Putnam patriot., 1918-04-12
ATTAWAUGAN

Mrs. Lillian Filler haS been haNlng a visit from her daughter, Mrs. West colt. and the latter's son John, from Elizabeth, N. J.
 The Attawaugan Company has se- cured new horses for handling the grocery business at their stores here and in Ballouville.
 The opening dance of the season at the hall of the Attawaugan Social Club netted between eight and nine dollars for the club.
 The ladies of the Methodist church met Tuesday afternoon at the home missionary meeting.
 Vincent Adams, who was so severe ly hurt by a falling tree on Jan. i. is again at work chopping trees on q lot which is being cleared by Mail Carrier Arthur Lathrop near Ballouville.
 For the present the AttawauEan Company's horses are kept in the large red barn next to what used to be the old schoolhouse, and owned by Robert Dunheld of East Killingly
 Private Truman H. Woodward
 
 at Camp Deveus are enjoying lGi an engagement with the humps H 5so- latlon ward 0f the base hospital there
 Fhe yCuus people who are lea5ars- ing for drama b Uo given at a#a tu.ute tIese. met at tbe home ~ 5ass Etkel Adams Monday eveHia aE fa.s lzHl s4yl evening they meet at the home of the Misses Margaret and Florence StoIt.
 The pathetic little figure of a hare smothered by smoke but scarcely burned by flame Was seen amiI the ruins of the Attawaugan Company $ barn, on all fours with ears erect and evidently preparing to spring some where in America"
 Word has been received from Ed ward Heselton by his parents that he with Walter Robinson and other lads from this village and Ballouville have gotten safely across the ocean, and will soon be somewhere in. France" upholding the cause of freedom.
 Rev George c. Scrivener, the dis trict superintendent of Norwich Dis trict, preached Sunday at p. m to a good-sized audience in the Metho- dist church. He gave a most excel lent sermon for the times from the words of the prophet Micah, found in Micah ": 1-4.
 Friends of Mrs. C. H. Thyng were pleased to greet her at church Sun day. after an absence of several months in Wilmington, Del. where her husband died several weeks ago, and to learn that she is to occupy at least for the summer her home next to the schoolhouse on the old Putnam road. It is understood that Oliver Tatro and family are to live in the other part of the double house.
 Mir. Wolfe of Putnam, proprietor of the Dayville Grain X Goal Com panN Is fixing up the Hopkins prop erty he purchased some time ago. \ neW piazza with ornamental posts is being built in front of the house, and other improvements are in order IL is rumored that there are two pros pective tenants to soon occupy the premises. Mr. Wolf has also sold off several parcels of land to different parties.
 Alvah Woodward of the U S. Army School of Military Aeronautics at Ith- aca, N. l., made a flying visit at the home of his parents, Rev and Mrs. w. D. Woodward, this week He came Wednesday afternoon, and left Put nam on the10.30 train yesterday fore noon. With others who have eomplet- ed an eight weeks course at Cornell, he expects to leave this Friday eve ming for Dallas, Texas, where train ing in actual flying will be in order.
 Friday evening in the Methodist vestry there was pleasant social gathering. Readings were given by the Misses Margaret CaFrey and Margaret Stott and Frank Bennett. Solos were rendered by the Misses Edna Anderson and Florence Stott and Earl Weeks The program con. cluded with talk by the pastor on his native island of Nantucket, giving description of it's size, location and the whaling industry of nigh a cen tury ago. He concluded by reading a ! poem upon the topic containing some | legends as to it's name and some facts as to it's early history and it's present | popularity as a summer watering 1 place.