Putnam patriot., 1910-05-20
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 THOMPSON


 There was very good number in attendance at the sewing bee at the parsonage last Wednesday afternoon.
 Mrs. Robert Peterson attended the funeral of a relative at Walpole on Wednesday of this week.
 Oscar Robinson passed away on Wednesday after n lingering illness of neuralgia of the heart. He was out al. tending to his poultry in the morning and on returning to the house was seized with heart failure. The funeral will take place on Saturday at o'clock at lhe house, conducted by the Grange of which he was worthy member.
 The Vernon Stiles hotel is quite filed with boarders, q large force Of painters from Boston who are in town al work on the Ream estate located there. and number of others included.
 The entertainment which was to be held at the Town hail by the gran ge will be postponed on account of the death of one Of the members.
 Amony the visitors in town last Sun day were several from Providence. J. NJ. Addeman and Mrs. Addeman at their daughters, Mrs. Dexter Elliott, Miss Lucy Ingraham with her parents on Sunset hill road, William Covell, with an automobile party, with his sister, Mrs. F. NJ. Knight.
 Mrs. Julia Eddy, resident of Thom pson for nearly sixty years, most of that time at her home place in Quadic district, is to go 10 Worcester to live with her daughter, Mrs. Irving Johnson. Mrs. Johnson, who recently married and went ie Worcester to live, had previously cared for her mother at her home in Quadic. Mrs. Eddy has been . sufferer from rheumatic trouble for several years.
 The choppers and steam saw mill have begun operations on the woodlot of J. W. Dike and are fast converting the wood and timber into shape for market. The area of the lot will neces- sitate changing the location of the mill after . portion of it is cut off.
 Constable Bates figured in the arrest of the men in mix.up near the Put nam line last week and landed them in the lookup in Putnam where they afterwards were arraigned before Judge Fuller and fined.
 Although Thompson Hill is consider
  not high enough or perhaps their vis- ion is not good enough or else they don't care enough about the comet to say anything about it, il is not known as any of the residents have seen it. It is something that one should have a desire to see as 1t is said by astrono- mers to visit these parts only every seventy years, so that in all probabili- tv mt many Of Our residents will have another opportunity of seeing Haley $ comet, although there are two people in town who distinctly remember when it last appeared In the lS40s Mrs. Marcus Davis of Brandy Hill and Miss Ellen Lasned of our villaee, and pefhaps ,othem e these are several naoee living who were around ~ thal ! time.
 Gilbert Thompson is quite ill at hil home in East Thompson.
 George w. Dexter is engaged wifh [ force o( men in making repairs e tht extension of St. Johns hall building iE North GrosvenosdAle.
 Oscar Robinson, an old resident 0 Thom pson, died quite suddenly Wed nesday morning. MT. Robinson was [ native of Thompson and had figuFel | in different capacities in the manage ment of town offices. He was quit, prominent in inc grange and has served .as Master of QuiLnatisset grange several terms. In business aside from conducting an extensiv, farm, he was engaged in cutting of timber and wood lots, being employed for many years by l.. E. Pattison o Webster.