Putnam patriot., 1908-08-21
Miss Frances Tucker spent sunday

-Msurice Mcintyre is visiting with friends in Charlton, Mass.
 Miss Anna Beaumont, of Oxford.
 Mass, is visiting with Putnam friends.
 Geo. W. Perry, Civil Engineer, is at Westford, Conn.,, for week.
 Major John Armstrong, of Web ster, formerly of Putnam, called on his old friends here Tuesday.
 The Misses Rose and Emma Re- millard returned Monday from two weeks stay at Crescent Beach.
 Miss Mary Griffin, in the store of the B. D. Bugbee Corporation, is hay ing two week vacation.
 Byron LaMondy, of the Adams
 Express force, is having a two weeks vacation.
 -Raymond Gilpatric is substituting in the First National Bank during the vacation season.
 -Ciaranee Hammond Knowlton, of l New York city, Was the guest of MT. and Mrs. Geo. A. Hammond on Mon- day.
 The Willimant1c Normal School will open on Tuesday, September ], not on September as stated in former announcements.
 The Willimantic Chronicle is grat- titled in stating that a large amount of public improvements is going on i'll it's town and vicinity, which is giving em- ployment To large numbers Of laberers. Besides two State roads being built through the town, and new trolley line in construction from its city to South Coventry, and the foundations for a large new shop under way at South Nindham, there k great deal l of work being done at the Scotland dam.
 Five boys from Eastford, Harvey l Converse, Lawrence sherman, John 1 sherman, Allen Trowbridge and Ralph Davis, ran from the Eastford post office to the post office in Putnam, oy the l Pomiret route, on Saturday, distance Of eleven miles. The start was made from Eastford at o'clock, and Harvey l Converse reached the goal al s.45, the other four arriving few minutes later. i They were met in Putnam hy party | T f4ar T. short rest the runners and their friend, went to Wildwood Park for a days outing. The stage route from Putnam ] 10 Eastferd through the Weodstocks covers fifteen miles and requires three hours 10 cover it.
 1 MT. J. N, Cutler returned satur- day offer an absence of about ten days i from the city. He wen! 10 the vest ern part of New York State, a rich l farming and grazing region, where fine i herds Of cattle afe raised. IL was to see the excellent farms and graded stocks of cattle that attracted him that way He had delightful time visiting few of the immense farms carried on in highest modern style. When he It. turned he brought with him nineteen head of young Holtstein cattle, which he has placed on the old Freeman farm near the Dam Tavern, which he now owns. He enriches, by this accession Of fine cattle. thestown and State, and we trust, to his personal benefit in ad- dition 10 the pleasure he takes in own ing fine stocks of cattle.
 We printed from the New York Tribune last week statement in re- gard 10 the Christian Alliance camp meeting al 0ld Orchard, in which t was said that 5,0O0 persons became hvsterieai, when the contributions for missions were taken up. They sifug- gled frantically 10 give up their money and jewels. Women stripped ihen- selves of their rings, earrings, bracelets | and whatever else of value they had. Men gave all the money they had, and watches. chains and other valuables- 1 and the Valuables amounted 10 about six bushels, besides s20,9n In money. Rev. A. B. Simpson, the head officer of the Alliance, writes to the Tribune that there was not single article oi iewelry contributed, and there was not one sensational feature about the meet ing, but the sum of So5,soo WAS raised. Members of the order of Sisters Of Charity residing in the Iconvents in WiIIimantic, Baltic and Taftyille, eel ebrated last week the silver Jubliees oi Sister Bernadotte of St. Joseph's con- vent. Sister Loretta of St. Mary's con v,nt WiIhmantic, and Sister Aiuigi of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, al TaftyiiIe. The celebration began Fri day, but the principal ceremonies took place Saturday, when all the sisters and numerous relatives and friends oi the three siste-s whose Jubilees the eel ebration marks, gathered in Niiilman- lie for exercises appropriate 10 the oc- casion. Before taking the veil sister Bernadotfe was MissMargaret0 Lough- lin of Willimaniic, Sister Loretta was Miss PhiIonIenet hampeau Of Putnam, and Sister Aluigi was Miss Margaret Courtney of Wiliimantic. Sister Lo- retta is the third in her family so oe nun. Sae has with her ia St. Mary 5 convent sister, older in the service, sister Bernadise, who for many years taught the upper grade of lhe Trench school at st. Joseph's. Sine is al pres IT..