Putnam patriot., 1910-08-12

enjoying a weeks vacation.
 Peter E. Relair of the PATRIOT of fee is enjoying his annual vacation.
 Henry BeIair and wife of Water. bury are visiting Charles Belair and family. Elm street.
 George F. Pray is slowly recover ing from . serious illness and is able to walk about the yard.
 Mrs. Edwin B. Hosmer of Sud. bury, Mass, is spending few days with J. Richard Carpenter and family.
 Mrs. l.. c. Dupuis and daughter of Brockton, are guests of Victor Chap delaine, Church street.
 Rev J. R. Stubbert, accompanied by his wife and daughter, left on We'd nesday for . weeks stay at Northfield.
 Mrs. Cromwell Chase and Mrs. Barrak Smith are making ten days' visit to Old Orchard Beach.
 -J. E. s. Cain of Portchester, N. Y., is visiting his family on Fremont street.
 Manager Wilson of the Wool worth store is spending his vacation al the Thousand Islands.
 Arthur Duvert entertained George McQuaid of Milwaukee on Tuesday, a companion on his recent trip to Cana da.
 John Whalen, employed by the Southern New England Telephone company at Mystic, spent Tuesday with relatives in this city.
 The silk mills throughout the city are running but forty hours week. Some mills run foar days, getting in the forty hours, while others run five days of eight hours each.
 --Moses J. Wilcox attended the 44th annual reunion of the 5th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, al Savin Rock on Monday and Tuesday. He was a member of Company II.
 -It is expected that B members of the Putnam Aerie of Eagles will att tend the State Field Day of the order at New London on Thursday of next week.
 The Misses Egan awarded $20 in gold in amounts of s each to the fol- lowing customers last Saturday: Mrs. Arthur, West Thompson; Mrs. Wins low, Mrs. A. Osier and Mrs. c. Bean- dreauIt, Putnam.
 James Murray, son of Captain of Police and Mrs. Murray, is spending week with relatives in Worcester. Miss Florence Murray is entertaining her cousin, Marguerite Hurley, of Worces- ter.
 Frank Bennett and wife left the Putnam Inn Tuesday for a few weeks stay al Maplewood farm, owned by Allan Kenyon, Woodstock Valley. MT Bennett Is making soil survey of Windham County for the government.
 Invitations have been sent out for the marriage of Arthur Labossier to Miss Alberta Gaulin, at St. Mary's church at o'clock Monday morning, August 22nd. A reception will be held after the ceremony at the home of the brides father, William Gaulin, 9 Bat tey street.
 Principal George Hathaway of the Tourtcllotte Memorial High school at North Grosvenordale was in Putnam Tuesday, coming from Newport, where he is spending his vacation. The fall term of the school will open Sep tember 6, and 1t is expected that the freshman class will number twenty. A class will be graduated next June, being the close of the second year Of study in the school.
 Isaac Briggs, one of the familiar faces in Putnam for many years, has hired the Hummer finyentor of the heater farm on the east part Of the town. He spent the last six years as night watchman in the silk mill of Hammond, Knowlton X Co.,, and now he says he will have rest at nights and work days. He has a considerable amount of fruit, and will keep two cows and cultivate corn and all kinds of vegetables. We hope he will do
  we'll and enjoy his camping out"' as he calls 1t.
 The Seaside House at Block Island, we'll known to Putnam people, was to- tally destroyed by fire early Saturday morning, caused by thesoverturning of lamp by . woman guestiwho was at- tending to her sick child. Among the guests was Master William Mansfield, son of NIT. and Mrs. W. H. Mansfield, of this city, who was visiting his grandmother. His room was across the hall from that in which the fire originated, but he escaped with the others. Later he was seen entering the building, but soon returned with his suit case, saying, "I thought there wasn't any sense in losing the case long's had plenty of time.