Putnam patriot., 1912-12-06

Members of the Salvation Army
sold a good number of the General
Booth memorial tags Saturday.
Miss Kate Seward has returned to
/ Guilford after visiting her brother, f.
W. Seward and family, Grove street.
Miss Alma Martin has been in
/ New York as witness in the Haw-
thorne case.
Albert johnson of Southbridge is
visiting his daughter, Mrs. G. d.
Bates.
The last load of fixtures from the
old office of the Putnam Water COM
pany was removed to the municipal
building Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. (. G. Kennedy and son Nor
man spent Thanksgiving with her
brother, Frank f. Greenslitt, of the
Pawtucket Times st fl.
Miss f. Marjorie Richardson, stu
dent at Brown, enjoyed Thanksgiving
with her parents, &. +. Richardson
and wife of Intervale street.
The junk dealers are now having
their innings at the scene of the fire
and are collecting many loads of scrap
| iron.
! Mrs. George Holt and Mrs. A. |.
Morse attended the funeral of their
brother, Isaac Dyer, in Providence last
Monday.
| Miss Athena Dix returned to her
| home Saturday in Arlington, \. j.,
after spending several months with H.
| w. Thompson and wife.
The Putnam rCoal x Wood COM
pany expect to rebuild their spur track
for the handling of coal in the near
| future.
Louis Ingraham and family have
moved from the Sawyer district into
one of the Page houses on Woodstock
avenue.
Miss Ellen Byrne, nurse at the
Worcester City hospital, spent don
day with her roommate, Miss Nerna
M. Fuller, at her home on Water
street.
"A boy on a bicycle eoasting down
hospital hill Sunday afternoon coll
lided with a woman and the latter re-
ceived some bad bruises and pain
full cuts.
Several cases of drunkenness have
been disposed of by the city court the
past week. The city has been unusu
ally free from intoxicated persons and
tramps the past month.
H. w. Thompson entertained on
Thanksgiving, Charles Treat and
family, Norwich, Miss Alice Thomp-
son, Boston, Clarence and Louis chap
man, New York.
The relief committee have provid-
ed the families who lost clothing and
household effects in the recent fire with
these necessities. Money is still COM
ing in 10 swell the fund.
The machinery purchased by the
Wheaton Building Il Lumber COM
pany in Norwich has been arriving all
the week and is being installed in the
company's new quarters in the old
Fisher shoe shop.
Arthur Pepin, chauffeur, is re-
covering at the hospital after an oper-
alton performed few days ago. Pepin
was taken seriously ill while in charge
of car in Abingdon.
Various stories have been circu. /
lated relative TO attempts 10 burn
buildings in the city. These stories are
without foundation and no such at
tempts have been reported to the !
police.
In a recent issue of Hartford |
paper appeared half column story OF
Putnam junk Dealers experience |
with a skunk near Oxford. The mans |
name is given as Louis Kline. No |
such junk dealer is licensed in this |
y.
The body of Mrs. Margaret Spellan, |
who died in Worcester, was brought |
here Saturday morning for burial |
in st. Mary's cemetery. She |
was the widow of Phillip Spelan, the |
couple having lived here for years be- i
fore going to Worcester number of I
years ago.
The firm of AlIard 4 Carpenter
that recently opened millinery parlors |
in the Bradley building, Elm street,
has been dissolved. Miss Edith Car |
penter has returned TO her home in |
Providence. The business will be here
after conducted by Miss Lauretta AL |
lard.
Changes contemplated by the >. \.
f. Telephone company in Putnam dur
ing the coming year include the plac- |
ing underground of additional lines |
now on poles in the city limits. These
changes will probably be made incl |
dent TO the construction OF the new |
central office building on South Main |
street.
Clifford Davis of Danielson was
summoned for hearing before the sec
rotary of state at Hartford Tuesday in
regard to the death Of David Pennery |
on October % in the vicinity OF Elm-
Vile. License was suspended Nov
ember l. Pennery was % years old
and the accident occurred in the even
ing when young Davis was driving a
party OF friends in his fathers car 10 q