Putnam patriot., 1909-07-16
VICINITY
THOMPSON.

. 4snarf glent oI modern lang ages ile ilet-,sfnas College. Crsinus College ID n.',,.3er Pre.bvterian auspices about E aiis.N, al'-,,,s ride from Philadelphia. 1t oboat four hundred students and ' -o-educational. II, Hathaway, a teacher iH NoTees- .aadpulV for the past two years, VI ,,bo has been engaged as princi- lf,gf 4i inc newTourtellotte High school, Fa i, town on Monday, meeting the .-.., harS of the school board and otl- | srs Of our citizens. ur and Mrs. Charles E. Searles left =, Friday for Nantucket for several skss s sfav. MT. Searls was obliged ,o ,etarn oa Tuesday on account ot his iseislatiVe duties. N, and Mrs. Rowland Mills who .ars married July 4th, were given a sarprise by their friends on Saturday e,ening
 Miss Alice Munyan and Mir. Emery x.nvsn have taken a trip to Washing tun, DC.
 yr. and Mrs. tBrott were over the goprth at Miss Olney's. Nr C. Elliott was over the Fourth at nr. Nj. Eiliott's. Miss Crosby sailed on the Romauie, tstv for three months abroad. Nr. and Mrs. F. E. Russ and Mir. and Mrs Frederick Warren of Greenwich, eouu.. were guests of Mir and Mrs Arthur E. Clifford, July 4th and 5th- MT. Louis Blackmar oi Everett, Mass, gas inc gueat of lis sister, Miss NJ. E. l Bsekmar, July 7th. Mir. and Mrs Clinton Elliott and s4uepter Dorothy visited al Mrs Henry Elloti's the past week. Mf Charles Elliott of Brooklyn, \. Y, .pent lime at his fathers convalescing aI.et an operation al a New York hospI- lal.
 Mrs. Chas. W. Miller and daughter Florence have rented the Fort Hill farm cottage for tse summer.
 Miss Evans spent few days in New York.
 Oar town physician Dr. Paine attends during July and August the clinic for uese and throat at the Massachusetts general hospital iu Boston one day weekly.
 We are all pleased to learn that Dr. George V. Towne has been appointed President of the State Board of veterinary registration and examination. 1t is fitting and pleasing recognition of Dr. Towne's ability as 8 veterinary.
 Mr. Charles Ross and family of Brook lyn, N Y, were at his fathers, MT. Lowell D. Ross over the Fourth.
 Mrs. Joseph Mills is entertaining her sister, Mrs. Covington.
 Miss Green returned for the summer from Brooklyn where ske is studying music. She has sung most helpful solos ia our church services, which were very pleasing to all.
 All her friends are glad to have Miss Shaw again at home in Thompson. We hope that she nsy speedily recover her impaired health.
 The Addemsn house was recently painted.
 Mrs, and Miss Beebe attended the Norwieh celebration, making the trip in automobile.
 Mir and Mrs. SeaeIs were at Norwich celebration.
 Col D. L. Larned of Washington. D. c, was the guest of Miss Sherman.
 Miss Eingsbury is nome for the ssal- mer.
 Dr. and Mrs. Kmball of New f1k city are the guests of Nr. and Mrs. iG Elliott.
 OBITUARY.
 Mrs. Mary (Rawson), wife of John Scott Lewis died very suddenly at Thompson, Conn.,, Thursday morning, June 3, 1909, after few days of un- Sonted actiSity and freedom from the suffering which had characterized her inTsldism.
 Mrs. Lewis was born at East Alstead, \. Il, July 2s, 1883. She was the next 10 the youngest and the last surviving ehiid of Rev. Aanson and Martha Rus sel@ Rawson. Her father held pastorstes saecessiyely at Rox bury, N. H., Soath- borough, and New Boston, Mass, with iae longest term, period of ten years, s' Scarborough. The family moved to thompson, Conn.,, in 1854.
 The subject of this sketch attended iososend Seminary ct West Townsend, Mass. and later taught for while in the Thompson family school After her mar rage on Nov. II, 1888, Mir. and Mrs. lsws made their home in Allentown, Psnn., for twenty years until they re- tarned to Thompson in ls67 to care for her parents.
 Mrs. Lewis took her letter from the Congregational church in Thompson, sRh which she had united in 1858, to sne Presbyterian church in Allentown Aad again in 1889 with daughter Brought letters to the old home church ph Thompson, during the pastorate of Rev. 'se. II. Cummings, Always interested a nission work, Mrs. Lewis found large opportunity In the Allentown church for <fsiee and organised . mission baDd for iidrsn and also young ladies circle and snsined at the head of both for several sas- Her sccession to the ranks of the aenpson church workers was . valued rsaiorcement both for its local and ofld vide interests. Every effort for ae eetterment of the community was