Putnam patriot., 1911-03-31

man street, this week.
 Mrs. William D. Case is spending the week in Worcester as guest of Mir. and Mrs. F. H. Case and Miss Maude Case at Worcester Academy.
 pr. and Mrs. Edward F. Perry en- tertained Mir. and Mrs. Charles Ii. Bixby of Bridgewaler, Mass, over Sunday.
 Mrs. Betts of Willimantic, wife of Rev. Jacob Betts, former pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in this city, is spending few days in Putnam.
 Charles T. Thayer, who was opera ted upon for appendicitis at the Day Kimball Hospital, has been removed to his home on Chapman street and is fast recovering.
 George F. Holbrook of Putnam as trustee on the bankrupt estates of Frank B. Whitley of Thompson and Morris Diamond of Putnam has filed his final accounts on each of the es- tates with Referee in Bankruptcy An- drew J. Bowen.
 Paul Rheak, of Ashford, is at the Day Kimball Hospital as result of getting his right hand into a buzz saw while working in the woods. The saw cut through the tendons and bones on the back of the hand. The doctors are hoping to avoid amputation.
 At the meeting, at Danielson, of the Ladies Art Club next Monday eve ming, at the home of Judge and Mrs. Milton A. Shumway, Mrs. Edward Porritt, of Hartford, Recording Secre- tary of the Connecticut Woman Suf- frage Association, will deliver an ad- dress.
 Enthusiastic fishermen will be out on the brooks early Saturday morning. Some of them have been watching spring holes all winter where some beauties have been seen. But the amateur sportsman will doubt less find it hard to find any fish at all as so many of the smaller brooks went com pletely dry during the last drouth.
 List of letters remaining in the Putnam post office for the week ending March 2S, 1911:
 Gentlemen-Mr H. c. Brown, MT. Henry F. Collins, MT. D. N. Kirby, Mr. Dohart nickSnn
 Ladies-Myra Beatlar, ?; Mrs. H. E.. Bell, Mrs. J. Bullard.
 A. J. Dustin, Everett, Mass, a travelling salesman who was injured in the local railroad yard when a train from Worcester crashed into string of freight cars, in February, received $1 ,250 damages from the railroad com- pany. The claim was settled Satur- day.
 Benjamin D. Greene of the firm of Greene X Gaynor, released few days since from the federal prison at Atlan- ta, where he had been incarcerated for several years after being extradited from Canada to answer to charge of defrauding the government, was for merly resident of what is now the town of Putnam and went to school here.
 The Children of Mary society of St. Mary's church, held most delightful and successful whist and entertain ment in St. Mary's hall last Thursday evening. Forty.two tables were used. Prizes for the highest score were award ed to Mrs. Paul Dufault and Joseph Corelle, consolation prizes to Emma Robillard and MT. Charron. An ex- cellent entertainment was given and refreshments served.
 Clarence c. Chase, foreman of the carding department of the Monohan- setts mills, finished his services there last week Wednesday, after period of service covering thirty years. He was pleasantly surprised by his employees, who presented him gold watch chain and charm, showing the esteem in which they held him. He leaves ma ny friends, who wish him every sue cess in his new field of labor. Mir. Chase is to be foreman in a Rhode Isl- and cotton mill.
 Nearly 100 visiting Knights of Co lumbus, representing Councils in this part of the State, gathered in this city Sunday afternoon to witness the con ferring the third degree on class Of candidates of Cargill Council. The meeting was held in St. Johns Hall, Providence street. San Jose Council of Willimanti sent a delegation, with Deputy P.J. Hulihe, and State Deputy Mulligan, of Thompsonville, and mem- bers of the clergy from this city and other places, were among those present. Refreshments were served at the close of the work, when brief ad- dresses were also made by several of the members.
 MT. s. Nikoloff and wife leave for New York Wednesday night, to take the steamer Saxonia, for Plume, Hungary, which sails at noon March 3Oth. This steamer takes the Mediter- ranean and Adriatic route, making the trip in nineteen days. A day or more is allowed the passengers to visit the coast where the steamer stops. The first place is the Agnes Islands, then nikwoI,or A Ioiarc ar iM aderia Genoa