Putnam patriot., 1908-12-25
Mi. J.B. Tatem sn., wife and the;

brookiyn, N. l., spending Christmas
 with friends.
 Mrs. Charles Thayer and her son Allen, O: Centerville, R. l., are being
 entertained by Mir. and Mrs. Henry J.
 Thayer, King street.
 Miss Helen Bradley, of Michigan University '09, Ann Arbor. Michigan,
 is spending her vacation at her parent. al home.
 Armand Farley, of Holy Cross Col:
 lege, Farnham, Canada, is spending his vacation with his mother. on Pro- violence street.
 William E. Holmes, who recently went from this city to establish silk mill in Montreal, Canada, is visiting his family on Ring street.
 A trolley car jumped the rails in front of the Congregational church last Thursday afternoon, which put all the cars oil time for the rest of the day.
 The various grades of the Israel Putnam school held Christmas exer. clses Friday afternoon, preceding the Closing of the school for two weeks va cation.
 About fifty of the pupils of Notre Dame Academy, which closed We'd nesday for the Christmas vacation, left here for various parts of the country to spend the Christmas holidays at their several parental homes.
 GARD-l wish to extend publicly my heartfelt thanks to the many friends, who by their sympathy have helped me to bear my loss; to those who sent their tribute of flowers without sending their names, so 1 cannot personally thank them; to the many eoworkers, and the employers of my late husband, for their token of love and esteem; and especially wish to thank the Elks for their'great kindness to me in nay be- reavement.
 MRS. HAROLD K. MORSE.
 In another place in this issue we print biographical sketch of the late Henry C. Bowen, copied from the "Sixtiety Anniversary Number of The Independent" "a marvellous number it is, too. The biography is written by William Hayes Ward, Managing Edi- tor of 1.-The Independent" who has been connected with that publication for forty-one years and a close friend of its founder, until his death. What he says of him, therefore, cannot fail to be of deep interest to all our readers. events related may be already well known, but they are put into such new clear setting that they will be read as new history of Henry (. Bowen's public life.
 -Ghfistmas is day in which to re. member not only our loved ones and friends, but the needy ones-whom We always have with us. The Eiks ffa- ternity have, for several years, sought out the needy ones of the city and supplied them with good Christmas dinner and propose doing the same this Christmas, We understand. The Sal vation Army has announced in the PA- TRIoT thei. intention to supply all needy ones in the city they can reach, with "a good Christmas dinner. For this purpose they have been engaged for some time in visiting through the poorer districts of the city to find out whom they can benefit as proposed It was difficult to make some timid ones believe they could receive such generosity without some uiterior pur- pose. The providing Christmas cheer for the poor in every city where they are established, is one of the customs of the Army. To meet the expense in- cured they have to depend on the vo- luntary contributions of the citizens. A strict account of contributions and outlaws is kept and sent to the Division headquarters for record. We are glad to know, therefore, that there will be no poor family in this city that need be without good Christmas dinner
 The Corbin family must have been at one time quite numerous and prom nent in Woodstock and Union, and are still in good number in those towns and Putnam, but many have left the former two towns and have gone oil to find more active society. We had visit this week from one of that family who is a business man in New York, but a native of Union-a splendid man physically, refined, intellectual, and spiritual. We thought If those back towns could get back, even during that class of her native children, It would be more to them than wealth, especially to the young. They could, and will, get them back, half the sea son, when there are trolley lines con- meeting those towns with the railroads in central cities or towns. We thought of what Miss Ellen D. Larned said in her article we printed last week about Thompson Hill, after losing the four ishing trade il had at one time, and was left stranded and de>erted by its younger people. it has been made one of the finest residential towns in the state by an s'era of the returned Native and summer boarder,n because of the introduction of quick transit. Union and remote towns can be made places of delightfuI homes not only for iIs absent sons and daughters, but for the simmer bcarders they would bring
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