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Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
THREATENING FIRE
BIa.e Sta.iS From Unknown CanSe in Cellar of Church Clothing Co.'S Store
Good Work of FiresS Department Confines
 Blaze to Narrow Limits

A fire, which for awhile threatened very serious results, started from an unknown cause in the eellar of the Church Clothing Company's store in the Bugbee block, Sunday night. Good work on the part of the firemen con- fined the flames for the most part to the cellar where it started. Fire, water and smoke damage howeveI, will amount to between six and eight thousand dollars.
 The fire was discovered shortly after fan o'clock by Charles Donahue and Aloysius Ryan. They went to the box at Bugbee corner and falling ito ring the alarm from box Il went to the box at the woolen mill and pulled in box A.
 When the department arrived a dense smoke was coming from the building and tongues of flame were darting from the windows on the south side of the Church store. When it was found that the fire was in the ~ellar line of hose was laid through he area way and nothing but chemi- calls were used in the ground floor or store proper. This saved many dol lars damage.
 The fire ate into the petitions and the blaze was an ugly and stubborn one to handle. The new cellar nozzle showed its worth and was used To good effect. It was about half past eleven when the all out signal wes rung.
 The only cause of the fire that can be conceived is electric light wires. All of the waste material had b en baled md there was no rubbish In the cellar
 The Church Company's loss will be the heaviest and will be from four to five thousand dollars Other occu. pants of the building suffered loss from smoke. On the ground floor, be. sides the Church Company's store, are stores of iFEank X. Lucier & Brother, jewellers, H. L. Burt druggist, Shaw's jewelry store. On the second floor are the offices of Lawyer J. F. Carpenter, Dr. W. H. Sharpe, pr. F. A. MorrelI, J. Richard Carpenter and Dr. k. l.. Simpson. The whole upper floor is occcpied by Putnam lodge of Elks.
 The injury to the building is not great and can easily be repaired. B. D. BugtSe, ssowner of the block, was blessed at the work of the department and passed cigars among the tiremen.
 John B. Daigle, superintendent of the fire alarm says that the box at Bugbee corner was tt sted Saturday af- ternoon and found to in good work ing order. He says that sometime the lever catches and needs little extra effort before it will move He thinks that possibly in the excitement the man who rung the alarm may have put his finger on the lever and did not move it and believing something was wrong did not make second attempt. The alarm was rung from the box to- fore the ire was out.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
Aust;q Boy RecOyei .gg

Edward Austin, the ninet on year old North Grosvenordale boz who T. ceived fractured skull when he was thrown from his bicycle a couple of weeks ago, was brought ito his home from a Worcester hospital Monday md is improving.
 Austin is a pupil at the Putnam trade school. He was run into by an automobile while near the Tourtellotte Memorial High school iand 1t was al first thought thatihe would not sur we his injuries.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
SUPERIOR COURT
  Putnam Man Gets Divorce. MOmau's Mari .age Aunulled
AnnusI Calling of the Docket

Judge Milton A. Shumway of the superior court presided at a short cal. endsr session in Putnam, Friday morn- ing. The annual calling ef the dc aket took place and many sld en- s were discontinued.
 One uncontested divorce WAS granted and decree for the annullment of q marriage was recorded.
 Edmund Dubreuil WIS granted a divorce from his wife Grace NJ, on the ground of adultery. The petitioner lives in Putnam and the defendant ia Pawtucket.
 Dubreuil testified that he was mar ried in Putnam, octot T goth, 1911. For few months he lived in Prov dence but his wife did not like 1t there so they returned to Putnam ,where he is employed in the Putnam Steam Laundry. His wife left him December l4th, 1915. She went to the home of ner-I,oss..,., o.. z .shs.. 'stsnd. |. hos not seen her since.
 After the writ of divorca WIS served on his wife she wrote him a letter tn which she stated she was willing to help him get it and uested him 10 meet her in New London rs she I fused to come to Putnam. He did not go.
 The certificat of birth of child to the vile in Pawtueket was intro due ed in evideni }. A lett r wrs then put in the record from the wife to the counsel in the csse in which she bid of her relations with a man named Bridges whom she thought WIS the father of her child. She told of hav- ing him arrested eud his payment of Sl50 for the ehild's support. The child WIS adopted at birth by femily and the mother hrs not en il, the letter said.
 Fred Gsgnon of Putnam testified t) the good character of the titioner. He said that he knew the wife and that she was |, eldom at home wbile she lived here.
 The decree wss Fgranied on the grounds es alleged.
 Myrtle May knowlt on etitioned the court,that her marriage be annulled on the ground that the,man she mar ried, Arthur Guy Knowlton, had a wife living ,at the time he married her.
 She ss'd they were married iu Moosup, May 4th, 1910. After short residen. in Bost )n they returned to Moosup where lshe had lived ever since. Her husband left her in 1913 and shortly after that she learned of wife numt T one. She identified her husband in some group phot oe Iapfs shown her.
 A marriage certificate WIS 'ntrC duced to show that knowlton wes married at Lowell, Mrss April 1lth, 1906 to I4evina A. Booth, and also a record where she divorced b'm in 1912.
 An refida,.t WIS put iu evidence and sworn to by Pv. Nathaniel w. Mathews, the minister who | rformed the first marriage. It referred to the photograph identified by Mrs. knowl- ton as her husband as thc man whom he, Rev. Mathews, married.
 An affidavit WIS also submitted signed by Knowltp pn's brother-in-law, in which he swore that he knew of Knowlton's marriage 10 the Booth woman.
 The annuIlment wes deer 'd and the petitioner WIS allowed tD reeume her meiden name, Myrtle May Parker.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
Millions of Votes ito Count

The pony cont7st, an advertising scheme that has ten going on for some ks in Putnam, is about to close and millions of votes will have to I counted. It will r. a large under taking and five school teachers will begin the work Monday, at which time all votes must ts returned, either to Arnoidis Fish Market or Elliott's ishoe ore. The counters are Misses Ger trude Hall, NJ. Etta Whiting. Ruth Elliott, Ella Ballard and Mrs. C. B. Gascoigne. It is hoped that the result can announced Wednesday morn- ing.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
pUTNAu CONN ERIDAY JTNF I6
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
BaceaIaureate Sunday

The baeealaureste services of the High school will be held At the ConL re. gational church next Sunday evening at 30 o'clock, with the sermon by Rev. w. l.. Beard. The order of ser vice will be as follows:
 Proeessional Hymn 432 Entrance of School
 Invocation Rev c. D. Stanley Antdem-Spirit of God Humason Scripture Reading Rev. c. E. Stone Prayer Rev A bert k. Stone Response-In the Cross of Christ
 Glory Howe Hymn Rev. C. J. Hartman Sermon Rev. w. l.. Beard Benedietion
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
Putnam Boy Graduates With honors

Arthur D. McIntyre Jr., son or ME- jor 4. D. Mcintyre Of this city, has turned from Freehold, NJ, where ne recently graduated from military school with honors, and ranking as captain. He was awarded the goiu essay medal given the student who mas The best record as the most conscien- tious and faithful in application 10 duty.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
Commercial Course
General Course

Averill, Lewis Allen Backus, Lawrence Edmund Ballard, Kenneth Clark Beard, Myron Gould Davis, Annie Idella Davis, Everett Sanford Farley, Henry Chester Farrows, Lucy Mills Fisher, Edward Clayton Flagg, Joseph David Fox, Hazel Isabel
 Furlong, Anna Isabel Gleason, Frank Henry Houghton, Charles Alexander Maynard, Leodore Eugene Nelson, Carl Rougney Pratt, Carrie Aplin
 Richardson, Bertha Carroll Russell. Catherine
 Tourtellotte, George Wiley, Malcolm Macdonald Friday evening the class reception Il be held in Union Hall, and Satur- ' the picnic nt Roseland Park.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
COMMON COUNCIL Special Meeting Held for Committee $ Report on Cost of Highway
 Construction Voters to be Asked 10 Make Further
 ADnrOnrialiOu


 In compliance with vote of the Common Council passed at the regu- lar meeting a special committee con- piled detailed report and submitted it at special council meeting, Tue , day evening, that the members might know and be better able 10 set before the voters where the money appro. priated for highway improvements had been expended. The report was as follows:
 The amount of payroll (S2,745.osl charged against the S10,00O00 appte priation for street improvement is made up as follows:
 Labor of men. n.................Sl Sl ,b03 Is Expense of Teams. ............ Sl ,092.50 Other expenses not inclunded in the contract are as follows:
 Engineer. ...=.....#.#.- ....,.S SZ9Z.U lncidentals .............-.-... so42 .2e These incidentals include J. O. Fox X Co.,, teement1 Sl2s.19 and Whipple x Gilpatric, (FueD s275.63. The other items cover many littlethings that the committee found necessary to. do.
 The expense of teams and men was very largely for carting stone and work at the crusher. We cuIted in and crushed about 2,60O tons of stone. Of this amount we sold the Pierson Co: 2,fs2 tons at soc per ton .SI, ,7o7.50 -t tAns If carAapipua 9Ea 95 This leaves balance of about 4e0 tons of crdsned stone in our yard on January 1st, 1916. Your committee would also say that the work on some streets saeh as Van den Noort, Marshall, Maynard Smith to Woodstock avenue) Church (Provi- dence to Greenl, May tEIm to SchooD Boles (Rallroad to Sehool) and Rail road street Boles to Franklinl were repaired rom the m aterial taken from Providence and Elm streets, and the special appropriation should have been credit d with an amount equal to the cost of this material and carting of the gravel had it been bought, and the streets improved in the usual way. We reckon that this would amount to about $500.
 To summarize: We pcid out to De- cemter 3lst, 1915, amouts as follows: The iPierson Co. .S3, ,5t )C) Teams, Men and Labor. -. .S2, ,745.6S Engineer. ...., ................ S242.o5 Incidental. ...... .......... 20 lotal ....''....'.. - f,oof'5o This leaves balance Decent 1T 3lst, 1915 of $2, ,942 or; plus credit for stone, S2,0S0.00; improving streets not in cluded in the contract account, s500. Total, S5,6z2.o7.
 We understand the payments to the Pierson Co.,, to date have ten as fol- lows:
 S3,50O.Oo
 5S5.S5
 $40 % Credit for stone e............-...l,I Il, Too. 70 Credit for incidentals. ls............l4 If 50 Total, $6, ,396 10 Balance due the Pierson Co. S4, ,2O3 90
 HIGH WAY COMMITTEE
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
Total, S6,396.10 Balanto due the Pierson Co. 4,203 90
 HIGH WAY COMM THEE

June 18th, 1916.
 The oitizens are asked to appropriate S6,550 more to carry out the impTove- ments and a meeting is to tc held at the municipal building to vote on the app.opri lion next Tuesday morning. II is stated that additional improve ments to those at first planned are to he made and some changes made in the original plans. To complete the york in satisfactory manner so that it will be permanent and lasting work the extra money is asked for.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
pisuOfo, Re-. n'

The pupils of Frederick Very are to k.ve pianofortc rc eital In Odd Fol- lows hall, Monday evening, Jrae ls, at eight lift en o'clock.
 PROGRAM Morse Song ,Seh amenn Mss Gene, .eve | t'ars At the Mill Ro2els
 M'rs Rhoda Gilpatric Scarf Dam, lCham'nade Miss Elizal tn Wheele ck Twilight FI.ml
 Miss Dorcrs Bartlett The Tease Huert r
 NJ Ruth Bartlett Troiko Tsche.kowsky
 Miss Gertrude Perry Hunting Song Mendelssohn
 Mics Ruth Child Scenes 1 snd V Imae.nary Bale
 iColei.dge-T Fay lol Miss Marian Carr n Gigue. Brelonne Bachmpnn
 Miss Muriel Beckrs NoyeIlett in E ,humrnn
 Miss Elizabeth Ash PoIonai in c sharp minor Chop'a The Swan Paimgiel Mss Katherine Seward
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16

There will te meeting of the Par ent Teachers Association, Tuesday ev- ening, June 20, at o'clock in the lsra- eI Putnam School hall. The officers for lhe ensr'1g year will t. eiectsd.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16

Ransom B. Gsscoigne of the Ohio State University, Columbus,is visiting his mother, Mrs. C. B. Gascoigne, South Main street.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
Commencement Exercises

The Class Day exercises will be held at the school Wednesday afternoon at 3.15.
 The graduating exercises will be held in the Bradley theatre Thursday evening at o'clock, the order of exer- cises being as follows: Music. Orchestra March Senior Glass Invocation Chorus School Essay, The History of Stenography
 Gladys Bard Essay, Chemistry and the War Selection Gl , Club Essay, f lstion Of Latin to Practical Lie
 Geraldine Beard F say, He3 We get the news
 Malcolm Wiley Chorus School Address Hamilton Half Presentation of Diplomas
 upefintendent |. W. Files Music Orchestra
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16

MT. and Mrs. F. A. Libby, Ring street have gone to their summer home at Squirrel Island, Mrsne.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-16
Classical Course

ClaSSiCai k0uTSe Beard, Geraldine Carpenter, Alice Maud Johnson, Donald Gogswell Plessis, Bertha Alice Russell, Constance Lucille Walsh, Samuel Hudson, Jr. Commercial Course Bard, Gladys Richmond Brownie, Gertrude Mae Carver, Doris Mable Devine, Helen Elizabeth Fuller, Ivagiene Blythe Gagne, Gladys Josephine Giraca, Leo
 Kenary, Grace Elizabeth Maloney. Alice Emily Mann, Edna Marie Shaw, George Stanley
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Other American League Games
Indians Defeat Tigers.

CLEVELAND. July 4.-Dauss' Wild
ness early in the game and his ineffect-
iveness in the fifth, combined with two
costly errors. gave Cleveland 6-to-4
victory over Detroit yesterday despite
the fact that the victors were outbatted
IL to 6.
Lowdermilk started for Cleveland. but
was wild. and retired in favor of Bag
by, who was effective. Score:
Cleveland. . o 0 3 0 0 Is
Detroit. y Q p
Two-base hits-Crawford, Witt. Stolen bases
Speaker t2i, Smith. Gandil, Chapman. Sacrifice
hits-Bagby, Chapman, Bush. Sacrifice fly
Speaker. Double play-Stsnage and Young. Left
on bases-Cleveland. 4; Detroit IL. First base
on errors-Cleveland, /; Detroit. .. Bases on
balls--OT Lowdermilk, 2; of Dauss, 4. Hits
and earned runs-On Lowdermilk. hits no
runs in and one-third innings; OF Bagby, s
hits and in and two-thirds innings;
off Dauss. hits and l in seven innings; on
Erickson. hits and in inning.
Hit by pitcher-By Dauss, l tspeaker). Struck
out-By Lowdermilk, !; by Bagby. 3; by Dauss,
=; by Erickson, l. Passed ball-Stanage. I'm
pires-Messrs Dineen and Chill. Time of game
= hours.
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REGULAR ARMY OFFICERS
FOR CAVALRY REGIMENT
Capts. Roberts and Miles Likely to
Command New Eng
land Troopers.

That Capt. Roberts of the regular
army, who has been acting as inspector
Of the New England Cavalry Regiment.
will within a few days be officially ap-
pointed colonel. with Capt. Sherman
Miles as lieutenant colonel. on the rec
ommendatfon Of the governors of those
states. is the opinion OF Maj. Gen. Nell
son A. Miles. Capt. Roberts is senior
Of Capt. Miles, and for that reason Sc
lected for the colonelcy.
MY son graduated from West Point
In the cavalry and has had better ex-
perience than probably any man in that
branch of the SERVICE" said Gen. Miles.
He had two years service in the
Philippines, and for the last four years
has had wide experience with the great
armies Of Europe. He had two years
experience in the Balkan war. and has
for the last two years been with the
Russian army. I believe his experience
Ats him for the command to which the
governors have recommended him and
to which I understand he is to be ap-
pointed officially in couple OF days.
This recommendation and appoint
ment is in line with what is being done
in all the states under the new law
covering the appointment Of trained
and qualified officers to take command
Of tactical units of the National Guard.
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SPEAKER GETS TOOTH HIT.
Cleveland Slugger Leads Joe Jack
son Now by Nine Bin9les.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, July <-rris
Speaker, the dashing. dangerous bitter
Of the Cleveland Indians, copped the
first big slice OF the 1915 battnr
laurels yesterday, when on his second
legal trip to the plate he smashed out
the safety which brought his total
number of hits for the season up to the
century mark. Including yesterdays
game, Speaker has been at bat 25s
times, and has made 100 hits, bringing
his average up to the remarkable dg-
ure of .392.
Joe jackson, who has been satuinr
on Speaker for the leadership Of the
American League batting honofs. fol-
lows the indiana star batsmAn with q
total of ninety-one hits. Jake Daabeft
of the Brooklyn National League Club
is third with eighty-four binsles and
Ty Cobb, whose ambition Is to lead the
American League batters again this
year, is fourth with total of eighty.
In his effort to crowd in 100 hits in
the seventy games in which he has
participated, Speaker has trailed along
at the following clip: Went hitless in
fourteen games; in each OF twenty-eix
combats he made one hit: In nineteen
contests he has registered two hits
per game; three-hit roses wsrs pludked
by iris in nine games: he has made
four hits in one gama, ana 6va hts In
another
Speaker started Ms eaceseuF <hs oans
fury mark April u, when he rnaDe ens
hit in four trips to the paa4A a11sp
going hitless In his one legal -4Ane -
bat April IL. tho opsning daS
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By n. C. BYRD.

An eight representing the Potomac
Boat Club will row in the Peoples re-
gatta at Philadelphia today on the
Schuylkill river. The Red and White
oarsmen have been working for some
time in preparation for the event and
are expecting to make splendid show
ing. 1t also is possible that the boat
will take part in the intermediate race.
as well as in the one for Junior shells.
The Potomacs will be against some
very competent crews. They are to
row in the same race with the New
York Athletic Club, the Detroit Ath
letic, the Pennsylvania Barge Club and
the Malta Boat Club. the last-mention-
ed two being Philadelphia organiza-
TONS The crews representing the local
club and the two from Detroit and New
York are rowing for the first time this
season, but both the Philadelphia boats
have been in races
The Bureau went down before the
Machinists. in the Potomac League. yes
terday. dropping a 3-to-4 game. The
contest was one of the best played Of
the season. both teams putting up a
good article of ball. To Lefty Kuhnert
the Machinsts owe the greatest part
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GREAT DAMAGE WROUGHT
TO FRANCE DURING WAR
753 Communes, or Townships, Part
ly or Totally Destroyed
by Operations.

PARIS. July 4.-Seven hundred and
fifty-three communes, or townships.
have been partly or totally destroyed
through military operations in France
since the beginning of the war. Vac
cording to statistics gathered by the
ministry of the interior. with a view
to ascertaining the total damage caused
by the hostilities. These communes are
distributed over eleven of the depart
ments of France, including those in
Ardennes still occupied wholly by the
Germans, who are in possession of 1854
towns. of the total Of as.247 in all
France, or per cent.
Houses to the number Of 1860 have
been totally destroyed and 1854 partly
destroyed in these communes. In I4S
communes the proportion of houses
destroyed exceeds SO per cent, while it
is so per cent in seventy -four towns and
less than so per cent in the remainder
Public buildings destroyed in 42S
schools. 221 town halls. 800 other pub
lie buildings of various sorts and sixty
bridges. OF these buildings fifty
six had been classed as historic monu-
ments. including the town hall of
Arras. and the cathedral and town hall
at Rheims. Three hundred and thirty
factories. which supported $1,000 per-
sons. were destroyed.
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Judge and Mcbride Back in Game Sawyer Proves Ability Su
POTOMAC BOAT CLUB EIGHT I
ROWS IN BIG EVENT TODAY
Meets Crews From Detroit, New York and
: Philadelphia at Last-Mentioned City.
Amateur Base Ball Results. +

of the credit for their victory, A. he
was consistent in his slab work all the
way through the nine innings. He
prevented the mainstays OF tho Bureau
team at bat from connecting At all.
neither Hager nor Mortimer. hitting
third and fourth. respectively, being
able to get even as much as Q scratch
single off his delivery. Kuhnert famed
ten of the Bureau players. and also
made two hits himself. Chaplin and
Roundtree did the best batting for thu
winners, while Murphy. O'Donnell and
Walker led for Bureau.
The Machinists made three OF their
four runs in the second inning. draw
ing a big lead before Bureau scored.
Bureau got two counts in the nth
and then each team managed to put
one man across in the ninth.
The Printers lost In the Rosedals
League to the Phi MI Sigma team by
2 to Z. The Fraternity team had Its
big inning in the fifth. counting four
times in that period: they also got the
lead early by scoring twice In the first.
Pfeiffer pitched remarkably well for
the winners. shutting out the Typeset-
tiers without a hit. Not a man was
able to connect with his offerings with
anything that looked like a hit, and
eleven of them went out by reason Of
their failure to hit anywhere near tha
ball on third strikes. Goebel caught
well for the losers and Moreland played
a good game in the same position for
the winning club.
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National League Games.
Brooklyn Trims Giants.

NEW YORK, July brooklyn easily
won the first game of its series with
New York yesterday. s to 1.
Robinson's team hit Anderson hard
and he was poorly supported, especial
ly in the fifth inning. when Brooklyn
punched a double and a single. with
three errors by the Giants, for three
runs.
Jack Coombs pitched a remarkable
game for Brooklyn. After Burns and
Kauif. the first two batsmen to face
him, made singles. no other Giant made
hit until Burns doubled to start the
ninth, but was caught of second when
kauR lined to Coombs. Score:
Brooklyn . o o 8 % %
New York. 0 0 o o.
Two-base hits-Mowrey. Cutshaw, Burns.
Home run-Whest. Stolen bases-o'Mara.
Kauh. Daubert. Sacrifice fy-Cutshaw. Double
plays-Cutshaw Daubert and O'Mara; Burns
and Fletcher; Coombs and O'Mara; Burns and
Fletcher; Coombs and O'Mara. Left on bases
New York. 2; Brooklyn. 4. First base on error
Brooklyn. Bases balls-On Schupp. 2; OF
Coombs. .. Hits and earned runs-On Ander-
son. hits and runs in 8 innings: of Schupp,
! hit and no runs in innings; of Coombs. 1
run. Struck out-Ry Anderson, 5; by Schupp.
3: by Coombs. .. Wild pitch-Anderson. UNI
pres-Messrs. O'Day and Eason. Time Of game
i hour and Al minutes.
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SUBMARINE BLOCKADE =,
OF GERMANY THOROUGH

LONDON. July 4.-British naval men
home on leave after a period of par
ticipation in submarine operations in
the Baltic speak enthusiastically OF
the success attending their work. says
the Stars Edinburgh correspondent.
while nothing has been reported In
the English or Russian papers," said
one petty officer I'VE imposed an iron
rule in the Baltic. and the Germans are
now beginning to feel the full effects
Of 1T in a terrible draught upon their
larder The blockade in the Baltic is
now about as thorough as that which
the grand feet has established in the
North sea.
Submarines of the allies are a con-
slant menace to Memel, the German
timber port: Koenigsberg and the ports
in the Gulf of Danzig. as well as the
Pomeranian ports. and the whole sea
traffic of the German Baltic provinces
is in a state of disorganization through
the effectiveness of the submarine pa
troll"