Putnam patriot., 1908-10-30

-td"ard faYreau, Of Hartford, has been visiting his parents, on Elm st.
 Lewis T. Champlin is spending
 the week in Red Bank, \. J. Judge F. F. Russell has returned
 from trip 10 New York. Miss Belle Byrne was the guest of
 friends in Providence Sunday.
 Miss Carpenter, daughter of the
 late l.. Cass Carpenter, of Denver, Col. Is visiting her aunt, Mrs. K. NJ Hoy le. -Dr. Arthur LaRue, of Waltham. 1 Mass, spent Sunday with his father.
 Dr. Omer LaRue.
 MT, and Mrs. (. D. Sharpe enter tained their son William Sharpe of New Haven, on Sunday.
 Mi. H. J. Thayer and wife were the guests of Providence friends on Sunday,
 Mi. Dexter Crawford and wife of Willimantic have been guests of local relatives.
 -Dr. Edward F. Perry is to deliver a series of lectures on the First Aid to the Injured, to be given in the Congre- gational chapel shortly.
 MT. $. NJ. Wheeloek and wife re- turned on Monday from Ashburnham, Mass, where Mrs. Wheelock has been 1 spending the past two weeks.
 The Ten of Ust' Association will hold Halloween dance in Bugbee Hall, Saturday evening. Music by the Broad l way Orchestra. Admission 50 cts per couple.
 Charles K Shaw and F. Walden Wright spent Sunday in Providence, guests of Frank Davenport, son of MT. and Mrs. H. H. Davenport, Pomfret.
 Monday evening next the French Republicans of Putnam are to have a rally with speeches in French. The rally will be held at St. Jean Baptiste hall in Rhodesville.
 The Elizabeth Porter PutnamChap- ter, D. A. R., bulletin committee, have placed all attractive set of pictures of Japan upon the bulletin boards of the Free Reading Room.
 A Teachers meeting will be held in the High School, Canaan, on 0cto- Der 50, at 3 D. m. Addresses by Prof. Charles H. Judd Yale University New Haven.
 George Gunsnla, tower operator in the local yards, with the assistance Of other yard men, extinguished fire at the railroad compRny1s oil house, Sun day afternoon before il had caused any great damage.
 The ladies auxiliary A. 0. H., of Windham county, attended a ban4 4uet at the Chickering House, sunday af- ternoon, after the annual business meet ing and election of officers held in A. 0. H. hall.
 About 400 feet of cable will be placed in position by the telephone company on Pomfret and Canal streets. The cable contains fifty pairs of wires, and when in use will relieve the con- gestion of business on the wires in that part of the city. At Canal street, the cable will be divided-25 wires running up Pomfret street and D south.
 There have been the names of 3l new voters added to the lists eligible to participate in the general election of Tuesday, Novem Der I. The new voters were made at recent meetings of the Selectmen-l6 on Friday of last week and l5 at the meeting of the previous week.
 List of letters remaining in the Putnam Post Oflice for the week end ing Oct. 26:
 I,adies-Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Amy Go well, Mrs. Sarah Fay Edwards, Mrs. Grace Evans, Mrs. Eva Sawyer, Mrs. Edith Tasker, Mrs. F. B. Nolley.
 Gentlemen-Chas. Conway, Geo. r.. E. March. R. Flynn, Rupert K. Gan zell, W. C. Hurlbut, J. A. Long
 The Ladies of the Auxiliary, A. .. H., for Windham county, al their an nuaI meeting, held in Hiberniam Hall on Sunday afternoon, elected the fol- lowing officers:
 president-Miss Elizabeth Shea, of Wilimantic.
 Vice President-Miss Marietta Reed,
 Reeorder-Miss Marietta Gordon, of Putnam. o.,, of Willimantic.
 Deleyates ,were in attendance from various places in Winham county. We learn from the Chairma n Of the Republican Town Committee, MT. Archie Mac Donald, why the Repuoii- cans of this town have had no pubic rally meeting this campaign as In all former years. The answer was pia'h and sim pie: "We could getno speaker. Every Republican speaker of pfoliii- nenee has been drafted to go to some of ,he doubtful States, where they are needed. As Nindham county Is As solidly Republican as the Rock oi oio- raltar. the able speakers were not need as here. and every Republican VIII gladly acquiesee in their deprivation N, Macdonald felt somewhat morl- fled. after making strenuous efforts to get good speaker and failing lie wouldn't accept "spellbinder 10 aa- dress such an intelligent class of peo-