Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-14
PUTNAM

peanuts and red lemonade and jam of | traffic.
 Streets were fringed with people as the parade moved from Tate1n field shortly after 10.S0 o'clock and followed route laid out for it through School, Providence | and Marshall streets into Woodstock av- enue and Bridge streets to Main and | back through Grove street to the exhibi- | ton grounds.
 Right here seems to be a good place to | say that the parade was very good, made | an excellent impression and was the 1 means of getting much business for the show at both the afternoon and evening performances.
 The entire equipment used in the parade 1 was in first class condition. Three bands, 1 two calliopes an da herd of six elephants and sveera1 camels were features. There were several open dens of wild basts, pretty horses, picturesque riders, cow boys, and of course, bevy of clowns. A strangely garbed, painted and befeath> cred man who rode atop one of the wag- ons was said to be the dry candidate for official bootlegger of New England, but one couldn't believe a thing that some of the people in the sgrowd said, so this is given for what it's worth.
 A beautiful lady that rode in a sway ing howdah on the back of one of the el- ephants attracted attention. Watching the manner in which the seat in which she sat swayed convinced the average f1apper that riding on an elephants back furnished the first suggestion for the rocking horse dance, for indulging in which some patrons of dance halls are be- ing chased off the floor. But this can't be blamed on the circus.
 Raucous voiced announcers, never miss ing from a circus parade, were on the job Tuesday, Keying up the crowd to see the marvellous exhibition on the grounds immediately after the parade and with the impelling announcements ringing in their ears scores hurried right over to the lot prepared to make day of it.
 The Sparks shows were the best that have played Putnam in years-and the cleanest. The show is enlarged in all de- partments this year and now borders on the big show class The opening spec tacle-Visions of Arabia-made a fine impression. This pageant offered an op- portunity for the presentation of all of the performers, elephants, camels, sing 1 ing and dance girls and brought to close by LeVernA Venable, the diva of the white tops, rendering a beautiful song to the accompaniment of the band while seated on the back of a monster ele- phant. The spectacle was a novelty and the costumes used were gorgeous Trained seals, posing horses, riding ba- boons and dogs, performing elephants were features of the big show The Fly ing Walters, aerial bar artists; The Jug gling Larkins, eatrice Jung, the loop-the- 1 loop girl, the Flying Yerkes, the Riding Guices and the Hollis family and dainty Flora Bedini. riders, were arenic attrac- tions of special note.
 l Patrons of the circus were pleased with all it's features, which included 1 number of side shows.
 At the Day KimbaH hospital Tuesday, the injured leg of Mrs Della Phillips only surviving adult of the four who were in the grade crossing accident at Sterling Sunday, was amputated in a desperate eff fort to save her life. Mrs. Phillips, whose husband and sister, Mrs. Phoebe Hebert,
 were killed outright in the accident and
 whose sister, Mrs. Jennie Metter, died Sunday night at the Backus hospital, from internal injuries received in the
 same crash between locomotive and au- tomobile, was regarded late Tuesday aft ernoon as being in 2 critical condition The Phillips infant daughter which Is
 at the Day KimbalI hospital with her
 mother is doing we'll and gives every
 promise of recovering entirely.
 Circus day brought minor accident l in connection with the passing of the
 parade. Returning through Grove
 street to the grounds at Tatem field, the
 brakes on a heavy steam calliope that
 was being drawn by eight horses did not
 seem to hold well coming down a little
 grade on the cement roadway near King street and the vehicle crowded up against
 the pole horses, pushing them forward A horse farther of the string began to prance, jumped over the pole of the rig
 and eventually brought up against the
 front of an expensive limousine that was
 crowded in close to the curb. Then the
 horses slipped and fell, his forward feet
 going under the the running board oi
 the limousine, which bore a Massachu.
 setts registration. The driver on the cal
 Hope must be credited with excellent
 handling of his horses during a trying
 minute and he came through the affair
 with practically no damage to the limou.
 sine and not at all to his own equipment l A crowd that had gathered to watch the parade scattered as the horses were scrambling about, for a time threatening a real serious mix-up.
 POmfret school will close tomorrow
 with the usual jollifcation exercises il
 the evening. Each year the parade O students and serenades and salutes t members of the faculty with the hug, bon fire and fireworks to wind up the pro gram of the evening attracts hundreds o . people from all surrounding towns. Tn majority of students will leave Frida, for their home cities, in many parts o , the country.
 John Duda. owner of bakery in tn 3 northern section of the city, is to be mad { defendant in an action to recover iron 5 him for an alleged violation of contract 3 MT. Duda, months ago, stopped paymen
 on check for $400O which he had caus
 ed to be drawn in payment for stocl which, it will be claimed, he purchased MT. Duda Is said to have been advise
 that the stock he had purchased migh 5 not prove a satisfactory purchase an that it would be better to protect himsel
 from possible serious loss while there wa yet time MT. Duda seemingly acted o this advice, stopped payment on tn
 check, which remains uncollected, an
 which the company whose stock Mir. Dud r is said to have arranged to invest in O now taking action to collect.
 . Monday the last idle machine in tn . new plant of J. B. Tatem and Son wa $ put in operation. new plant to replac 7, the one destroyed by fire early thi n spring has been constructed and the cor e cern is again nearly full production pos ' abilities.
 pr. o. c. Sharpe, whose hip was SroI 2 en when a large limb from a tree fell o
 him last Sunday, is suffering considerabl
 pain at the Day Kimball hospital Wfer