Putnam patriot., 1914-11-27
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Leon Talbot and Hector Duyeft were Worcester visitors Monday
 Miss MiIdredCaryer visited friends m Worcester Saturday.
 Rev. E. F. Benoit will preach in French al the Baptist iehureh Sunday ai ?. m.
 Mir aud Mrs. (. b. Arnold spent Sunday in Boston, the guest of her orother, Philip c. Levitt.
 Charles F., Bagbee and Mrs. Mary B. medbury attended the funeral Of Gpcian A. Taylor in Worcester OF @starday
 Miss Josephine Nj. Clifford was The week end lguest of her brother, Rev. Clarence Clifford, at North Tiyerton, B.T
 Special trains and automobile par zes passed through Putnam Saturday morning eu route to the Yaie-Harvard gA1e.
 The case of J. ] Burk ys Sam Am zotoI. which was to have been tried before Judge Mann of the city court and Jury Monday morning, was again postponed for week.
 Bert Carpenter, Northampton cor respondent for the Springfield Repub- sean, graduate of the Putnam High school, has been visiting his mother, sfrs A f. s. Davis.
 At q meeting of Quinebaug Lodge, 4. F. x A NJ. held at Masonic temple aast Thursday evening the E. A. de gree was conferred. District Deputy sidney Bara of Brook Iyn was present.
 Edward Morrill, of Worcester, for .aerly manager or the Bradley theatfe, is negotiating for moving picture and vaudeville theatre in Bridgeport Ills father is associated with bim.
 --There was a large attendance al me clnss initiation held by the Put nam Nest Order of Owls last Thursday night The order k progressive one and new members are being regularly admitted
 Tine Grand Trunk railroad now un- der construction Is being rapidly push. ed to completion. The heavy blasting can be heard in this city although the nearest point to Putnam is over F smiles distant.
 While il showed in Putnam near ly all day Thursday, five miles to the south of us 1t rained. The dividing line was near Alexanderis Lake, the snow lines southern limit being just opposite the club house.
 Tax collector oseph Nick achnie is making demands upon delinquents who have failed to pay their sidewalk and sprinkling taxes land if payment as not made on demand suits will be brought by the eity 10 recover the amount of assessment.
 Bernard Ernst and Miss Florence Miller, both Of Milbury, Mass, the former an actor and the latter mill operative, were married in Putnam Saturday afternoon by Lawyer NJ. Il. Geissler acting as n justice of pence.
 States attorney Charles E. Searls, by the death of Judge Huber Clark of WilIimantic, becomes the dean of the Mindham county bar. MT. Searls be- gan the practice of law in Putnam in ss70, four years after Judge Clark be. gan practice in Willimantic.
 Johnson shoe shop has shut down, also the Eureka silk mill. The other silk mills are running light. = ome of the cotton mills are also run ming on short time. Putnam is be- ginning to feel the business depression in it's local industries.
 --AdmirAl Caspar r. Goodrich has closed his PomfIet hoiNe. and with his daughter, Mrs. Belknap,, has gone to New York for the winter. He had planned tour around the, world and visit with his younger daughter in India, but abandoned his plans on nc count of the war.
 Last Thursday afternoon a round- CT from Webster sided mp To Captain Ntnrtay Of the police force and stated that he was going to jump on inc 3 90 express and steal ride to Hartford. He was warned not to do so and changed his mind, although he stood watching the train pull out with long Iag eyes.
 k ----A number of members Of the local atpreNer, D. A. k will go to New Ha- ssl ehe apth, for the State Conven. ssosl several hundred are eN pected to ee in attendance, including Governor e5aldMia and staff. The Daughters sNsll lanch at Hotel Taft. Mrs. A. NJ. s5ylsesg formerly of Thompson, will en- Certain the local delegates.
 -tlsnters and others who go into The woods are being urged to use more care in the use of matches or smoking articles Another fire recently occur red ia Thompson doing considerable damage to woodland, which has been traced to the cafelessness of some one An throwing down burnt match.
 Among those who attended the Iale- e-Harvard football game were the following; Dr. and Mrs, J. j Rus sell, Henry A. W heelock, Edward II,