Putnam patriot., 1913-05-09

dressing many of the worn city streets,
 Robert Hammond of Providence, formerly of Putnam, was visitor here Sunday.
 William Brady of the Officer 666 company has been visiting his mother on Church street.
 -S. NJ. Wheelock and wife and Geo. E. Shaw and wife spent Sunday at l Pleasant View.
 wife have opened their summer cot tage at Quonoeontaug.
 George H. Ryder will give an or. gan recital in the Methodist church, Danielson, this Friday evening.
 Saturday was mid-summeris day with the mercury up to 30. Straw hats appeared to quite an extent.
 Mrs. NJ. F. Smith, Farrows street, is visiting her son, D. Roy Smith, at hls summer home in Dover, N. H.
 -Dr. R. e. Paine of Thompson is the visiting physician at the DayKim ball hospital for the month of May.
 At the meeting of the. Sons of Vet erans Friday evening reports of the recent state encampment will be giv- en.
 Mrs J. H. Joiner of Jersey City, N. J., is visiting her mother and son, Mrs. Julia McGavitt and H. w. Join- CT, on Elm street.
 George B. Champlin of Hartford, spent Sunday with his mother on Bradley street. He left Monday for a business trip through Pennsylvania. l The work of oiing the streets has been begun by Superintendent Dumas and his. men. The streets have been cleaned of worn out soil before the oil is applied.
 l The sixteenth annual meeting of 1 the Elizabeth Porter Putnam chapter, D. A. R., will be held at the l. 0. OF. hall Monday, May l2th, at 3 p. m. Board meeting at 2.3O.
 -G. 0. Benson, formerly of this city, who has been acting AS clerk atYoungs hotel, Willimantic, left last week to fill similar position at the Berkshire Inn, Great Burlington, Mass.
 The direct primary bill was reject ed by the House Tuesday almost two to one. Many who voted against the l bill believed that if it passed the large cities would get an unfair advantage over the smaller cities and towns. Israel Putnam lodge No 33 I. O. O. F., has extended an invitation. to La fayette lodge of Rockland, R. l., to pay them a fraternal visit on the ev- ening of May 13 also to Manexit lodge of Webster, Mass, for the ev- ening of May 20 to witness the work of the local lodge degree team.
 At St. Mary's church Tuesday morning the forty hours devotion that commenced after the l0.30 mass on Sunday were concluded. A number of visiting priests from Eastern Con- necticut parishes were at the church Monday, assisting the pastor, Rev. C. F. Bedard
 The base ball team of the Rose Maid company has accepted chal- lenge to play team made up of local players this Thursday afternoon. Li- zotte, Pepin, Gagne, and other mem- bers .of the old Eastern Connecticut league are expected to be in the line up.
 -Arrangements for the seventeenth bi-ennial convention of the Grand Court of Connecticut, Foresters of America, at Music hall, New Haven, on May II and 15, are about compiet- ed. It is expected that there will be BIO delegates from the l5S courts in the state, representing a membership Of over I2l, 900. William J Hayes of Tariffville is the grand chief ranger.
 Rev. J. $. Chandler of Woodstock, American missionary to Madura, Sonth India, writes that he has just | entered upon five years job for the production of a new Tamil Lexicon. l Ii is the. work of the University of 1 Madras, financed by the Madras Gov ernment. The present standard Ia mil Dictionary is the work of Dr. | Winslow of the American Board, done sixty years ago.
 William H. Taylor was in the city Friday to spend his 5lst birthday with his parents, Geo. H. Taylor and wite, South Main street While here he made arrangements to distribute number of books among public insu- tutions. He has abandoned getting ont A legislature souvenir as a canvas of the members of the General Assem- bly was unsatisfactory and not enough encouragement was given to warrant taking the matter up as private en- 1 terprise.
 A Willimantic paper has the fol- i lowing item concerning Stokes wat son for many years resident of fut- nam who recently accepted aposition with R. M. Johnson4 formerly land | lord of the City hotel:
 l Stokes Watson, who has been em- ployed at Hotel Hooker ever since +. A. Winter has had charge of the hotel, started in this morning as porter for l Young's Hotel. The new manage ment of Young's Hotel has decided to