Putnam patriot., 1914-08-21
Items of Local Interest


 -Captain of Police John Murray has resumed his duties after a week I, vacation.
 MT and Mrs John Reilly Of Wili. mantle, were recent guests Of Mis-, Hattie B. Fox.
 Miss Alice sherman, chief opera tor at the telephone exchange, is hay ing her vacation.
 Miss Blanche Douglass of Sterling has been q guest of Miss Marjorie Rich ardson.
 Misses Hattie and Ellie tnman, and Miss Mabel Hiidreth are spending the week al savin Rock
 A. 4. Rrodear was in New Haven Saturday attending a meeting of the trustees of the Grand Court, fofesters of America, ef which lie Is member.
 Miss Verna NJ Fuller hos return cd 10 complete her course al the wor- cester city hospital, after vacation spent Tn Bridgeport and at her home here.
 Judge J. Harry Mann has returned from two weel al his summer cottaee in Gales Ferry. lie will spend the week.ends there during the remainder of the season.
 MI. and Mrs. George S. Bradley have been entertaining at their .sum- mer cottage at Pleasant View, Mrs. BfadIey's brother, W. II. Hall and family of San Francisco
 Joseph Rieardi who has been spending his vacation At Sound View, was called nome on account of the ill., Dess of C. NJ. Elliott, proprietor Of the store where he Is clerk,
 "A. c. Warner Woman's Relief Corps, No. 3s, will hold their annual picnic at the home Of their president, Mrs. Ella M Wood, Wednesday, Sep lem Der 2d. A large attendance is de- sired
 --Dr. ] ]. Russell, Alderman John A Dady, and Judge E. C. Wright, with Joseph Langlois, challeur, left ia the doctors automobile Monday night for fishing trip to Indian Lake, NJ.
 Charles E. Belair of the battleship Connecticut recently arrived at Phila- delphia from Mexican waters, arrived home Tuesday morning, coming to at tend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Pe' fer Sl. Onge held at 5t. Mary's church.
 The new postal restrictions pro vide that no coin shall be received into Glsat Bdtain by means of pareels pqst. Coins which are minted in foreign country cannot be sent to Great Brit ain by mall.
 Mayor Archibald Macdonald has returned from his vacation spentin his old home in Nova Scotia. lis son John has returned from Indiana where he recently received diploma from ihe engineering department of Nalpa. riso University.
 Connecticut gets ,3s9 as it's share of the $l ,599, ,362 set aside for the fiscal year 1915 by the secretary of war for the purchase of supplies and ann munilion under the military Inv. The announcement was made Wednesday at Washington by the war depart ment.
 The East Putnam church held A clam bake al The home of A. A. Tough ton, East Putnam Saturday afternoon. Another clam bake was held Sunday al the home of JoFph smith, East Thomps at which members of the smith family 10 the number Of twenty were present.
 -IIermon c Carver and George Pot Nin, registrars of voters, have finished registering voters on the caucus lists, I3s names were added to the lists, l6 to the Republican and - Co the demo cratic list No Progressive voters reg. istefed. CT those registered six were women of whom live were Republicans and one Democrat.
 MT and Mrs. John Phinney of IIaydenyille, Mass, have been spend. ing the week with Mir. aud Mrs. c. X, Hammond, Oak lIili. Mr. Phinney Is a member Of the 18th Connecticut Vol unteers Association and attended their reunion Wednesday, While here he has been visiting friends in the county among W hom were MT. and Mrs. lin- coln of Chaplin, the former 9l and the latter a0 years old, both enjoying conn fortsble health and glad to have their friends call al all times.
 -s. Diamond is somewhat worried about lae whereabouts of his wife who Is in Europe. Mir. Diamond received a letter from her two weeks ago and she was then with relatives in Ger many. She wrote that within few days she was going 10 Austria to visit other relatives and since that tune ME Diamond has heard nothing from her. In her letter she did not mention any. thing about the unsettled condition Oi the country or a possibility oi war, probably little realizing that serious trouble was brewing or she would have started for home as she was soon [, come.
 Plank H. Cordier left Monda, morning to enter st. Nineent's hospi tal, Worcester, where he will have | saeand oneraiion parformed upon hi