Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1910-02-04

! Worcester, the guest of friends.
Mrs. Charlotte Champlin is the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. +. NJ.
Brunn, of Brooklyn, y. Y.
Miss Bertha Sargent has returned
from brief visit with her sister, Miss
Florence Sargent, in Boston.
Masses were sung in St. Mary S
church, Wednesday, in observance OF
the Feast of the Publication.
The annual Junior Prom, of the
Putnam High School, will be held in
Odd Fellows hall Friday evening this
week.
Miss Julia Luby slipped on the
walk, in the subway, last Saturday
morning, and received an abrasion on
the back of her head.
Miss NJ. Gladys Murfey has been
the guest of Miss Frances Warner at
Mt. Holyoke college during the past
week.
Rev. j. J. Elty, of Pomfret, has
presented Putnam Lodge of Elks a
handsome purple satin sofa-pillow, on
which is hand painted elk's head in
natural eolors.
Miss Marian Titus, teacher in the
High School, spent Sunday at her pa
rental home in Semerville, Mass. On
Saturday of this week her brother, An
i son Titus, sails from New York, in the
! Grosser kurfurst, for trip TO Egypt
/ and the Holy Land.
There will be meeting in the G.
/ A. X. hall, Tuesday evening, Feb. S, at
j 6:4a, for the purpose of electing officers
and doing all other necessary bust
ness in perfeeting the organization of
a. Camp of Sons of Veterans. Ii the
reader is a sonlor grandson of Veteran
and wishes to become charter MEM
Der of the proposed Camp, make a spe-
cia effort TO attend. Sec'y.
AT meeting of the incorporators
of the Bliven Manufacturing company
held last Tuesday evening the following
were elected: President, p. Z. Bliven;
vice-president, Joseph Bodo; secretary,
| Benjamin s. Cogswell; treasurer, G. h.
Gilpatric; directors, Albert Field, Frank
A. Davis, Joseph Bodo, Percy G. Bliven,
Benjamin s. Cogswell, Patrick Kelley,
G. II. Gilpatric.
The ladies of the Eastern Star will
| serve choice turkey dinner in Mason
ic Temple, Tuesday, February 5, from
| IL to 2 O'Clock. The menu will be as
| follows:
Consomme
Roast Turkey CranberrysSauce
Celery Pickles
Baked Squash Onions Turnip
Mashed Potatoes
Baked Indian Pudding
Coffee Tea
Mrs. r. l.. Kenyon, Mrs. Jesse
Rich, Mrs. G. D. Arnold, Fl. f. Wilder
attended the annual session of the
Connecticut Grand Chapter, o. +. s.,
held in New Haven on Friday. Four
hundred representatives. were present
from 5S chapters of this state and de-
iegates were present from Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island, Vermont .and
Ohio. Mrs. Kenyon, who held posi-
ton in the grand chapter last year was
appointed chaplin and Mrs. Bertha l..
Gallup of Moosup was elected assistant
conductress.
Some lads show their bent of mind
at an early age. Little Kenneth Sharpe.
aged about IL years, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. ID. c. Sharpe, School, saw small
stream of water running over rock
on hill where his home is located. 1t
struck him that the waterfall was
waste OF valuable water. He therefore
constructed waterwheel, and rugged
up under the falkland had the great
delight of seeing his wheel whiriing
around at rapid rate. He will next,
no doubt, invent some useful machine
to attach to his water-wheel.
In just one week almost TO the
hour after the death of her hus band,
Mrs. Julia f. lLatimorel, widow of
Morris l.. Casey, died Saturday at her
home in Whitinsville of pneumonia,
the same disease that caused the death
of her husband. Mrs. Casey was
stricken with pneumonia Monday.
She gave birth 10 child, which did
not live, Wednesday. Her age was 30
years, II months and L days. She
was born in Putnam where she mar
ried Morris l.. Casey, Thanks giving
day, 1902. She leaves her mother,
Mrs. Julia Latimore, and a sister, Mrs.
Thomas Skeary, Whitinsville; broth
er, Joseph Latimore, Webster, and
three sisters, Mrs. John Brown, Nara
gansett Pier, II. L.; Mrs. Thomas Col
Inns and Mrs. George Collins, Putnam.
The funeral was held Monday morn
ing. Burial was in Westerly, X. L.,
where Mr.. Casey was buried.
Rev. FIR. O'Connor who was pastor
of the West Thompson and Pomfret Ca
tholic churches for some years until he
was called to be pastor of the st. James
church at Stratford-a larger and more
important parish--is TO build a new
church there. He has won the same
favor and love of his pensioners as he
did while here Until recently there
was some doubt as TO whether the work
would be undertaken owing TO the ge-
neral fin ancial striugency but he has