Putnam patriot., 1913-04-25

guest of his mother for the weekend. Charles Rich of Fitchburg spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives here.
 Louis Girard of the battleship Iowa is spending a ten days furlough with his mother in this city.
 The bans of Harry Nadeau of Wor- cester and Miss Ressa Bellrose of this city were published at St. Mary's church, Sunday morning.
 Miss Florence P. Champeau of Worcester and Joseph LaCouture of | Millbury were guests of Isaac Cham peau Sunday.
 As soon as a bill passed by the general assembly is signed by the Governor, Alexanders Jade will be closed for fishing for period of three years.
 Isaac Jutras, formerly pianist of the "Star" theatre, called on friends in the city last week. He left here to go to New York where he is to become advance agent for the Kennedy Stock Company.
 County Commissioners k. H. Cort- tis of Thompson, E. Il. Hall of Wind ham and C. E. Barber of Plainfield came here last Thursday and transfer red the license at the Chickering hotel from w. w. Dwyer to J. A. Hart, the new proprietor. MT. Dwyer is to re main at the hotel.
 Bruce & Howard have sold an Overland delivery wagon to H. $. Morse which will be used on the Pom- fret and Thompson route instead of horses as heretofore. Charles Weaver of Putnam Heights has bought an Overland touring car.
 Advertised Letters, April 9:
 GENTLEMEN
 Philip w. Place, M. D., John Feber, Thomas J. Murphy, Alfred Mattnena, Monsieur Fred Renfrette, Giovanni Maria Pasella di Giovanni, John Evans.
 Miss Annie Cutler.
 Records on file show the transfer from Hucine w. Lowe, administratrix of the estate of John A. Lowe, late of Woodstock to William $. Johnson of this city, property at the corner on the west side of Church street between Myrtle street and Woodstock avenune. MT. Johnson has had number of men at work cleaning up the lot and a great improvement has been made.
 For the 37th annual meeting of the | Eastern Division of the Connecticut l Teachers Association special effort | has been made to organize meeting | which shall give attention to the needs | of the rural teachers, to the graded | grammar teachers and the high school teachers. The association will meet | in Putnam on May 9th.
 Miss Isabelle Byrne, formerly of this city, nurse in the Roosevelt hos pital, New York, underwent an opera tion for appendicitis at that institution Monday The operation was success ful and she is resting comfortably. Her brother, John B. Byrne, was in New York when the operation was perform ed.
 The foundation is being laid for | the tier of three vaults at the munich pal building. The contract calls for inch cement foundation, but w. 5. Johnson, who has the contract in charge, thinks heavier foundation safer and more desirable and will make it Is inches thick. There will be a vault on each floor so that reco rds can be easily obtained and put away.
 -E. c. Rogers of the Putnam In n, who has one of the' best appointed ho- tels in Connecticut, is installing an artificial ice plant and will hereafter manufacture his own ice. The Inn is getting reputation as hostelry that is making it popular with the travel ing public and automobile parties. This is to the advantage of our city and his efforts should receive the en- couragement and endorsement of all citizens.
 Notwithstanding the heavy frost of the early morning hours of Sunday and Monday very little damage has been reported. Professor A. c. Culley of the Connecticut AgriculturalCollege atStorrs states that he does not believe the peach crop there will be affected. The buds on the several thousands of peach trees were not open enough to be damaged. The pear trees there show no signs of being touched by the frost. The cherry trees, however, were nipped, and this crop of fruit at the college will be light.
 Harold s. Corbin, formerly of Put nam, now with the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, writes that he was aroused from sleep near mid night last Sunday to receive call from George B. Champlin of Putnam, a travelling salesman. He was to leave that night for New York and will | spend few days with his sister before | returning home. The next day he met H. H. Davenport of Pomfret and son Harry. MT. Davenport and his wife had accompanied their son Roy's family to Philadelphia where both sons are engaged in running a number of lunch rooms, Harry being treasurer of tbo oorporation The whole Daven-