Putnam patriot., 1912-01-12

There will be teachers institute at Middletown. Friday, January 18th. The public schools opened for the winter term Monday morning.
 Miss NJ. Eden Tatem spent We'd nesday in Providence.
 Byron Lamonday and wife return ed from their wedding journey Friday night and are living on Corbin street. P. A. Gardner, Front street, has changed his harness shop so that it is now all on the ground floor.
 The cold snap caught many una- wares and plumbers were busy thaw- ing out pipes for several days.
 George w. Gilpatric and grand daughter Rhoda spent Sunday inWor- cester.
 The O. Nj. Club was entertained at the home of Miss Ruth $. Murtey on Monday evening.
 Milton $. Morse is seriously ill with pneumonia at his fathers home on Church street.
 Mrs. Helen Wiley returned on Monday from a visit of several days with friends in Boston.
 Miss Alma Martin, Bradley street, entertained the Tuesday club this week.
 Mrs. E. $. Bugbee, mother of Mrs. M. H. Medbury, observed her S4th birthday on Monday.
 Miss Cora Cogswell of California was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Erie H. Johnson, on Monday.
 Frank E. Green of East Green wich, R. l., has been visiting friends in Putnam and the Woodstocks.
 Rev. B. F. Benoit will preach in French at the Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 3.30.
 Henry K. Church of Hartford, for merly of Putnam, has been entertain. ing ia fishing party at his summer place in Ashford this week.
 Miss Maude Case, who has been in Worcester the past seven years, is at the home of her parents on School street for few months.
 Mrs. Frederick Case lof Worcester was the guest of her parents, MT. and Ms. l.. iE. Smith, Church street, on Monday.
 Miss Louise Vaughan of Provi- dence has been the guest of her broth CT, George A. Vaughan, and wife, of Church street.
 Among number of tramps who registered at the police station in Nor wich recently, three gave their resi- dence as Putnam.
 Another of those enjoyable Satur- day night dances will be held in A. 0. H. hall this week. 'Music by the Ideal singing orchestra of Webster. All in- vited.
 Miss Minnie $. Warner of Nahant, formerly of this city, who is now visit ing in Pomfret, will leave shortly to spend the remainder of the winter in Florida.
 -Fr. Peter Lesperance, recently or dained to the priesthood, was the guest of J. A. Gagne and family, Woodstock avenue, Saturday. He left to visit his uncle, also priest, at Natick, Mass. There will be a meeting of the Woman's Board of the Day Kimball hospital on January r, in Odd Eel lows hall at ?. m. Executive meet ing at 2.30.
 -Thos. Fitzpatrick, 'Steeple Tom, !" nam, is in St. Joseph's hospital, Willi- mantle, with a strained back from which he has been suffering several months. He will soon be all right again.
 A linen shower was given at the home of Miss Mae Tibbetts, School street, Friday afternoon for Miss Ere. delle Randall and Miss Gladys Mur- fey. Many friends and acquaintances of the two honored guests were pres- ent. Refreshments were served.
 The two engines that figured in the wreck at Webster last Wednesday night, when an engine with drunken man, who had run it out of Worcester, at the throttle, ran into the boat train, passed through here Friday. One went to New London the other to East Hartford.
 An official of the police depart ment of the Consolidated road was in the city last Thursday looking for couple of men who were supposed to have been with Jardine on his locomo- tive joy ride the previous night. There were some doubts as to whether there were sothers with the man, and the search was soon abandoned here.
 List of advertised letters at the Putnam post office for the week end ing January 9:
 GENTLEMEN
 MT. and Mrs Edwin H. Baker. Sig John Cianchette, A. L. Davis, Cottine Domenico, MT. and Mrs. Edwin Phil lips, Joseph Raymond l2l.
 LADIES
 Miss Anna Hanel, Mrs. H. A. Hard ing, Mrs. J. E. Paine, Mrs. J. k. Palm CT, Mrs. Samuel Phifer.
 Individual drinking cups for free use on trains will be provided by the