all. It was noted that mos l. every child slipped the milk until told h, I or she could have all wanted---anl the1 v how it disappeared
 Then cookies appeared Lots of them
 Gee, you could have all ye wanted And then came big, ripe peaches : whole bushel basket full! If you at U one you could have another There the, : were and all you had to do was 70 hell . yourself. In the middle of the lawn
 was large fir tree Jst like Christ t mas" said one little tot. After the mill e and the cookies and the peaches, the worl l. of allotting began. The various towl
 committees were on hand put it was uTc l. an hour before the last child had beeI t sorted out and started on it's way to it n destination
 Mrs. Bartlett, the committee chairman = said that the women who came witt . the children said ten wno arrived a . the Grand Central station Wednesda,
 morning had to be left behind as nc . arrangements had been made for them 6 The little folks setuIned to their hcnf. : heartbroken. But we will lave then
 here. They are not going 70 ba dIsap . pointed that way !! said Mrs Bartlett e and she meant it and that is snfftcien n assurance that ;hey will arrive in a da, q or two.
 l. This is the largest number of city
 children ever to arrive in Putnam. Mcg e Of them are not yet in their teens sn: y girls predominate over boys 70 a no r ticeable degree.
 V The children were distributed in th g following hospitable homes: Pomfret-
 Mrs E. J. Jones, Mrs. John Chapman
 Mrs. Augusta Danielson, Mrs. Albert Tu- T. colt. Thompson-Mrs St. Martin. Mrs -- Charles Ryan, Mrs Alexander Luther IT Miss Marot. Woodstock- Mrs. Joh, le Perrin, Mrs. Saxby, Mrs Sabin SpaId E. ing, Miss Sylvia May, Mrs Ashley liib IS bard, John Aldrich, George Boswcrrl Id Myron Esterbrook. Mrs. John Slighr. Mr, y Frank French. PhoenixviI.s- Mrs. Mar :" Ethridge. Abington-Mrs William Hal pc ris, Mrs. Boris, Mrs. A. P Bollock B
 liott-Mrs. Eli Badger, Mrs. Dredse of Miss Hofay. Eastford-Mrs Ida Co, it's verse Mrs. Spink, Mrs. Fa-num- Pu of nam-Mrs. Henry sellig, Mrs. Nelsc on Wilson, Mrs. Henry AppIey. Mrs. Id
 Kwiest, Marjorie Shippee.
 as Nineteen children are entertained fr. on and the rest have their board paid fro
 contributions from the towns as follow, nh Thomas S129: Woodstock s445G. F.,