Putnam patriot., 1912-04-26

l |
 Mrs. G. Harold Gilpatric spent 6
 couple of days in nBoston the past week.
 Mrs. Gilman H. Brown has re- turned from visit with friends in
 New York.
 | Mrs. Aluia E. Sibley of Warren, has been the guest of her niece, Mrs.
 L. O. Williams.
 Mrs. Frank Powers of orcester
 has been the guest of Miss s. Elizabeth | Clarke, of Elm street.
 Frederick Oates of Danielson re. gently had the forefinger of his right hand amputated, at the Day kimball hospital. William Bryce, aged II, al- so of Danielson, was brought to the hospital Friday. While choppiRg
 wood he chopped the first and second fingers of lhis right hand at the first joint.
 People with cottages at Alexan- der's lake are beginning to make, re- pairs looking to the opening of the sea- son in a few weeks. Louis Sayles will shortly launch his house boat. The lake is beautifulIspot, easy of access, and the summer colony increases year. ly.
 A contract has been awarded for an addition 56x32 feet to the plant Of the Putnam Foundry X Machine com- pany, and work will soon be com menced. The addition will be used as a core and storage room. The business has been increasing and more room is needed to handle it. Even with the present addition it is thought that other enlargements will have to be made before long.
 Gardner O. Benson has returned from Camden, N. C., where he has been with an important hotel during the winter season. During the severe winter six inches of snow fell at Cam- den, but when MT. Benson left there for the north the temperature:stood at 92 degrees. During the summer months MT. Benson is with the same com pany at their hotel in the Berk- shires.
 William Fraser, a lineman for the Western Union Telegraph company, with headquarters in Putnam, is re- minded by the wreck of the Titanic of an unwelcome experience that he had several years ago while with vessel that ran out of coal, after much severe weather, in that section of the Atlantic where the great White Star liner went down. After drifting 700 miles the steamer on which MT. Frazer was adrift was picked up by another steamer and lowed HOO miles into port.
 At meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution from Connecti- cut at the national convention at Washington, D. C., the following ofii- cers were elected:
 State regent, Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel of Litchfield. Vice regent, Mrs. John T. Sterling of Bridgeport.
 Treasurer, Mrs. Curtiss of Southing- ton.
 Secretary, Mrs. Brown of Norwich.
 All were re.elections except that Of Mrs. Sterling as vice-regent, from which office Miss Bowman of Bristol retired at her own request.
 The civil suit of Peter Suzio, who had one of the early contracts for sew CT construction here, against the city of Putnam has been withdrawn. This suit was filed last year and was for 5000. The suit was brought to recov- CT for removing extra rock measure ment. Another suit for S2l ,00O brought by the Connecticut Contracting com- pany against the city is pending, this suit having a similar basis to the one withdrawn, Suzio also being interest ed in the latter company. Mrs. J. B. Kent left Monday for Washington, D. C., where she is at. tending the 4lst annual meeting Of the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the East, which includes the eastern and middle east, and the District of Columbia. Mrs. Kent is secretary of the Connecticut society, which carries on it's work by three con ferences and six associations. Dele gates were sent from the three confer ences and three of the associations, to the meetings, which closed Thursday. Senator George A. Hammond Is Tn | New Haven this Thursday to attend at the Hotel Taft,a meeting of the Con-
 necticut delegates and alternates to the Republican national convention at
 Chicago in June. Senator Hammond
 is an alternate. He may be rated as something of veteran In relation to
 the national conventions Of his party l He was district delegate in 1900 and 1 1908. and an alternate in l9O4. 1his
 year he is an alternate to what will
 probably be one of the most interesting conventions in the history of the party LA Fisherman Luck" now un'
 der rehearsal by members of the T. A 1 X B. society will be produced in tho
 Bradley theatre Tuesday evening, May
 7th. The society has staged a mum bel
 of dramas in the past, all Of whIef have been favorably received. Ihei
 present efforts are expected 10 create
 nroduction far ahead of any in thu
 mast. The drama cannot help ou
 please as it is full of human interes
 with a vein of comedy runnin'