Putnam patriot., 1909-07-16


 Miss Bertha Sargent is spending a few days at Oak Bluffs.
 -Wm. Rafierty and a party took an auto trip to Fields Point Sunday, and enjoyed shore dinner.
 Mrs Chas. Thayer and little daugh- ter are spending the week at Oakland Beach.
 Miss Gertrude Jones and Miss Ave " are at the Adirondack Mountains, New York.
 Mrs. Catherine Holland, saleslady in the B. D. Bugbee Corporation Store, is enjoying vacation.
 Miss Ellen Mullin, of Providence, is the guest of Mrs. G. W. Webster, Oak Hill.
 Miss 5. Elizabeth Clarke recently visited with Mr and Mrs. Israel Linds- ley, in Providence.
 Mrs. Florence Botham and daugh- ter Charlotte, and Miss Mae Bradley, are at the Mantle House, Mantle.
 Fritz shaw has returned 10 his home in Bayonne, \. J., after visiting friends and relatives here.
 Miss Josie Rusheneek, of New York, returned home Monday morning after having spent two weeks yaea- ton at her parents home in Mechan- icsville.
 W. E. Holmes, of Montreal, for merly superintendent for Hammond knowlton & Co,, removed his family from this city to Montreal this week.
 Mir. Arthur Pray and wife and son of Gardner, Mass, have been the guests of MT. and Mrs. George Pray, Chap man street.
 Justin Green, who was brought to this city from the Worcester Hospital last week, is gaining slowly, and is able to move about the yard.
 -Dr. F. Guild, wife and children, of Windham, enjoyed an automobile trip to this city recently, and were the guests of Mrs. Edgar Clarke and fami- ly, Elm street.
 The regular monthly meeting of the Womanis Board of the Day Kim ball Hospital will be held Wednesday afternoon, July 2l, at 3 o'clock. Exc cutiye meeting at 2:s0 p. m. Sec'y.
 Mi. Frank Leonard and wife, of Philadelphia, are the guests of MT. NJ. c. Leonard and wife, South Main st. Mir and Mrs. Leonard did not go to Gales Ferry last week with Mrs. Ern- shaw and daughter. as announced.
 The Woman's Christian Temper ance Union of Connecticut will hold three days summer meeting-July l9, 20, 2l-at the Plainvile camp grounds. It promises to be meeting of unusual interest relating to the cause of temper ance. Delegates will go from this city representing the local Union.
 List of letters remaining in the Putnam Post Office for the week end ing July 13:
 Ladies-Miss Corinne Bouyier t2l, Mrs. Victoria Chandler, Miss Edith Cruff, Mrs. r. J. Duggan, Mrs. Elvie C. Learned.
 Gentlemen-GeorgeH H. Brown, PHI. Haines, (. H. Kelley, CIV. McGaffin, Andrew Summer.
 Mrs. F.. l.. Kelley and wife, and MT. S NJ. Wheelock and wife spent Sunday at Pleasant View, R. I. MT. and Mrs. Wheeloek called upon Mrs. W. H. Holmes, who has cottage there for the summer with her family, and also met Mrs Helen Wiley who is visiting her sister there with her son Malcolm.
 The police of this part of the State have been notified to be on the look out for a boy named William Green void, Of New Britain, aged Is years, who ran away from home. He is de- seribed as being about feet in height and weighs about l3e pounds. He had on gray suit when he left home, and wore a signet ring with his initials on it.
 We are receiving many articles and of high character, which gratify usvery much. Such in- structiyes articles as the "Birds of by A. W. Upham, must give pleasure to young and old. The young people especially ought to profit from reading them, and learn to love the birds and carefully protect those which not only delight us to see and hear, but ale blessing in the work they do in destroying insects that do immense damage. It is said-we do not vouch flor it-that if all the birds were to disappear from the earth that the destructive insects would multiply so enormously that the human race would starve to death in few years for lack of food.
 New York city reports death rate of 27 plus, per thousand; Putnam has about g. New York suffers. because Of is impure water, wkieh il is trying to improve in quality. The Springfield Republican says: "For long time this citv will not haze 10 give thought either to the quality CT quantity of is water. Ne have every reason to sup pose that the new supply will he as perfect as thai Of any ely in this eoan-