Putnam patriot., 1909-12-17

Louis Law spent Sunday in New York.
 -J. Richard Carpenter spent Friday in Providence.
 -J. s. Blending, of Worcester, visi. ted his city friends here Monday.
 -E. n. Arnold was in Willimantic Tuesday.
 -Mrs. C. M. Green went ito Hart ford on Tuesday where she will remain for few days.
 MT. and Mrs. NJ. G. Leonard, have bean entertaining Frank Leonard, of Philadelphia.
 Miss Mary Johnson, Grove street, has been entertaining Miss Josephine Clarke, of New Boston.
 John Daigle and wife have return ed from a visit with Mrs. Daigle's rela- lives in New Bedford.
 -chauncey Morse and family are entertaining Mrs. Lenore Crawford, of East Woodstock.
 A branch store of the United Tea Importers Company, has been opened in the Putnam Inn block.
 A. C. Blanchette, of Willimantic, was in this city Tuesday, to make ar engagements for opening Maple Leaf trading stamp store here.
 There will be meeting of the French Naturalization Club in St. Johns Hall, Sunday afternoon, when the election of officers will take place.
 Miss Isabelle Byrne, of the Roose- welt Hospital, New York, is spending a week with her mother, on Woodstock avenue.
 Miss May Merriam has returned from Boston, where she visited with her brother, Henry Merriam, and his wife.
 Mrs. G. Harold Gilpatric and her two children are home after spending two weeks with relatives in Uxbridge, Mass.
 -sssTs. Geo. E. Shaw, Mrs. Siias ii :. Wheelock and her two daughters, Syl- via ana Elizabeth, have been visiting in Boston.
 Station Agent Baldwin has remov- ed his family from Franklin, Mass, to one of the Arnold houses on Fremont street.
 Silvia Wheelock, the little daugh- ter of Mir. and Mrs. $. NJ. Wheeiock, Church street, broke her collar bone this week, while at play with some children.
 The merchants in the north end of city have agreed to insist upon all cus- toners paying their bills weekly, after December l4th, instead of giving long credits as heretofore.
 Mir. Geo. A. Hammond has pre- sented three beautiful pictures of his- toric scenes, in and about Rome, to the Putnam Lodge of Elks. They have been framed to correspond with the oak furnishing of the Lodge room.
 -J. B. Considine, of New London, just appointed to be train-master, Is to make his headquarters in this city lie is to have an office in the local station, preparations for which are now being made.
 John Watt, of Jewett City, Su- preme representative of the New Eng land Order of Protection, visited Gros- venordale, Saturday, with view of organizing a lodge of the order there independent of the one in this city.
 The young fellow who was taken into custody by the police in this city, last week, faking deformed arm and hand, and who was bound over by the Borough court of Killingly, to the Su- perior Court, has confessed to being John Lucey, of Willimantic, after hav- ing kept his identity from the officers.
 At . meeting of the Woman's Re- lief Corps, held Tuesday afternoon, the following officers were elected: President-Lillie E. Leach. Senior Vice President-E. Emily Tour
 teilotte.
 Junior Vice Pres.-Diantha Chafiee. Treasuref-Mary Perry. ChapIain-Annie E. Spalding. Conductor-Imry V. Hoyle. Guard.-Julia Finchan. Delegate to Department Convenuon-
 Mary G sherman. Alternate-Mary Pray.
 Since the announcement Of the wonderful flight of the Tiliinghast ar ship from Worcester to New York and return, people all along the route are turning up who saw mysterious light passing along the heavens Byron La- mondy is among the number. He, with William Devine, were going nome the night of the great aerial flight, when they saw . light up in the sky, wnicn they watched for some time, Lamondy remarking, only half seriously, thai II looked like the head light of an ar ship-
 MT. c. A. Hammond and Ricnaro German were among those who attend ed the meeting of the business men Q. Connecticut at the annual banquet ot the Chamber of Commerce, in the am ing hall of the Yale University, when was crowded to the doors, over tnous-