Putnam patriot., 1912-07-12

the Baptist church Sunday at S.So p. m.
 Rev. B. F. Benoit end wife spent | the Fourth with the formers son in Berkeley, R. 1.
 Judge E. NJ. Warner was In the city Monday, returning to Oak Bluffs Tues lay.
 Miss Grace |. Bennett is having 1 her annual vacation, her place being filled by Mrs. Walter N. Phillips.
 -Silas NJ. wheelock has purchased a lot al Pleasant View, where he expects to erect a summer cottage. Announcement of the marriage in Worcester, July ', of Jessie Bacon Perrin, formerly of this city, to Arthur Leslie Davison, have been received. The list of jurors drawn for the Windham County Superior court flor the year commencing September lst,
 will be found on page 6. Wilton Greene of Center street had his foot crushed Tuesday while at work at the Dean pin factory, a 700- pound grindstone falling upon it. Miss Hattie B. Fox of Sunnyside Heights has transplanted wild straw berries in her garden and this season has raised berries measuring 3-4 in ehes in circumference.
 Isaac Jutras of Stafford Springs, formerly manager of the Star theatre, is spending few days in the city. He will go to Block Island for the rest of the summer.
 Miss Louise Davison of Bullock street has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. B. Fullerton of Willimantic. Mrs. Fullerton will be remembered as Miss Ella Davison, formerly of this city. Rev. Whitman l.. Wood of Wood lawn, K. l., will preach in the church at Putnam Heights, Sunday morning at II o'clock. MT. Wood and family are spending the summer on the Heights.
 Miss Gertrude Hall, who has been teacher in the second grade of the Is- rael Putnam school for the past 15 years, has sent in her signed contract to return here and teach in September. Miss Hall is at present at Oak Bluffs. --The first real half holiday for store workers during the present season will come on Thursday of this week, when about 30 places Of business will close. This practice will be continued Thurs days during July and August.
 Mrs. Joseph C. Foisey, son and daughter, arrived here on Saturday from Omaha, Neb., and will spend sev- eral weeks at MT. and Mrs. Frank Foisey's. MT. Foisey now has charge
 -Gov. Simeon E. Baldwin has sent out a circular letter to all trustees or off cers of institutions receiving state aid calling attention to the opinion by the attorney general prohibiting such officers from furnishing any supplies to thei institutions.
 Pledges of support indicate that the new trolley express service, Provi- dence, Danielson and Putnam, conn., mencing next Monday, will be liberal ly patronized, especially for the trans portation of perishabe goods. It is understood that the building of freight station at Attawaugan cross ing is being considered.
 There is local interest in the re- port at the steel trust hearing in New York of pool in steel rails in which Judge Gary, who recently visited here, and C. NJ. Schwab were'interested, and which is said to have controlled prices for two years following two years of "ruinous price cutting"
 George Lizotte has resigned hi position at Allard' s barber shop where he has worked 25 years, and will enter the employ of Timothe Tetteault bee ginning his work Saturday morning. MT. Tetreault was also at one time em- ployed at Allard's shop, and he and Lizotte worked side by side many years.
 Invitations have been received by relatives to the wedding of George Bradley Gascoigne of Cleveland, Ohio, and Miss Lemira sherman, which will take place July at the brides home, Columbus, Ohio. On their wedding trip East they will be guests of the groom's mother, Mrs. Carrie B. Gas coigne.
 Seth Macdonald, 255 Elm street, formerly a locomotive engineer on the Central Vermont irailroad, but of late running a locomotive for the Grand Trunk Railroad between Montreal and Portland, Me, has been promoted to locomotive foreman for the Central Vermont Railway at Montpelier June tion, Vermont. He left here this week after a few days visit, to take up the duties of his new position on Thursday, July llth.
 -steeple Tom Fitzpatric was in the city Tuesday en route to his home in Willimantic. He had just completed a job on l45 foot stack in Webster. The job proved hard one. After us- ing dove, hot air and gas balloons, he finally got line on the top of the chimney with the aid of penny kite. He was successful on the fifth trial when about to give up. His work at tracted a large crowd. So pleased was