Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-20
PUTNAM

Secretary Charles L. Torrey of the Putnam town school committee has a statement from Henry A. Potter, repre- senting the state board of education. in which the claim is set up that 140 chill dren over years of age and under 16 years of age were not included in the enumeration of children of school age re- siding in Putnam when the last enumera- tion was made in September, 1921 This statement fixes the total of such children living in Putnam in September last as FOOT, while the figures compiled by the Putnam enumerators made the total 1,S74. The figures of the state board of education are based on canvass made on it's own account.
 While school officials here are not inclined to quarrel with statement that increases the enumeration of school age children of the town rather than dirnin- ishes 1t, some of them at least are un- convinced that the Putnam enumerators' figures are not correct. Another check-up is being made, based on figures as they would have been obtained in September last, and this check-up will show which total Is the correch one. L. E. Battey, who was in charge of the enumeration and who had the assistance of such a careful and painstaking worker as Hora- tio Brwn, has done the enumeration work here for years, and 1t does not seem within the realm of likelihood that he missed 40 children resident in Putnam who in September last were between the ages of 4 ana Is.
 MT. Battey is a resident of and thor oughly familiar with the northern section of the city, where the great majority of children of school age reside. It is in this section of denseSt population that emu meration errors would most likely occur for the average nuInerator, but it is be- lieved that this would not be true in the case of Mir Battey, because of his know ledge of languages, which add to his abil | ity as an enumerator because of allowing | him to carry on conversations with heads of families who speak little or no English | and to get correct information from them The percentage of registration in all of Putnam's schools on the basis of the corrected enumeration is 80 plus. The registration in public schools of the town Is 727; in other schools 3sS.
 l Simon BefisIe of West Thompson was ! drowned in the waters of Quadic~ pond either late Saturday night or during the early hours of Sunday morning, when his l body was found and taken to his home in i West Thompson.
 Belisle, 55 years of age went to Quadic with his son and another young man for a Saturday night fishing party At about 10.S0Np m. the young men rowed the boat i ashore, that MT. Belisle might land, and i having loft him, they proceeded to row back to the fishing location. Some time thereafter they heard a splash and a shout and they returned to search for MT Belisle but could not locate him. The body was not found until after day l light Sunday.
 Just how Mir. Belisie got into the water probably never will be definitely known, 1 but it is believed that he lost his way in the darkness and walked into the
 water at a point where the going is mo-
 toriously dangerous even for one familiar l with the locality.
 It is said that $106.Ooo will be expended
 on play-King of Kings-to be put in
 rehearsal the coming summer at Stanley
 Kelley's camp in Woodstock and that
 Eva LeGallienne and George Gaul are