Putnam patriot., 1909-02-12
Mir. George F.. Shaw and wife spent Friday in Providence.

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 Mrs R. H. Bradley is spending a l week in Worcester where she is under
 the care of Dr. Berry, eye specialist, i for treatment.
 Rev. E. N. Beleher, of the Metho- l dist church announces that the church 1 is DOW free from debt. The debt of
 $50 has recently been paid of.
 Joseph Rooney, brakeman on the
 Boston local, fell beneath the wheels of
 his train at East Douglas Tuesday
 morning and lost his right leg.
 -F. l.. Griffin of Mohican. N. Y,
 who purchased the stallion Silver Staff
 at Madison Square Garden last week,
 is so pleased with the horse as to au-
 thorize the purchase in this section of
 several of Silver Staffss best colts. j.. i F. Kingsley will make the purchases. Ovid Boulay of this city, who was
 sent to Brook lyn jail last week for in
 toxication and breach of the peace, has 1 been connected with two recent bur glaries in Woonsocket, R. l., and will 1 be turned over to the officers in that
 city when his term expires.
 The stockholders of the Putnam 1 Park and Fair Association elected the following directors Tuesday evening:
 NJ. R. Joy, E.. l.. Kelly, H. H. Daven-
 port, E. N. Joslin, +. NJ. Arnold, V.
 Chapdelaine, c. l.. Shaw, c. A. Haw-
 kins, ]. o. Fox, Geo. Baker, and K. 1 German.
 Through the efforts of Miss Kin
 ney, Librarian of the Putnam Public
 Library, Bulletin Board has been
 placed in the library, upon which is
 placed list of the latest books added to the library and short review of each. As there are new books added about once a month this bulletin board
 promises to be great help. particular ly to the readers of fiction. There are now 4,5O0 volumes in the library, quite a contrast from the 200 miscellaneous volumes it had when started on private subscription.
 Hartford, the capital of the State, is threatened with water famine. Says the Courant: "Ne are facing an
 emergency, and the remedy lies with this Legislature, and action cannot be
 postponed for two years without jeop- ardizing many lives.p The citizens, by vote, refused to accept filtered Con- necticut river water, preferring to re- ceive new supply from more distant
 small streams unfiltered, but the Cour- ant justly says: "That supply, or any
 other, no matter what it may be, will soon have to be filtered. The advance of science will not long be delayed. '
 At meeting of the officers of the
 Putnam Foundry * Machine Co.,, held in the office of l.. H. Fuller, Monday morning, committee to draft resolu- tions on the death of W. k. Barber, was appointed The resolutions ap.
 pear in another place. w. J. Turner, of Providence, was elected to succeed MT.
 Barber as Secretary, Treasurer, and General Manager. Mir. Turner former ly resided in this city and was employ ed at the foundry, but for the past tif- teen years has been. located in Provi- dence as selling agent. He will conti- | nue the Providence office, and will di- | vide his time between there and the works in this city.
 The funeral services of w. K. Bar Der were held at his late home, School street. They were conducted by Rev. J. K. Stubbert of the Baptist church, and Rev. G. W. Ferguson, of the Ad- ventist church. The house, large as 1t is. was filled to it's capacity-2oo being
 seated, while over hundred remained
 outside. Representatives of various 1 societies of which the deceased had been
 a member, were present, with large delegations of Odd Fellows. The floral tributes were numerous and magnifl- cent. The bearers were J. C. Nichols, Clarence Heath, John Barber, Benja- min Andrews and John Sabin. iBuriai
 was in Grove street cemetery.
 Ray C. Bosworth, son of MT. and | Mrs. A. C. Bos worth, Woodstock ave nue, a graduate of Putnam High school class of 1907, returned from Boston on
 Saturday. He went to Boston last September and entered the Klein Op- tieal school where he graduated with ! highest honors, receiving the degree of 0. c. and graduate refractionist. He later returned to the school as an in-
 structor, also practicing for several months at the Massachusetts Homou- pathic hospital, and although offered an excellent position in Boston he pre- ferred to start a practice of his own. He has not decided definitely where
 he will locate.
 The celebration of Lineoln's Tooth Anniversary, this year, exceeds any thing of the kind yet known, and 1t marks the Martyr-President as deep in the affections of the people as iseyen Washington. Israel Putnam School
 have anniversary exercises in the hall
 on Friday. On Thursday forenoon MT.
 Gilbert A. Tracy, our townsman, ad-
 dressed the pupils of the High School on the Life of Lincoln, and no more
 capable yenerator of the great Patriot
 Statesman could be selected. All pa . r-ers and mag azlnes have for weeks Deen filled with Lincoln literature, efn-