Putnam patriot., 1913-02-21

I
 Mrs. Mabel A. Randall.
 civilian Desautels has sold his
 lunch room on Providence street to Jo-
 seph Bodo.
 Albert Marion went to Boston
 Monday where he has position in a foundry.
 Joseph Rivard was in Worcester
 Thursday.
 Mrs. Francois Maynard entertained
 party at whist at her home on Wal
 nut street Friday evening.
 Misses Marie and Exilda Caisse spent few days recently with Mrs.
 Joseph Landry in Woonsocket. l Miss Lauretta Allard is attending the millinery openings in New York and Boston.
 l Miss Bessie Sheehan, nurse at the l Day kimball hospital, has resigned and gone to Providence. --Dr. K. w. Darmer, who has been 1 in serious physical condition for sew
 eral months, has entered sanitarium
 in Norwich for treatment. MT. and Mrs. Geo. A. Hammond leave on the evening train for Wash ington, D. C., due there at ' a. m. Fri
 day morning, for the week. Their re- servations are at the New Willard, Armand Magnan and wife and l Michel Magnan and wife made up q theatre party yithat attended the mati- ! nee performance of the Garden of AL lah in Boston, Saturday: Miss Helen Bradley, Berlin, is at home caring for her mother, Mrs. Elm
 ma k. Bradley, who is ill at her home
 on Sunnyside with pneumonia and pleurisy.
 -Nows comes from Boston that Miss Violet Edmands, who was engaged to be married to the Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, is now a missionary in Jap an. At one time she was in Thomp- son and Pomfret.
 Joseph Trahan, who has been a
 resident of this city for the past two years, has gone with his family to
 Danielson, where they will be employ. ed in the mill of the Danielson Cotton company.
 Daniel D. Dwyer, brother of M NJ. and William w. Dwyer Of this city, died early Monday morning. Mir. Dwyer was in Providence settling the estate of an aunt who recently died, and contracted pneumonia Friday. His home was in Waterbury. -George D. Clarke, letter carrier at the post office, was elected alderman from ward to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alderman J. Clinton Nichols, at special meeting of the
 common council Tuesday evening.
 The immediate danger of a strike of ,000 locomotive firemen, tying up 54
 eastern railroads was averted by the
 consent of the railroad managers to ar-
 bitrate the controversy under the fede- ral Erdman act.
 ID. B. Gilbert and wife entertained
 R. H. Gilbert and family of Woon- socket over Sunday. Tuesday even- | ing Mrs. Gilbert's Sunday school class
 gave her party in honor of her birth day.
 Israel Putnam Lodge, No. 33, |. | 0. 0. F., worked the second degree on
 Tuesday. Two applications were re-
 ceived. It was voted to accept the in- vitation of Puritan Lodge of Stam- 1 ford to make them a fraternal visit on the evening of March 2. The com
 mittee reported at this meeting that | the round trip ticket will be S496 of
 which the lodge will pay s1 for each member attending.
 -The burglars who murdered Po- liceman Driscoll in Jewett City early I Saturday morning, were sought in this 1 city last Monday. Officers believing | that the men had come north came to this city and consulted with Captain Murray. Places they would be likely to resort to were visited but nothing developed.
 The T. A. x B. society held suc- cessful whist in their rooms Thursday evening. Thirty-five tables were used. ID of nin
 were played. During the evening there was program of vocal and in- strumental numbers. Light refresh ments were served. The rooms were prettily decorated for the occasion. The ladies' prize, rocking char, was awarded to Mrs. Philip Meunier. The gentlemen's prize, dress suit case, was awarded to,Alva Proulx. Conso- lation prizes were also awarded. -Benoni Sweet, who more than 50 years ago established a reputation as tight rope walker, died in Providence Sunday night. He began his career of tight rope walking on October II, 1859, when he walked across Silver Lake, near Olneyville, R. I. This was at an exhibition which lasted three days, and on the third day he carried stove
 with him and stopping midway on
 the rope, cooked a meal and ate it. From then on he performed marvel ous feats on the tight rope, and during | his entire career, he failed the public but once. He frequentlyIgavee exhibi. l tions in Putnam in the 6Os stretching his rope from the roof of the old Quin-