Putnam patriot., 1913-07-25
John Jarvis was in Providence Wednesday.

III hctucISuciu. "
 Rev. B. F. Benoit will preach in
 French at the Baptist church Sunday
 afternoon at 3.30.
 Daniel J. Byrne of Boston is spend- ing weeks vacation at his home on Woodstock avenue.
 Miss Leona Daigle of Woodstock
 avenue has been entertaining Miss l Edna Delude of Woonsocket. -L. NJ. Aime Beaudreault has re-
 turned to his home in this city and is i slowly regaining his health.
 The local union of barbers are ar-
 ranging to hold their annual outing,
 although no date has been decided | upon.
 Mrs. s. NJ. Wheelock returned to
 Pleasant View Monday after spending
 few days at her home on Church street.
 Misses Nellie and Sarah Egan and their niece have returned from a week spent at Narragansett Pier and Quon- | ocontaug.
 Harold Sargent and wife of Wor-
 cester spent the week end. with his
 parents, Rev. and Mrs. F. D. Sargent, Grove street.
 Alderman J. Harry Mann has re- turned for few days from Gales Fer ry, where he is spending the summer
 with his family.
 A garage of corrugated iron has
 been built in the rear or the new tele- phone building for storage of the con-
 pany's automobile kept in this divi- sion.
 Word from Mayor Macdonald has
 been recieved that he is enjoying his outing and feeling fine. He will re- turn the last of thls or the first of next week.
 --Everette k. Brown, the well known
 fruit expert of Pomfret, said while in this city Tuesday that the prospects are good for an excellent yield of fruit hereabouts this year. William H. Noonan, the new proprietor of the City hotel has arrived. His household furniture was brought here from East Hartford Tuesday by automobile truck.
 Victor Chapdelaine and family left Tuesday for an automobile trip through New York state. They will visit Buffalo and Niagra Falls before
 they return. They expect to be gone about ten days.
 At a recent meeting of the Trus-
 tees of Woodstock academy it'was de-
 cided to give up the plan of changing
 the academy into an agricultural col
 lege as some of the trustees were op- posed to the plan.
 A freight car on an incoming train
 jumped the track at crossover in the
 local yard Saturday night. Several cars were deraied and the main line was blocked two hours until the wrecking crew from Readville arrived and strengthened out the tangle. The annual field meeting of Quin-
 ebaug Pomona grange is to be held this year at the beautiful farm of Miss Lucy Jarvis on Allen hill in the town of Brooklyn. The meeting is to be
 held about the third week in August.
 The program, which is to be of special interest will be announced in the near
 future.
 -Trainmaster J. B. Consedine,
 whose headquarters are in Putnam,
 has been assigned to New Haven for
 the next six weeks where he is to have
 charge of the revision of the book of
 rules governing the moving of freight
 trains on the New Haven system. Dur
 ing his absence D. A. Mckenzie, an
 old.time freight conductor of the shore line will take his place. -C. $. Andem took the following
 members of the Putnam Business Mems Association to thesGet Together meeting of the Eastern Connecticut
 business men at New London Friday: k. M. Wheaton, president'of the Put nan. association; Richard German, William Wheaton, E. l.. Kelley, John G. Johnson and Isaac Champeau. MT. Wheaton was appointed member of an executive committee of five, which will prepare suitable literature for ad- yertising this section of Connecticut to the business world.
 There is a persistant rumor being circulated that Putnam in the near future is to become a more important railroad center than it has yet at tained. Railroad officials high up in the service have been seen to visit the city and while not making their pur- pose known 1t has gained currency that this city is to become headquar- ters of the Midland division. This would mean that despatcherr, heads of departments etc., would be re- moved from New Haven or Boston to this city. It is also said that if the change transpires Sin all probability the third floor of Union block, which borders the railroad tracks, will be se- cured for offices. Putnam is already
 one of the most important transfer points on the system and the coming
 of headquarters would enhance the importance of the city as . railroad center greatly. The proposed change
 is due to the suggestion of the inter- 1 state commerce commission that diyi.