Putnam patriot., 1918-04-12
THOMPSON TOWN TOPICS

the Congregational church were com menced again on Thursday evening for the summer, having been dispens- ed with great part of the winter.
 The Thompson Fire Engine Co. held its quarterly meeting on Friday eve ming. There were but few members present, many having gone to the Lib erty Chorus entertainments at Put nam and Grosvenordale.
 MT. and Mrs. Lyman, managers of the Vernon Stiles hotel, have been on hand the past week preparing to open the hotel soon. A new water supply tank is being installed by plumber George Rawley of Putnam.
 Our resident citizens are still in evidence in making their places at tractive by keeping them in repair. Hiss Mary BlacAmar is one of them having completed the shingling of the roofs to the buildings on her place which were begun last fall.
 The members of Quinattissett Grange are anticipating two enjoya- Die evenings this month, having ac- eepted invitations from Senexit and Wolf Den Oranges to assist them on Neighbors' Night, Senexit the 17th, and Wolf Den the 27th, and furnish part of the program.
 Mr and Mrs. Robert Cooper and young son Vim. Lester Cooper of Worcester, have been visitors with Mrs. Cooper's parents, MT. and Mrs William Broughton on Providence street the past week. MT. Broughton's s son Lester has enlisted in the engin- ger corps and is now in France.
 The Grosvenordale Company sent their bus up to our village last Friday evening to take those who desired to attend the Liberty Chorus in Gros- venordale that evening. It had full load, although some people went to Putnam where like entertainment was held for that evening in Bradley Theatre
 Joseph St Martin, who has worked several years for Mrs Wicks, besides managing his farm at Brandy Hill, furnishing milk to our residents, in forms your correspondent that it is difficult for him to get help on his farm, so he proposes to devote most of his time this season in working on it himself
 Quite little delay is being made in the saving of the lumber on the wood lot of Linus Fogel near Quadic, ln ~fa H,s condemned, thus necessitating the procuring of a new one which has to be made. This wait is quite damage to Mr Togel, the logs being cut and all ready to be sowe3
 Mrs. McMullen. who has been spending several weeks with her hus- band in New York, has returned to her home at "ReStawhile Tea Room at Brandy Hill MT McMullon re- tires from his position in New York the first of April, after a service of thirty-three years and will soon join his family on his farm at Brandy Hill.
 Fred Herrick IS very busy this spring with a force of painters. EX- tensive repairs in his line are being made on the house formerly owned DN 2- AoF ClASOli DELW GG4i I1L citA4N I4AII and East Thompson, now owned by Mrs. Tackerburg of Dorchester, Mass. who is stopping with Mary Wilks while the work on her house is being done
 George Mills, whose funeral was held in Putnam last week, where he had lived the past five years, and whose burial was in N est Thompson cemetery, was a native of Thompson, hiving lived all of his life in the Brandy Hill district until he moved to Putnam Mr Mills was the son of the late Nathaniel and Lemira (Cady) Mills, representative of two of Thompson's early families. In his early life he followed the occupation of a wheelwright, having a shop on his fathers farm between Brandy Hill and East Thompson, and being the only wagon maker in that sec tion, he generally had plenty of work in that line, and is said to. have ac- cumulated a substantial property. He leaves sister in the west, cousin, Judge Isaac Newton Mills of Mount Vernon, N. Y, besides several cousins in New England.