Putnam patriot., 1910-08-19

Mrs. F. <. Rogers is visiting rela- lives in Nova Scotia.
 Miss Lizzie C. Child is spending a week at Alton Bay, \. H., with friends.
 Mayor Macdonald and family have been entertaining Henry Macdonald of Moulton, N. B.
 -Lucius P. Merriam, clerk in the First National Bank, is having his an- nual vacation.
 Henry Tetreault and wife have gone to Canada to spend several weeks with relatives.
 II. N. Taintor and wife, of Provi. dence, are guests of l.. E. Richardson and family, Fremont street.
 -Officer Tetreault substituted for pa- troiman Cordier Saturday and Sunday nights, as the latter had to remain at home owing to the illness of his wife.
 MT. C. NJ. Fenner and wife left Tuesday for two weeks stay in Rock land, Me, and other places on Penob- scot Bay.
 Mrs. Ella Clark, for many years a resident of this city, has removed to Hartford, where her daughters are teachers.
 Miss Bertha C. Hyde, Of Topeka, Kansas, has been the guest Of Grace A.. Child, at her mothersi home, for few days past.
 Mrs. $. NJ. Wheelock and children and Mrs. Frank Bennett, vile of the government soil surveyor, are spend- ing few weeks at Pleasant View, RI :.
 An employe at wheaton's shop re ceived badly laeerated thumb from coming in contact with buzz saw last Saturday.
 Walter l.. Dixon of the Keystone Department Store Company, has ar ranged to entertain the clerks of the Danielson, Putnam and Moosup stores of the Corporation, al his cottage al Crescent Beach, on Labor Day. The cottage is a new one, constructed dur ing the present summer.
 The Worcester Post, Of last Thurs. day, said: Miss Helen Savory, daugh- ter Mir. and Mrs. Henry P. Savory, of this city, gave verandah whist We'd nesday night, in honor of Miss Ger trude Medbury, of Putnam. The house and verandah were prettily decorated in red and green--red flowers predom- mating. Japanese lanterns illumina- ted the verandah. Miss Savory and her parents formerly lived in this city.
 The Seymour Record has this to say about its home town--and we agree with it: "Pull together brethren. We are all here for the same purpose. Then Live and let liven The best way to build up town is for each and every man to pull together and not try to rend and tear down. All the residents of town are partners, not opponents. In all likelihood the more business that is done by your neighbor the more you will get to do. Every merchant who treats his customers fairly and honest ly will get his just share; and the more business that can be secured by united effort, the better it will be for all
 -The l4th annual Congress of the Mayors of leading American cities will be held in St. Paul, Aug. g, when a comparison of experience will be in- dulged in as to the management of mu- nicipal affairs and city government, in every rational point of view. Among the subjects upon which special ad- dresses will be delivered and afterward discussed, are: "The Workhouse as a Reformatory,n "Government of Cities by Commission, A Gity's Control of Outlying Districts,n The Relation of the Municipality to the Public Service Companies, ssWhat Cities are Doing and in What They Excel.H Putnam should be represented al this summer school for the mayors of the country, as il is an important movement to inn prove municipal government that all may secure the best.
 Hartford has juft opened new playground for children. Although it rained on Monday when it was first thrown open, some 900 or 400 children were on hand to enjoy themselves. The swings are individual swings, the kind such as hang under the old apple trees in the country. There are eight of them and they were all in full swing. So were the two slides in continual de- mand. They consist of a pair of stairs and . shoot-the-shutes slide. The boy climbs the stairs, straddles himself on the slide and gravity does the rest. See-saws are popular with boys and girls. There is yet to be giants stride and . merry-go-round and perhaps oth- CT apparatus. Older people enjoy sec ing the antics of the children.
 Says the Bulletin: .Norwich is to have playground for.children at last. There has been considerable thought of such thing, and various plans and hopes among men interested in the welfare of the little ones about town have, to date, resulted in nothing tan- gible. The Shetucket Company have been 90 interested in this work that they have granted the use of . suitable lot for the season. The Young Menss (.h ristian Asnocfaf are to fi ' m inc