Putnam patriot., 1913-05-30
William Vandale spent Wednes- iav with his aunt in Douglas.

-Dr. J. B. Kent was recently the guest of his son, Dr. J. NJ. Kent, in New York.
 Rev. B. F. Benoit will preach in French at the Baptist church next Sunday afternoon at 3.3o o'clock.
 Justin Greene and wife are spend. ing few weeks at their cottage near Lords Point.
 HI. C. Meinken, Fremont street, has had as guests his mother and sis ter of Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Alexander Dupre and wife of New Bedford have been guests of the for mer's parents on Woodstock avenue.
 Rev. B. F. Benoit occupied the pulpit of church in Worcester Sum- day. Mrs. Benoit accompanied him.
 -E. H. Johnson and Richard Cor man are the committee to arrange for a speaker for the commencement,ex eises of the Putnam High school.
 MT. and Mrs. George Blythe and son Allison of Church street are visit ing at MT. Blythe's home in Philadel- phia.
 Mrs. Charlotte Champlin, Bradley street, is entertaining her daughter, Mrs. E. M. Brunn, and grandson, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
 A meeting of the o. M. club was held with Miss Bertha Sargent at the Gongre gational parsonage last Friday evening.
 Mrs. NJ. w. Bennett and Miss Grace I. Bennett of Chapel street are in Flushing, N. r., a few days, the guests of Frank NJ, Bennett and fam fly.
 Conductor John O'Neil, who was injured in the Jewett City wreck some weeks ago, has resumed his run from New London to Worcester.
 Frank E. Beach, associate editor of the Bridgeport Standard, died in that city on Saturday of pneumonia. He was for number of years editor of the Southbridge Journal.
 A trout weighing a pound and three-quarters was caught last week by son of Charles H. Moore in the brook near his house in North Ash ford
 The judges of the superior court will hold their annual meeting in Hartford Monday, June ?, probably at the state library and supreme court building. Allotment of judges will be made for the coming year.
 Local employees of the plant, com mercial and traffic department of the Southern New England telephone company were in Danielson lastThurs- day to attend a dance arranged by the Danielson employees.
 John w. Coroley, proprietor of the ice cream parlors at Crescent Beach, and well known to many people in this vicinity, died at his home in Mi antic Friday, aged 69 years. He was a native of Germany, a veteran of the Civil war, and an Odd Fellow.
 The regular show season at Wild wood Park will commence June 23d. Memorial day the park will be opened for the day for special events and dancing. Dancing will be held from time to time until the regular theatre season opens. w. E. Labelle will again have the management of the park this season.
 A. J. Bernard of Putnam, a loco- motive fireman, was in Rockville last Thursday to attend the funeral of brother fireman, Henry F. Conrady,27, who was killed by the blowing out of a fiue while his engine was near the Pomfret station the previous Monday night. The young man was well known among the railroad men of this city.
 Morse x Chapman put on their musical act in Franklin, Mass, last Friday night and received several cur tain calls after responding to an encore. The act consists of high. class musical numbers and is appreciated by a long suffering public which has listened to ragtime until they have become sur feited with it. John Morse, Jr., of this city is one member of the team, his partner being a resident of Wor- cester.
 P. J. Hurlihe, formerly of Putnam and Willimantic, who was recently transferred to Franklin, has again been returned to Willimantic under an order aoolishing the position of road master and creating new position to be known as that of track supervisor. MT. Hurlihe is now track supervisor between Cedar Hill, near New Haven, on the Air line, and Plainfield on the Providence division with the excep- tion of the Willimantic yard.
 -Downie & Wheeler's circus gave two performances on the Tatem lot last Saturday, afternoon and evening. The weather kept many away and the evening performance was poorly at- tended, the afternoon crowd being much larger. The street parade was good and people gathered on the cub along the line of procession hours be- fore it put in an appearance. The show was not heral ded as the greatest on earth but for it's size was of good onN ao 1aar fha lH-fQg hi0ned