Putnam patriot., 1911-11-17

-Wm. F. Brady, former Putnam boy, will be seen at the Bradley thea- Ire in the near future.
 Warren W. Greene and wife of Worcester, are the guests of MT. an d Mrs. Milo Warren, South Main street.
 At the meeting of Israel Putnam Lodge, I. 0. o. F., next Tuesday, the third degree will be worked. An oys- ter supper will follow.
 Mrs. A. l.. Mansfield of Eden st., has been named to take charge of 6 degree team that is to be organized in Mizpah Rebekah lodge, I. o. o. F.
 Mrs. Sarah c. Houghton daughter of Chas. w. Bradway and wife, recent ly underwent an operation for appen- dicitis at the Worcester city hospital. She is getting along nicely.
 -J. F. Kingsley, who formerly had a string of horses in training in the fair grounds, was visitor here We'd nesday. Mir. Kingsley now has seven horses at Stafford Springs.
 Judge K. NJ. Warner was at Jewett City Wednesday to deliver an address before a conference of six Congrega- tionai churches. His subject was The Church Hopeful Under Difficulties.
 Members of Woodstock and Wolf Den granges are to be guests ofPutnam grange on Friday of next week, when the third and fourth degrees are to be worked on class of candidates.
 According to the report of the state board of health there were ' deaths in Putnam during the month of October and 13 births and 4 marriages in September. Infections diseases were reported as follows: Diptheria l, ty- phoid fever 1, consumption ?.
 The deadly chestnut bark disease, which already has caused loss of some S25, GOO and threatens to deyastate all chestnut trees in the country, un- less stopped, is made the subject of an interesting bulletin. Farmers Bulle- tin, No. 467, issued by the United States department of agriculture. The county commissioners were at the jail in Brooklyn Wednesday mak- up the accounts incident to the close of the fiscal year. Wednesday prison- CTS from the jail, as many as could be spared, were out working on the con- struction of the underground telephone line, which the contractors hope to have completed by the first of the year.
 Miss E. D. Tessier, one of the wit nesses in the trial of Bertram G. Spen- cer, now going on in Springfield, is a friend of MT. and Mrs. Robert Mclean, Grove street, formerly of Spring field, and has been their guest here. Miss Tessier's apartments were entered by a masked burglar who robbed her at the point of a pistol. She has identified Spencer as the man.
 c-Robert O. Tyler Post, c. A. R., of Hartford had large gathering of members and invited guests Wednes- day evening. The w. R. C. served a bountiful lunch between ' and 5 o'clock. Senator G. A. Hammond was in Hartford and is pleased to think that there will be concerted move ment to test the validity of the thirty dollars voted by the legislature for every veteran of the Civil war, even to passing 1t over the governors veto. Department Commander R. J. Cutbill was very enthusiastic concerning this. But 1t remained for Judge A. B. Beers, on Nati onal c. A. R. Staff, to bring the "Old Boys'' to their feet when he closed withi "I had rather be pri- vate soldier in the ranks than the or ficial who withheld his pen from the law which mis sht have helped little some needy veteran or his widow"