Putnam patriot., 1912-07-19

| on King street to A. C, Stetson.
 City Clerk F. W. Seward has been | spending a few days in Guilford.
 Alderman Harry Mann and fam fly are at their cottage at Gales Ferry.
 Miss Marion Morse of Hartford has been the guest of friends in Putnam. | Mrs. George W. Baker and daugh- ter Marjorie, are at Pleasant View for two weeks.
 W allace Smith is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Laurence Mulvey, in | Woonsocket.
 Henry N. Benoit and sister, Miss Celia Benoit, spent Sunday at Nan. tasket Beach.
 Mrs. Holland and Miss Nellie Cor don, clerks in the Bugbee store, are having their vacations.
 Miss Blanche Dickinson of Chicago | has been a recent visitor with Mir. and Mrs. Franklin w. Perry.
 Mrs. Ellen McGarry, and Mrs. J. J. McGarry and son Terrence, are at Long Point for fortnight.
 -J. Harry Mann spent Sunday with his family at Gales Ferry, return ing to Putnam Monday afternoon.
 Mrs. George W. Perry and chil- dren are at Lords Point. MT. Perry has also been spending some time at that resort this week.
 Miss Florence Webb of Newcastle, Me-, is to return to Putnam this fall as 1 teacher of the first grade of the Israel Putnam school, salary $500. The tri-county field day of the w. C. T. U. will be held at the Whitman tic ,camp grounds on August l4th. Prominent speakers are promised. A party of Boy Scouts under com- mand of Harold Bowen, left Monday | for Crystal Lake, Eastford, where they are camping out for the week. Albert Fl. Mansfield and Jesse Rich and their families are occupying Judge Harry K. Backs cottage at Alexander's lake, while the Back fam fly are at NJ Mashapsug lake. William Murray, the II year old son of Captain John Murray took an automobile ride to Brooklyn jail last week with Sheriff Holbrook. He in spected the jail and found it very satis. factory.
 Ashford, Eastford, Canterbury, and Chaplin, are Windham county towns from which no deaths were re- ported during the month of June, this fact aiding in giving Putnam low death rate.
 The annual meeting of the incor- porators of the Putnam Savings Bank was held Monday afternoon. John NJ. Paine was elected president, Benjamin Grosvenor, vice president, and Jerome Tourtellotte, treasurer.
 Putnam Lodge B. P. o. E. will hold clam bake at Phillips grove, Alexanders's lake, August P. The arrangements are now in the hands of a committee and it promises to be a pleasant outing.
 William Phillips, TO, of Wood stock, was overcome by the heat Mon- day afternoon. He fell in front of the Chickering house block, his head be- coming wedged between the curbing and walk. He was taken to his home in carriage.
 On Friday Jailer Albert Field turned over to Sheriff P. B. Sibley the fines and costs for the quarter ending June 30, the sum amounting to S239.3l. sheriff Sibley will distribute the mon- ey to the towns to which it is due.
 The annual meeting of the State Board of Health was held on Friday night at the capitol in Hartford, and Dr. E. K. Root of Hartford, and Dr. J. H. Townsend of New Haven were re- elected president and secretary, re- spectively.
 
 inquiry to the New Haven road as to it's ability to provide transportation for the handling of 5000 men in con- nection with the big war game, and the proposed attack on New York from this state, covering August 9-11. The horses on the w oodstock stage hanar,o friobtanad Whfla hitobad in, front of the Putnam Inn on Monday evening. They began to plunge and kick, and for few minutes the large plate glass window in the dining room was in danger of being smashed, but they were quieted down after they had made kindling wood of the wagon pole.
 -Dr. George M. Burroughs, Daniel son, Dr. k. C. White, sWiilimantic, and Dr. 5. B. Overlook, Pomfret, re- gently held a meeting at the home of the latter as a special committee Of the Windham County Medical society and for the purpose oS making arrange ments for the joint meeting of the county and state societies to be held in Willimantic this fall. Through the monthly bulletin of the state board of health 1t is shown that for the month of May New Lon- don led eastern Connecticut in the number of marriages, with Norwich a close second and Putnam well up in third place. New London had l9, Norwich IS, and Putnam Is. Wind -l.. (