Putnam patriot., 1909-10-22

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 esntral Village. sitting as Justice il
 .ases tried at that place, last Saturday
 Mrs. Frederick Case and her son o
 Worcester, have been the guests of Put.
 nsu, relatives the past week.
 Attorney Robert G. Perry, of New
 yok. spent Sunday with his parents
 Mir and Mrs. F. W. Perry.
 Miss NJ. Eden Tatem and Mrs. J
 B. Tatem, Jr., returned from Washing.
 ten. D. C., Monday evening. MT. Ia.
 tem returned from Tennessee Tuesday
 night.
 Superintendent Dumas and men
 sre setting curbing on Bradley street. They are also raising the height of
 school street from Grove to the inter- sseiiea of Front street. several inches, bs eating dirt upon it.
 Charles P. Grosveaor, of Abingdon, hss so far recovered from the effect of his automobile accident, which occur fsd oa August 8, that he has been re- moved to his home from the Day Kim bal Hospital.
 The fall meeting of the Connecticut !. A. R., will be held in New Britain hy invitation of tine Esther Stanley Chapter, on Wednesday, October 27. Luncheon will be served at l2:15 ?. III. The meeting will begin at 1:3o p. m.
 MT. F. NJ. Arnold is to build an- other house on Grove street, next to Mr Gilman Browns, and the balance of the land he proposes to lay out into public park, which he says, can be used for soldiers or other monument. That will put the finishing touch to one of the finest residential streets in the city from beginning to end.
 Miss Nellie Stone, daughter of Mrs. Wm. B. Stone, Sunnyside street, this city, is teacher ill a grammar school at Newburyport, Mass, and was one of the teachers sent to Europe to study educational methods of the National Civic Federation. Last Thursday she gave lecture before the Newburyport Teachers Association, on "Engl and and it's School System
 Invitations Re out announcing the coming marriage of Dr. Louis Ray moad Brown, of Middletown, 10 Miss Frances Charlotte Hurd, daughter of Mf. and Mrs. Frank W. IIurd. The ceremony to take place at 79 Harrison street, Lowell, Mass, Wednesday eve hing, at 6 o'clock, October 27th. A re- eepiion will follow from until g r. m. Dr. Brown is graduate of Put nam High School.
 A Putnam Hunter had narrow escape from T peculiar accident recent ly. He was walking along near small cliff, when he heard noise above him, and he stopped short in his tracks, when over came large buck. which jumped down so close to him that 1t grazed him. Had he taken another step forward the animal would have landed on top of him. He raised his gun, fearing that the buck might at- tack him, but after giving him one look it bounded away through the under brush.
 The foundation of the new Pelo- quin block is nearly completed in front and both sides. It is to be large struc- ture, and come flush to the street line. The dwelling that formerly stood on the site has been moved to the rear and transformed into twe-tenement dwell ling. The small building that was on the rear part was bought by Mrs. Chas Prentice and moved on to her lot across the Toad and made into a pretty-look- ing cottage.
 -Willimantic is to have High School building, an appropriation Tor that purpose has been made. The low est bid for the building was s49, 7s0, with ont an Assembly hall and sS.5l per cub ieyard for rock excavation. The heating and plumbing will be about ss,ooo in addition. The matter of erecting new High School building for Putnam cannot oe acted upon until next year, when the committee appointed to in- vesiisate the condition and needs of all ihe schools of the town will make their report.
 -Aflers stay in this section Of about tRo months, Foreman Lee Nardell and his corps of workmen, employes of iae southern S E. Telephone eemPa- ny, left here Tuesday. During the time iAey have been here they have strung aboat twenty sections of ring wiring h the town of Woodstock. II Is the first ring wiflpg that has been done in iais Division. and has been pat in ia easEy the lines clear of the trees Naere IL has been installed They also w4rsed on a line al Meehaniessilie. They weat from here lo MAlimanlic aaa wlli build line from that city 10 South Coventry.
 After an absence of over year and half Sleepie Tom has arrived in tiiis city. His hazardous business seems To have an exciting attraeliyeness Tor him He nearly lost his life few weeks ago, which, he says, was due 10 drinking milk. He was many feet Tn lhe air. on a swaying hAg-pole, when