Putnam patriot., 1910-09-02
School begins next Tuesday

-SeHeoi beg1nS next Tuesday,
 Robert P Mclean and family are al Hampton Beach. \. H.
 Amos Laroek, Church street, is moving his family to Grove street.
 Miss Gertrude Perry Is visiting friends in Pittsfield.
 Attorney Huber D. Card has re- turned from a visit to Matunuck, K. 1.
 Attorneys NJ. H. Geissler and II. C. Bradford attended the races al Read vile two days this week.
 The Woman's Relief Corps will hold food sale on the lawn of Mrs. Joseph Mckachnie Friday afternoon.
 Mrs. Thomas Rawley and daugh- ter Elizabeth, have been at Old Or chard Beach and Portland.
 Mrs. George W. Perry and chil. dren have returned from Lords Point, Stonington.
 Joseph Gagne clerk in Burt's drug store, is spending his vacation in Prov idence and Bosion.
 -Dr. J. N. Landry and wife leave Monday for a three weeks visit with friends and relatives in Canada. Mrs. Wallace Sterns, with her sons Philip and knowlton, have returned from fortnight's visit in Plymouth. Mir. and Mrs. Allen, and Miss AL len, of Hartford, are visiting Mrs. Geo. E shaw, Fremont street. Mrs. Frank r. Russell, Grove street, is entertaining her mother, Mrs. Robie, of Plymouth, \. II.
 Mrs. Albert Celcord of Portland, Me, is the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs. l. W. Trowbridge.
 Allen Guild of Windham has been the guest of his grandmother, Mrs, Edgar Clarke, for week. Miss Nora Leary has returned from visit of two weeks with friends in Providence,
 Miss Esmeralda Macdonald leaves Sunday night for Morrstown, N. J., where she is to teach the coming year. Mrs. (. II. Govell of Worcester, and MT. and Mrs. Charles Fenton of Willimantic, were in Putnam on We'd nesday.
 Merrill P. Paine has returned to Putnam after spending the summer in Nqrwood. He is to teach in Abingdon again the coming year.
 Miss Bessie L. Champlin is at home after a visit of three months with her sister, Mrs. Ewart Brunn,in Brook lyn, N. \.
 Charles E. Pratt, superintendent of schools in Willimantic and Eastford, has moved from Willimantie to Put nam, occupying house on Bradley street.
 Mrs. William E. Holmes and her daughter Zillah ,are visiting in Spring field, on their way to their home in Montreal, after spending the summer with friends in Putnam.
 George F. Pray, who has boen se- riously ill at his home on Chapman street for some time, was taken to a hospital in Boston on Tuesday for an operation.
 -TSe many Putnam friends of the Rev. Charles H. Covell, will regret to learn that he hae been confined to his home, B Wyman street, Worcester, by illness, since last December, and has been unable to leave his bed since March. His s1st birthday occurs on Saturday of this week.
 Percy l.. Waterman's automobile, driven by his chafieur, ran into horse and carriage near the railroad bridge Tn Mechanicsville Tuesday evening. The horses leg was broken and he had to be shot. The chafieur and an occu- pant of the machine suffered slight in- jaries.
 -G. E. Woodward. general agent of the freight department of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road company, and the New England Navigation company, at Providence, made an automobile trip with his fam fly to Putnam on Sunday, and was the guest of his parents, MT. and Mrs. c. NJ. Woodward, Grove street.
 -Contractor Suzio, who has been building the first section of the ewer, has :been awarded the contract for building the second section. The con tract price is little over s20 ,000. Some of the difficulties to be overcome in constructing this section is, crossing the river, excavating through 1900 feet of solid rock, and widening the bridge over the trench on Pomfret street. Work will be begun immediately, which will necessitate closing up Pom- fret street, and later drawing off the water in the trench. The water in the river win also have to be drawn of during the laying of the pipe.
 The school board have engaged the following teachers: George Macfar- lane, Methuen, Mas, sub-msster at the High school. Margaret Tuppes, Lexington, Mass, history. Catherine DeMerritt, Durham, N. H., French and German. Margaret Leach, North Brookfield. Mas, commercial. Ger