Putnam patriot., 1914-04-10
Items of Local Interest

Miss Eva Lacrolx has accepted n position with Dragon the tailor
 -Wallef Lacroix Is working as clerk in the grocery store of Roy Shippee on Church street.
 Pastor slubben will speak Sunday morning on "rhe Right Use Of the Easter Sabbath"
 Putnam people are receiving post cards appropriate for Easter from Son- Yenir ". II. Taylor of Hartford.
 Miss Ruth White, teacher in New Jersey, is spending her vacation with her mother on Grove street.
 -Mrs. M r. smith has just return. cd from d two weeks visit in Boston and Souihbridge.
 Misses Katherine Seward and May Fuller. have been the guests of Miss Alice Fuller in Worcester the past week.
 Owing to the young mems mission the Knights Of Columbus will not hold their meeting aud initiation Sunday next but will defer it n week.
 Ms. Eben Holden and children of Boston nre the guests of her parents, Dewitt c. Park and wife, superintend- ent and matron at the Children 'sHome.
 There will be a meeting of the Woman's Board of the Day Kimball hospital on Wednesday, April 10th, in Odd Fellows hall at p. m. Exeeu- tive committee meeting at 2 ?. Ill. the same date.
 Walter Hawkins of Glocester, R. l., brought party of fifty shoppers from the village of skeetervile to Put. nam Saturday afternoon in his new auto truck.
 Frank M Bennett, of Flushing, l N. Y., teacher in the New York Pa- rental School, with Mrs, Bennett and daughter Elizabeth, will spend EnsteI at Mir. Bennetts home on Chapel street.
 Advertised Letters, April ';
 LADIES Mrs. Annie NJ. Shea ,, Mrs. Alfred 1 Lemnz, Mrs. Cleo. A. Fulton, Miss Marjorie +. Peters, Mrs. Fred Frye.
 GENTLEMEN
 w. F. Kelly, Frank Ruel, P.Cloutie, l Peter A. Doreneles, k. C. Geyette. 
 The State Board of Agriculture has just issued l6s page book con taining facts and figures concerning agriculture in the state, it's resources and opportunity for development along | agricultural lines. It also contains a | list of farms for sale throughout the state. l.. H. Healey, secretary of the board, supervised the work. There was short calendar session 1 of the Superior court Friday morning with Judge Shumway presiding. On ly one or two minor matters were dis posedof. The March session of the court , was adjourned side die. A short cal endar session will be held in Willi- mantle April 18th.
 Word has been received from the | police of rookline, Moss, that Edwin 1 Holmes, the man who worked three days at the City Hol0l and then disap- l peared taking money belonging 10 his fellow employes, has been arrested in 1 that state and is now serving a sen ! tence In penal institution for larceny.
 Manager George NJ. Pine of the 1 Bradley theatre went to Boston Friday and before he returned had signed q lease taking over the Scenic Temple, a moving picture house in East Boston. MT. Fine will continue his Putnam house the same as. before.
 Men working on pole for the elec- trie light company somehow crossed a wire that set off the fire alarm at two o'clock Saturday afternoon. The com- ! pany from headquarters did not go out but Hose ? from the north end came down to the business center. i People ran from all directions think ing another disastrous fire was under way.
 --Employees in the freight depot found an ugly looking weapon in the freight yard Saturday morning. The instrument was round piece of lead with a strap for handle and made a wicked looking blackjack Near by was discarded suit of clothes 1t ap- bearing from the surroundings that some one had made a quick change and getaway.
 The first pleasant Saturday in { number of weeks wal gladly welcomed by local merchants. People from tn, outlying districts of which Putnam i, the trading center were in town il large numbers in the afternoon ana business was brisk in the stores; Tn, people who have summer homes II Pomfret, Woodstock and Thompson will saon begin to arrive and Putnam will take on it's busy summer aspect. E --------------------------