Putnam patriot., 1909-05-28
Meeting of Quinebaug Pomona Grange

 of this week al Scotland, with Shetues
 et Grange. The morning session vii
 open al lo.S0 in the fifih degree for ths
 transaction Of general business, and
 will then pass to the ith degree, and ai Il. .45 the fine degree team of Brooklyn Grange will exemplify the work of the
 Srd degree. Fourth degree members will be admitted to this ceremony and
 lo the afternoon exercises. At ie.4
 dinner will be served by the Ladies
 Aid Society, price S0 cents.
 The afternoon session will begin al
 1.45. and will contain the Natehaug Grange Flag Service and the Lecturer : I Hour. In combination with the Flag
 Ceremony or following Il the subjects
 and members taking part will be:
 Address of Welcome, Brother Gerald Waldo of Shetaeket Grange l Response by Pomona Grange Memhe Organ Solo, Miss Dorothy Day of Xiii lingly Grange
 Recitation, Mrs. Lisa Fuller. of She.
 iucket Grange.
 l Solo. Mrs. Ashnead
 Address, "rhe Apple in Connecticut, Professor Stevens, C. \. C, i Singing by the Grange.
 X short Talk on s.Ihe Home People oi Lineoln,a by Rev. Bro. Penney oi Shetueket Grange.
 1 Grange will close in form at 4.So. Transportation will be provided from
 and 10 Glarks Corners at 5o cents for
 the round trip. The N. Y. N. Il. and
 H. K. k. will stop the train which leaves Willimantic eastbonnd at DOS
 D. m., al Ciarks Corners to take on
 passengers, and at Thompson in addi-
 ton to Pomfret and Putnam, to let
 passengers off.
 Scotland is one of the many hill towns which are at their best during
 the last days of May with blossoming
 orchards and fertile fields. It's people
 are mostly of New England descent
 and show the sturdy virtues of the ear ly days. Their hospitality and gene
 reus provision flor the dinner man. l are we'll known. The local grange has done much to promote the harmony
 and good neighborslnp which prevail
 and which have been active to beaaiiy | the church and village. The birth place of Samuel Huntington, one of the
 signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
 denee, and for 10 years governor ol Connecticut, k in the village, and is practically unchanged since his day
 The house of the first pastor whose
 daughter Gov. Huntington married is
 near the grange hall.
 .s.--- Judge k. F. Russell was in Boston
 on Tuesday.
 Mrs. A. N. Macdonald is visiting
 her sister, Mrs. F. E. Holden, in An sonia.
 Attorney D. Roy smith, of Boston,
 was the guest of his mother, Mrs. Da-
 tee smith, Monday night. He has just purchased farm of l5o acres in Dover N. H., and recently set out 2,000 trees l apple and quince.
 MT. and Mrs. Patrick McGarry are visiting in New Jersey. While there they will attend the graduation of their daughter, Miss Nellie, who com. pletes her studies as trained nurse in
 Newark City Hospital
 -The committee arranging the an-
 nual banquet of the Putnam High School Alumni Association, to be held Wednes day, June 23d, have secured a. speakers ex-Mayor Rufus E. Dodge ol Worcester, Charles E. Allen, Esq, ol
 Boston, and from a number of others
 favorable replies are expected. A. G. Warner, W. k. C. No. 3s 1 celebrated their 20th anniversary in |
 very enjoyable manner, Tuesday aft
 ernoon. Mrs. Harriett Bodge, Nation al Councillor, was present and address
 ed the corps in her interesting way. De partment officers, president, senior ant junior vice, and secretary; president o
 Robert 0. Tyler corps of Hartford officers and members of McGregol corps of Danielson were present: alst members of A. G. Warner post, No. 54 Mrs. Lille E. Leach, president of ths Iocal corps, in few we'll chosen words explained the work of the order to ths invited gues,s. Interesting remarks from Rev. F. D. Sargent, literary and musical entertainment, and a supper served to all concluded the exercises. Two American missionaries are to be tried for libel in the Belgian courts in the Congo Free State. The suit is brought by one of the concession com-
 panies, which has monopoly of rub Der gathering. It claims s20, GOO dam- ages from each of the missionaries for
 !" caluminous denunciations.' This
 case IS now expected to be test case be- tween the Belgian government and the American missionaries who have long made themselves a thorn it's flesh by charging it with horrible brutaiities up on the poor helpless natives for not de liyering the amount of rubber assigned when it was impossible to do so. The missionaries will be present with their witnesses. But as the Belgian govern ment owns half the stock of the com pany that sues them, it is really the plaintiff sitting in judgment on the de- fendant.