Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-12
PUTNAM

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 Tuesday morning a petition was filed asking that the sslectmen of the town of Putnam call . special town meeting fer next Monday evening to consider making an appropriation of ss0,O00 to meet the cost Of sn addition to the Israel Putnam school ana for the purpose Of naming a building committee
 There are 30 signatures on the peti- tion-men and women electors signing readily when requested to do so and the petition was completed within a few minutes after being started.
 The request for the speclal town naee1- ing followed immediately after a rneetln, of the town school committee, an archi- tect and some citizens on Monday cver- ing. It has long been recognized that something will have to be done to relieve 1 the overcrowded condition of the Israel Putnam school. and after having studied the subject carefully and looking at it from many angles. and after much corl-s ] alteration and exchange of opinion the town school committee is now prepared to present its conclusions to the electors. l The town school committee will recom- mend that brick addition, two sta1ies l in height and with hsAemcnt, be built ofi the southerly side Of the prescnl building. Such an addition would provide four more class rooms and make possible dropping of the present practice of having classes of young GEliilren on the third ] floor of the b uiIding, reached only by mar row stairs and where lights are required at all times when classes are in session
 Under the present oSercrowded condi- I tions at the school there are as many as AS pupils in charge of one teacher, and l this number Is regarded as too large for best resultsl Also it is necessary to entirely exclude from the school all chill dren between the age of and | years this rule having been in force.for several years
 I Should the town vote the appropriation that Is being asked 1t will be urged np- on the meeting that the building commit tee be made up of five members. two of them from the town school committee.
 It was stated Tuesday that, should the
 town allow the appropriation, work could be started as early as rnid-S4ptem- Der, but in all probability the rooms :n { the addition would not be ready fo- use i until the opening Uf the school year in |, 1923.
 The plans for the proposed addition show a structure farmcnizing with the | style of the present building.
 Unknown and in an unmarked grave, excepting as the cemetery association's records show the burial place, -he body 1 of the colored man who died at the Day Kimball hospital Sunday morning after being taken i'll at the Walter L. Main
 circus tent in Danielson, has been laid , at rest in Grove street cemetery ) A small ring, evidently some cherished ) memento of home life and friends, was ! the only article found in his clotkeag that l might in any way assist some time in the future in. fixing his identity.
 The dead man. who WIS in his late twenties or early thirties ;vas about siS : 1 feet tall and of remarkable physical de. velopment having very broad and heavily rnuscled chest and very powerful looking arms and legs.
 : With the burial of the man all cfticia } interest in him in this territory Is at ar : end, insofar as an investigation as tc his 5 history or anything of that sort is con cerned. It seems well established ths' : he came to Dapielson from Woonsockel
 with a circus. where ne is supposed tt have joined It, but aside from that Lnothing is known about him
 Tuesday proved one of the iissee
 nights of the entlre pertoi of the FlkI 7 fair. The night brought the W..hster con ! tingcnt of Putnam lodge and theil
 friends to town and also another deleba . ltion from Grosvencrdn.e. And with then came bands and enthusiasm enough |. . convince the average Elks that there wa, mora doing at the fairgrounds than 1T