Putnam patriot., 1914-06-26
Items of Local Interest Notes About the City

John O'Bden spent sunday in Bos- lon
 The seniar elass of the High school held picnic al Alezandef's lake last Saturday.
 -Mfs.W. l. Bartlett, has entertained al supper iulonalIy after many Of the lectates for the whole automobile par ty of the Woman suffrage campaign.
 -Geofee 4. Vaughan, for many years superintendent of the Putnam Manufacturing compauy's millsi has been promoted to thg position Of ageht.
 Antonio Beimr nas returned from Worcester where be underwent an op- eratiou at hospital lie has greatly improved ID hcaIth.
 Deputy sheen George F. lioh brook, his vile and daaghterin law of N oonsocket, Wilh Wallace smith, are occupying summer cottage at Lords 1 Point for two weeks.
 An automobile eollided with tel ephone pole in the northeast section of the town friday afternoon and was quite bndly damaged. The occupants were not injured
 Superintendent of Schools Gordon (. Swift left Friday for his home Tn Edinboro, Pa He will not return next year having resigned to entetIbns. | tneSS life in New \ ork
 Archie Macdonald, son of Mayor Macdonald, has returned from Nalpa- raiso, lll., where he has completed his first year x studies in the law school of Valparaiso uniVefsityd
 -pf. Il. w. Sharpe and Attorney
 Ernest G.s sMorse went to Canterbury Friday and returned in the evening with good string of tfoHt,sthe largest weighing slightly over pound.
 Miss Margaret Peek has invited the Barnard girls of the Woman's $ suf- irage campaign party to be her guests while in pomfret. Miss Peek and Miss Rankin are both members of the class of l9I4, and both have always been ar dent uIlfagists.,
 -Busiuess among the silk mills of Putnam is getting slack. The Ham- mond, Knowlton .S Co. mill, the lar gest in the city, is running five days a week, and some of the smaller mills are running but four days a week.
 A Pope. Hartford automobile fire truck enreule from Hartford to Provi- dence fer delivery, stopped in Putnam al fire headquarters Tuesday evening.
 It was viewed by city officials and many citizens. It k the style truck that was recommended by the first committee of the council appointed to investigate the matter
 Putnam k to have q safe and sane
 Fourth aceording To the stand taken
 by Mayor Macdonald, who has issued
 orders and caused notices to be printed
 setting forth that the law will be
 strictly enforced. No.plans have been made for q public observance of the day in this city.
 Deputy Sheuf Michael Grimshaw of ktlinglY secured this section Tues
 daV hunting for a man or men who ! broke inte Campbell's saloon the night before and carried away a supply oi
 wet goods lie was assisted here by
 the local police but nothing developed to give a clew to the burg glars, Applications for admission 10 the State trade school are being received daily and il is expected that there will , be large enrollment in the near fu' ture. Mir. Tnnder, who has charge oi all trade schools, was in the city Fri day and Saturday. lie is keeping in } close touch with the Putnam school
 which is the youngest in the state. A horse driven by George Locke ran away on Front street Friday after [ noon. Mir Locke was thrown out but not seriously injured. The horse ran 1 up South Main street. One of the f reins caught in wheel and the horse ! was thereby being guided 10 the right ! towards the twenty-five foot railroad | embankment south of the new posi- T office site when 1t was stopped by C 2 Nj. Elliott just AS it reached the edge oi
 the bank
 Q Superintendent George Edmonds - of the Shore Line Electric Company | Putnam division, has announced that Q the half.hourly schedule for running | cars during the summer will go into - effect Monday next, There will De nc !. change from the regular hourly cars '- The half-hour servlee will begin in the |. afternoon and continue into the early ! evening hours. The first hslf-houl z northhound ear will leave the car barr s- at o'clock and the first southbounC e ear will leave Putnam center st 2.05 e the last southboUnd 10 Danielson beins e at 7.06. The halt.hourly service Is be q tween West Thompson and Danielsot
 only.