Putnam patriot., 1911-06-09
-Colonel c. D. Bates is critically ill

A. Pigeons Jewett City and Nor wich auto express truck was in Put nam Tuesday morning.
 The Wheaton Building X Lumber company lost horse Sunday from spinal meningitis.
 Miss Cora Vannose of Putnam and Adolphe Menoehe of North Grosvenor. dale .were married Tuesday morning al six o'clock at St. Mary's church.
 All the children who recently re- ceived the first communion at St. Ma ry's church, will receive the second communion at the children's mass on Sunday.
 Mrs. William Flynn and her two daughters, of Fort Leavenworth, Kan sas, have been guests of Mrs. Hymns brother, Lieutenant Ambrose I. Mori- arty, Bradley street, the present week.
 The annual meeting of the Wind ham association of Congregational churches and ministers, will be held at Canterbury Tuesday, in connection with the bi-centennial of the Congre- gational church of that place.
 Mrs. Fred King and daughter Eleanor, Mrs. Everard Marshall and daughter from Tenafiy, N. J., have bt en guests af Colonel John Burr al d family of Killingly avenue the past week.
 The superior court judges in an- nual meeting at Hartford Monday ap- pointed the following officers for WinG- ham county superior court:
 Clerk, Edgar NJ. Warner of Putnam.
 Assistant clerk, Charles A. Capen of Willimantic.
 Miss Lena McGavitt, daughter of Mrs. Julia McGavitt, has returned from Merry Point, Virginia, where she has been teaching school the past year. Miss McGavitt will spend the summer months at Deephaven Camp, located in Ashland, N. H.
 Mrs. John A. Dady is making a visit of fortnight in Hartford and Waterbury, and will also be the guest of her brother, Charles O. Barrett, in Washington in this state, during the commencement exercises of the Gun- nery school, of which he is the head master.
 Albert Dagle of Webster was ar- rested when an afternoon trolley car reached this city Wednesday. He was drunk and making disturbance on the car. He broke windows, assaulted the conductor, and used bad language. As the trouble occurred mostly in Thompson he was taken to that town for trial Thursday morning.
 A curiosity in the form of a crook ed stick is being shown in the window of Ballard X Clark's store. The stick was little birch sapling found by Ed ward Johnson, driver for the firm, on the Senexet road. The butt of the sal ling is twisted in four distinct rolls, ,ev- idently by vine which grew around the trunk.
 Mrs. F. H. F. Ballou of Pittsfield, Mass, and daughter, Mrs. Charles Stickney, with her little son, of Au- burn, N. r., have been guests of Mrs. Ellen Johnson, Grove street. They had been to Maynard, Mass, to attend the funeral of Fred Ballou, son of F. H F. Ballou and wife, who died recently at Saranac, N. Y. The family former ly resided in this city.
 As the result of an investigation by Agent Henry J. Potter of the state board of education the heads of three | families having children attending the ! South Chaplin school were in court re- gently the charge being "Illegal ab- | sentism from school during lawful l hours." The parties were Mrs. John | Haas, Joseph Boldek and Rutherford | Upton who were charged under six counts. All paid fines.
 About forty members of Putnam | Grange, gave the master, Horace F. Wilder, a surprise at his home on Far rows street Monday evening, the ot- feet of their visit being to present him an oil painting of the wolf den, the work of Artist Thomas J. Thurber. Games, a social time, and a cordial | welcome from the host and his wife, made the evening a pleasant one. The picture was painted by MT. Thurber since the celebration of his S0th birtE- day.
 Mrs. Margaret O beary sent from | Ireland May 20, two wreaths made of | soft, green ivy, to be placed on the grave of her husband, the late Patrick | O'Leary in the Catholic cemetery. l The wreaths did not arrive in Putnam l in season for the services of Memorial ! Day, but were received Tuesday morn- 1 ing by Past Post Commander w. B. l Whittemore, and on Tuesday evening 1 Comrade Chauney Morse placed them l on MT. O'LeaTy's grave. Mrs. O'Leary l has been spending the winter in Cap pa Cahir, County Tipperary, Ireland.
 Henry NJ. Morse and wife have re- turned to Putnam. Their sketch"Un ele Seth and the Hoodoop was booked to the middle of July, but engage ments had to be cancelled on account of the death of Miss Olive Alberta's father, who was killed in Providence recently while demonstrating an auto trnck The sketch was playing