Putnam patriot., 1912-04-12
Irwin TourtelIotte spent Friday in

l Boston.
 -J. Harold Bowen of Worcester was at his home here over,Sunday.
 Mrs. Mary Meehan of Uxbridge is the guest of Mrs. w. l.. Kennedy.
 MT. and Mrs. Maurice C. Mulvey of Woonsocket, were guests of B. K. Smith, Jr., oyer Sunday. l Martin and William Griffin of Boston spent Sunday with relatives on Pomfret street.
 Many people from this city went to Worcester Friday and attended the various theatres.
 George G. Smith, of the Soldiers Home, Noroton, has been in Putnam the past week. l Miss Lucy Davern of Worcester spent Sunday with relatives on High | street. Mrs. Maud Allen of Providence, was the guest of her sister, Miss Grace West, on Tuesday. Mrs. Ida G. Kennedy returned Thursday evening from weeks stay | with her brother in Pawtucket. Augustus Bartlett of Sunnyside Heights is erecting barn at his new ly acquired home. Mrs. George Miller of Hartford has been the guest of her sisters, Miss Char lotte Hopkins and Mrs. John Sabin.
 John Dunham of Mansfield was the guest of his brother, ,F. D. Durham, on Sunday.
 Miss Mary Eddy left Saturday for 8 week in Arlington, N. J., with Miss Olbena G. Dix.
 Norman l.. Kennedy was the guest of his brother in New York city for the Easter vacation. Mrs. w. H. Anderson of Chepach- ct, was the guest of Miss Emma Bar rett last week. Miss Dorothy Kennedy returned Saturday, after spending a week with her uncle, N. w. Kennedy, In Boston. MT. and Mrs. N. w. Kennedy of Boston, spent Easter with MT. and Mrs. w. L. Kennedy. Miss Bernadette Dupre and Miss Angelic Bibeault attended the first annual K. of c. ball in Moosup as MT. John Earnings guests. Henry E. Belair and wife of Wa terbury are spending the week with the formers parents, Charles E. Belair and wife, Elm street. ! The republican town committee has organized, making Mayor Archi- bald Macdonald chairman and H. J. Thayer secretary and treasurer.
 -Ebenezer Bishop, whileIin Florida recently, was the guest of General Ca rey, whose obituary appears in anoth- CT column.
 Rev Albert Pray rector of an Epis- copal church in New Jersey, was in Putnam Thursday to attend the fune- ral of his brother, George F. Pray.
 Clarence French, a former tele- graph operator here, now of Auburn, Mass, is ill from blood clot on the brain.
 Fred Pickwick, former assistant at the foundry, and family left Saturday morning for their new home in Man. chester, N. H.
 In the current issue of a magazine devoted to gardening and kindred sub jects, F. F. Rock we'll of Woodstock has an instructive and interesting article on Gardening.
 There will be meeting of the Woman's Board of the Day Kimbail hospital, Wednesday, April 17th, at D. m., in Odd Fellows hall. Execu- tive committee meeting at 2.3O.
 Rev. A. H. Withee and wife were the guests of MT. and Mrs. C. M. Fen. ner last week, while en route to Old Mystic, MT. Witness new appoint ment.
 Ernest Kennedy has resigned his position with w. L. Kennedy. He has been here six years and made many friends who will certainly miss "Ernie'sn accommodating and genial manner.
 Statistics just issued show that in Connecticut during 1911 there were 27,- 3l4 births. The total number of mar riages was 10, ,103, and the deaths IT,. 500. In 32 towns the deaths exceeded the births; in four towns they were equal and in 132 there were more births than deaths.
 The business section of the city took on midsummer aspect Saturday afternoon, the warm weather bringing in many people from the surrounding country of which Putnam is the mer- cantile center. Trade in the stores was brisk.
 Announcement is made of the sale to the American Axe and Tool compa- nv, of Glassport, Pa, of all of the prop erty of the axe company at East Doug. las. The purchasing company is to remove the business to Glassport.
 Waiter MeClann of this city, the adopted son of MT. and Mrs. Peter Do Ian. Center street, will be ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic church at Hartford Saturday. He twill come to Putnam and will say his first mass at St. Mary's church Sunday morning.
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