Putnam patriot., 1913-08-29
THOMPSON

to northern New York 10 nfficiate at
 the wedding of cousin, and to spend
 week in his boyhood home. During
 his absence the pulpit of the Central
 Baptist church will unite with the
 Congregational church in the Sunday service.
 Mrs. Boardman is spending her va-
 cation in Newport and Kingston,,R. l.
 Clark Pierce has just completed
 new silo.
 We are glad to welcome home Charles Searls and wife ftom their trip
 through northern Europe, and long tc
 hear of the interesting places they visited.
 Miss Grace Granger is in her sum-
 ner cottage and has with her her
 young friend;from Washington, Miss i Margaret Lake.
 1 0. E. Mills and son Homer are in 1 town for a short vacation. Mir. Mills 1 has just returned from trip 10 0hio,
 where he attended the funeral of a rel atiVe.
 Mrs. $. E. Truesdell fwho is net in her usual health), has with Mrs. i Louise Truesdell been visiting friends in Sudbury, Camp Pinecrestl Somer- l vile and Worcester. Mrs. Truesdell
 in company with her brother, A. w. Mills, spent little time at the famous
 "Wayside Inn," a delightful place to rest and think of "Ye olden times"
 No wonder that Iongfellow wrete his
 "Tales of the Wayside Inn,p for it
 seems an ideal place for dreams, and i realitiesstoo.
 1 notice mistake in the Thompson
 news which gave thelage of the aged l organist and musician, Andrew Mills,
 as go years. He was born in Ife13 and
 died in 1913, in his tooth year. | Mrs. Walter Eates (nee Miss Freda l Cooper has coiEe to accompany her husbands father to their home in Ho- boken, N. J.
 Miss Howe, of the Young Ladies' school, which is soon to open, invited | many of the ladies here to meet her
 friends on Monday afternoon Aug. 25. All who were privileged totattend felt
 sure her school would be a great sue cess.
 The Baptist church will be closed | for morning service for two weeks. The Wednesday and Sunday night
 meetings will;continue thessme as us- ! ual.
 MT Root will preach atsthe Congre-
 gational church. Rev. Brewer Board
 man and wife ere having two weeks 1 vacation.
 E. K Rhodes and wife visited West | Lynn and Boston Sunday and Mon-
 day.
 Frank Foisey has gone to West
 Lynn to work in the General Electric shop.
 MT. Scarborough is putting in an ! artesian we'll and the talk is, he is
 going to build house in the 1 spring.
 Frank kies and wife spent last We'd
 nesday at Watch Hill.
 The annual meeting of the W. C. T. U. of Thompson met Thursday last at the home of the president, Mrs. Jen-
 nie Robinson, as it has done many
 wears. The meeting was called for 10 | o'clock for business, but owing to the 1 Iateness of the arrival of Mrs. Lisa K. Fuller, county president and editor of ! the White Ribben Banner, il was near | ly II before 1t was called to order. | Some of the usual opening services
 were omitted. The roll call, prayer by Mrs. Fuller, singing "Blest be the tie i that binds,u the admittance sat Mrs. | Clarence Stevens as a member, follow l ed Next came the election of officers. | Mrs. Robinson was elected president ] for the fourteenth consecutive year, | Mrs. Mary Woodward, secretary and Mrs. Minnie Bixby, assistant secreta-
 ", Mrs. E. F. Thompson, treasurer. | The other officers are selected by the | president, consisting of three vice pres i idents, press upeTintendent, Bower mission superintendent, and evange- i Gstic supedntendenls of the Metho-
 dist, Congregational and Baptist churches.
 About t2.30 lunca was served, | tables being set in tho vine-shaded piazza and dining room, each member ! bringing a bountiful supply. The v0ung ladies arranged the tables and 1 served most gracefully and relieved ! Mrs. Robinson from all care or anxiety 1 The lunch was, as one of the older 1 members rem mgTked, the best ever served in this well-known and hospi- | table home. sOeiability and merri- ment was everywhere, even the honor arv gentlemen members, especially | DT. Williams, entered heartily into i the pleasures Of the hour. Mrs. Minnie Bixby read an excellent
 article in her usual pleasant way, Mrs. l Clarence Stevens and Mrs. Silas Joslin sang two duets that were very popular 1 at the late camp meeting, Mrs. Robin son also read clippings of recent date upon the temperance cause. In the morning Mrs. Woodward, secretary. | read her annual report also Mrs. 1 qrhonanSon. treasurer. and Mrs. Min
 nie Bixby, as chairman of the floral | oonomittee. There were about forty
 present, the largest number for a long | while. Many profitable lessons were heard and about o'clock the members i began 10 leave for their homes, several
 of them living some miles away.
 The all day meeting was as usual a
 great success and greatly enjoyed, all
 its arrangements being well carried
 ant. Little Lady Law, daughter Of