Putnam patriot., 1910-04-08

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 MT. and Mrs. F. F. Russell were in Norwich on Monday.
 Miss Jessie Shaw returned to her home in Bayonne, \. J., Monday.
 Miss Mary E. Bartlett is spending her vacation in Maine.
 Miss Bernice Paine is visiting her parents in Wakefield, Mass.
 Miss Asenath E. Tarr is spending week in Boston and vicinity visiting with friends.
 Mi. and Mrs. George Hathaway and son have returned from brief stay in Providence.
 Mrs. Dutee Smith has returned from a weeks visit with relatives in Southbridge.
 Alden Morse has resigned his posi- ton as overseer of the weaving depart ment of the Powhattan mil.
 Miss Ethel Rowe has returned to Warwick, R. l., after being the guest of her sister, Mrs. (. +. Waterman.
 Miss Marion Hines, of Worcester, spent Saturday with her parents on Grove street.
 --Dr. J. B. Kent is visiting physi- elan al the Day Kimball Hospital for the month of April.
 Mrs L.B. Durfee and her daughter, Ms. S. Nikoloff, have returned from a visit withl Boston friends and rela- tives.
 Miss Mabel Clarke has returned to Hartford, after spending her spring va cation with her mother, Mrs. Ella Clarke, South Main street.
 The meeting of the Connecticut de- legates and alternates to Congress is to be held with Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, in the early spring of 1911.
 City water was turned on in the tenements of the Morse mills company, last Friday, for the first time since the system was established.
 All the engineers and conductors, and timetable and rules, of N. Y., N. H. x H. company, underwent an ex- animation, beginning last Friday, on a special car provided for that purpose. All engineers and conductors will have to pass an examination.
 The patchwork on the new Pelo- quin block will be completed this week The plumbing is being put in and the contract for putting in steel ceilings throughout has been awarded. When finished it will be the largest and finest looking business block in the city.
 Announcement was made in this city, on Monday, of the death on Sum- day, at Quinebaug, of Mrs. James Me Collough, formerly Miss Coroline Vim ton, aged 40. She was resident of Putnam a few years ago, as was also her husband, who survives her, with two children, boy and a girl.
 James J. Kennedy, of New Haven, State Deputy of the Knights of Col umbus, has been the guest of M. M. Dwyer.i MT. Kennedy was.en route for Boston to attend conference relative to the fund of S500, 900 that the Order is raising for the Catholic University at Washington.
 There is a new exhibition of pie lures, at the Public Library, this week This is series of photographs of many of the great paintings in Florence. All the great artists of the XVth and XNlth centuries are represented. The exhibit remains open until April 20.
 Irving Green, aged 6, was acci- dentaily shot in the righteye by eom- panion, who was shooting with an air rifle, last Friday evening. He was taken to hospital in Worcester where an operation was deemed necessary which will cause loss of sight of the in- jured eye.
 President Taft passed through this city Sunday night. His car was at- taehed to tn boat train. There was quite a gathering at the station when the train came in, and the President made few short remarks. He stood upon the platform of his car for some minutes and a few people shook his hand.
 On our second page will be found the last of the series of articles on the history of Ireland for the past two hun- dred years. They are of special inter- est at this time, as the long bloody struggle of the Irish people to secure justice against the odious and grinding tyranny of their foreign rulers, is about being crowned with victory: the his tory was written by John F.. Redmond, the present leader of the Irish move ment for self-government, and who holds in his hands the power to control the course of the British government that may lead not only to give Ireland self-government, but freedom to the English peopleifrom the control of a small number of hereditary titled men and lordly church dignitaries who own half the land of England and Ireland, keeping them in abeyance by ruling as the House of Lords, to defeat their will expressed drought the House of Com- mons: and every statement is corrooo- rated by testimony of English states men and historians of the most emi-