Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-30
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS

have, and MT. Deans suggestion, in the opinion Of many Is the best yet made.
 Citizens will be asked to consider two important matters at special town meeting that has been called for next Thursday afternoon authorizing the construction of an addition to the sehoolheuse at Goodyear and as to dis posing of the old town house at Killing ly Center.
 The town school committee are ask ing through petition to the town select men for a special meeting that the Good Il year schol matter be taken up. The \ present sehpolhouse in that village ds in- adequate to accommodate the q 39 pupils \ enrolled
 It is a four-room stgacture built a few years ago and already has been out grown, making it necessary to conduct a school in the basement of the church of [ the village. 4 As to the old town house, 1t is stand | ing idle and vacant, Of no use to any l one under present conditions. It needs repairs which the town has no special | Interest in making, and, It seems to many taxpayers, the proper thing to do Is to sell it and add the amount It brings Co the town treasury.
 The advance guard of the organization that is to present the Danielson series of | Chautauqua entertainments arrived here Thursday afternoon and began prepara- 1 i tions for setting up tent on the grounds | | of the graded school, School street. Everything, it was promised, will be ] in readiness for this afternoons open 1 i ing, and Chautauquans are haping that l l this years entertainments will be as sue 1 cessful as in the past, that Chautauqua | may not be lost to Daniels al in futHre4 years. Leonard P. Morrison, an automobile salesman resident here, was notified Oh |. Thursday that he has been awarded a l $150 gold watch, the first prize offered | to salesnen in. Connecticut on the line | of cars he is handling for sales of the greatest number of cars of a certain model. Tn competition with the sales force of the entire state MT. Morrison's achievement is a notable one.
 Not bid was received by the select men of the town of Killingly for the con tract of constructing a new footbridge 1 across the Assawaga river from a point 1 near the state arTnory to the westerly
 side of the stream. Bids were to have
 been opened Thursday afternoon, but none came.
 First selectrnan John A. Gilbert said 1 that it probably would be necessary for the town to undertake the work. The 1 bridge was closed to use this week on 1 account of it's unsafe condition.
 Construction will be a job for carpen- ! ters and members of this craft all seem to be very busy at this time
 The following are the newly elected
 officers of the Ladies Reading circle: 1 President, Mrs. M " Woodworth; first, vice president, Mrs. " J. Craig; second
 vice president, Mrs. A. D. Putaam sec J retary and treasurer, Mrs. Leonard A. James; assistant secretary and treasur-
 CT, Mrs. A. c. Greene; book committee, 1 Mrs. P. H. Sprague, Mrs. H. H Heath,
 Mrs. George Eaton.
 1 There are sti11 plenty of bargains left
 at the bankrupt sale of the Peoples Shoes now being sold at less than cost 1 adv.
 1 Danielson seems to be coming into touch with the skirnish line of solicitors i who have been working in rnanufactur- i ing towns hereabouts for contributions to be used in aid of textile workers who 1 have been on strike in Rhode island for
 several months. They are without per mits from the state beard Of charities. and, therefore. solicit subject to possi- ble attention from officers, in case any one objects to their activities, though
 no one here is objecting at present. The I collectors are said to retain 10 per cent. 1 of what they collect as commission for the work they do. One collector told 1 an officer he was averaging $50 per week l in commissions.
 While seeking a permit from a select ! man here to solicit, one collector told
 the official that the mill workers of
 Rhode Island could not possibly live un- l der the wage scale they were on strike l against. The official called the eellec- i tors attention to the fact that Daniel son mill workers are managing to live 1 under the identical conditions of wages i and working hours against which Rhode ] Island workers are on strike and still
 are being asked to contribute to the sup I port of the Rhode Island strikers. The annual union picnic of the Con 1 gregational Episcopal and Methodist
 Sunday schools is to be held at Rose 1 land park in Woodstock on Thursday of
 next week. The schools will make the l trip in motor vehicles.
 Miss Ella Nash, daughter of Mr. and
 Mrs. Frederick Nash, recently was at
 Elizabeth park of Hartford. to which
 city she motored with MT. and Mrs. Arr
 thur James and Curtis Place to view the
 rose gardens.
 Theodore Reeves of the KilIingIy High school baseball and basketball teams was injured when he collided with an-
 other player while running after a fly ball at Connecticut Mills field
 Miss Louise Gallichant is a patient at
 St. Vineent's hospital in worcester.
 where she underwent an operation for : appendicitis.
 : George A. Little of Concord, N. H, was a visitor with friends in Danielson , on Thursday.
 A delegation of members Of Putnam lodge of EIks came here for a confer enee with the Danielson members rela= 5 tive to Danielson night at the Elks fair in Putnam next week.
 The Central Falls, R. T. Professional
 Mems baseball team will be here next Thursday for game with the Daniel
 son professional mems team.
 Mrs. Harriet R. Back of Winter street
 has gone to Vancouver, Wash. to spend l the summer with her son, Judge E. H.
 Back.
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