Putnam patriot., 1911-08-04
ASHFORD

hayihg Is about over, and the ras- son ls that there is only half a cron ,ooilie some who usually are at il until tbe iast oi august are all through.
 kev. A. H. Withee and wife la,, chnen,.u IuSelo.u J9!y 18th for trip to Massa. rnuset's, ,,ae MT. Withee went on busi- vss9 Wss, ana returned on Saturday. Mrs. Fa.He " itnee Is visiting with relatives in week. "''i 'e'uih 1hiS
 benJamin Lawton of Southbridge ,Iaue His visit on Sunday to his sister ,a.Ss @ race Lawton, and his uncle and aauut, MT and Mrs. Lee Lyon. Mir, LaWton is bookkeeper in the office ot Aeiaha Bradley of Southbridge.
 Miss Grace Lawton is much improv. e9 rom the results of an operation st she Day himball hospital. She has Deen n engaged to teach the school in hhoehlxVille She next year.
 Mrs. Ralph Davis of WHHmsntic and her little son Ralph are visitors at tue nome Of Welcome Davis.
 Walter Davis of Boston is snending part or ms vacation with his father ana mother, Welcome Davis and wife.
 Rev. J. P. Marvin of Oxford, pro- pTietor of Camp Eastford and Rev. Harry Filmer of the Baptist church of webster, accompanied by several of the young men from Camp Eastford, attended services at the Methodist ehuTeh on Sunday morning. Rev. MT. Marvin will preach at the Metho. dist church next Sunday morning.
 Representative J. NJ. Tatem on thursday of last week took party of Easttord people to Hartford making the entire trip in his automobile. The party was made up of Mrs. Tatem, Mrs. Mary Warren, Miss Alice Carpen- ter and Miss Lillian Huntington. The tflp was altogether a delightful one. N hile in Hartford the party listened 10 the discussion of the proposed Sun- day bill providing for focal option on the "open' Sunday, and to their great delight saw the blll defeated two to one. By the courtesy of Edwin Thomas, executive secretary 10 the governor, who makes Eastford his summer home, members of the party were introduced to His EXcellencV, Governor Baldwin. The members of the party are very grateful to Judge Iatem for the great trip.
 The Sunday school of the Methodist church will hold their annual picnic at Mattock's grove at Crystal lake on Saturday, if the weather k pleasant. If Il should storm the affair will be postponed until the following Satur- day.
 The Eastford baseball club played Abingdon last Saturday, losing the game by a score of 13 to Abington's Is. The local team has organized and 1t will no doubt pick up now that the members will have time to practice more. There is excellent material and little practice will put the team into good shape and a little confidence and encouragement from the townspeople would help to bring some interesting ball games to Eastford.
 The Eastford base ball team will hold lawn social Friday evening, Aug. 5th.
 J. H. Wilbur and daughter of Abing- ton attended the Congregational church Sunday morning.
 Miss Florence Buell. has returned to her home in Southbridge after spend- ing a week with her sister, Mrs. H. A. Besworth.
 Charles Tatem, wife and little daughter have been spending a few days in Willimantic with J. C. Tatem and family.
 
 Miss Juliet Chapman is visiting rel atives in Sturbridge.
 Several of the young people in town attended birthday party given in honor of Miss Daisy Lyon at Crystal lake Monday evening.
 Miss Carrie, George and Harry Bos- worth of Southbridge were home over Sunday.
 There were union services held at Rev. MT. Marvin's camp, Crystal lake, Sunday evening.
 Marion and Raymond Morse have been visiting relatives in town the past week.
 The ladies of the Congregational church will meet with Mrs. M. $, Holman this week Friday afternoon to sew for a fair which they will hold Aug. 23.
 Mis-, Florence Warren is visiting a friend in Webster this week.
 Mrs. A. M. Keith, Mrs. H. A. Bos- worth and Mrs. George Bowen were in Putnam Wednesday.
 Alton sherman of Orange, N. J., is here at his summer home.
 w. P. Keith and wife attended the Odd Fellows excursion last Thursday down the Providence river.
 Mrs. Carlton Tatem of Willimantic is spending this week with J. NJ. Ia tenn and wife.
 Henry Trowbridge, of Brooklyn, \.