Putnam patriot., 1913-07-11

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 Il. NJ. Keith made a business trip to the granite quarries in Quincy on Tuesday.
 William Yuntunen has sold to Fred NJ. Lyon the Luther Tucker place in Woodstock.
 Mrs. Hans Downing has returned from visit of several weeks with rel atives in Danbury.
 Rufus LaPalme and family of Fitchburg, formerly of Putnam, are guests of relatives here.
 Miss Florence Tourtellotte of the Peoples store is spending two weeks vacation at Wells Beach, Me.
 Mrs. William F. Rafferty and her daughter Elizabeth, and Miss Jessie Macdonald, are at Oak Bluffs.
 The body of Susan B. Higginson, who died at Pomfret, was taken to Boston Tuesday to be cremated.
 Miss Marion Warren is spending two weeks with relatives and friends in Mendon and Fall River, Mass.
 Louis Champeau, formerly of Put nam, brother of Isaac Champeau, has opened drug store in Hartford.
 Miss Edith NJ. Kent, principal of Smith street school, is attending the summer session of the State Normal school, at Hyannis, Mass.
 John A. Morse, Jr., went to Lake Pearl, Wrenthain, on Monday, where he is to be first violinist in the orches- tra at that resort for the summer.
 -Adelard Lacroix, student at St. SuIpic college, Montreal is spending the summer with his parents, Narcisse Lacroix and wife, Maynard street.
 W. E. Kennedy has returned from the west with carload of horses. He expects to open his fine new livery stable on South Main street the first of August.
 -G. Allen Hawkins, a member of the board of water commissioners, has been in the city this week. He is spend- ing the summer at his cottage at Quon- ocontaug.
 Sheriff and Mrs. P. B. Sibley left this Thursday for vacation trip to Narragansett Pier, where they will join their son, F. 5. Sibley, and his wife, of Providence.
 Richard German and wife left Sunday by automobile for Rochester, N. Y. where they will attend the Ma tional Convention of Elks. They will make further tour returning in two weeks.
 -Albigence E. Covell has purchased from Helen NJ. Kent ct al property near the High school building. MT. GoVell, who has sold his farm on the river road, is to occupy the newly pur- chased property.
 Mrs. ClaraW Williams and daugh- ter Bernice have returned 10 their home in Willimantic from Crescent Beach, where Mrs Williams was talk en i'll some weeks ago. She is greatly improved in health They formerly lived in Putnam.
 The second application of oil on the city streets was spread Monday and the citizens are patiently bearing the mess until it works into the soil as the benefit then is worth waiting for. It has been very dusty the past few weeks but this was caused by the delay in getting the oil.
 A special car carrying Manager Samuel Anderson of the Eastern Con- nectieut lines of the Connecticut com- pany, George Edmonds, superintend- ent of the Putnam lines, and officials representing the interests that are to take over the trolley roads in this part of the state, was run over the local lines Tuesday on an inspection trip.
 The service of Senator Mclean in accomplishing the protection of migra- tory birds by federal law, now made effective through regulations of the de- partment of agriculture, is one that deserves more than passing approba- tion. It is thing for.which in years to come the country will be profound lv grateful. New London Telegraph.
 Miss Lima Berle, a recent graduate of Radcliffe college and the daughter of pr. A. NJ. Berle, who delivered the address at the commencement eXercis- es of the High school here last month, has been confirmed by the board as teacher of history rat the High school. She comes highly recommended. Miss Berle's salary is to be s70O year. The board also passed vote ratifying the action of the principals of the High school and Israel Putnam school in awarding diplomas only to those who were graduated.
 Mayor Macdonald and wife left Monday for two weeks trip to their old home at Sydney, Cape Breton, where they will visit relatives. The Mayor has had an unusually strenuous six months. He was representative to inc general assembly where ihis duties as house chairman of thescommittee on Roads, Rivers and Bridges, kept him very busy. As Mayor of the city his dnties have been unusually trying. And in addition he had his regular business as local representative of the wire devision of the Western Union Telegraph Company to attend to. His rest is we'll earned and needed. The