Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15

ing in Mystic.
 -G. Harold Gilpatric spent Sunday st Pleasant View.
 James Bussey of Norwich has been calling on friends in the city.
 Miss Elma Martin is visiting her cousin in New Hampshire.
 Miss Mae Bradley is spending a week at the Thousand Islands.
 William Rafferty, Jr., and his sis ter are guests of relatives in Williman- tic.
 -J. B. Tatem, Jr., and John B. Byrne spent Sunday at Crescent Beach.
 Mrs. k. c. Morse and son have re- turned from an outing at Chapman Beach.
 Miss Constance Russell has return. ed from visit with relatives in Med- ford, Mass.
 -0mer Maynard, fireman on the New Haven road, is having a weeks vacation.
 Miss Ellen Wheelock, with rela- tives from Uxbridge, is at Plymouth, Mass, for the week.
 Miss Alice West, bookkeeper for Hammond Knowlton Company, is having her vacation.
 -J. C. Paine of Bridgeport was in Putnam Friday enroute to his old home in Woodstock.
 -Patrolman Julius Cordier is hay ing his weeks vacation. Benjamin Chaffee is substituting
 Charles Allaire of Worcester was the guest of his brother-in-law, Mark H. Wilson, last week.
 Colonel N. NJ. Parker has returned from visit of several weeks with rela- tives in Colorado.
 -E. NJ. Barney and wife left Mon- day morning for Webster Lake where they will be in camp for two weeks.
 Mrs. F. Walden Wright of New Haven has been the guest of her par ents, k. c. Murfey and wife, Grove street.
 State Highway Commissioner C. J. Bennett was in the city Saturday looking over the proposed Elm street improvement.
 Putnam Council, K. of C. are to be invited to join the Webster council at their annual field day and outing at Webster Lake, Oct. 12.
 Albert Jarvis left Monday morn- ing for visit with relatives in Canada. He will join his daughter who has been there for some weeks.
 The Whiteside- Strauss Stock Com- pany have begun rehearsing their rep ertoire of plays in this city previous to going on the road for the season.
 Joseph A. P. Gagne, wife and daughter Gladys, left Sunday morn, ing for visit with relatives in Provi- dence, going from there to visit MT. Gagne's brother in Boston.
 pr. Omer LnRue, President and George Potvin secretary of the St. Jean Baptist society, have been elected delegates to the 2ist annual conven- tion of the Franco American soceity to be held in Hartford, September 9 and 10.
 Fourteen Putnam telephone opera tors have been in Danielson this week receiving instructions at the local ex- change in operating of common :bat- terv switchboard, such as the new telephone building at Putnam is being with. At present the mag neto system is in use in Putnam.
 William Davis of Elizabeth, N. J., l formerly city editor of the Windham County Observer, is spending his va cation in Dayville, his former home, l and calling on friends in Putnam. He | is now a reporter on an Elizabeth | daily paper.
 Two runabout automobiles came | together in Main street Saturday after | noon and broken headlight and bent | mudguard resulted. Each driver at tempted to pass wagon and neither saw the other. Both machines were | running very slowly at the time.
 At St. Mary's church last Sunday | Rev. C. F. Bedard gave notice that the 1 monthly collection will be taken at all l masses next Sunday and that the | money will go towards the school im- | movements. Friday is the feast of the | Assumption and meat may be eaten on that day but must be abstained | from on Thursday. There will be masses at 5 and s a. m. and a high mass at g o'clock.
 The school board is very much pleased at the corps of teachers secur- ed for the High school. It is thought that the school will surpass its previ- ous standing for efficiency. The only vacancy remaining to be filled is that of domestic science teacher. Those en- gagged are: John w. Backus, Millbury, Mass, principal; Harrison $. Coday, Milford, Mass, submaster; Cressentia Beck, Boston, French and German; Lima Berle, Cambridge, history.
 Mrs. Walter Carl of Boston, who is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Brad lev of South Main street, narrowly es- caped serious injuries Sunday when she jumped from carriage directly in front of an automobile driven by a
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