Putnam patriot., 1910-04-01

to Florida for recreation.
 Charles T. Thayer spent Fast Day in Hartford.
 -C. M Elliot spent Tuesday in Bos- ton on business.
 -G. Harold Gilpatrie and Percy l.. Waterman were in New York Friday and saturday, on business.
 Mrs. A. W. Barber, Mrs. Reuben Wright, and Miss Beatrice Pomeroy, were visitors in Worcester last week.
 Captain of police Murray was in Worcester Tuesday where slight ope- ration was performed upon his nose. sergeant Hayes substituted for him.
 Mrs. Edgar Clarke, Mrs. Ella Stod- dafd and Miss $. Elizabeth Clarke, were guests of MT. and Mrs. John Phil- lips, in Wauregan, last Friday.
 Miss Josephine Clark who is teach ing al New Boston, is spending her va cation with her mother, Mrs. Ella Clarke.
 Miss Florence Sargent, of Boston, is spending her Easter vacation with her parents, Rev. and NIT. F. D. Sar- gent.
 Deacon C. C. Brown and wife have returned from Sea Breeze, Fla, look ing we'll. This city had large repre- sentation the past winter enjoying the delightful climate of that State.
 MT. and Mrs. Louis Moskovitz, of this city, have been entertaining q cousin from Canada, whom they have mol seen in thirty-two years.
 List of letters remaining in the Putnam Post Office for the week end ing March 29:
 Gentlemen-John Cant, E. C. Rich- ards, Edward Gallagher, D. Harris, J i. r. Stokes, Irving Hartshorn, ?, Harry Stone.
 The claim of John H. Fountain vs. the estate of Julia A. Cutler-John +. Carpenter, trustee-did not come up for a hearing before the special commis- sion appointed to hear the claim, to have been argued last Saturday. The matter has been amicably adjusted out of court.
 Samuel Basto, aged 77, died at his home on Putnam Heights, on Friday night. MT. Basto had been an unusu- ally successful farmer, and had lived in the town of Putnam for about fifty years. He leaves wife and two sis ters, Mrs. Benjamin K. Chatfee, of this city, and Mrs. Samuel Smith, of East killingly.
 The seventeenth annual ball of Cargill Council, No. GA, Knights of Columbus, was held in Odd Fellows Hall, NJ onday evening, and was very enjoyable affair. Cargill Orchestra, T. E. Irving, Director, rendered pro- gram of five numbers, from to 9 o'clock. Deputy Grand Knight John Byrne and Miss Katharine Byrne led the Grand March. Dancing followed, Frank E. Murray acting as prompter.
 Merrill P. Paine, ofythis city, has been engaged to teach fhe school at Alb ington, during the absence of Miss Alice NJ Howe, who recently broke her an- kle. He began his duties on Monday morning. Frank Howarth is substitu- ting for him as messenger of the Supe- rior Court in this city.
 A party from this cty attended the Easter services in the Congregational church in Danielson, at } o'clock, at which Miss Jessie Shaw, of Bayonne, \. J., who has many friends in this city, read "fhe Other Wise Man." Miss Shaw has rare talents as reader and greatly pleased her audience.
 The streets are beginning to be filled with automobiles, and they will be thicker than ever this season, as many new ones are being sold by the agents. There is a class of cheap but serviceable autos coming into use, and being with ing the reach of any one who can own vehicle, they will greatly augment the present large number.
 The Legislative History and Sou- Nenir of Connecticut, issued biennial ly by "Souvenir Taylor,n is now on the press, and will soon be made ready Tor distribution. "The edition is easily tbe finest and largest of the many valuable volumes which Mir. Taylor has issued, :" says the Hartford Post. "It will con- tain 36s pages, besides inserts. The book contains portraits and sketches of all state sfficers, members of the House and senate, clerks, chaplains etc. This is the seventh volume of MT. Taylors publication, which has come to be re- regarded as official, and newspapers all over the country pronounce il the best publication of it's Xii nd in this country CT Canada
 Through ithe efforts of Mr. A. l. Morse some Hungarian partridges were released within the limits of the town Of Putnam, last Saturday morning. Many of the hunters have been grumb- ling because the State Commission of Fisheries and Game had apparently overlooked Putnam when sending out birds. MT. Morse wrote the CommIs- sion about the matter, and Saturday he received twenty pairs of partridges- Ten pairs also arrived on the same train in care of w. 5. Kenyon, Wood- stock Valley. They came from Ger many. and appeared very lively after