Putnam patriot., 1908-12-04
Peter A. Gardner has been appoint.

well was held on "Wednesday. in the
 Grove street chapel, Rev J. R. Stub.
 bert officiating. Burial was in Grove
 street cemetery.
 The W. k. (. viii hold their an.
 nual meeting on Friday afternoon.
 Dee. sth, in A. 0. H. hall. All mem-
 bers are requested to be present as inn
 portant business is to be transacted.
 Last Friday the County Commis-
 sioners, Messrs. Hall, Barber and Cert-
 tis,were in the city closing up the busi-
 ness of granting licenses for the year.
 One was granted to Wm. F. Kiilian.
 located in the rear of the Putnam Inn.
 Altogether 2l licenses have been grant,
 ed.
 Mi. and Mrs. c. A. Hammond en- joyed their Thanksgiving dinner with
 Dr. and Mrs. Neil Macphater, in New
 York, the Dr. having patients he could not leave to come to Connecticut ss had been planned. The Dr. and his
 wife are past-masters at entertaining.
 G-IIist of letters remaining in the Putnam Post Office for the week end ing Nov. 30:
 Ladies-Miss Annie D. Lunt. Gentlemen-Gharfes Foster, Alfred 1 Gnyotte, Chas. 0. 0. Halt, Charles N. Ireland, Giles Potter, k. J. Wallace, Napoleon Tetreault.
 Tuesday, the first day of winter
 was as warm as some days in summer, the thermometer registering 64 degrees in the shade in the forenoon. In some Southern States more snew has fallen than we have had in this part of Con- neeticut.
 -Mr. John G. Johnson visited with sister in New York city all Thanks giving week. Friday MT. Hammond 1 met with him at the office of the firm, Sl1 Broadway, where they made a care ful inspection of the silk on hand, and noted the sizes they are so much in need of. This was done to keep the Putnam factory and the New York office in touch, which works advantageously.
 In parts of this county farmers are troubled to get supply of we'll water; all streams are unusually low. In past years when there were drouths less se- we're, consumers of the public water re- ceived notification that they must be sparing in the use of water, as the sup ply pond was running low. This very dry spell there has caused no restrie- ton to be placed on tue use of public water. For this We are glad, as free use of water is blessing.
 -Gladys Andrews, x years old, who who recently moved 10 this city, with her parents, from Woodstock, was re- ported 10 the police as missing on Mon- day afternoon. She went 10 school fer the first time last Monday morning, and not returning at dinner lime her parents became anxious, and notified the police. Their search was nnsne- cessful, but before night the child re- turned home. She had evidently lost her way to her home on Farrows street and had been all that time wandering around the city.
 Harry Forbes, engineer on the Con- solidated railroad, formerly of this city and son-in. law of P. NJ. Leelair, Prov idence street, had a narrow escape from death Sunday afternoon. Ills was run ming the switeher in New London and was attaching a dining car to the Bos- ton express. The ear was to be attach ed near the parlor coaches; to do this other ears were removed and placed on the main line while the diner was be- ing attached. The cars so left got un- der motion and ran down grade under their own momentum until they reach ed the cross over. When the switcher backed down there was a crash. The fireman jumped. Forbes had his foot crashed and Thomas O'Neil. another fireman, who was on the engine, and whose run is through this city, was so badly injured that he died shortly after the accident. Fornes was taken to the hospital, and all the toes on his Hght foot were amputated. His wife was visiting her parents in this city, but went to New London Sunday night, and was greatly relieved to ind the conditions were no worse, as the first reports stated that MT Forbes was more sereously injured. Mrs. Forbes return- ed to Putnam Monday.
 Building is going on briskly in this citv. mainly through the enterprise Of E. NJ. Arnold, who has already erected and made Improvements, within the mast two years, we should judge, val ned at between S30, ,0o0 and s4o, GOO. He is now erecting two dwellings on rre- mont street, and is to erect three addi- tional on Grove street, and large earn m his property on Farrowsst.i We are informed that he is negotiating 10 phf- chase some real estate valued al about Sso. .eoG. During the past twenty years, if is satisfactorily proved, the desifa- ble residences of the city have more than doubled. and the business indus tries have increased in like proportion, hut so gradually that some people have l hardly realized it. In the twenty years mast. real estate east Of the railroad haa ;,e,aasad in value, collectively, not Iess than aoo per cent. Those who puf- chased tracts of real estate east oi south Main street north of the railroad track, must have made handsome th'hs Vi :. p-;.a. u,ifi continue 10 increase as