Putnam patriot., 1911-06-09
-E. A. Wheeloek and wife are spending few days in New York.

: -E. A. Wheeloek and wife are spending few days in New York.
 Mrs. Henry Hammond of Niles, Mich, Is the guest of local friends.
 -C. E. Elliott was at the Sorosis shoe factory in Lynn, Mass, Tuesday.
 The Lee street section of the sewer was completed Monday.
 Farmers say the hay crop will be poor owing to lack of rain.
 Miss Helen Bradley of Bristol spent Sunday with relatives here.
 -G. A. Hammond took a party to Webster in his auto Saturday to see the ball game between the Skaters and Baskerville.
 Alex Varbedian will leave next month for trip to England, France, Egypt, and to his old home in Ar. menia.
 The ladies of St. Philips guild will hold cake sale on the lawn of Mrs. F. F. Russell on Grove street Thursday, June Sth, from to 5 D. m.
 Rev. U. o. Bellerose of Baltic, one of the executors on the estate of the late Julien Bellerose, was in this city on business Monday.
 -Gudiase Rivard has become over seer of the weave room in the Nightin- gale cotton mill in addition to holding the same position in the Powhattan mill.
 At the regular monthly meeting of Mansfield hose company held Tuesday evening William Fuller was elected delegate, and Harry Morse alternate, to the State firemen's convention at Hart ford next September.
 Bans were published at the 1915 o'clock mass at St. Mary's church Sun- day morning for the marriage of Dolor Viens and Blanche Trottier, and for Henri A. Guertin and Alphonsene l. Toussaint.
 Phillip c. Foster, connected with Fosters Daily Democrt, Dover, N. H., called at the PATRIOT office Friday. He was in this city to visit Alvin F. Martin, a classmate at Worcester Tech.
 Alvin F. Martin was in Worcester Saturday night to attend the 9th an- nual banquet of the Kappa Xi Alpha fraternity of the Worcester Institute of Technology. The banquet was held at Hotel Warren.
 The regular meeting of Elizabeth Porter Putnam chapter, D. A. R., will be held in Odd Fellows hall next Monday afternoon at o'clock. Meet ing of the board of management at 2.30 o'clock.
 At the regular meeting of Cargill council, No. 64, K. of G., to be held Sunday afternoon, June 11th, at ? o'clock, there will be work in the first degree. A full attendance is desired.
 Court City of Putnam, F. of A., will hold memorial services Sunday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. Members are requested to wear white gloves and badges. Tuesday evening, June 2Oth, at s o'clock election of officers will take place.
 List of letters .remaining at the post office for the week ending June s:
 Gentlemen-Jacob Bonczek, Chas. w. Holman, R. l.. Johnson, Alfred Ledoux, Geo. Ross, David Solomon.
 Ladies-Mrs. l.. F. Bidwell, Carrie Brown, Mrs. Anna Pocratek, Mrs. Mary Smith.
 -Worcester's new S1,0O0,0O0 union railroad station was opened Sunday the first passenger train to use the structure being the Boston and Albany train from the west, which passed through Worcester on its way to Bos- ton just after o'clock Sunday morn- ing. The station is elevated and abol- ishes dangerous grade crossings.
 Rev. Dr. Arthur Tappan Pierson, the eminent Presbyterian clergyman and author, died at his residence in Brooklyn, \. Y, Saturday morning, aged 74. He was pastor of Sturgeon Tabernacle, London, for two years, ard returned a few weeks ago from a mis- sionary tour through Japan, Korea, and the Hawaiian Islands. For years pr. Pierson was one of the prominent sneakers at the Northtield conference.
 -SteepIe Tom at work on the flag pole on the bank building attracted considerable attention last Thursday. Az he stood in his bo'sun's chair paint ing the ball on top of the pole his posi- tion looked precarious. It was just little pastime for the high altitude worker who has been at the top of some of the highest 'steeples, poles and stacks in the country, time and again for r years past. He does not use l;onor,nor tobacco and is considered one of the best in his line of work. lie left Saturday night for Boston and will later go to Westerly to do tiie nag nolas on the summer hotels at Watch Hill.
 Colonel S. $. Atwell, for twenty three years proprietor of Fields Point the famous Narragansett Bay dinner resort. died at his home in Providence on Friday night of last week. lie was horn in Durham, Conn. Coionei Al, well enlisted as a private, sefNea n hrongh the Civil War, and returned