Putnam patriot., 1910-07-15

sidewalks all over the city are be
 ing repaired. In some instances new ones are being laid.
 MT. and Mrs. George NJ. Morse ot
 Boston have returned to Putnam fol the summer.
 Mrs. A. Y. Frost and daughter. are at Woodmont for a stay of sws weeks.
 Miss Edith Kent is attending the State Normal Summer school at lily. annis, Mass.
 The Ladies' Aid of the Bapsis, church will hold a cake sale at the store of Ballard < Clark, Friday after noon, from to o'clock.
 Miss Isabelle Byrne, who has been spending a vacation at her home in this city, has returned to New York where she is in the training school for nurses at Roosevelt hospital. 1t is announced that Mrs. Ellen Browning, who died recently in Plain- field, Tn addition to her munificent gift to the church of this city, also donated to the society . fine piano.
 At the Profession of Sisters of Mer- cy, at Hartford, Saturday Miss Lau- retta Mullan, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Edward Mullan, this city, will become a Sister, taking the name of Sister NJ : Frances Glare.
 Commencing last Monday the F1tch- burg express, west-bound. will make a station stop at Stamford, atfording connection with trains for local points leaving Stamford at 4:5o p. m. The Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chap ter, D. A. R., extends to the PATRIOT l it's thanks for kindness in printing notices in connection with the unveil- ing of the Cemetery Gates. H. k. LEWIS, Cor. Sec'y. Putnam, Jaly, 1910.
 Ground was broken in Mechanics vile Wednesday morning for new weave shed 165x95. The addition was made necessary by the increased vol ume of business of the French River Textile company, one of the most sue- cessful woolen plants in the country. This will mean l75 additional hands to be employed.
 -E. NJ. Wheaton has given piece of his land below the fair grounds 10 the town of Putnam for use in straight ening the highway. Work has com- menced which when finished will have resultedin eliminating several curves, made the grade easier and the condi- tion of the road generally better. The new layout of the road will bring it through MT. Wheaton's property on line nearly parallel with the trolley tracks. There is to be considerable Of fill at this point, work on Il having begun.
 All east bound trains on the main line of the Consolidated road arrived late Friday owing to wreck that oc- cured shortly after l0:30 o'clock on Thursday evening. Five cars Of the train known as the "Worcester Spe- cial,p running from East Hartford to Worcester, via Putnam, jumped the tracks short distance this siie Of An dover station, and tore up the tracks for distance of about half mile, be- fore the couplings on the cars broke and let the cars roll down the embank- ment. No one on the train was inJur- ed. It is supposed the accident was caused by broken fiange on one of the car wheels. It was several days before the track could be cleared; and in the meantime a temporary track was ouiil around the wreck. The road at this point is a single track.
 An elderly woman nearly lost her life at the railrQad station one evening last week. The Norwich train stood mon the south-bound track. Upon the train were some friends of the ~o- man. and she stepped upon the north hound track and stood talking with them. The north bound train came around the curve, and the engineer toated his whistle, but apparently the woman was unconscious of her danger.
 Leland Bradley saw the situation and ran to the woman and held her up against the fence, which would allow barely room for them to stand whiie the train passed. The engineer, now ever. brought the train 10 a stop before it quite reached the place where they stood, and the woman was led back to the platform. She kept waving her hand to her friends and did not seem to realize the narrow escape she had had.
 As the 18th of July draws near the interest felt in the Psychic Melange to be given in the Thompson Town Hall on that evening, increases The unusnal nature of the performance, the renown Of MT. Delroy, and the worthiness of the cause tthe Village improvement society of Thompson) have all united to sell the tickets and a large audience is expected For those who did not see the notices m last weeks papers we will state tnst the .Melanser consists in exhibitions of hypnotism. mind reading and Kin dred demonstrations, while the part of the nno~ram that appeals most strong