Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-11
PUTNAM

PUTNAM
 Police of this city and Providence were engaged Tuesday in an effort to locate Doris Reynolds, IS, and Helen Ingraham, Is. missing from their homes in Thornp- son since last Sunday morning.
 During the 4S hours that had elapsed between the time of their disappearance and Tuesday morning no word had come from them, and all that was known here about their movements concernedsa a period almost immediately following their de- parture from their homes
 They are said to have been seen to- gether at the railroad station here Sun. day at noon. but evidently did not leave here on a train, for during Sunday after noon they are reported as having been seen walking along the state highway near the Reach place on the Chepachet highway, and still later plodding along in the rain near the Twin Films, few miles out of Providence.
 Their reasons for leaving their homes and their proposed plans of action after anything is known. Excepting for the bidding of a mysterious goodbye to a girl friend by the Reynolds girl after Satur- day night visit to this city, there seems to have been no advance inkling that the Thompson girls were about to leave their homes without ceremony.
 It appears that the Reynolds girl told her mother Sunday morning that she was going to spend the day with the Ingraham l girl and that the Ingraham girl told her people that she was to spend Sunday with I the Reynolds girl. It is believed that they made their way out of Thompson 1 by one of the back roads, eventually reaching the state highway running from Chepachet into this city. came here, then
 made their way back over the Chepachet route to Providence, which city is being
 searched by the police in an effort to To- cate them.
 It is believed that the Reynolds girl l who has been employed at a postoffice in | the town of Thompson, had about $40 oi i her savings when she left home and that
 the funds of the Ingraham girl were not l in excess of $1.50.
 Not theory had been advanced up to l Tuesday afternoon as to why the girls homes and have never given any evidence of desire to go away, nor were there any circumstances in their lives that would tend to indicate they would be led | into such course.
 The entire affair is puzzle to rela- tives and friends of the girls As well as to the officials who have been investigat- ing it.
 Not much time was required Monday morning for hunters to become informed that Governor Everett J. Lake had lift
 ed the ban on shooting and there was | 2 rapid getaway of scores of hunters in
 this section and nearby towns for woods
 and fields where game is found. Long
 before the noon hour Dr. William Sar-
 etzki had returned with the allotment
 of cock pheasants allowed any hunter | in one days shooting. Game birds ap- peared to be quite plentiful, hunters said though the foliage is too heavy as yet
 for best hunting conditions. Rev. J. J. Elty was greeted by friends
 here Monday. He is far on the road to i recovery after undergoing serious sur
 gical operation at the Day Kimball hos pital but as yet has not undertaken to
 resume his work at Holy Trinity parish l in Pomfret.
 Frank Cogswell of Louisville, Ky, ar rived here Monday to spend week with relatives in Thompson. MT. CogsWell for
 merly was resident at Elmsville and iS
 a graduate of Killingly High school.
 During the past financial year of ths
 town of Putnam the total circulation
 books at the Putnam Public library wa. 24,sss. Of this circulation 11,264 were fiction, 2,0S9 non-fiction, 7,S67 juvenile Circulation of books in schools totale(
 2,7O7. The total number of readers wa
 9S2, which is about ten per cent of tn l population of the city and the numbe { of new applicants was SIP Observers note that increasing mum bers of cars laden with coal are nov
 coming northward to Putnam and point
 beyond. Sunday and Monday freight.
 hauled considerable amount of coa
 through this city.
 ! Numbers of Putnam people will be il [ Stafford today attending the fair. , County Game Warden Harry E. Bat a tey of Woodstock and number of hi
 deputies were afield Monday checking u
 hunters to see that they obeyed the gam \ laws.
 6 Next spring may witness the beginnin : of the work of constructing the beautifl 0 memorial chapel for which funds wer r provided in the will of the late Harrit e Tourtellotte of Thompson at. the Groy t street cemetery in this city. d About $40,oO0 is now available for tn 8 work, which has been delayed because ( a high building costs and other circun e stances, including the depreciation , n Liberty bonds. in which the funds are il h vested, in the period following the armi j. tice.
 r Liberty bonds are now selling at ps t and over. The interest has been comir r in regularly since the memorial chap T fund was established. While buildir e costs have not receded materially, or l. least as much as the trustees of the fur l. had hoped might be the case, it seen d. probable that the building work will r undertaken next year.
 Fl During the past summer preparatol Is grading work has been done and sever \ hundred dollars expended in makil l. ready for the actual building of u Id chapel, which will be as fine as any m the state.
 c. No definite announcement had be V made up to Tuesday afternoon as it whether an evening school will be co A ducted in this city during the present fl l. and the coming winter, although it d known that the matter is receiving co es sideration from the town school comm sd tee, and decision probably arrived
 within a few days.
 r- For several years, past evening scho, nt have been conducted by the town Of P, r. nam and have attracted numbers of r nd pills, a considerable number Of them an he ious to learn the English languai as Others have taken the evening courses ed improve on limited educations. tn Opening of the fall campaign precedi g, the election set for Nov. is planned ot the latter part of next week followi its the caucuses at which candidates for r, al. resentatives will be named in all tow at hereabouts within the next few days. ad Rallies that are being planned by le; n- CTS of political parties will bring N he known speakers into this territory a Ig- included among them will be Congre of man Richard P. Freeman, who is c. as didate for reelection on the republic
 ticket.