Putnam patriot., 1908-10-16
-Mrs. s. H. Seward is the guest Of

the family Of F. W. Seward.
 -c. A. Bell of Mantle has been in town the past week.
 Letter carrier Converse has reSpp,. ed his duties after three weeks VA cation.
 Mrs. NJ. P. Dutton, King street. entertained Miss Ladd, formerly teach CT in the Israel Putnam School.
 Miss Florence Deedy nas returned from a few days visit with friends in
 Worcester.
 Miss Susie Crane, of Boston. gra- duate of the Putnam High School. has been spending few days with Mrs. F. k. Brunette, Grove street.
 At the Republican caucus held in Thompson Thursday afternoon, John \. Perrin and Luther NJ. Child for rer. resentatives, and George $. Crosby for Judge of Probate.
 Another delightful social will be given in Foresters Hall Saturday evening. Music by the Broadway orchestra of five pieces. You are cor dially invited to attend. Price of aa- mission, 25c.
 -G. Byron Morse, Isaac Champeau, Samuel H. Walsh, and Oliver F. Get ty, have been named as committee. by Putnam Lodge of Elks, to arrange for the annual Memorial Service of the Lodge, to be held on Sunday, De eember 6.
 The French River Textile compe- ny, of Mechanicsville, eommenceds on Monday to run their mill night and day This is an indication of business improvement and benefits large num- Der of hands.
 James Sweet, painter for the Conso.- idated road, was injured by the falling of staging at the Providence street bridge Wednesday afternoon. His hand, which was severely cut, was dressed at the Day kimball hospital.
 A fire in the picker room of the Morse mill called the fire department to the upper part of the city shortly after one clock Wednesday morning. The fire was in some bales of cotton. The only loss was bale of cotton and the expense of cleaning up.
 -Choirmaster F.. H. Bacon is hold ing weekly rehearsals with vested boy choir at St. Philips Episcopal It is expected that the choir will make it's initial appearance at the installation of the new two manual pipe organ in the early winter.
 A man by the name of Eugene Ross recently committed suicide in Oklahoma. In his pocket was found spectacle case with the in- scription, H. W. Thompson, Putnam, Conn., The coroner wrote to NIT. Thompson, hoping to trace the mans but no clue has yet been ob- tained.
 The police are on the lookout for Joseph bio, who terrorized k. l. Bull lard and family, killingly avenue, shortly after midnight Tuesday. bio smashed the windows of the house | with stake chain and afterwards l threw stones through them al the in- | mates. The police were telephoned | for but before they reached there tie ! man had flown.
 We had call from MT. Benjamin $. Warner. this, Thursday, morning, who informed us that he and his faith er. Col. Alexander Warner, are now residing in Orange, \. J. Mr. Benja- min Warner. is in business on Broad way. New York, going in and oui dai- Iy. They moved from Ridgefield to their present home about year ago A few days before leaving Ridgehelc Col. Warner had a slight paralytic shock, from which he is slowly receV- .ring. Just at present he is visiting friends in Pomfret, from thence he is yoing to visit friends in Massachuset s md from there will go to Ridgetield to ,ote. where he holds legal residence, before returning to Orange.