Putnam patriot., 1912-08-09
-C. NJ. Elliott was in Boston Tues

day.
 Martin Welch has returned from Hampton Hill.
 George Brousseau has returned from a stay at Block Island.
 Peter Gardner and wife are on an automobile trip through Maine.
 Mrs. Lila Leach has returned from a stay of several weeks in Maines
 -C. E. Heath and family spent Sunday at Providence.
 Fred Dumas of Hartford, formerly of Putnam, has been the guest of rela- tives here.
 Harry Morse, wife and daughter trollied to Ocean Beach and back last Sunday.
 George H. Robinson and wife of New Haven are guests of station agent Baldwin and wife.
 Il. D. Ross and wife are entertair- ing Charles E. Ross and daughter Helen of St. Louis.
 U. l.. Adams and wife have had as guests Mrs. Roscoe C. Adams and children of Dorchester.
 Isaac, William and Henry Lizotte, and Napoleon Jodoin, are in camp at Quadio pond this week.
 Rev. W. NJ. Partridge of Marble head, Mass, was d recent guest of Chauncy Morse and family.
 MT. and Mrs. James Dorsey of Chapel street entertained relatives from Vermont all last week.
 John NJ. Nichols and family of Kansas City, are visiting at the Geo. H. Nichols farm at Thompson.
 Next Sunday morning at all masses the monthly collection will be taken up at the St. Mary's church.
 Miss Isabelle Byrne of the Roose- welt hospital, New York, is spending her vacation at her home in this city.
 Miss Agnes White of Woodstock has been the guest of her grand mother, Mrs. George Child on Oak Hill.
 Mrs. $. NJ. Wheelock, who is spending the summer at Pleasant View, has been spending few days in the city.
 The ladies of the Baptist church will hold cake sale Friday afternoon from ? to o'clock, at the store of Bal lard X Clark.
 A blight has struck potato crops in some sections of the town. Those who have this crop will be wise 10 use a preventative. Joseph Smith of the City hotel, who has been ill at the home of rela tives in Ballouville, was in the city Wednesday. He is still in poor health.
 Mrs. Frank LeClair and family of Mill street Are entertaing this week the Misses Clara and Blanche Bois- clair of New Bedford who formerly lived here.
 III. Fitzroy, formerly ovefseer in the French River Textile Company's finishing room has accepted position as boss finisher for mill in Center vile, R, l.
 Herbert Ladd and wife, Oak Hill, are occupying a cottage at Oakland Beach for couple of weeks. They have with them their son, Bert, also Misses Mae O'Brien and Minnie Ca nery.
 A ldermen Mann and Hawkins re- turned to Putnam Tuesday for the day and attended the Common Council meeting in the evening. The former is at Gales Ferry, the latter at Quona- contaug.
 Miss Frances Warner, daughter of Judge and Mrs. E. M. Warner, has been engaged as teacher of English at Miss c. k. Mason's suburban school for girls and young women at Tarry- town.on the Hudson, N. Y.
 Next Tuesday evening the St. A loysius T. A. X B. society will hold it's regular meeting. Members who are not in a good standing with the society should profit of this meeting and settled.
 The PATRIOT is fortunate in being able to present to it's readers an article from the pen of Bishop Sidney Catlin Partridge, 1.-TWO Mikados of Japan, p which will be read with interest. Bishop Partridge spent p years of his life in the Orient. He has been spend- ing the summer at South Woodstock.
 The building housing the steam shovel used in excavation on Perrin hill, was destroyed by fire Monday night Hot coas from banked fire is thought to be the cause. The loss will amount to between one ard two hun dred dollars. The loss of time occa- stoned is greater than the loss of the building, as the contract is being rushed at high speed.