Putnam patriot., 1913-10-10
Items of Local interest


 Mark Gallant and wife are visiting relatives in Canada.
 Miss Mae Bradley spent last week with Mrs. Charles K. shaw, Pawtuck- et, formerly of Putnam
 Mrs. C. II. Kelley will leave next Monday to spend the winter in Wash ington, D. (.
 Albert Mouir has sold his interest in barber shop and re-entered the employ of Charles Aliron.
 The seiectmen organized Tuesday nith C. F. Pierce chairman and l.. Nj. Keith clerk.
 Mrs. P. < Butler of Woodstock Valley is visiting NIT. and Mrs. Au- gustus Bartlett on Sunnyside Heights. Mrs. J. A. Hart, who underwent an operation in Worcester hospital, has returned home and is improving. Tn omas McDermott is probably the only base ball in this section who will witness the world series base ball ames
 -stecple Tom Fitzpatrick, well known in this city, has just begun work OF the high spirs and steepIe of the WilHmantie Congregational church
 -George R. Harrington, boss ma ehiaist al the Nightingale cotton mill, has bought the Frank Towns farm in P0mffet and will move there this week. Mrs. Ernest Bousquel of Bridge street and Miss Georginnn Bousqaet Mechanicsvi.le, spent Sunday with a relative in Canton, Mass
 Fred Bonneville, clerk in seders Store, "a as operated on al 5t. Vineeutts hospital, Worcester Monday, for gnul stones.
 -fsfael Putnam Lodge, [. Q. Q. r., opened the season Tuesday evening by coulerdne the initiatory degree on sev- eral candidates.
 --One Of the safes in Che town clerk office has been sold to the town of Pomffet and the others are tu be dis poaed of, he records now contained in them 10 be transferred 10 the new vaults in the municipal building.
 -County Health Officer George it Hinman of Willimantic attended meeting of the county health officers of the state at Norwich Friday. The convention discussed the powers of health officers and the new law re- garding slaughterhouses.
 M. NJ Dwyer and wife of this city and Thomas pwyer and wife of Web ster were in New York Saturday to attend the funeral of Hugh ]. Clark a patfolmaa killed during the storm Inst week Wednesday. Hc was n relative of the DwYers.
 "A meeting of the Elizabeth Porter Putnam chapter, D. X. K., will be held ia odd Fellows hall Monday af- tetnoon, Oct 18th, at 3 o'clock. Ad- mifai .. F. Goodrich k to be the speaker of the afternoon. Board meet. ing 2.5a D. m.
 Advertised Letters, Oct. q
 LADIES
 Ms Emma Buck, Miss Rose Erie son.
 GENTLEMEN
 Gustave R. Sattig ,, W. NJ. Lacey, Dwight Fisher, Fred Nenzel, George l. Steere, F. J. Craigg, C. w. Murray. Miss Mae Bradley was called to Boston last Thursday on account of the illness of her little niece, Charlotte Botham, who was operated on for ap- pendicitis by Dr. Lane at St. Mar gueriie hospital.
 Miss Helena McGavitt, who has been spending the summer with her mother, Mrs. Lena McGavitt, Elm stree I, has returned to Gappahoosie, Va, to resume teaching in the A & |. school. she stopped over in Jersey City to visit her brother. She was ae' eompanled by Nina Hall who will en ter the school as pupil.
 -- nc FAAtifN tAthiN ~ 'iN'S AN+'''N society will hold d whist in St. Mary's hall Thursday evening, Oct. 10th. The proceeds will be used for band uni- forms. The society k to have uni formed guard and at meeting Sun day afternoon twenty.two signitied their intention of joining, The mum, per ,-entaa k thtttV-siN. adv
 W. II. Holmes, formerly principal of the Israel Putnam and later oi the High school, this city, new snperin- tendent of the Westerly, k. L., schools, has accepted the position of supertn- rendent of the Mount Vernon, \. Y, schools and will begin his. duties there the first of November
 Philip Comtois, l5, a runaway from his home in Northhudge, Mass, was delivered over To his father by Probation officer A N Bowen Thurs day afternoon and taken back to his home town. Philip left his home on Wednesday, and ran away when it was supposed that he had started for school as usual Late "Wednesday af. fernoon he was picked up by a telc- phone lineman, who met him on the road near Grosvenordale. Philips sto- " did not sound like the truth, SD when Putnam was reached the boy was turned over to Sergeant Patrick Hayes, who locked him up at the po-