Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-20
PUTNAM

50 serious as to arouse doubts as to the possibility Of her recovery. She has been patient at the hospital Tor about week.
 Thomas Aspden, new a representative l1 of 3 Massachusetts business concern, had story of unusual interest to relate to | number of mill supefintendents and ev- erseers brought together by Agent Robert W. Boys of the Manhasset company
 Mr. Aspdsn Is an EnglishmaD who H'as iEa charge ef 3 mill owned by French in ferests in Russia at the time LeTaine and | Trotzky came into power at the head of ! the bolshevik regime, and thereby hangs | q tale.
 eOf those who heard what Alr. Aspden, now enjoying what the United States has
 to offer In the way of 9 republican form i Tof government. had to say about Russia 1 under the belsheyists none would be in l the least tempted to exchange and go into-f the far distant land where communists l and other radicals have had a wide open 1
 fling at putting their theories into prac- tice. Mir. Aspden witnessed the advance ]
 nerit of 3 bobbin boy direct to member
 ship in the financial committee of big textile plant. He has seen an iiliterate
 Russian peasant advanced to a superiH- tendency in plant about which he knew little or nethingg
 Himself regarded as one of the upper classes, Mr. Aspden was coFFespondingly reduced to the ranks as it were, and by stages moved from his own comfortable home. which was turned into soviet
 headquarters, through various tenement houses, each worse than the one before,
 until he and his sister finally found
 themselves dwelling in hovel Things went from bad to wefse for Mir. Aspden and his sister, who was his eompaniOn in Russia, until one day in the early fall
 steam pipes burst after being frozen through the negligence of inexperienced forces in the mechanical department of 1 the mill of which he had been the head. Mir. Aspden was making an inspection of the bursted pipes when he was seized as being responsible for the trouble, rushed. before Q bolshevik tribunal, tried for what amounted to treason to the seviets and, despite his deniala and explanations
 sentenced to be shot by the Red Guards Things looked especially dark for him when the supply of cotton ran short and 1 needed. MT. Aspden eKpeTimented with a mixture of fax and short staple cotton and succeeded in making a yarn that proved to be his salvation. for he used it to illustrate his loyalty to the seviets and his sincere efforts to help them run the mill The idea caught on with many. l and his execution being delayed he fin allysw one of the foreigners' exchang ed by the belsheViks for men of their own tarmy who hi4 been captured by allied
 forces operating against the Russian gov Iernment troops. Mir. Aspden and his sis ter, safe out of Russia, are not advocates 1 of anything that savers of bolshevism. They have seen it at first hand. witnessed l how the leaders in g government in
 which all are supposed to be equal. lord It over those who do not happen to hold position and get the best of everything l that stricken Russia has to offer to it's
 nearly 200,0o0,e0o people.
 l Attorney George Thayer of Hartford.
 father of Charles T. Thayer of thls city, is somewhere fin the Pacific ocean en route -4 from Van eouverT B. C., to Japan. on fwhat is the first leg Of a trip around the
 world. MT Thayer is one of New Eng lands best known globe trotters and, first
 and last, has found his way into little I travelled corners of the world. He has I tramped over numbers of European cenn-
 tries, has been in South America. in Cen itFal America and in other distance plac- I es where fancy has called him. He has I gone into what are new fields for him on I his, present jaunt, has plans calling for much travel in Japan.. some in China, in Russia and number of European coun- AE tries before he makes his way to Eng sl land and thence back to the United
 States Yokohama will be his Hprt and he may take long jaunt afoet before leaving Japan, but this will depend on faHey's dictates.
 MT Thayer Is a veteran of the Span } American war, about which he wrote book He went overseas as a secre-
 tary during the World war after he had :. surmounted all kinds of opposition set up against his going because of his age. He came back, sound ss dollar, and new he's off again A born traveller. exneri- i enced in the ways of those who are at home wherever tbey may be, he is iooks ! ing forward to a grand trip this summer { ttew long he will be away and just what l his route will be seem to be entirely de- ipendent on what he encounters to in- . iterest hirn and what obstacles he meets | in getting through lands where the urge of war is still upon the people and where battling is yet the vogue.
 The cantata, The Holy City, to be giy- : en at the Congregational church Sundas
 evening, will. be presented with the fol. $ lowing program. Introductory prelude ? der tenor solo. No Weeping Wonder ~ quartet, No Paltings Yonder chorus f None Wanting Wonder; tenor solor, My
 Ieul AtbiFst for God; tria, It shall come -I to pass at Eventlde it shall be Light a chorus, They that SOW in tears shall rear i in joy; alto solo, Eye hath not seen [ chorus, For thee, o dear, dear country [ Thine is the Kingdom forever and ever : offertory, Alteration, organ. plano; basi
 solo, Thus saith the Lord chorus, Lei
 l the heavens rejaice; quartet, The filming
 pot is for silver; soprano solo. These 2 are they which came out of great tribu : lation quartet and chorus, List, thu cherupic bost; bass solo, And heard thu ,, voice of harpers; chorus, Great ant marvellous are thy works.
 Il Today t6aturday) will be tag day ii ! Putnam, ik the interest of the Putnam d Girls club, which hopes tP get sufEieiani
 funds to provide a samInsr outing plac. ], at Alexander's lake during the comlnl season. Mrs. w F. Rafferty is chairman : of the committee of arrangements SouthWard, hoi Wildwood parks frs F dance of the season Is scheduled for thi
 (SaturdayJ evening. P. J. Sheridan O
 this city again is to Be in charge of ,th z amusement enterprises at this park tlli s Iseason.
 el o. B eappentsras house in Eastfor, s is probably the oldest in that town l $ was constructed early in the eighteentl E century
 e Friday was anfiual Has. night a
 the Bradley theatre and the entertain 3 ment was attended by large ni1mbe g Iof high school pupils
 l ". E. RafeFty left Friday for a weel a end visit with his son, fnidshipman a
 the United States Naval academy at An 1t lnapolis
 II Mrs. J. B. Kent has been at Boston thi T week attending a New England distric
 Il missionary convention of the Baptis ' church.
 ! Thursday evening was past nasterr
 night at Quiaebaug lodge, A. F. and 4 fret nil rf fc5 7Tf ind frS4 41a