Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1911-02-10

C. Fred Waterman has returned /
from business trip to New York.
Frank E. Howarth and f. 5. Bruce /
were at the Worcester Automobile
Show on Wednesday.
Charles Mathew, clerk in Bugbee's |
store, is confined to his home by an
attack of pneumonia.
Leslie H. Wright, of New Haven, !
was recent guest of his brother, City |
Engineer F. Walden Wright.
j. Richard Carpenter was called TO
WILLIAMSON, n. j., today, Thursday,
| by the death of a relative.
Edward Ryan, of Boston, is visit
/ ing his father, Mathew Ryan, in this
city.
George w. Child's Camp, Sons of
Veterans, has received an invitation to
visit E. p. Morton Camp, Webster, on
! Wednesday evening next.
! -Adelard Viens attended the we'd
/ ding of his uncle, Henry Dubois, a for
mer resident of this city, in Woonsock-
ct, on Monday.
-The.railroad switcher got off the
rails in the freight yard, Wednesday
night, and was replaced by the train
men.
! The water in the Quinebaug river
was raised by the rains to such an ex
tent the past few days as to break up |
the ice, leaving the stream open except !
along the edges.
About forty persons from this city |
attended the Firemen's Ball, in Dan
ielson, Tuesday night. Through the |
kindness of Manager Samuel Ander- |
son late car brought them back, leav- |
ing Danielson at one o'clock a. m.
-Messsrs. Geo. A. Hammond, John |
M. Johnson and Harold Corbin will
attend the banquet of the Mckinley |
Club, at Hartford, this, Thursday, eve-
ming. The two latter will be the guests !
of Mr.. Hammond.
e-The Monument committee of the |
Woman's Relief Corps will hold
Campfire some time this month to
which the public will be invited. No /
admission will be charged but collec-
ton will be taken.
"A Rally Day of the Woman's Con-
gregational Home Missionary Union of
Connecticut, is to be held in New Ha- |
ven next Monday afternoon at B p. m.
Addresses by prominent speakers of |
the Union will be made.
p. F. Hurlihe of Wilimantic was
in Putnam Friday afternoon as dis.
trict deputy of the Knights of Column
bus of Windham County. Mr.. Hurli-
he is working hard to develop enthusi
asm in his district, and is meeting
with much success.
An invitation was sent to our Bus
ness Mems Association, to go to Dan
bury to attend an address on Com
mission Government" by Erness A.
Sherman, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, next
Monday evening, before the Danbury
Business Mems Association.
Miss Lillian Drouett, Wellesley,
Miss Eunice Paine, of Plymouth, Miss
Aseneth Tarr, of Concord, Mass, John
G.. Phillips and wife, of Wauregan,
and their guest, Mrs. Parker, of West
field, Mass, were among those from
out of town at the Hospital dance on
Friday night last.
The steamer "Bleucher,n of the
Hamburg American line, on which
Mrs. Emma Shaw Colcleugh sailed for
South America, has been heard from
once, by wireless and cable, from Bar
BADGES, in the West Indies, Pernam-
buco, and Santos, in Brazil. The pas
sengers had beautiful weather and ev-
cry one we'll.
"A musical entertainment, called
the "Parade of the States" will be
given by the young people of the Bap
list church, under the auspices of the
Farther Lights Society. 1t will take
place on Friday evening, Feb. 18th, at
o'clock. Ice cream and cake for sale.
A silver collection is requested. All
are inv tied.
Il. w. Kinsman, Florence street,
brakeman in the local freight yard,
had his right foot injured by getting it
caught under the wheel of a freight car
Wednesday morning. The car stopped
just in time to keep from crushing his
foot, although there was a severe flesh
wound. He was taken to the hospital
where it was found that no bones were
broken, as far as could be learned,
while the foot was in such a swollen
condition.
There has been a change in Put
MANS police force the past week-at
least in one of it-and such a decided
change that we feel called upon to
comment upon it, even at the peril of
being considered as facetious. The
change consisted in Sergeant Patrick
Hayes shaving of his moustaehe that |
has adorned his physiognomy for thir-
ty consecutive years-in fact since the
growth was first cultivated. In some
respects this may make the officer
more efficient, as it is doubtful if the
most astute crooks would take him for
the same dreaded man. OF course the /
Sergeant has had TO stand the guying