Putnam patriot., 1908-07-31
George s. Bradley and f.r,,v .,

on sunday.
 Mrs. George w. Gilpatrie, of Ere mont street, has as guest her sister, Miss Etta Hodges, of Somerville, Mass.
 City Engineer F. Walden Wright returned on Saturday from week stay at Stafford Springs. Thomas Griffin of Boston was the guest of his parents on Pomfret street over Sunday.
 The Ballard family reunion will be held in Nichols Grove, West Thomp. son, Wednesday, August l2th.
 Miss Lott:e Angeil and Miss Fran ces l.. Warner were guests of the Miss i es Sargent, in Brookline, \. H. -Silas NJ. Wheeloek, wLu has been visiting in the city of New York for the past week has returned home.
 MT. Charles Fenner and wife are at Nantucket for week, enjoying an outing.
 Mrs. Cromwell D.Ghase and grand daughter, Grace Y. Chase, are spend ing the summer at Cottage City.
 MT and Mrs. Robert G. Perry, and daughter, Janet, Of Brooklyn, N Y, are guests of MT. and Mrs. F. W. Per " on Grove street.
 -Dr. James Exton of Arlington, \. | haS haa,, fha u,aaf of hi .fe,os Mrs. Edgar Clarke, and Mrs. E. A. stoddard, Elm street.
 Rev. Willis Humes and family, O Meridian, N. Y., are the guests of Mrs. Humes' father, Myron Kinney, on Center street.
 MT. and Mrs. Ernest (. Morse and son, Chandler, of Brooklyn, \. Y., are guests of Ghaurcy Morse and family, Of Wilkinson street.
 Milton Bugbee, who has been spending several months in Putnam with relatives, left on Friday evening for Silver City, Mexico.
 Mrs. William Rafferty and ehil- dren, William and Elizabeth, leave on Saturday for few weeks stay at the Fay or Cottage, Westbrook.
 The ladies of St. Philips Guild will hold cake and ice cream sale at the home of Mrs. Nicholas Fisher, School street Thursday afternoon, Au- gust 6th.
 Mailing Clerk Burgess of the local Post office is taking his annual yaea- tion. Carrier Benoit goes August lst for fifteen days. Substitute Carver will serve his route.
 Miss Mary E. Low has sold her millinery business b Mrs. Arthur Mag nan, who has been in her employ for some time. Miss Low has no definite plans for the future.
 Artist Thomas P Thurber has re- turned from Bnttonwoods, K. :, where he has been stopping for some time, to his pleasant home on Putnam Heights.
 Mrs. Luther, daughter of the late Mir. and Mrs. Charles M. Fisher, and her daughter, of Providence, are occu- pying Mir. F. T. Bennett's cottage on Putnam Heights for the summer.
 Superintendent Samuel Anderson, {, who now has charge of the New Lon l don and Putnam lines of the Connecti- i cut Company, has closed his office al i Dayville and has removed it to the 1 Greenville Gar barn. The trolley lines i run from Norwich 10 Webster, passing l through this city, and from Ocean ! Beach 10 Wilimantic passing through I New London and Norwich.
 The Putnam Foundry aad Ma i chine Company closed its plant on sa- turday for repairs, and will open again | on August 10th. This company, from a small beginning, has grown 10 be one [ of the large industries of Putnam, un- 1 der Superintendent Wm. R. Barber. II | receives orders for its products from number of States, and Providence in | particular, for which city it does about AS large business as for Putnam.
 Miss Nellie C. Stone, of Putnam, teacher in the schools of Newburyport, Mass. has been selected as one Of f1ve hundred teachers to receive trips to Eu- rope through the courtesy Of the Ma tional Civic Federation. In one of the show windows of Ballard X Clark store are numerous examples of the drawings executed by pupils under Miss Stones instruction, which are at- tracting much attention They may be taken to Newbury, England, Tor eA- hibition. Some of the work is Of an historical nature, and will be oi special interest in the old English town, after which Newburyport is named.
 In 1880 Putnam had population of 2.722. In 1870 it's population had in- creased to 4.la2-a gain of i,41e. In | lsso it's population had increased to 5. 5.sg7-a gain of l ,7225 in ten years. In 1890 its population was 6,5i2-a gam oi es5 in ten wears. In ls1o the popuia- ton had reached 7,54s-a gain oi s@b in len wears. Business depression hit Putnana about 1880, 50 that it's popuia- t;an and business made slow progress mil about lsss. when everything be- gan to improve. The census for l's' was taken only year or two after the improvement began % that the gain ln f population in that decade had reached