Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-27
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

The property was transferred from the 1 former owner, E. s. Backus, Friday. and possession was taken Sunday. h..
 The tavern is over hundred years old and after being renovated will be somewhat more modernized.
 Before the railroads had settled this section the tavern stood on the Boston Hartford and Springfield Providence pike and was stopping place for the stage coaches, The tavern has housed many famous men including Lafayette.
 While the hotel has been conducted under various homogeneous 1t has re- tained the name Vernon Styles, after its owner and landlord, Josiah Styles. pion- eer pork packer of Chicago, a native of Thompson. Following within short periods a num- Der of YaFa-Harvard specials from Bos- | ton passed through Putnam Saturday
 morning returning in the evening. All
 morning there was a steady stream of
 automobiles New Haven bound passing
 Bugbee corner. No accidents occurred in this city but one young fellow on an
 early morning train had narrow es-
 cape when he boarded the train while
 in motion and was nearly hit by the wa
 ter plug south of the railroad station
 Members of Isr~el Putnam lodge of Odd Fellows left Putnam for Hartford in a
 special train shortly after five o'clock
 Saturday evening. In the evening the
 local lodges excellent degree team work
 ed the degree for Connecticut lodge of the Capital City and received many
 compliments for their efficiency. The de-
 gree team went through some strenuous
 rehe&rsng for the event at the hands
 of Degree Master Harold Mansfield and Herbert A. Johnson Mrs. ". H. Holmes of Mount Vernon, N. r., is the guest of her mother, Mrs.
 A. W. Macdonald, Oak Hill. Dr. Holmes
 superintendent of school in Mount Yer
 non, will join Mrs. Holmes here for
 Thanksgiving as will her son, Richard
 Holmes, a student at Clark university,
 Worcester.
 PutnAzn's Winter Ch4utAUaua opened
 Saturday night in Eagles hall, Union Block. Two programmes were present ed Saturday and Sunday. There was a concert at four o'clock at the Second
 Congregational church with Chancellor George H. Bradford as the speaker. A large number of the children at the Windham County Temporary Home re-
 ceived Junior Chautauqua tickets
 through the generosity of thoughtful peo-
 pie in this vicinity. The winter session T will come to an end with the entertain
 lleHI -4ueSOdy evening.
 Members of Israel Putnam lodge, I. 10. o. F., are looking forward to the
 evening of December 1eth when the grand master and grand secretary of
 the state will visit the lodge. Members of Protection lodge, Central Village and Quinebaug of Danielson, which with Putnam make up the 25th district, will be present, Edward Angen and wife. of Newark
 N. have been. guests of Mrs. Angells parents, MT. and Mrs.. Eugene Brewer, Fremont street.
 Major. A. D. Mcintyre spent the week
 end in Putnam where Mrs. Mcintyre has
 just returned from a trip to Washing , ton. D.. e.. Mrs. Alfred Potz Neilson, who has been, in Putnam, her former home, for a , | few days, left Friday with her husband for their winter home in Arcadia, Fla. : MT. and Mrs. Silas M. WheeIock and MT. and Mrs. Charles E. Dean made one party that attended the Yale-Harvard ) football game MT. and Mrs. Archibald Macdonald, Jr. } recently returned from their wedding trip. attended the game at New Haven Saturday.
 The seasons schedule of games far
 the Putnam high school basketball team ) has been practically completed. One mort } game may be added as the season ad. ! vanceS. To date the games number ten ! five less than last year The reduction ) brings one game week and that will 3 | be played on Friday evenings The sched l ule as 1t now stands is as follows: 3 Tuesday, Dec. 12-Tourteuotte al } North Grosvenordale. Friday, Dec. 15-Thompson Town team ! at Putnam.
 l Wednesday, Dec. 2O-Nrlingiy High ? at Danielson.
 Friday, Dec. 22-Woodstock Academ,
 at Woodstock.
 Saturday, Jan: S-southbridge al Southbridge. Friday, Jar. 12-Woodstock Acaden, , and sTcurtellotte. High at Putnam. Tuesday. Jan. 16-Foxbmu, Mass. High at Putnam.
 Friday, Jan. 19-PlAinfeld High al . PlainaeId.
 Friday, Jan. 2s-KiIliagly High a, 9 Putnam.
 n Friday, Feb. 2-Fuxhoro. at Foxboro.
 Tuesday, Feb. S-SoUthbridge at Put v nam.
 Friday. Feb. s-Ncrwood. Mass. Higt at Putnam. p
 n Friday, Feb 1e-Post Business Col g lege, Worcester, at Putnam. l Friday, Feb. 2S-P1ainfeld= High a
 Putnam. D The beyS Ot Ske PHAAm, Trade SsAoO = have just completed magnetic chuck = It is the first one buiit at the school s Supervisor Ellis decided that one wal : needed and after investigation found tha 3 the drawings could be made in the draft s ing department and this was done. Ther, r is no pattern making department at thu - Putnam school So the drawings wer
 sent to the TorrmGton school: WleI r the patterns were returned the casting were made at the Putnam foundry ans f the machine shop of the school com
 ipleted the work except the e8ectrica. . work Wh&eh was done in the electrica |, department. The ehAch' is xii. an, - when all was ready there was mucl expected that, it would hold at leas
 l5o: pounds by magnetism but weigh was added until 450 pounds was Yeache. ' before the mass let gn. It hAs bSsm s1xEsu1taa;a SAnAauy ,aszln.,,in, l. up a smaH sream tlaE runs ' !tMough the new prrpatty recently ac IqHme6 by the city east of the railroa, 2 track not far from the Wheaton farm vuhtlc swimming pool might easily b
 built A prominent citizen and an of nciA of the city suggested Saturda1
 once the artificial pend thereby create !. W01ld make an excellent pnh2ic skatin < raak- 1lsS eAEY. lE year tried an ex D lreFhaent of .: puAfic s1atmg rink o ' the high DeAool l0t. This scheme va t sponsored by the Parent -TeacAers' asso
 Iehtion and the city wzker depaxtmeni v on vote of the common council furnishe a the water. The2newdy acHuiTed rrupert s- in the southern section of the city is no, . ayAAAbae and a skating rink 1uring tn t wMter n1unths and aI swimming pool du1 | ta