Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1911-02-10

Brockton.
DR. Edward f. Perry is the House
Physician at the Day Kimball Hospi-
tai for February.
Several sleighs were out Tuesday,
being the first real sleighing this win
ter.
Miss Lauretta Allard, Tatem st,
has gone to Boston, where she has Sc
cured employment in a millinery store.
Monday was visiting day for the
teachers of the Public Schools. Some
went to Providence and others to Nor-
cesteT.
Harry Houston, supervisor of writ
ing in the schools of New Haven, gave
a talk on writing before the members
of the School Committee of Putnam,
Monday afternoon.
Miss De Merritte and Miss Leach,
teachers in the Putnam High School,
and Miss Greenlaw, teacher in the
Israel Putnam school, spent few days
al the close of last week in Boston.
Rev. Thomas Feltman, Pastor of
the A. G. church, was called to Lew
Beach, N. Y, to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Edith Preston, Tuesday, but ex-
poets to be back today, Thursday.
The regular meeting of Elizabeth
Porter Putnam Chapter, d. A. r., will
be held at the Chapter rooms, Ponifret
street, next Monday, February 18th, at
8 O'Clock. Meeting of the Board of Ma
nagement at 2:30.
William Brady, formerly of this
city, who has been with "The Gentle
man from Mississippi" company for
two seasons, opened with new pro-
duction, "The Cross, in Washington,
ID. c., this week.
The Misses Paine, Tarr and Drou-
EFT, former teachers in Putnam schools,
spent few days of the end of last
week in the city--the two former with
Mrs. S. Nj. Wheelock, and the latter
with Mrs. w. j. Bartlett and famsly.
The next regular meeting of the
Womans Board of the Day Kimball
Hospital, will be held on Wednesday,
Feb. Is, in o. F. hall, at p. m. Exc
cutive Committee meeting at 2:30 pm.
on same date. Mrs. J b. Kent,
Corresponding Sec'y.
The ground hog, coming out of his
warm winter quarters, last Thursday,
must have felt lost on Monday and
Tues day ,,when he found himself in the
grasp of a small blizzard. He must
have thought that weather signs are
rather unreliable.
Prof William b. Bailey, chairman
of the Social Evil committee, of the
Connecticut Society of Social Hygiene,
of New Haven, is endeavoring to col
lect data and statistics of social crimes
throughout the State, in 1910, and has
Just communicated with local authori-
ties for that purpose.
In vitations have been sent out by
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand Caisse, to at
tend the marriage of their daughter,
Aida, to Mr. Arthur Dufault, in st.
Mary's church, Tuesday morning, Fe-
bruary 2lst, at s o'clock. A reception
will be held, after the mass, at the
home of the brides parents, So Smith
street.
Rev. F. w. Armstrong, pastor of
the Danielson Pentecostal church, is
to have charge of the Pentecostal
church in Putnam, in connection with
his church in Danielson, until the an
nual meeting in May, when pastor
will probably be assigned to the Put
nam church, from which Rev. George
Renney, recently resigned TO go to
church in Vermont.
The Municipal city Register for the
year ending 1910 is now in the
hands of the City Clerk, f. w. Sew
ard, for distributor. 1t contains the
Message of Mayor Macdonald, the Per-
sonnet of the city government and city
officers for 1911; receipts and expendi-
lures, and the annual reports of the
several departments for the municipal
year ending December 1910.
Our city suffered very little loss
from fires during the year 1910. Ac-
cOrding to the report of the Chief En-
gineer of the Fire Department, Mark
fl. Wilson, there were 81 alarms given
altogether, causing a loss of only 500.
A good body of firemen such as we have
in this city keeps down the rate of in
suranee, causing saving to property
owners equal if not exceeding all that
the fire department costs.
The King James Version of the
English Bible was first published in
1911. Taking advantage of the tercen-
tenary, the American Bible Society
proposes that, SO far as practicable, du-
fing the week beginning Sunday, April
q, this epoch making event be cele-
DRAFTED with proper public exercises. 1t
A. urged that all churches, religious So
.cieties, unite and take this opportuni-
~ of magnifying the influence of the
English Bible upon the ideals and life
sof the peoples of the earth.
Mrs. Allen Donahue, mother of
James F. Donahue, of this city, died
1t her home, in Spencer, Mass. last
Thursday afternoon. Funeral services