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Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
NORTH WOODSTOCK

Mrs. Frank Jordan entertained a company of friends at tea last I'm ss- day in honor of Mrs. Louise Jorda Pierce of Stoughton who WAS her guest.
 The Social Danes met with Miss Mildred Brown last Thursday. Mrs. Jessie Marsh and Mrs. C. l. Rawson assisted in their entertainment. Mrs. Frank Perrin received a gilt of birth- dny book from the club members, as 1t was her birthday.
 Miss Lillian Anderson has returned from visit Tn Manchester where she went several weeks ago.
 Clarence Pierce of Worcester is al Roekledee Farm for weeks vacation.
 Miss lsunice Hubbard is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Alice Hay ward of Put nam, this week.
 Miss Maude Milligan fis at Storrs at tending the summer school.
 Miss Marguerite Clemons has been spending several weeks with her uu- cie, Winfield Hiboard of East Long, meadow.
 Mir. and Mrs l.. ]. Leavitt have re turned from their western trip. Their daughter remained for q longer visit.
 Leroy Allen and family have been enjoying two weeks at Wells Beach, where they hired a cottage.
 Miss Lurana Cummia ags and daugh- ter Fleta of Wilmington have been the guests of MT. and Mrs. Edgar Tfask for several days.
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
WOODSTOCK

There was no service at the First church Sunday evening on account of Chautauqua services Tn Putnam.
 MT. and Mrs. Leonard James have been at their Woodstock home a few days recently.
 Miss Rilla Child left on Monday for the Storrs summer school.
 P. R. Dean is making Improvements upon the house at Palmer Place, inclu ding electric lighting, plum ping, etc.
 Mir. and Mrs. Earl and daughter of Philadelphia have been guests of k. k. Rollins this week.
 Miss Gladys Sheldon has returned from visit in Boston.
 Miss Mary Lyon has spent Chautau- qua week as guest of Mrs. Lottie May in Putnam.
 Mss Mabel Riteh is home for her vacation.
 The Good Cheer club of Woodstock will give an entertainment in Acade my Hall on Saturday evening, July 3lst al oeioek Miss Charlotte Gros- venor of Pomfret will sing. Rev. MT Harrison will read three farces which will be ,accom panied by shadow pam tomimes. Candy, dolls and novelties will be on sale during the evening The entertainment is Day KimbaIl hospital benefit.
 Mrs. Hattie Lucy Webster of Wal ton, Florida, daughter of the late Vii liam A. Moilitt, passed away the 9th of July, and was buried at Fort Pierce, Fla. She leaves q husband, Everett Webster of Walton, and one sister Mrs. Mlla F. Myers of Woodstock.
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
POMFRET

Preparations are under way for an event which promises to besof unusual interest to music lovers and those who appreciate the artistic value of Japa- nese life as portrayed in song, dance, and costume.
 On Tuesday evening, August 3d, at six o'clock, supper will be served in a Japanese tea garden which is being ar ranged adjacent to the common of the Congregational church. Here will be served dainty dishes by the almond eyed maidens of Japan, and to the sound of oriental music. At o'clock a musical program will be presented. This is being arranged by Miss Char iotte Gfosvenor and is as follows: Potpourri Grand Opera Airs, Orchestra Simple Aveu do Ar the Tea House Geisha Girls Chin Chin Chinaman, W.van der Laan Chinaringaree, Esther Gustayisan
 Lyman Eitts Brown October Ale Eugene Brodeur Chon kina Louise Warren Yen How and six little wives, Fred Ash Scene, Madame Butterfly, Charlotte
 Grosvenor, Katharine Moves
 George Gulski of Boston has kindly consented 10 act as pianist, and under Ills AOlt AlttEAAOu lAlG OlGAANNNi a iH O-- ing trained. The evening promises to furnish one of the most interesting and unique entertainments ever given in Pomfret. Admission 25 cents. Re served seats 50 cents. It will be given for the benefit of the Congregational church.
 Paul and Elinor Phelps of Farming ton are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Over lock.
 Vinton Freddy is in town and has 8 friend visiting him.
 The new piece of road built last sea son is having tar and oil put upon it, which will make 1t much easier for the horses feet as well as makes the dust less.
 Mr. and Mrs Chet Smith and daugh- ter Gladys are here visiting from 0ssi ming, \. |.
 Mrs. Byrnes was away over Sunday.
 Quite number Of people from here are attending Chautauquazat Puonam this week.
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
Bradley Theatre

This Friday we offer what is no doubt the quaintest play of the season, a picture with an absolutely new and distinetiveiy novel plot The feature is "The Bachelors Romance with the excellent actor, John Emerson, in the title role. Popular Mary Fuller will be on the screen Saturday in "The Ho- nor of the OTmsbyS.N On the same bill with Mary Fuller is Warren ker- rigan, who won the beauty contest in California, who will be seen in "fhe Guardian of the EIoek.h The Anima. ted Weekly will give the current news, and comedy entitled IA miXup al MaXimsn that's a scream.
 Monday, Paramount presents Fheo- dore Roberts in "rhe Circus Man, big five Feel production with some of the greatest circus scenes ever attemp- ted, written by lGeorge Barr MeSuteh- con.
 On Wednesday Paramount offers their sweetest offering, ,namelyBlanehe Sweet, and she Is as clever an actress as she is charming and sweet. Sue will appear in a six reel masterpiece, called "rheW aTTenS of Virginia, sup ported by a cast of stars. And here Is short list of the plays and players that follow: Marshal Neiian in ''The Country Boy" Nance OiNeil in Toi- stoS kreutzer Sonata, specially re. auested return engagement Of Mary Pickford in Hearts Adrift, William Farnum in kipling's A Fool There Was, Betty Nansen, the royal Norwe- gian actress in the Celebrated Scandal, and a long list of others stoo early yet to mention. These are some of the reasons why We challenge any theatre in New England to offer their patrons a better program of pictures than are being shown every single day at the cool, comfortable Bradley Adv
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
WEST WOODSTOCK

\ dance WAS held in Lyceum hall on Saturday evening. About twenty were present. Refreshments consisting of cake and lemonade were served.
 Nr. and Mrs. Frank Maui and son have returned to their home in Passa- ie after spending two weeks at Ken. elm,
 F. Williamson and family of Hart ford motored to town on Sunday.
 Misses Florence and Dorothy Cox are spending a couple of weeks at Mashapaug
 J. NJ. Perrin and family motored to Dayville on Sunday.
 Miss Barbara Morse and Nayland Harris were in Putnam on Sunday.
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
LITTLE ECONOMIES.

If in the serving of meats one is careful to give no more than the per
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
THOMPSON

The w. C. T. U. will mee withMrs. Charles Goodwin at Wilsonvilie, on Thursday, July %, at 2 p. m. The usuaIaprogram will be observed and plans for the annual meeting will be made. A good attendance Is desired
 Mir. and Mrs. Covell of Providence are at their country home, Sunset Hlll' Robert Hammond and wife have been spending their vacations with Mrs. Hammond's parents, MT. and Mrs. Howard Ingraham.
 The jitney auto bus is very much ap- preciated by our residents. Besides the accommodation lof passenger con- vevance it is useful in doing errandS, people finding MT. Houghton very willing and ready to do service in that way.
 The hay crop on Fort Hill Farm has been sold standing to different local farmers and is being rapidly harvested by them.
 The stable of one of our automobile owners was visited one night by some one who appropriated one ot the tlres and five gallons of oil. Of the many provoking things that occur 10 the owner of an auto this would seem to be as mean one AS any
 Rev. ]. K. Moore was homesand oc- cupied his pulpit lastsSunday, having spent the week with his family who are al short Beach near New Haven. He ex poets to rejoin his family In Au- rust and will be accompanied oy VI ITS. Backus and her daughter, Miss Muriet. 4 suspicious looking traveller was discovered Tuesday ievening taking lodging in a hammock on the piazza oI one of our summer residents. lie was brought before Justice Chandler and fined. which he failed to pay and so was committed to jail at Brooklyn.
 MT. Foster. the efficient and accom- modating clerk at the store has decIu- ed not to go into The fish business.
 Mrs. Robert Peterson and daughter are at Prince Edward lsland visiting her parents al her old home.
 Quinnatisset Grange is 10 have ils picnic at Green $ grove, Quadlc pond, this week Friday.
 Frank Ramsey is the new chauffeur for Mrs. F. E. Reed.
 MRS MARIETTA MILLS
 Mrs Marietta Mills, WI1oW oi tue late Joseph Mills, died at the residence of her son in WilsOnvIlie Tuesday ai- fernoon after an illness of a few weeks. The funeral viii be held al her late home in The Quadic district Friday ai- ternoon al 1 clock, Rev. J. h. MooIe officiating. ,. Mrs. Marietta Mills, whose whole married life was spent in our eomfnu nity, was born in Fall River 70 years
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
Work Is HarmIess.

Work never hurt anyone if it was only broad enough and deep enough in its claims on human nature. Our ex- tremeiy long lived men have always been hard workers. Pope Leo XIII, who died at ninety Humboldt, who died at ninety-two; Gladstone and Virehow, oetogenarians, are exam pies in our time. Is 1t any wonder that a physician gets impatient when people talk about the men and women of our generation doing so much that they are exhausting vitality? The trouble is they do not do enough.
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
aOEs NEVILLE

Miss Ruth Morse has returned to her home in North Ashford after a weeks visit with Mrs Wheaton.
 Mrs. Sarah Latham and son Wilfred spent last Friday in Putnam.
 Several from .here attended a whist party at the Eastford House last week.
 Mrs. Jacobs entertained her brother from Warrenville last Friday.
 Misses Edith Wheaton ,and Hazel sherman have gone to Storrs college for two weeks.
 Thomas Colburn, formerly of Burn- side, has returned here and entered the employ of William Bates.
 Several from here started for the WaFrenville dance Friday night. All reported fine time.
 Miss Marion Green of Rockville is visiting with Mrs. Bert Green.
 Miss Elsie Hall of Hyde Park is spending her vacation at the Bennett farm.
 MT. and Mrs. Leo Creapo are enter taining friends from Millbury.
 MT. and Mrs. Peckham and Mrs. Lamphear of Willimantic were here Sundaysin their Studebaker car and called on several friends.
 Friends from Hartford were enter. tained at OVerdale Sunday.
 Oliver Latham accompanied Dr. Hutchins on a fishing trip to Webster lake last Friday.
 Charles Downing went fishing at Crystal Lake Monday asnd reported having the good luck of catching four teen bass.
 There was sale of hay at Mrs. Gut horn's farm on Friday, and the hay was sold at low price.
 $. A. sWheaton visited his farm in Ashford Sunday to examine the hay crop.
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23

Wife keeps within her expenses. one hOusekeeper who has tried the method of cooperation with her cook in hold ing to a certain yearly table expense has paid her s10 extra yearly, and finds they have even better food. for the cook takes personal interest in both having attractive food and keep ing within her limit. This is method worthy of trial by ether progressive women. and. by the way, il keeps the cook at least a year to try out the method
 ox-Joints With veeetabIes.-Two ox-joints have enough meat on them to furnish flavor to quite a dish of vegetables. Cut two ox-tails in pieces at the joints, put into saucepan, cover with water and boil five min utes, drain and saute in butter. to which sliced onion has been added. When we'll scared and Drowned add half cupful each of carrots. turnips, celery, beans or peas, cover with boil ing water and simmer until the vege- tables are soft. Season we'll with salt pepper and add little parsley. Serve with brown gravy poured over the OK tails and vegetables.
 Hamburg Steak With Cabbage Take firm outside leaves of cabbage. wash and drain. Prepare the steak by seasoning with salt, pepper, a pinch of ground cloves, nutmeg and a little onion juice. Use half pork sausage in the meat combination. Form balls and cook in little hot fat until well Drowned over. then wrap each cake in a cabbage leaf. skewer with tooth picks and place in the frying pan. add ing little boiling water, cover closely and simmer. for a half hour. or until the cabbage is tender. Serve with a gravy poured around the cakes To- mato sauce is very good as an accom- paniment to this dish.
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
DEATHS

In Walton, Florida, July 9th, Mrs, Hattie Lucy Webster, aged SO years.
 In Thompson, July IS, Mrs. Joseph Mills aged 76 years.
 In Woodstock, Mrs. Harriet Sings N aged 73 years.
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
NeaA uez ueeo
The Te st.

Life is a thing given us for few years. It's only value lies in the use we make of it. Lose it we must. and very soon. But honor and duty are for all time. Why do we see a sol diers monument in nearly every town of every state which fought for the Union? Not because these men lived. but because they died.-Agnes Rep plier. in the Atlantic
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
THEMEsHEN C6ABINEH

If you entertain the suppoSition that any real success. in great things or in small, ever was or could he. ever will be or can be. wrested from Fortune by fits and starts leave that wrong idea- Bleak House
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23
uncIs Eber..

"A man allus gits caught at if. @ Uncle Eben. when he tres to sumpin' spiteful disguised as 5eh' but a lot O folks keep on tr9in jes de same.
Putnam patriot., 1915-07-23

son hAhItuaiIY eats, the waste from the table will be little It is far better to serve a small helping and give a second one than that good food
 should be wasted. It Is usually in the minor economies which are often beneath the notice where the wise house.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-10
BOATHOUSES

A S the River Front improvements
n progress there is a more general
desire for proper provision for
the boating interests. One boathouse
or two will not be sufficient nor should
there be any concentration of these
Structures at one point. The high
embankment at several places makes
possible the erection of lighthouses
close to the slope so that the growth
of shrubbery and vines will practically
conceal from the top of the embank-
ment the shelters for boats beneath.
If it is thought best to make these
lighthouses a municipal enterprise, then
sites should be selected and provisions
made for them. On the other hand,
private enterprise may be sufficient for
the purpose and then concessions un-
der proper regulations should be au-
thorized.
1t must be realized that with the
completion of the shore Improvements
and the dam the number of boats OF
all sorts will tremendously increase.
We shall not be surprised to see the
river dotted before the end of the sum-
mer with sailboats, motorboats, canoes
and every sort of pleasure craft. The
river is bound to be great pleasure
resort and proper provisions must be
made for the people who will enjoy
an unusual water front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-10

live in splendor beyond what his in
come should permit. An English wo-
man who recently visited Harrisburg
lis quoted as saying: 1.-The wives OF
clerks living on small salaries seek to
ape the rich not only in their dress
and food but even in their expensive
habits. They live away beyond theii
means and make no attempt to save
for a rainy day" OF course this
is not generally true. but it applies in
a very large number of cases.
In countries abroad, especially In
England, there is no such attempt to
keep up with the procession. A woman
whose husband earns only small
salary doesn't have her dresses made
of silk for every day, but OF some
more serviceable material warranted
to wear a good long time. She doesn
buy Strawberries and other fruits out
of season. In other words, she isn't
ashamed to live within her means.
Dickens famous character, Mr.. Ma
cawber, expressed it in a few words
when he said: Annual income 20
pounds. annual expenditure 1s pounds
19 shiIlings. sixpence, result happiness
Annual income 20 pounds, annual ex-
penditure 20 pounds, result misery.
Not long ago young Vincent Astor,
probably the richest young man in the
world, with his bride, was interviewed
in Chicago while on his way east from
a vacation in the West. 1t was not the
engaging charm of the young man.
personality, nor his democratic man
ner. nor his frank and friendly smile
that caused the interviewers to grow
enthusiastic as they afterward related
details of the visit. but the fact that
young Astor scorned to ride in prl-
vate car, saying that the ordinary
coach was quite good enough for him.
and. most of all, his plain dress. SO
was his manner that few
of those who met him coming and go
ing about the hotel knew him to be the
famous scion of great house. And
this was as he wished 1t.
If a rich man, with a vast amount
of inherited wealth to do with as re
wishes, can live simply and forcgo
display, why cannot the young man
or woman of smaller income do the
same?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-10
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 10
SANE AND PATRIOTIC, TOO

w, newspapers C of the United ted
States are engaged in holding
up the hands of President Wilson in
the grave crisis that now confronts
him. They are at once sane and patri-
otic in their attitude. They are one
and all urging calmness and poise on
the part of the people. The President
must make a decision momentous in
the history of the nation, If not of the
world. He is best able to make that
decision because he has at his disposal
facts and information that are not
available to the newspapers or the
people. He must not be disturbed in
his deliberations by suggestions or
criticisms. And when he has arrived
at a conclusion he must be accorded
the hearty support of the whole coun-
try. for he is the President of all the
people.
The fact that he is apparently deal
ing with a power that knows no law,
with an international anarchist, an
criminal or a blood-mad lunatic
--one must hesitate to decide which
is all the more reason for perfect calm
and careful consideration of every step.
1T is easy to say "be calm," but it is
hard to be so with the blood of our
innocent women and children crying
out for vengeance. 1t is easier to fight
blindly with the blood at boiling point
than to exercise that self-restraint
against which every fiber in the body
is crying out. Yet self-restraint is
always wise and in this instance It is
imperative. That Germany must be
punished for this act of supreme bru-
tality good Americans must all agree.
The method is not for us to decide.
That lies with the President. With
him must rest the responsibility. unless
he shall decide to share it with Con-
gress, and in any case he must be sup
ported in his request that public feel
ing be held in check until he can
ascertain all the facts and give them
with his conclusions to the public.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-10
THE ISLAND DOCK

ID EGARDING the controversy that
N has arisen over the Island dock
of the Harrisburg Light and
Power Company, it should be remem-
bered that the fundamental propo-
sition was the riddance of the intol-
erable conditions along the river shore
at Market street. Placing the dock on
the island was a secondary matter
and a result of the Market street sit
uation. There has been very general
commentator of the City Council for
it's effort to clean up the river shore
and make it attractive for all the
people.
If the dock on the Island is not the
best way of providing facilities for the
largest of the coal operators, then it
might be we'll to consider some other
plan. Perhaps the floating dock origi-
nally proposed by the heat and power
company is entirely feasible. 1t will
do no HARM of course. to take time to
consider the question and to determine
1t finally in the interest of fairness to
the city and the company. There is
no occasion for hysteria or unreason-
able criticism in any quarter. The city
has had many much more serious
problems to solve during it's period of
improvement and. this matter can be
determined without injury to any in
terest.
Whatever is done, however, nothing
should interfere with the completion
of the river wall and steps at Market
street. which was the main thought
from the beginning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-10
MIR. MAURER's BosH
philadelphia Record. ]

Philadelphia Record.
1t would be most unfortunate II the
wild and ridiculous assertions about
the PENNSYLVANIA State Constabulary,
made by James II. Maurer before the
Industrial Relations Commission at
Washington, were to receive any gem
eral credence in quarters where the
facts are not known. For years past
the State police have been the bette
noire of Mr.. Maurer who has carried
his opposition to them into the LeSis-
lature and has never tired of misrepre-
senting them, but his radical views
have found very little support in this
Commonwealth outside of professional
labor circles. Now that he has found
wider audience at Washington it may
be as well to state few plain truths
about the State police.
The purpose of the Constabulary is
not to suppress labor, as Mr.. Maurer
asserts, but to preserve order and de-
tect crime, just as any other police
force does. Since their institution ten
years ago there has been a very no.
ticea BILE decrease In the violence at
tending strikes, and strikes themselves
have been much less numerous than
they were. So far as unbiased observ-
erS can tell, the troopers have always
been entirely impartial in their atti-
tude toward employers and employees,
and their handling of difficult sit
uations has been tactful and firm. I'm
der the old system the State was
shocked by such tragedies as that at
Lattimer, where deputy sheriffs fired
upon striking miners and killed a num-
Der of them. The disciplined men
under Captain Groome's command
have never been guilty of such out
breaks, and, instead of expressing
labor organizations and union strikers,
as Mr.. Maurer charges, have never
shown any sympathy for the large cor
porations that have been involved in
strikes.
If one were to believe the Socialist
representative from Reading, the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania, between 5000, 900
and 100000 in number, cover in ter
ror before the 232 consta bles scattered
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge F. M. Trexler has been
elected ice-president of the Lehigh
Child Welfare conference.
w. c.. Hawley, Pittsburgh water
works man, is at the seashore.
"A. ]. County. of the Pennsylvania
railroad, takes an active interest in the
Wayne Mems Club which works for
welfare of boys
John H. Sinberg, well-known
Philadelphia real estate man, has been
elected president of the Pierce Alumni
Senator Penrose in a speech at
Philadelphia reiterated his demand for
q greater navy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-10
LIVING SIMPLY AND OTHERWISE

N New York the other day a young
man of 2S was sent to prison for
two years because he stole from his
employer for the sake of his family
he said. His salary was too small to
meet his needs, he complained, and
when judge, perhaps inclined to be
sympathetic, asked him how much he
earned year the prisoner admitted a
salary of $4,000
This young man was not driven to
theft by need. He was led away by
the desire to make a show, which is
responsible for many evils. 1t is the
besetting sin of many an American to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-10

throughout the State. The absurdity
of the statement is apparent. Penn.
sylvania is proud of it's State police.
and Mr.. Maurer ought to be also. If
he is not he has no right to scatter
defamations about them through the
country and misrepresent his own
State. AS a member of the Legislature
he ought to cultivate State pride. The
fact that he is a Socialist and labor
leader gives him no particular license
peace.