Putnam patriot., 1913-07-18


 Jasper Holmes and family retur- ned Tuesday from Old Orchard Beach. MT. and Mrs. George E. Dresser have gone to their summer home in Vermont
 Kenneth Sharpe has returned from a weeks visit with his brother William in Stamford.
 The monthly collection will be taken next Sunday at all masses at St. Mary's church.
 -Cyrill Remillard spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Harry St. onge, in Worcester
 -C. k. Child and family left Thurs day for Grove Beach, to spend the re- mainder of the summer. -Horatio Brown has been enter tsining his daughter, Mrs. Newell of Pawtucket, at the home of Mrs. NJ. c. Leonard.
 The Ravenna of the ladies of St. Anne will begin with special devo- tions, Friday evening, at St. Mary's church.
 John A. Casey of the Worcester Gazette, wife and children, have been guests of MT. Gasey's mother on Bridge street.
 The ladies of the W. R. C. hold a basket picnic at the home of Ms. C. s. Albee, South Main street this Thurs day afternoon.
 Mrs. A. K. Cole and Miss $. Elizabeth Clarke are spending week at Mt. Wauchusett, going from Wor- eester by automobile. MT. and Mrs. Henry Morse of Grove street left Sunday for Nova Scotia, where the Morse company is to appear during the summer. Local insurance agents were at Coventry lake last Friday where they enjo yed an outing and clambake in conjunction with agents from Norwich and Willimantic.
 A real estate transfer recorded at the town clerks office is of property of Nancy R. Williams, through F. w. Seward, executor to Julienne San Souci of this city.
 -J, A. Gagne and wife, M. J. Lynch and wife, in MT. Gagne's auto, and Richard German and wife in their roadstser, returned from Rochester, N. Y., Tuesday afternoon.
 Mrs. John Fallon, who has been visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs. D. c. Park, has returned to Boston. She will return later accompanied with her husband, her children remaining with their grandparents.
 Officer Edward McMahon of the Boston police force, whose parents live in Hampton, has been awarded pen sion of $650 year. He was wounded in an attempt to capture the Jama aica Plain bandits some years'ago.
 During the thunder shower Sun- day night lightning struck the cupola of the barn at the home of Mrs. John Ross, Bridge street. Only slight dam- age was done but people in the house and the neighbors felt the shock and were somewhat frightened.
 Jean De Vicq of Willimantic, well known in Putnam, has at last got a place from the administration which he helped put in power, as head of the foreign voters bureau of the democrat ic national committee in the last cam paign. De Vicq was appointed to a confidential place in the immigration service at Buffalo, N. r., at salary of S1 $50 a year He had previously been mentioned as candidate for fourth assistant postmaster general and other offices.
 -Ex-Senator G. A. Hammond re- gently entertained party of friends. They enjoyed an automobile ride through the surrounding country and stopped at the hotel on Hampton hill for dinner. The party filled two autos and among the party were Miss Is- abelle Breckinridge of Haydenville, | Miss Edna Phinney of Northampton, l MT. and Mrs. DeCoudres of Grafton, Mass, and their guest, Mrs. Lanphere ] of East Hartford.
 Agent Mcintyre of the Massachu- setts State Board of Charities, who took Alfred Martin, who was locked up by the police as runaway last week, to Norwich in an endeavor to locate and secure a watch which the lad and 8 companion had stolenfrom their benefactress at Oxford, was suc- cessful. He returned on an afternoon train last Thursday, and as he passed through Putnam came out on the plat farm of the car and held the watch up to the view of Captain Murray that ne
 might know of his success.
 Last Thursday night Mrs. Emma
 Dixon a matron at the Founding ana
 Ornhans home, New York, was in
 Putnam. She left ,that city in the
 morning with seven girls and two hovs which she placed in homes dur , ing the day. They were located in New London, Nowich, Plainfield Dan- ;s,son and North Grosvenordale. The
 laSt A little boy, was delivered to MT. and Mrs, Dennis Porthier in ,bis cits where they came to receive him He was bright little fellow about four years old and as soon as
 Mrs Porthier saw him she gathered