Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1910-01-28

s iNAatA y III
Miss Marguerite Keith has been
visiting in New York.
Tony Massi, formerly bootblack at
/ the railroad station, is employed as
night chef in Cobb,s restaurant, Rox-
bury, Mass.
The annual meeting of the w. {.
T. L. will be held at the home of Mrs.
Mary Gardner, Friday afternoon, at 8
O'Clock.
Rev. G. l.. Young, former pastor
of the Adventist church in this city,
was the guest of Warren Ames on Mon
day.
Miss Leona Deigie entertained Miss
Edna Delude, of Woonsocket, over
Sunday. While she was here Miss
DaigIe entertained number of friends
! in her honor.
Alvin Bibeault, who recently left
| this city after visiting his father TO join
the battleship Rhode Island, is now in
| Cuba, and writes that the temperature
| there is around ITO degrees.
John Macdonald, son of Mayor
! Macdonald, who went to Fort Slocum,
| " y, To take the entrance eXamina.
| tons for entrance to West Point, has
| returned home, having passed the ply
| steal requirements very satisfactorily.
| 81 rot had his
right foot amputated at the Day KIM
| ball Hospital, as the result of freezing
| it during the recent cold snap. lie laid
/ down on the snow drifts, near Will
mantle, while in an intoxicated condi-
ton, last week, and was frozen before
he was discovered, and then brought to
the hospital here. The left foot was
also frozen so badly that it was neces-
sary to amputate:two of his toes.
Henry NJ. Morse, of this city, who
went to Boston some weeks ago to put
in rehearsal a sketch to be presented in
vaudeville, opened in New Bedford
last week, and has made good, as will
! appear from the following flattering
notice which appeared in the New Bed
ford Times:
| 1.-The vaudeville field has captured
| another fine actor in Henry NJ. Morse,
| best remembered as the elongated
! teamster in "Old Jed Prouty,' who has
| forsaken the legitimate stage TO pre-.
| sent new sketch entitled 1.-The Rube
| and the Hoodeoo by Fred j. Beamansi
| Hl.a cly fnh ts a y
ingly funny and offers this comedian
excellent opportunity for the exploita-
! ton of his talents. Mr.. Morse's stage
t-experience covers a wide range of parts,
| having been with Lew Dockstader,
| Cohan and Harris mlnstrels and seve-
! raj of the Klaw 4 Erlanger musical
| productions. His artistic delineation
| at the New Englander is fine piece
| of character acting.
The subcommittee on the new
! High School building went to Provi-
denee, last week Thursday, to meet the
members of the Nightingale company
in regard to the. purchase of the lot on
| the corner of Providence and School
streets, owned by them. The commit
tee offered $4,000 for it, but'the own
| ers wanted $4,000, and there the mat
ter rested. On Tuesday an agreement
was entered into between the commit
| tee and the owners for atransfer of the
property to the town, before January
81. for the sum of $4,000. A meeting
of the committee was held Wednesday
afternoon, when Messrs. Mullan Cor
man and Wheelock were appointed a
committee 10 have finished plans pre-
! pared, and to arrange for the building
| contract.
| Hartford is one of the cities that
has been greatly troubled about its
| drinking water--to get enough To sup
| ply the city that is not unsuitable. Du-
ring such drouths as existed last sum-
mer il was no easy task to secure ne
cessary supply. 1t has always been
dread of the inhabitants TO think OF be-
| ing Obliged TO drink water drawn from
the Connecticut river, the filthy char
acter of which they are so thoroughly
familiar. Recently the authorities tried
bleaching experiments TO see what
could be done to sterilize il TO make IL
fit To drink in case of necessity. The
experiments proved that the water
could be made fairly safe, nearly as safe
as the supply from West Hartford,
which is equal TO the Putnam water
before it was filtered. People who shud-
der at this should not travel without
taking full supply Of our city water
for their journey-else what they drink
especially in cities-is likely to be
impure.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. f. shaw were
recently the guests of Mrs Emma shaw
Colcleugh, sister Of Mr.. Shaw, who
sailed last Saturday for a three months
pleasure cruise on the steamer Bieueh-
/ err This is the first grand cruise got up
| by the Hamburg American Line, and
| will extend l6,053 miles. The 800 first
class passengers will make their home
! on the steamer the entire cruise, and
I will visit Brazil, Argentine, Uruguay,
I Chile. the straights of Magellan, and
+ the West Indies. Mrs. Coleieugh has
/ fraveled, several years ago, through.
| Africa. and went over much the same
route she is now taking. She will,
I however, visit all new places and
| tberehv get entirely new and valuable