Putnam patriot., 1914-12-25
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 Miss Elizabeth Russell Of Weiles iey cofera is spending lhe bolidays with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. J j. Russell,
 -Friends of souvenir William Haf. Hson Taylor of Hartford are receiving series Of pretty christmas post cards from the former ralnamile.
 -Court City Of Putnam, r. of A., will Install their newly elected officers on Tuesday evening, January 5tb. Dancing will follow. Admission = cents per couple, ladies 10 cents.
 Miss Margaret Noonan, who is at- tending school at convent n Haft. ford, is spending the holiday vacation with her parents, Landlord Noonan and wife of the City Hotel.
 -Mfs. George H. Nichols who lefl Thursday for visit Of several weeks ~ith relatives in the West, ,will remain over the holidays with her sisters ia Gfand Rapids, Michigan. Aflerwafd she wil visit the Nichols sons in St Louis, st. Joseph, and Kansas eily..sz Ut is estimated that persons ie @indham county townsi principally in Putnam and WlIilmauge, ,baFe con. iHbuJed upwards ot s1 ,500 in cash for the relief oi Che war sufferers in Eu. rope. Large quantities of supplies hnke also been sent out from county towns
 There was large gathering # Masonic temple Thursday night ta witness lhe working Of the r (. de gree Dlstuet Deputy Sidney " Bard made his official visit and hd dressed the members. \ collation. was served at the close.
 -Motofcyclisis are interested in T recent decision Of the secretary Of state under which motorcycles carry ing sidecar will not hereafter be forced to pay an extra fee Of s5. In this state the registration fee for solo motorey cles is S2 and the operators license fee S2.
 Samuel E. Johnson of Wiliman- lie, we'll known minstrel man, has signed contract with the Putnam Lodge Of Moose to direct rehearsals and stage 4 minstrel show at the Brad. ] ley theatre some time early in Febru. ary. keheaTsnls commenced this week There were so prisoners at the 1 county jal in Brooklyn Friday, th.s number being considerably below the high record made dufing the summer iaonths Ice cutting will be the next l general exercise on the program for lhe prisoners
 Advertised letters for week ol Dee. 22d.
 eENT1EMEN
 A. Bliss, Joseph NJ. belair, George E. l 6oo, Ralph Warner.
 LADIES
 Mrs. ,AleXio Bfodt ur Miss Bertha l Holly, Ms. J Prentice, Madame Ddlle l Roy.
 Stanley Mocick, Pole complain.
  q roomer in the house where he lived by the name of Anton Dfabies took ss.50 belonging to him while he slept l N hen he awoke ne found only s2.50 in an envelope which had contained Sl0 and note from Dfabies saying that he had taken lhe money but would return it in two weeks. Drabies has disap. peased. The proposed changes in the Put nam fire department that will be made wilh the arrival of the new fire auto truck have mol Us yet been announced but there is talk among the hremen of consolidating Protector and Mansfield hose companies and making one large company to operate with the truck upon is arrival. IL is expected that the remodellng ot fire headquarters, soF which plans haee been drawn, viii Aagin tn the neHr future
 -fte advance In the passenger rates en aae New Haven road with the com mg " She new year will be on the ba sis ol ; l.2 cents a mile and will bring the figures up 10 those of generation ago for Tfwhile every thing has advanced Sn price in The last twenty years rail load fares have been going the other Nny and had not previously figured much in the high cost of living Even with the increase which is to come they will be no higher than decade ago.
 Mrs. Harriet Tourtellotte Of Min. aespolis, whose generosity, with that al her late husband, was the means of building Touftellotte Memorial High school of Thompson, has sent to each member oi Inc Thompson school board, from Flerida, where she is spending the winter, box of fine grape fruit as Christmas gift The boxes arrived last Saturday. It is un. aefstood that Mrs. Tourtellolte will re. turn north in the spring and make her home in Thompson where she former ly lived
 --The new firm which has bought cut the Il l.. Hunt Co., Nillimantic, has met and organized, and will be known as the Church. Reed Company, with capital stock of sl2,00O, the cap