Putnam patriot., 1911-02-24
THOMPSON

THOMPSON
 The Womanfs Christian Tenn perance Union met last Thursday with Mrs. Jennie Robinson after several weeks intermission caused by excessive weather, sickness in several families, etc, so the ideal day Of last Thursday was very welcome and nineteen mem- bers were present. The meeting was opened with the regular religious ser | vice of the union--res ponsive reading pledge, roll call, and singing Crusade hymn, Miss Edythe Woodward, or ganist. Mrs. Mary Woodward, secre. tary, then read reports of two previous meetings and disposed of all unfinish- ed business, Mrs. k. F. Thompson read her report of the convention at Dan- bury enlivening it with several amus- ing incidents. It was Francis Willard Day and Mrs. Van Natter read an original essay, Mrs. Minnie Bixby and Edythe Woodward read short but good clippings, Mrs. Mary Woodward read beautiful article named flashes to Ashes" being the opinions and wishes of Miss Willard upon the subject of cremation, beautifully expressed and showing how faithfully and lovingly her wishes were carried out by those who loved her so we'll, and the little urn which contained her ashes was brought and put in the coffin of her mother. The subject of sending a matron member 10 take part in the medal contest did not meet with ap- proval or success and was dropped. The meeting closed with singing q hymn, after which Mrs. Robinson served delicious lunch and a social time followed.
 A bean supper will be held in the Baptist parsonage for the benefit of the Sunday school on Saturday evening, February 25th, from 6 to 9 o'clock. Price 25 cents. Ice cream will be on sale.
 The ThimbIe Club were pleasantly entertained by Mrs. E. $. Fletcher on Thursday afternoon of this week. A pleasing feature of the afternoons pro- gram was the singing by Mrs. Elmer Monroe of DayVille and Miss Gladys R. Williams of Putnam.
 Miss Mary Ross, lecturer of Quinna tisset Grange att nded a meeting of the grange lecturers ofWindham coun- ty at Putnam Saturday.
 Mrs. C. l.. Knight had five-table whist Saturday evening.
 Allan T. Rabbit is quite ill.
 Mrs. E. NJ. D. Herriek has been sick for number of weeks with nervous prostTalion.
 4 large number of the Hill residents attended the Tourtellotte golden we'd ding at North Grosyenordale Satur- day.
 t1 Oft f b.a ,I, ding of MT. and Mrs. Oscar Tourtel- Iotte at North GrosVenordale, there is brought to mind one or two things that may be looked upon as of rare oe- cuTrence. The celebrating of the 50th marriage anniversary is not Of so rare occurrence, as that the one of MT, and Mrs. Tourtellotte, and other couples who can date their marriage day to just before the commencement of the civil war, will have to do so soon as there are only about two months left of the fifty years since that war began for them to observe the event of their fiftieth marriage day. Again couples who were married just before the war, and the then young man later enlisted and served through that war, are get ting to be like the veterans themselves ltWe1 dilO lcWti' iSiC Cohits iO my mind-all of the people of Thompson are not known to the writer-only one other couple of which the man is vet eran of the civil war, that are lh ing contentedly and happily today.
 All over the United States the past week services have been held in church and school, in civic and military or ganizations of different character, one of which was an organization of men in the city of Providence who voted for MT. Lincoln in 1860 64. The pres ent number, says the report, was fifty. It has furnished me with quite a prob- lem to try and think of any known to me at that time who might have so voted. There have come to my recol- lection but few men still living in my native home place in Rhode Island today that were eligible to vote. And not one of those few can be considered as having voted for Lincoln. But were an expression of my opinion sought in regard to the action of these men in voting as they did in that way back time, it would be that these men if it were possible to do so, would be willing to change their vote. G.w.D.