Putnam patriot., 1909-04-09

Miss Mabel Clarke has returned tc
 Northampton, Mass, after spending { short vacation with her mother, Mrs
 Ella Clarke, South Main street. Charles Miron, who has kept bar ber shop in the Hotel Chiekering, ha: ] just bought the barber shop owned by 1 Henry Langlois, on Providence street
 Justin $. Greene is patient at ths
 Day kimball Hospital, where he un
 derwent an operation for appendicitis The case was severe one, but he is showing satisfactory progress towards
 recovery.
 From the hills of the city brush fire, may be seen around on all sides almosI daily. Generally they are started b, stupid careIessness, or wilful mischief Sometimes they lead to serious disas ters and are always a source Of danger
 F. w. Perry has been suffering from severe attack of auinsy sort throat. For four days he was unable to swallow any kind of food or liquid
 His throat was lanced Monday even ing and his condition has since i'm proved.
 The East Putnam Cemetery Asso citation held meeting last Saturday afternoon and voted to accept plot ol land, 2ll by l09 feet, adjoining the ce. izf ha ri t.f tlr NJ. Harris, of Putnam Heights and Charles J. Harris, of Hillsborough, \ C. The land has already been graded for use.
 Mrs. Harris Fay, mother of w. D. Fay, station agent at Abingdon, fell on Saturday morning, while at the home of Mrs. Susan Paine, Centre st., where she has been spending the winter, and fractured her hip. She was taken to the Day Kimball Hospital where the bone was set. Mrs. Fay is S4 years old and there ase doubts of her recovery. MT. G. A. Hammond was ithe re. cipient recently of life membership in beautilly embossed memorial, by the members of the Putnam Lodge of Elks, No. 574, as testimonsal of their high regard. The presentation was made by Exalted Ruler Macdonald, who in a happy vein expressed the brotherly sentiments of the Lodge for MT. Hammond.
 The funeral of Dr. C. ]. LeClair, an President of the Windham County Medical Association, and one of the foremost French Canadians in this sec ton, was held in Danielson on Sunday. The physicians attending from this section were: Doctors F. A. Morrell, J. ]. Russell, Omer LaRue, Putnam; R. C. Paine, Thompson; $. B. Overlook, held in St. James church, Rev. John Roux officiating. Over 800 people es- corted the body to the cemetery in Da- nielson, where it was buried.
 We are publishing original articles
 
 eign Missions, Boston, relating to for eign matters of general importance, They are not only reliable but useful and attractively written. As an in stance of their character, we call atten- tion to the article in this weeks issue, entitled IA More Cheerful View" II is in regard to the "Unrest in India, T she wing it to be the aspiration of ma tion to arise out of intellectual and so- cial bondage into the realms of modern civilization attained in the more ad- vanced nations, instead of disintegra- ton and anarchy. We are supplied several such articles every month.
 Relatives of W Fl. Reynolds in this city were startled last week when news reached them that the body of man had been found,upon the railroad track near Bloomington, Ind, which cores bonded in description to Reynolds. It seems that Reynolds went from this city to Worcester, where he was sub sequently married. He had left home and had not been heard from in some time. Mrs. Reynolds heard of the ind ing of the body which corresponded with the description of her husband and communicated with his brother, Samuel Reynolds, who conducts tra- yelling bag manufsctory on Bridge st., this city. investigations were made, and the description so closely tallied with that of the missing man that rel atives were about convinced it was him when his brother received word from him that he was alive and well. The .American Silk Journal" for March, published in New York, has . full account of the Reception rendered to MT. c. A. Hammond by the busi- ness and professional men of this city, on the evening of 23d of February last. It is in substance that printed in the PATRIOT al the time, but is illustrated by fine portrait of MT. Hammond that Is perfect and naturaIexpression as he is daily seen. In the same article is a reference to MT. Johnson, with DOT trait, Superintendent of Hammond, knowifon 6 O., of whom II says:
 "He entered the factory of The Eure- ka Silk O., in 1ssU, and within a few years WAS placed in charge Of their fin- ishiDg department, where he became an expert lie renaiaed i1 this eapa- city until his company was absorbed by Hammond, knowlion * Co., three years ago.
 -Mr. Johnson ~as made Saperinten-