Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-26
DANELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

The police were actively interested l Wednesday in William Kempf'', now at 1 Brooklyn jail awaiting trial at the Jan uary term of the superior court after pleading guilty to stealing articles from automobiles in this city. Captain Remi Delage was satisfied Wednesday that William Kempf would serve as well as any other name for person who finds himself in the predicament of the prison er In Danielson the prisoner was known to his erstwhile friends as Kelley. His real name may be Kloposki or Delemeir. In any event it has been aScertained that he speaks French.
 Local police will interview him at the jail in the near future relative to cer- tain important matters on which it is believed he is able to shed some light I Kempf has established that he is a slip pery proposition. He has loitered about Putnam, off and on, for more than year, and the police say they cannot establish that he has had any real oc- cupation or legitimate source of revenue. Yet he has been well dressed and has made himself companionable to those with whom he has associated. And all of these friends are surprised that he has confessed himself a thief and is await l ing the punishment that will be meted out to him when court comes in in Jan uary.
 Mir. Automobile Owner, your registra- | tion plates, if you own a car within Con- necticut, are to have green background 1 with white figures during 1923 This 1 fact became generally known Wednesday 1 when the motor vehicle department for warded to car owners here forms on which applications may be made for a renewal of their registrations.
 Green and white plates will be a combination not used in Connecticut for
 several years-and never as the colors will appear on the forthcoming plates.
 The motor vehicle department is not
 only thorough in providing information
 as to registration, but of real assistance
 to the motorist A pamphlet of rates is
 enclosed, and no intelligent person need
 complain about being adequately inform
 ed as to what the department requires of
 car owners who are about to re-register.
 Those who file applications-wit the
 necessary stipend-before December 1,
 will retain their present car numbers. II Much has been made recently of the . fact that the Babcock cornet band of l Ashford recently observed the 60th an niversary of. it's organization. It is nc : reflection on this musical organization to , set forth that thousands of Windhan 1 county people never heard of it's exist enice until this anniversary comment : started. though the organization was engaged in entertaining people wher l Sousa was in swaddling clothes if borr at all, and Creatore and Gilmore ane 5 all that galaxy of bandmasters were ir e the kindergarten.
 The band, it appears, owes it's exist ence to Archibald Babcock, who provided : in his will that certain portions of hi' , earthly goods be devoted to establishing a public library in Ashford and for tn
 maintenance of band of music. / trust fund was created by him for tn
 purposes mentioned. Babcock was one o | the famous 49'ers. who made their wa, i. across the country or around the horl : to seek quick riches in California . golden fields and upon his return h v seemed to have been successful.
 His death occurred about ten year
 after his venture into the west and tn n trust fund he set aside for the purpose Il mentioned amounted to $6,000, the in 7. come of which was to be equally. divide T. between the support of the public Ii g brary and the band.
 '; Like the library. the band has endure . and today is rated the oldest independen = band in these United States-independen V being used to distinguish this musica
 organization from any band that is i 7. the military service of the United State = or is maintained under civic or municir e al auspices.
 = Interesting tales are told of the perio l. during which the band was in the form n ative period. It appears that about eN 7. eryone in Ashford who could buy, boI 8 row or otherwise legitimately acquire l. horn annexed themselves thereto an y, joined the band. Old singing book ;s served for which some, according. to IS historian, could read" and other eoul
 not But this mattered little Thos :, who could, read music; those who coul 1f' not played by "ear"; those wh - could do neither played just the sam 1 All were determined that the income frol :, the Babcock trust fund should not g .r .- to waste-and to date it never has y It is related that dogs crawled undt
 barns and screech owls shrieked out ls terror in those early days when u < Babcock band was getting into trim, bl
 little attention need be paid to the!
 stories. It may suffice to record tn; 'g the band has endured and has given jc le to the residents in the far off corner " the county for more than half a centul m and is still going strong.
 ly Musicians will be interested in u g. fact that some of the horns in use | e- the band at the present time were pu oI chased soon after it's organization.
 Edmund Gagne of the post office, S. announced as the winner of the Cover ne ors club at the Putnam Country clu to he having defeated Armand Lizotte u About 35 automobiles fined with mer on bers of Israel Putnam lodge of Odd Ft
 lows were at Danielson Tuesday evenil re to witness the conferring of the secol on degree upon class of candidates. ne MT. and Mrs. George D. Clark recer on ly observed the 25th anniversary of t re wedding. About one hudred people car hu to greet them. Among the many git
 they received was a silver service. b George E. Shaw, convalescing at t ba home of Major and Mrs Silas M. Whe, os ock, is reported cheerful and with .av constant bright outlook on life. He -3 one of the veteran business men of t ,e- city and his reappearance in his sto ;s will be hailed with pleasure by many. de Dr. William Sharpe, ST, one of the ol in est dentists in Connecticut, was report al Wednesday as seriously ill at his hcI
 here.
 County Agent F. L. Davis left We
 nesday for the Connecticut Agricukul
 college at Storrs to attend three ds. conference of county agents and exte ;r sion work specialists who will engage
 mapping out program of activities 1