Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-25
PUTNAM

PUTNAM
 A dance number that is entitled After the Rain, might have been appropriately played Monday in thanksgiving for ths escape of this territory from being utter- ly drowned out in the near-deluge of the night before
 The storm tore out a railroad embanH- ment and washed the material down onto Front street, burying the trolley | tracks that run under the railroad bridge at that point and gullied city streets and country highways in towns all about. It l dattened out standing corn until fields l of it had the appearance of having been moved It put the telephone service un- der more or less of handicap through lines knocked out of service It Sas 1 the means of delayinI train service 70 some extent during Monday and of in l terrupting trolley service on some parts ] of the Putnam division for a time Sun day evening. Numbers of gardens ir' low-lying sections of the city were un- der water Monday morning.
 The storm that broke. soon after the 1 coming of darkness Sunday evening and continued into the small hours of Monday morning was unusual not only for it's torrential rain. but also because of the | length of time it endured. Accom- 1 panied by vivid lightning, the storm ap- palled many. Traffic of all kinds was hampered by the storm and only the | hardest of motorists took the chance cf 1 proceeding along the state highways, a s drivers had. great difficulty in following the roads during the storm. rain falling so fast that it was next to impossible to see any distance through a windshield I even, those protected with cleaners ' In Pon1fret lightning caused the deat}1 T of three cows Limbs were torn from trees and in some cases wires were knocked down by the fury of the storm II locomotive having been obtained to Il haul the work train that operates out : of this city, the train went back in ser- vice Monday, doing away win the ar rangement of having the men who work with the train go northward to thair work on an early morning passenger train, as has been the rule during the past week. It was stated Monday fore noon that some of the men who left their jobs with the train and went on strike returned to work Monday, but the ma jority of the 3S who went on strike are still out.
 Residents of this city learned Mon . day with regret of the death at Gu.i- ford of Katherine Ward Leete, wife of ; Frederick W Seward of this city Mrs Seward had been seriously i'll for soms time past and her condition had bean critical for more than a week
 1 Mrs. Seward was born in Guilford a daughter of Edwin A. and Mary A. i, Leete) Leete, her father being a rep , resentative of one of the pioneer fami- lies in that section of the state. the an- cestral record dating back to earliest CO., lonial days. Her marriage with Mt. Seward was on November 26, 1885, In 1890 Mir. and Mrs. Seward came to this city to reside and since have made their home here, Mir. Seward being one of the } city's well known business men, Four 5 children were born of their marriage 5 Ethel born in Gulford, who died in infancy; Clayton Leete, who was born 3 in Guilford in 1888 and died in this city n in 1917: Dr. Lee Sanford Seward, born in Guilford, now practicing medicine in : California, and Mrs. Katherine Lown : wife of Arthur D. Lown, a resident oi this city.
 h Mrs. Seward was one of the active and prominent workers of the Second Con = gregational church of Putnam.
 Il Monday morning the funeral of Mrs V | Elizabeth Park Fallon, wife of Johr q Fallon, was held from the. home of Ael
 mother. Mrs. D. c. Park, in the Saw
 yer district At St Mary's church at .3(
 
 ebrant of the high mass of requiem. Int /, service was attended by many relativc < and friends. Burial was in Grove Stree " cemetery. where the committal service z was conducted by Rev. Fr. Bedard. Tn /. bearers were Edward W. Mullan, JameI ? H. Rafferty, Walter J. Bartlett. John T ,t McGarry, Dr. Harry A. Houghten ant 't Winfield Houghton.
 At st. Mary's church Monday mornin. l at o'clock, there was marriage ant U nuptial mass, Miss Blanche Bernier be . coming the bride of Henri LaBante , The marriags was performed by Rev. | o. Beilerose of Taftville and he wa E celebrant of the nuptial mass which wa Il attended by relatives of both familie
 and a number of friends The fathe of the bride and father of the grcor
 were the witnesses for the brida couple.
 Up to Monday Ill shares of the four
 teenth series of the Putnam Buldiaa
 and Loan associatfon's shares had bee subscribed, the majority of the new is
 sue being taken by holders of prior is
 ssue. No special effort is .beiEg made a
 this time to. boost subscriptiokls, bu shares are being taken by members Q the, association who have learned fr9r past experience the worth of the invest
 ment afforded.
 Owing. it was said. to washouts tha
 had occurred on the Shore Line, trair, E from that division were being operate E through this city during the early hour B of. Monday. The morning newspaper an < mall train from New London for thi E city and Worcester arrived here abot
 two and one-half hours late.
 On the Rhode Island side of the Oh,
 pachet route to Providence the Rhode I:
 land state highway department has ul
 dertaken the work of widening this nauc
 travelled highway, which Is so narrow
 some places as to make the passin
 of even two large touring cars. som,
 what dangerous unless care and ski
 is exercised by drivers. It was state
 here Monday that it is probable that th
 entire route will have been wident: within year or two so as to make Il
 route more suitable for handling tn
 heavy amount of traffic now passir
 over 1t every day throughout the yec
 State Treasurer G. Harold GiIpatr
 and Henry Wheelock, Guy Baker. Jam
 Murray. John Slattery and Louis Ge
 ard returned here shortly after mi. night Sunday, after a week end no1, 1 trip to New York where Mir Csilna+r