Putnam patriot., 1909-04-30

Ipdee and Mrs. F. F. Russell were in Providence on Friday.
 Rev. F. D. Sargent, Miss Florence ssrvent and Miss Gertrude Hall, made atrin 10 Brookline, N. H., last week.
 Rev. B. F. Benoit will preach at the Baptist church, this city, at 3:So o'clock Sunday afternoon.
 -Nr. Clarence Taber and wife, Chap man street, are entertaining MT. Wm. rhamberlain and wife, of New York.
 -pr. and Mrs. c. F. Flames, of Bos- ,on. were guests recently of (. M. Ellis and family for few days.
 MT. F.. l.. Kelley and wife and the lstter's mother, also Eugene Hines, spent Saturday in Providence.
 Mrs. J. B. Kent started for Buffalo Monday as delegate from Connecti- eat to the convention of the Baptist woman's Foreign Missionary Society.
 The ladies of the Baptist church ..,u hold A cake and bread sale at the s,ere of Ballard X Clark, Friday after noon, April 30, from 2.5o to o'clock.
 The ladies of the Congregational church will hold Rummage Sale on Friday, May 7th, in Bellerose block, eorner Marshall andP Providence streets.
 There is gang of men at work eli minating grade crossing between here and Pomfret, in the town of Pomfret, known as Holmes crossing. The new erossing will be by overhead bridge.
 A. Patenaude, IT,, of this city, is acting as telegrapher at the station in Marie Barrett, the regular operator, who is taking a short vacation.
 The pictures placed upon the bull Ietin board in the Free Reading Room by the Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chap ter, D. A. R., include los pictures of Granada and the Alhambra.
 List of letters remaining in the Putnam Post Office for the week end- ing April 27:
 Gentlemen-Charles Racine, w. H. Terry.
 On Pomfret street the St. George buildings, some of the oldest in the city, are being torn down to give place toa modern block. The workmen en- gagged in tearing it down have made interesting discoveries, one gold dol lar dated ,iS47, another were two bot ties of whiskey, found in crevices Of the wall.
 A new station is proposed to be erected by the New Haven railroad company, which will be located be- tween the two Grosvenordales, at the north end of the grounds of the Tour tellotte Memorial High School. Such neat and well-kept villages as are the two Grosvernordales are deserving of a handsome modern station in that more suitable location.
 At meeting of the Putnam Ten his Club, held Monday evening, officers were elected as follows:
 President-Rev. John Walker.
 Vice President-CharleS Shaw.
 Secretary and Treasurer-G. Harold Gilpatric.
 C.C. Spratt and Frank Thayer were elected directors, which also include the officers. A committee is to draw up set of rules and bylaws for the government of the Club and it's courts.
 An automobile which broke down si the foot of Pomfret street hill, and WAS drawn .by rope to the garage by anumber of men and boys, created con- siderable interest last Thursday even ing. In the early days of the auto such sight was not uncommon, and one Of the features of the sport was the un- certainty of getting home under the machines own power. With the new inventions and improvements this in- ieresting part of autoing has been prac- hoaily eliminated. A meeting of the retail merchants oi Putnam and surrounding towns, in- ieFested in the newly organized branch ef the ''Retail Merchants Association oi the United States and Canada, V was held at the Hotel Chickering last week Thursday afternoon Organizer Elisha Winter, of Boston, stated that the re- bort from the joint legislative commit lee was expected shortly on the Du- enque bill for the equitable process of collection. Arrangements were compile led for another meeting of Putnam bu- saness men at an early date. The new organization is appealing to many mer- chants in this county because it prom ists 10 be the means of securing them legislation that will will protect them In great degree from that class known a. the dead beat.n The passage of the New England aelegates 10 the National Convention oi lae Knights of Columbus, to be held al Mobile, August 3-6, will no doubt r'ne exceedingly attractive They wi!l leave New York Wednesday, July .. IL is planned to go by water down sAe Atlantic coast and around the Gulf "s aexieo-a voyage of nearly 2,Oao i'aties, To New Orieans-taking about , days Three days will be spent in the convention al Mobile, reached by rail