Putnam patriot., 1913-04-11

' day in Willimantic and Tuesday and Wednesday in Brooklyn.
 Mrs. Lillian Broadhurst of Willi. mantle is the guest of her cousins, the Misses Truesdell, Chapel street.
 Miss Angie Kennedy has been en- tertaining two cousins from South bridge and Voluntown.
 Mrs. Cora Anderson, formerly of Putnam, now of Providence, has been guest of Miss Emma Barrett.
 The Marvin Barrett place on W ood- stock avenue has been sold to Ray c. Bosworlh of this city.
 -George E. Shaw was in Portland Tuesday, attending a meetig of the water company in that place.
 Rev. B. F. Benoit and wife are in Worcester for few days. MT. Benoit is to occupy the pulpit of one of the churches in that city next Sunday. l Miss Marjorie Richardson, of 1 iho"h ohANCiSity1 "iAo was OPeioeSu upon for appendicitis, has returned to her home in this city. Miss Henrietta Radikin of Rum- ford, R. returned Thursday after several days visit with F. E. Bad mington and family of Mechanics 1 street.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Norcross, who has been visiting in Worcester the past ! few weeks, where she was taken ill, has recovered and returned to her home in this city.
 A number from this city attended a minstrel show in Webster Wednes day evening. The show was put on by the Club Gagnon and was decided success.
 Miss Louise Gallagher, teacher in the eighth grade, Israel Putnam school, has resigned to accept a better position elsewhere. Her resignation takes effect the 25th of this month. The S9th birthday of Mrs. I. l.. Bradley occurs today, Thursday, and she twill be pleased to receive her friends at her home on South Main street from to 6 o'clock. -Ja E. Greene and wife have re- turned from visit with relatives in North Carolina. They spent acouple of weeks in Washington on their way north.
 A large delegation of the Putnam Lodge of Elks attended the funerals of James J Lynch and his father at Webster on Monday The former died upon learning of the death of the lat ter.
 Miss Emma Thomas of Fishers Island called on friends in the city last Thursday. She was formerly resident of Putnam and worked in the telephone exchange here
 -PostmasterLetter announces that the Putnam office has been directed by the postmaster-general to discon-
 
 cilitate deliveries. The ,order became effective Monday.
 Miss A 1ah Labby, ticket agent at the Bradley theatre for the past two years, has resigned and concluded her duties there Saturday evening. Miss Labby goes to a local millinery firm. She is succeeded by Miss Louise Davi- son.
 Thomas Culley, clerk at the City Hotel, expects to sail on the Cymric from Boston, April 2, for an annual visit with his family in England. He plans bringing his wife and four chil- dren to this country. A notice of an auction to be held at the farm of Fayette l.. Wright, Pomfret Centre, appears in another column. The sale will include num- Der of head of blooded stock which MT. Wright is to stop raising in favor of different breed.
 Geo. w. Child camp, Sons of Vet erans, will hold a smoker at their reg. ular meeting this Friday evening in Foresters' hall. Addresses will be made by Past Commander A. o. Fair banks of Norwich, Comrades Scho. field and Pattison of Webster, and others.
 Funeral services for Leo E. South- worth, a Southington druggist, were held Sunday afternoon at 5.30 o'clock at his residence in Watertown. Ser vices were held in the Bradley memo rial chapel at 80 o'clock. The Rev. J. R. Stubbert of this city, his former pastor, conducted the services.
 Representative Charles J. Johnson says that little progress has been made toward putting through the bill that provides for the establishment in Windham county of an institution for the care and treatment of patients suf- fering from tubercular troubles. The bill is still in the hands of the commit tee on humane institutions, but no date has been set for hearing.
 Two young men assaulted Agent George A. Vaughan in the mill yard of the Putnam Manufacturing compa. ny Friday afternoon and made their escape. MT. Vaughan was thrown down and somewhat bruised about the body. The men started to go into the