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Putnam patriot., 1916-07-14
EAST THOMPSON

The concert given in Kings Daugh- tersi hall Tuesday evening by the Con .church choir of Putnam, was well attended despite the threat ening weather and intense heat, people being present from Webster and Doug las. The audience was very appreela- tive, all the soloists being encored.
 PROGRAM Old Folks Sheridan Absent Metealf
 The Choir >oio-Mighty Lax Rose Nevin Miss Josephine NJ. Clifford Little John Bottlejohn Mason
 Ladies, Chorus Duet-The Gypsies Brahms Miss Gladys Robbins and Mrs. Emil
 L. Benoit Musical Monologue-When You Have n't Said Your Prayers
 Miss Josephine M. Clifford s0lo-In Story Land Neidlinger
 Mrs. Emil l.. BenoIt Roekin Time Knox Nancy, My Yellow Rose Geibel
 The Choir baet-The Mandoiine Parker Miss Josephine NJ. Clifford and Mrs.
 Emil L. Benoit colo--Pohono stewart
 Miss Gladys Robbins 4 Bird in the Hand Roeckel
 Lalies Chorus >olo-Love's Revefie Squires
 Miss Gladys 4. Farmer The Close of Day Johnson Pale Brown Ladv Sue Bartlett
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Putnam patriot., 1916-07-14
EAST PUTNAM

The GhuSch Aid society met with Mrs. Fred Babhitt last week. It was Day and clam bake Thursday, Aug 10.
 A. A. Houghton and wife called on W. H. Gady and wife Sunday after noon.
 Miss Mildred Torrey, who is work ing for the Roeti Hunt Speciality Co.,, spent the weekend at her home.
 Miss Clara Burrill and her guests, Warren Durell and wife of North At teboro were visitors at Rev. Henry Bakers, West Woodstock, last week.
 Fred Rabbit, wife and family visited Rocky Point the Fourth.
 George Baboitt is visiting in Provi- dence.
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FOR THE WARM WEATHER

Cream Freezes-Reh geratos Hammocks Swings Il Mowers, Garden Utensils Screens Croque Sets, Etc
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Miss May sherman spent the week end at Mi&dlelown.
 Olney Bfott is entertaining a friend from Hartford
 Mrs. Dart is entertaining her moth. CT from New London.
 It was anticipated that the epidemic of measles had disappeared but several new cases are reported Mrs. Foster and grandson have been quite sick with the disease the past week.
Putnam patriot., 1916-07-14
DEATHS

In Putnam, July 9, William Hol- land, aged 46 years.
 In Norwich, July 10, Clarence F.. Cundail of Brooklyn, aged 52 years.
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MARRIAGES

Tn Putnam, July lith, by Rev. A. .E. Stone, Newton +. Phillips Of Hampton and Catherine N. Babcock of Gfiswold
 In Putnam, July 10, by Rev. (. F.. Bedafd, Edmund Dubois and Miss Bella Trottier.
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BIRTHS

In Pleasant View, k. |, July 10, a daughter to MT. and Mrs. George D. Bradley of Putnam.
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FRIDAY AND SATURDAY At The Store of Edward W. Mullan
 FOR CASH

fancy new potatoes, pix 8le tut creamery butter, 5Zc 10 Texas onions, lb DC iemons. doz l2e smoked shoulders, ib lbc II lbs Fine Granuiated Sugar, sl.O0 10
 the purchaser of pound of
 Coffee at DOC Ramford baking powder, ID 24e pineapples, doz oge new cabbage, 10 4c Dutch cleanser, can oe N White Cloud soap, "it noats :, bar 4c $ bars Naphtha soap zoe 5 boxes matches, Zoe pkgs maear0ni 22e z lbs milk or soda crackers loc 8 cans corn, peas, eshmsi oeets,
 baked or string beans Zoe can peachcs or Hawaiian sliced
 pineapple Zoc 3 pkgs Kellogg s cofnhakes Zoe $ lbs bulk starch zoe s rolls toilet paper Zoe
 Goods delivered to any part of the city. Telephone orders given prompt attention.
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of the worlds mining, engineering and metallurgical talent.
 Not only so, but pains were taken to surround the workmen with as comfort able conditions as circumstances would permit. Perhaps no family has built more schools, hospitals, churches and recreation halls for employees. In inac- cessible regions where itinerant entertain CTS never venture, the Guggenehims own welfare workers get up entertainments and other diversions.
 Next to the Rockefellers, the Guggen- helm family is probably the wealthiest in the country. Both MT. and Mrs, Gug genheim are noted philanthropists. Tn dispensing their benefactions they make no difference in the matters of race, creed or religion. In their early days Mrs. Guggenheim did not hesitate to share her husbands hardships on the firing line.
 Mrs. Guggenhem also shares her hus- bands fondness for good books-there is not night in his life that MT. Guggen- helm does not read before going to bed, a habit he first contracted during his pio- neering days when a book was all the recreation within reach. From riding scraggy bronchos, MT. Guggenheim has graduated to riding horses at. the New York horse show. Starved of flowers in his days of sacrifice, he is making up
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world (2.250, ,0OO0O0 pounds). They and their associates control the three largest copper mines in the world, the Chile Cop per, the Utah Copper and the Kennecott Copper properties
 Two of the Guggenheim companies alone the American Smelling and Refining company and the American Smelting Se- curities company-do a business of over $30O coo 900 a year, this exclusive of their mining activities. The Guggenheims, too, are the most powerful factors in the sil- yer industry in the world, and are very large factors in gold, lead, zinc and a variety of by-products.
 As employers of labor they rank among the largest in the world. They were the first employers, so far as known, to pay several employees. in salary and percent age of results, compensation running into hundreds of thousands a year-rumor said one man drew upward of a million a year.
 The man mainly responsible for the phenomenal success of the Guggenheirn organization is Daniel Guggenheim, whose Judgment. whose faith in the future. whose ability to inspire men. whose ca pacfty for hard work. first under the most trying physical conditions in remote, uncivillzed mining camps, and later, in
 the financial arena, have won for him
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So if mother doesn't mind helping me I would suggest that we send a basket of goodies to Bills house on that day"
 T think it's capital idea" said Mrs. Lynn.
 They bought turkey, the finest to be had. and decorated 1t with crisp celery and green spinach. A can of plum pudding was nestling at the bot tom of the basket. then there were potatoes and cranberries and on top were the rolls and butter, which com pleted the dinner carefully selected by Nell. Nell and Susan, the maid, bore their precious burden between them to Bilps house. Bill and his mother were sitting by the little stove trying to keep warm that Thanksgiving day.
 Never mind about the turkey thls year, son. We will be thankful for what we have, and pray for better luck in times to come"
 A knock at the door! A fiutter of skirts And Nell and Susan deposited the goodies on the table and hastily took their leave before either Billy or his mother had realized what had hap pened. If Bills mouth had watered at the description of a turkey, imagine how 1t watered when he saw the huge bird placed in the center of their little table.
 Such a dinner Fit for a Queen! And never did Queen and Prince do more justice to meal.
 God be thanked" murmured Mrs. Lowell
 "Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day and Nell Lynn" cried Bill.
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owed to Nell and her mother.

bowed to Nell and her mother.
 In few words she was engaged to spend the following day washing for the Lynns at their house.
 Would you object if I took an hour off at noon?" she asked. You see Bill comes home from school"
 How thoughtless of mel Bill can dine with you at our house."
 Then Nell exclaimed, He's in my class in school and I'll bring him home with me"
 Bill's eyes danced at the anticipated dinner, and his mother curtsied the Lynns out, with thanks.
 Mrs. Lynn was not surprised to hear Nell say, on the way home, Mother. I want to do something for Bill Yes, I'll do it on Thanksgiving Day. Teacher said the day was set apart for" and Nell dwelt on all the teacher had said.
 "Bill seems good boy" said Mrs. Lynn, "and his mother a gentle woman. We must help them"
 Let me decide what to do?" begged Nell.
 Next morning Nell ran into her mothers room for her good morning kiss. Her father pinched her cheek and laughing, said. You look serious this morning. what's the reason?"
 Mother has asked me to decide a very weighty question" And Nell told her father the story, ending with, ''I first thought of having Bill and his mother here for Thanksgiving dinner but maybe Bill would be bashful and then he wouldn't enjoy his turkey and then my fun would be all gone
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may be passed along?" But nobody with conscience and sentiment can treat thus lightly the hand built gift that has been labor of love for the recipients sake, and somehow or oth- CT such gifts are usually made to fit into the scheme of daily living, though perchance a sigh of relief goes up on the day when they wear out or be- come too dingy for further use.
 Among the acceptable gifts are aprons and the favored apron this sea- son is of silk. It is called a knitting apron and is matched by gay knit ting bag; for knitting bags are about the gayest and gaudiest things one knows of. They have entirely trans formed the once elderly and staid occupation of knitting to lightsome and frivolous pastime. One knitting apron Is of lowered warp-printed silk with great rose pink peonies splashed over a gray background that is inter- laced with gray-green leaves and a border of black velvet ribbon intensi- fies the color and separates the apron
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agreeably from the material of the skirt on which It rests. The knitting bag IS of the same lowered silk lined with leaf green silk and trimmed with narrow band trimming of dull gold lace. For the apron will be required Q yard of 36-inch silk. One of the corners is sliced off and made, sep arately, into little bib, also bound with the black velvet ribbon Tho corner from which the bib is taken forms the top of the apron; 1t is not gathered in the usual way, but a group of close shirrings Is put in at the center. The belt Is of velvet ribbon This apron may be made with strips of wide Dresden lowered ribbon II preferred. Be sure to press the seams where the ribbons are Joined very carefully. and be sure to sew the seams, also, with silk. Carelessness in this last respect will give the dainty, handmade apron ready-made sug- gestion, for alas. so many things one pays good prices for in the shops show the common touch of cheap cotton thread.
 This apron and the knitting bag that matches if. will go with ten hanks of green worsted and a pair of amber knitting needles as Christmas gift, this year; and one is certain the green sweater as 1t grows under the busy needles, will look very well indeed against the rose and green and black silk apron.
 Most attractive knitting bags are made of cretonne, the heavy, rich-p pat termed English cretonne which has gorgeous flowers against background of black. These cretonnes are not cheap but they are quite as beautiful as silk and are, besides, very. very smart To make such a bag, gather yard of cretonne at either end over long oval. or elliptical, wooden hoop; and the hoops should first be wound with ribbon or covered with strips of the cretonne closely shirred. The ends of the bag Cor the doubled up edges of the cretonne) may be gath cred and caught under big wooden button moulds covered with the ere tonne. A lining of thin silk or silk olene improves such bag very much
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T T is easy enough to buy Christ
 T mas remembrances in the shops
 if one does not mind being
 E showed about and forced to waste untold valuable moments waiting for change; but there can be no compari- son in value between the bought-for
 money gift and the gift made by ones own loving-and probably otherwise busy-fingers for the friend near and dear to one's heart The book, or bit of brass or framed picture picked up on a shopping trip and sent in token of ones affection at holiday season, is very likely to be passed on," also in affectionate token, when another year rolls round; but the personally made gift seldom meets this fate. Whistler, who was an ar dent upholder of the creed: Let us not be encompassed by the tyranny of things" was wont to declare when holiday season brought it's inevitable surplus of knick- -knacks that could not be used; well, and are there not other Christmases coming when they
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What the Day Meant
 To NELL LYNN

mother taking in wash.
 When I am a man I'll work for you, mother, and then you can sit in a rocking chair beside the warm fire and fold your tired arms" Bill used to say as he helped his mother carry the baskets of snowy linens to the rich folks houses, not many blocks away.
 Now, Just at the moment when Billy was asking his mother the meaning of Thanksgiving and Turkey" Nell Lynn and her mother were outside in the dingy hall in search of a washer woman. Mrs. Loyell's name had been given to Mrs. Lynn and the latter was about to knock at the door when she was arrested by Billy's voice saying, why Is God not good to us?"
 She and Nell stood spellbound dur ing the remainder of the conversation
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Kindness Brought Fortune

B.- C. tOrDeS III Leslie s
 Meyer Guggenheim one day opened his heart and his purse to aid a friend who was wrestling heroically with a little mining property in Colorado which was threatening to ruin him. That act of kindness over 40 years ago was the basis of the Guggenheims' extraordinary achievements in the smelting and min ing business.
 From control of one tiny shelter in far-off Pueblo, Col the famous Guggen- helm family, by industry, tenacity and sacrifice, have built up the greatest min ing and smelting enterprise the world has ever known Today the Guggenheims handle and control 1,0o0,0000o0 pounds 600 000, 900 tons-of copper annually. or al- most half the entire production of the
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are the last word in comfort with their thickly upholstered seats and hand somely appointed dining cars With up- to- the-minute service.
 The educational value of travel is be- ginning to have the greatest weight. Boys and girls who have been to the best schools help complete their educa- tion by seeing the world or such parts of it as their time and circumstances will permit. The grown-up who is wise realizes the broadening influence of travel and counts each day well spent that brings him new experiences in for eign fields. No one can fail to be up- lifted by seeing some of Gods master pieces or the handiwork of man in pie |ture, sculpture. cath edral and splendid public edifices. Nor is it necessary to leave ones own country. There is plenty to be seen and learned in our homeland. if we will only go in search of it.
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day and 1t reads as follows: Ni
 "On Monday morning, May 27, 1877 aboard the Ayde, we received all tf
 communion by the minister of Grave send, and prepared as good Christian
 toward God, and resolute men for a. fortunes and toward night we deparl ed toward Tilberry Hope. Here Vi
 highly praised God and altogethf upon our knees gave him due, hum ble and hearty thanks. and Mast{ Wolfall, 8 learned man appointed |
 Her Majesty's council to be our mil
 ister, made unto us a goodly sermol exhorting all especially to be thanl
 ful to God for His strange and mira ulous deliverance in those dangeroJ places"
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Travel as an Educator

Kathleen Hills in Leslie's.
 Millions of people never travel. Rls- ing day after day, they look out upon the same scenes, go through the same daily tasks, and tumble into the same bed again at night, no different than they were the day before.
 Each year thousands are traveling for the first time, not only the wealthy, but the middle class and even the poor est. They are coming to view travel not as an extravaganza, but as the price of comfort, health. experience and knowledge. Ocean liners are veritab!e floating hotels with bathrooms, prom enades and conservatories, while trains
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ored garb for shopping and runaboul wear in town: but such boots are no' correct according to the canons os conventionality. Pretty boots o- bronze or light colored glazed kid ar intended for formal wear with danc' ing or reception frock when onf travels by limousine or broughamt the walking costume in tailored stylt demands a smart walking boot witA
 long. slender lines and heel, high peri haps but not too curved for comfort
 Such boots are of mahogany or blacl glazed kid with buttoned tops of clotf
 or buckskin in neutral tone. Tobascf brown boots with buttoned tops ol
 cloth in the same color are very fashF ionable at the moment; so are blacF Russian calf boots with pearl buts toned tops of gunmetal gray cloth
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high place among the developers of America.
 Daniel Guggenhem, with the other brothers, slept in tents or wagons amid wild surroundings as often as under a roof. The food he frequently ate would have been scorned by negro slave. But the readiness of Daniel Guggenheim and the other brothers to undergo per sonal hardships was not the only req son they forged ahead. They had courage and Judgment enough to engage the best and most expensive engineering and min ing brains procurable. Not only did they pay perhaps the largest salaries then known but they shared results with those who made results possible. From the time he first became an employer Daniel Guggenheim adopted this now popular but then revolutionary sytem. In this way the Guggenheims could get their pick
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bottom The body is then shaped with cotton around the stick. and the dress, apron and kerchief are draped over these. The round box Is tightly covered with dark gray goods to form the skirt. The over skirt, or apron, is light gray, and the handkerchief-fic -fichu is white. The cap is also white muslin, as is the belt.
 The arms are made separately and stuffed with cotton, before they are sewed in place.
 Our little Puritan Maid will do very
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the embroidering of the future pos sessor's initials on one side. satin lining and an interlining of perfumed cotton batting will add to the attrac- tiveness of the receptacle.
 Several pretty gifts which have rib bon as their basis, are grouped in an illustration. The reticule is made Of lowered warpprinted ribbon over covered frame such as may be bought for a few cents. The silk tassels and cord handles add to the smart ness of the bag. The slipper stretch CTS are ordinary wooden ones with ribbon shirred and formed into gay rosettes on the flexible center DOT tions. Next to the stretchers is talcum "spatter" for the bath room. The "spatter" is made of a lambs wool-lined slipper sole and the jar
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and the color of this lining may splendor by its gay, contrasting hue.
 Ribbon cases for the safe-keeping of knitting needles not in use are ac- ceptable little gifts, very easy to fashion. The edges of the ribbon may be featherstitched together and the long case sh' lid close with flap at one end. secure by snap-button. Such case. holding two sets of needles; one of amber In No. size for sweater-knitting and another set of fine steel needles for knitting the border and trimmings, makes an ad
 mirable Christnlas gift. Exactly like the knitting needle case. but many times larger, is the corset case made of wide fancy ribbon. This case should be long enough to hold the long. mod
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looking boudoir slippers are shown in the lower part of the illustration. One of the cushions is an oblong one covered with filet lace and edged with a ribbon frill. A bisque reclining Cupid is tied to the cushion top with ribbon. The other cushion Is almost hidden under the spreading skirts of a little bisque Colonial Dame who is
 evidently making deep curtsy. but pins may be thrust safely through her skirts as she has no limbs. The dainty dresser hold-alls are made by cover ing small baskets with ribbon and trimming with tiny ribbon posies.
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Plants Fifteen Feet High

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 Tomato vines IS feet tall may som' times be grown In garden, but as far investigations have shown that is the liI' it. A few years ago large field tomato plants of that height was grow in Charleston, w. Va, but two workm, in factory in Glenbrcok, Conn, ha, recently excelled this. They have grow
 one plant on a trellis, from which tl tomatoes could be picked at a height col siderably above ones head, and the ;.q ual length of the vine reached 15 feet.
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ern corset, rolled up. compactly; too many of these pretty cases. fashioned with the best intentions in gift -mak- ins, are so short that only girdle corset could fit into them-and such case is intended of course for the safeguarding of ones very best. most probably rather long -corset. The ribbon corset case may have a snap fastened flap at the top. or ribbon drawstrings and shirred
 heading. like bag: a pretty idea Is
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FIRST THANKSGIVING.

YYHHILE the first official Thanks kA giving celebration was held by w the Pilgrim Fathers, it is an historical fact that in the year 1878 a Thanksgiving service was held on the shores of Newfoundland by an Eng fish minister named Wolfall, who was attached to the expedition under Fro bisher which brought the first Eng fish colony to settle on those shores.
 There Is a record of the service that
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ner all the more for the wait"
 What is a turkey?" again asked Billy, who would never be put off. And with a watering mouth he listened to his mothers explanation of the won derful bird.
 Mrs. Lowell and Bill had neither rel atives nor friends, and their miserable existence was eked out by the poor
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eyes as they heard the weary mother console her boy with words of love and hope.
 gentle knock at the door aroused Mrs. Lowell from her dreams of the future.
 Hurry, Bill, light the lamp. 1t may be a customer. Come i'm" And she
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The Puritan Maid

HHILDREN like " squirrels, like to
 ~ climb trees at this season of the year and gather nuts. Many funny things can be made from nuts, the fun niest of all is the Puritan Maid who helped to make his tory about three hundred years ago. Her head Is 8 nick ory nut, the pointed end forming tho nose. The face should be painted on with water col- ors. The body and skirts are held in place by a stick W h 1 c h Is ru n through the head and fastened in a Iitt1a piII how at Una
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Iof talcum fits into satin pocket set across one end. A pair of slipper soles will make "spatters" for two friends this Christmas. The hatpin holder is made of long, slender glass retort such as you can buy at any chemists, covered with lowered rib
 bon. The holder is supposed to hang beside the dresser and hatpins may be dropped into 1t as they are re-
 moved. Two pincushions for the dresser and oair O. very "bridey'
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After three masked robbers had ran sacked her house at Salt Lake City, get ting $2000 in money and jewels, Mrs. B. Baum pleaded with the bandits for enough money to buy circus tickets for the children They returned s5 to her "so that the children could have a good time'
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we'll as a cushion on the bureau. or she can be mounted on few lay CTS of cloth and used as & pen-wiper on your desk.
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for it today by enjoying extensive gar
 dens at his country place.
 | Having sowed wisely in the morning and forenoon of his life, he is now, III | the afternoon, reaping full harvest.