Putnam patriot., 1912-02-23

Miss NJ. Eden Tatem was in Proyi-
 dence on Wednesday. i Judge Nm. Arnold of Williman-
 tic was in the city Tuesday.
 MT. and Mrs. $. NJ. Wheelock
 have been in Providence recently.
 -S. Nikoloff of Worcester is at his
 home on School street this week.
 Wesley Keller has returned from
 a visit with relatives in Harriburg, Pa.
 Mrs. George Hathaway was the guest of friends in Worcester on Tues 1 day.
 Miss Maude Case is spending a
 month with her brother, Fred Case,
 and family in Worcester. -Dr. John Brunette and Mrs.. Bur nette of Boston are guests of Mrs. F E. Brunette, in Grove street.
 Mrs. .Wallace Sterns iof Bradley street is entertaining Miss McCullar of l Boston.
 Miss Gladys Murfey and F Walden
 Wright have been spending few days at the home of the ,latter's parents in
 New Haven.
 Joseph Reeves and daughter went to New Britrin Tuesday to make their home with MT. Reeves daughter, Mrs, Newton Babbitt.
 Mrs. E. H. Johnson and her sis l ter, Miss Cogswell, recently attended
 reunion at Lassell Seminary, Au- burndale, Mass.
 Professor Wilder of the Worcester Academy faculty spent the week end
 with William Case and his family of l School street.
 l Somervile, Mass, after visit with 1 his daughter, Mrs George Gilpatric of | Fremont street,
 | Senator George A. Hammond left i Wednesday morning to attend the convention of the Navy League of the United States in Washington, D. C. Miss Helen Hammond has re- turned to Boston, after being :the guest | of her uncle, Senator G. A. Hammond and Mrs. Hammond of Prospect street. Ice dealers of this city say that the | crop harvested and ready for delivery to the trade during the coming season is as fine as hasever been secured in this vicinity.
 1 MT. and Mrs. Geo.H Perry return ed Monday from their wedding trip and are at their home on Oak hill, the house formerly occupied by Mrs. DIH. Billings.
 Two gangs of men, one under D.. J. Cafirey, entomologist, the other lun- der John Osgood, have destroyed some 1 2,S000 brown tail moths nests in this section in the past few weeks. Mrs. Agnes Desautelles and Will liam Desautelles, injured as the result of the gas explosion at the Desautelles bakery, on Smith street, last week, are 1 rapidly recovering from the injuries received.
 -Wolfden grange of Pomfret will observe the 25th anniversary of its or ganization February 27th. It is hoped to have all of the original officers oc- eupy the chairs and to have as many charter members as possible present. Announcement was received here Wednesday of the death in Dorchester on Tuesday of Dr. +. N. Brunette, 5l, a nephew of k. E. Brunette and F.iW. Perry Grove istreet. He was born in Webster and is survived by his wife and two children.
 A list allowing the usual Sl ,000 ex- emption from taxation for sailors and soldiers is being made by officials in this city, so the veterans will have the same rebate as they ,have previously enjoyed, notwithstanding the contro- versy that has arisen in relation to this exemption through measure en- acted by the legislature of 1911.
 Deputy Sheriff George F. Holb- brook of this city, by authority of the superior court, has taken the necessary steps leading up to the sale at auction under foreclosure proceedings of the property on Furnace street, Danielson, of James A. Nichols, formerly of this city. The sale will tike place during March.
 A petition is being circulated in the city requesting the Connecticut Company to construct belt line in Putnam as follows: From the corner of Providence and Elm streets to Marsh all street, to Woodstock avenue, to Church, to Prmfret and to the corner of Main and Elm street This line was contemplated when the road was built. James B. Tatem, Ernest L. Davis and Joseph Plessis, members of the board of relief for the town of Putnam, completed their work on Tuesday. There were. four additions to grand list, amounting 10 total of s3,732, the four advances being divided as fol- lows: g, 700, S375, s357 and $500. There was only one deduction from the lists as given to the assessors, this amount ing to S300.
 |, After having been postmaster for % years at Clarks Corner in Ch apin, Allen Jewett has sent in his resigna- tion to take effect the first of April.
 He was named as postmaster under Postmaster General Marshall Jewell, afterwards governor of Connecticut