Putnam patriot., 1912-04-05

day.
 Mrs. w. H. Maertens is visiting
 in Jersey City.
 Mrs. J. Harry Mann was in Wor-
 cester Monday.
 William Shepley,was slightly in- jured Monday by fall on the subway 1 stairs.
 Mrs. F. k. Guild and son Allan of Windham, were guests off Mrs. Edgar
 Clarke on Tuesday.
 Rev. B. F. Benoit will preach in French at the Baptist church next Sunday afternoon at 3.30. William Wright of Yale, is the guest of his parents, Judge and Mrs.
 E. G. Wright.
 MT. and Mrs. E. A. Wheelock left Wednesday for two weeks stay in Dansville, N. Y.
 Miss Marion Renshaw of the Will
 limantic Normal school, is the guest of
 James H. Rafferty and wife. Work has commenced in survey ing for the new state road to be built from North Grosvenordale to,the Mas
 sachusetts line.
 w. H. Boisineau has been elected recording secretary of Court City of
 Putnam, F. of A., vice Dona Jolly re- signed.
 Daniel J. Byrne of Boston, was the
 guest of his mother on Woodstock ave- nue Tuesday, and attended the silver jubilee of his cousin, Sisteri Leontine. Miss Elizabeth Russell of Welles- ley college is spending her vacation with her parents, pr. J. J. Russell and wife.
 The senior class of the Putnam
 High school spent Monday and Tues day in Boston on sight seeing trip, the party being in charge of Principal Spratt and wife.
 The next regular meeting of the A. G. Warner w. R. C. will be held on Tuesday afternoon, April sth, in Odd
 FsitoCs' HaU. All members are urged to be present as business of importance is to be transacted.
 Benjamin Grosvenor of Pomfret has purchased Pope Hartford auto-
 mobile of the local agent, M. R. Joy. The style of the machine is phaeton,
 model P, and is beautiful car.
 Mrs. F. J. Daniels, regent of Eliza beth Porter Putnam chapter, D. A. R., and Mrs. $. M. Wheelock, delegate, attended the meeting of the State D.
 A. R. in Southington Wednesday.
 The roof of the summer home of Rev. F, D. Sargent at Brookline, N. H., was damaged by fire Monday, the burning brands from building on fire some distance away being carried by strong wind to the property.
 -Twenty-eight horses purchased in a recent sale at Buffalo reached here in horse palace car attached to the 3.10 passenger train Tuesday afternoon. The horses were the property of II. Il. Davenport of Pomfret, w. H. Young of Woodstock, and John Jarvis of this city, who returned from Buffalo on on the same train. This is the second carload of horses the same parties have shipped to Putnam this spring.
 --G. Harold Gilpatric, member of the
 Republican state central committee, has sent out call for the 2Sth senato- rial district Republican caucus, to be held in this city next Saturday at the
 municipal building, for the purpose of choosing two delegates-at-large to the
 Republican State convention to be held at New Haven, April IT and IS. Saturday evening, IApril'l3th, the Terpsichore ladies' singing orchestra of Worcester will make their debut at the social danceiin Union hall. The orchestra consists of piano, violin, cor net and drums, and their dance music is highly praised in many Massachu' setts cities and towns where they have appeared. Dancing begins at S.o'clock. A circular has been addressed to the farmers in New England advising them that a crisis has been reached in the milk business in Boston. The argument is that the price offered by at least one of the contractors is so small that the farmers cannot raise milk at that rate. It is suggested that 1t will be more profitable to feed the
 milk to calves than to send it to Bos- ton.
 Senator George A Hammond, Rep resentatives. J. F. Carpenter and Hec- tor Duvert of this city, and Represen- tatiyes Charles J. Johnson of North
 Grosvenordale, happened to acciden- tally come together at the post office
 here on Tuesday afternoon, and the
 gathering almost immediately resolved itself into congratulation party to | Representative Johnson, who announc- ed that he has recently for the first time become a father. MT. Johnson
 says that he is prouder of the little
 girl than any one can imagine. Isaac Jutras, who managed the Star theatre year ago and made seve- ral hits with his musical compositions,
 notably the song, "Push for Putnam. !"
 has gone to Stafford Springs as piano
 player at the theatre there. MT. Ju- tras possesses unusual musical talent
 and also managerial ability. He made