Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-06

permission to board at the town farm,
where he died. Corbdn was familiar |
sight on the streets OF this city and
was known to all classes of citizens.
Samuel MaaMhst, Of Putnam, has been
chosen to manage the town farm at
North Brookheld, Mass. lAr. Maillhot
Is Spanish war and has experience in
farm management.
Fred Gagnon, who gave his home as
New York, was sentenced to 80 days
in Brooklyn Jail, Saturday morning, by
Judge Geissler. The man had been
drinking a connection, the smell of
which would nauseate an ordinary per-
son. He said it was the best whiskey
he ever tasted and claimed he got 1t in
Manchaug. Gagnon said that he once
baseball there. He was without over
! coat or collar and was thinly clad. He
seemed in daze and said he had no
| place to go.
After watching man walking back
and forth and back and forth, occas-
sionally stopping to eat snow, people
| along the South Woodstock road noti-
| fed the Putnam police, Saturday morn
ing, that a man was acting queerIy and
they thought he should be taken care
| of AS the phase where he was seen
| was IN the 5COHn OF " OOQSlOCkt Captain
| Delage told his informers to notify Dep
! ut ySheriff L. H. Healey. This was
| done and the deputy found the man and
| brought him to Putnam. The stranger
ave the name OF Edward LaRose and
when asked why he, was walking back
and forth said he did not know. AS
far as could be determined the man
had not been drinking. 1t was learn
| ed that he lived in the Manhasset WI
Iage and he was taken there by the
Woodstock officer.
According to Tax Collector z. G.
Morse. the women are coming forward
and paying their poll tax with a bet
ter grace and in greater numbers than
dollars on the table and, referring to
their right to vote and the payment of
i the tax, say to the tax collector, TITS
worth itf''
March far has. been If anything
) lan1blike. None of the breezes expected
in the third month of the year have ar
rived yet. The time was when the
youth of the country set the month
apart as thirty-on days of kite-fyine
time. This was an era when mother''
or grandmother's rag bag was surrepti
3 tiously taken to the woodshed and tht
3 pieces therein contained made into {
tail for homemade kite. With the in
r vention of the scientific box kite TIL
S o1d-fashioned tria, s. Jar or the more
popular six-sided kite is not frequent
S 1y seen and as a matter of record kit,
g flying has nearly sunk into oblivion
e The old boys sometimes remark tina
: the youngsters of today do.not follow
s the sport custom. especially if the Gus
o tom entails any work. which making
: kite does. Along the latter part Of tn
e month marbles appear and then base
: ball. The seventeenth of March is no
/. observed as formerly, not. at least i
d the smaller cities and. towns: There ar
It as many loyal Irishmer as. ever but
re st. Patrict's Day parade is an unusua
8 sight. In the preser.. hustle to max
e money. pursuits and interests of tn
t. present have not the zest. of the pas
20 in the realm of boyhooddom.
y A. II. Potter formerly Of woodstocI
II for the past fifteen years with the stat
m board of education. is In Putnam t
le check UP the enumeration Of schot
Is children Mr. Potter expects to cor
81 clude his work this week and will leav
Isl Saturday for a vacation in Florida. tn
IN first vacation he has taken in som
IN years.
e Special services arc heiHS held at
= Mary's church during Lent. These Sc
le vices are held Tuesday and Friday ev
~ nings. Tuesday evenings sermons a,
~ preached and Friday evenings there a,
"a the stations Of the cross and benedi
20 ton.