Putnam patriot., 1910-09-09
Miss BIaneheDumas spent sunday

in Boston.
 Ms F. H. Andrews is visiting in Norwood and Essex.
 A. C. Cutler is entertaining his niece, Miss Ethel Cutler of Providence.
 Franklin T. Ellis is spending month in New York city.
 Simon Farley is among those from Putnam visiting in Canada.i
 A. (. Luke and wife have returned from short stay al Pleasant View.
 A. N. Law has returned from a trip to Maine.
 MT. and Mrs. c. Harold iGilpatric have been the guests of MT. and Mrs. Herbert ]. Smith al Lyme.
 -E. Nj. Barney and wife returned Tuesday from A months camping al Webster. Lake.
 Arthur White and wife of s:Attle- boro, have been guests of Mrs. Whites parents, MT. and Mrs. E. B. Kent.
 Station Agent C. l.. Baldwin and family have been visiting at his ola home in Townsend.
 Edward Mahew of the B. D. Bug bee store, has returned from a vacation spent in Providence.
 Miss kathlene Leavitt left Tuesday for Salem, en route to her home in Gas per, Wyoming.
 Miss Gertrude Hall has returned from Oak Bluffs, where she has been spending the summer.
 Mrs. Silas NJ. Nheelock and fam fly returned Saturday from their col tage at Pleasant View.
 Mrs. l.. B Durfee and Mrs. x. Ni- kolofi, are at home after stay of seve- ral weeks at Swampscoll.
 The Tourtellolte Memorial High school opened Tuesday with about 70 pupils, 23 entering in the freshman class.
 There were but five deaths in Put. nam during August, and two of these were out-of-town patients al the Day kimball hospital.
 Miss Helen $. Hammond of Hamp- ton, formerly of Putnam, is to be an instructor at Emerson College of Ora tory, Boston, this year.
 Misses Marion E. Phelps and Elm ma Russ of Marlboro, were entertained by H. F. Wilder and wife over Labor Day.
 -Dr. F.. F. Perry was in Williman- tic Wednesday, attending meeting of the board of examing surgeons on pen sion application cases.
 -Dr. A. II. Strahan was the guest of his father in Ware, over the Sab- bath. Miss Marjorie Strahan, who has been visiting in the same place, returned with him.
 Landlord Rogers of the Putnam Inn and Percy l.. Waterman will leave Sunday for months hunting in the woods of Maine and New Brunswick.
 Mrs. A. E. Coveil of the River road suffered shock last Thursday morn- ing, leaving her left side paralyzed. MT. Covell returned from the barn and found his wife upon the floor uncon- scious.
 Charles Gorham of this city, an in- mate of the Norwich Hospital for the Insane, escaped from that institution Monday. Gorham returned to this city Wednesday night and was taken into custody and returned to the in- stitulion this Thursday.
 Augustus Johnson of South Fra mingham was visitor in Putnam on Tuesday. He conducted shoemaker's shop in this city 2i years ago, and had not been here since. It pleased him when many of the olderIcitizens recog- nized him after so long an absence.
 -Eastford will make a bid in the senatorial convention of the 2sth dis trict for the honor of having the sena- tor selected from that township this year, and will present the name of Judge John M. Tatem. This makes two candidates in the field, George A. Hammond Of this city being the other.
 During the thunder shower Tues- day night the reflection of sa:fire could be seen from this city in the direction of Pomfret. The fire was at the Geo. Rickard farm on the Pomfret road. A barn containing hay and lumber, in . lot on the north side of the road, was struck by lightning and destroyed.
 Work on the first section of the sewer Is progressing rapidly and should be completed in . couple of weeks. Pipe is now iaid as far as Dr. LaRue's residence on Woodstock ave nue, and the length cf Marshall street from Woodstock avenue to Providence street. This leaves a stretch on Wood stock avenue from Dr. LaRue's resi- dence to the corner Of Marshall street, and from Providence street sto Battey street yet to be done. Unless some un- foreseen obstruction arises the work will be done rapidly.
 Automobiles and teams wishing to get from the east to the west side of the river, and vice versa, have been necessarily greatly disconnected the