Putnam patriot., 1918-08-09
PUTNAM NEWS

RU NAM NE Wi -...--.-.-..--.--...--... Miss Edith Bowen is spending ten days at Oak Bluffs. the guest of Miss Flora Ellis
 Private Raymond Allard Fort Strong. Boston, passed the weekend in Putnam.
 Kenneth Andem returned Saturday from a weeks visit with Robert Me , Intyre at Pine Grove. Charles Werner and son Nat are the guests of Mir and Ms. S Dia- mond, Woodstock avenue. The Ballard family reunion will be held Wednesday. August Il, at Nieh- ols' grove, West Thompson. Court City of Putnam. F of A., will meet September instead of Sep tember ?. which is Labor Day Miss Anna C. Levitt, for many years head bookkeeper for Bradley & Co. has resigned her position. Harold W. Files. formerly superin- tendent of schools in this city, Is now doing \. NJ (. A. work in France The regular meeting of Putnam Grange will be held next Monday night when regular business will be transacted.
 The Misses Hall of New Haven ar rived Wednesday to be the guests of Reuben Naples and family, Grand View, for Chautauqua week. Mrs. Walter B. Carle of Boston was the guest of her sister, Miss Mae L, Bradley. The latter will enjoy her
 vacation in Boston next week. Miss Esther Berg. Miss Amelion Strangberg, Miss Diana Bibeault, , Jack Needle and Theodore Lamb mo tored to Ocean Beach on Sunday Miss Annie Cogan, who has been in the employ of the H. K. II. Silk Com pany. has resigned. and Is now with the French River Textile Company, , Mechaniesville.
 } Dr. J. J. Russell and John A Dady motored to Juniper Point Me, on Wednesday, where the doctors fam fly is spending the summer They , will return this Friday night. ] Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Langlois and family motored last week to Johnsbury. Vt, taking back to their home. Mir. and Mrs Omer Duvert who have been visiting here in Put. nam.
 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Barrett and children of Hartford, and Mr. and Mrs. Owen Barrett and child of Prov idence, spent the weekend as the guests of their parents, Mir. and Mrs. Hiram Barrett, Grand View. : John G. Johnson entertained at the Inn, over Tuesday night, his sister,
 Mrs Douglas Fenwick of New York,
 On Wednesday he motored with her ; to Canton, Mass. Mrs Fenwick is on
 her way to their old home in Nova [ [ Scotia.
 g Lieutenant John R. Healey of No. Woodstock, who has been at Camp Gordon, Ga, has been transferred to Fort Berry, Lake Erie He was all
 ready to leave for over seas when the
 order came for him and "A others to
 go to the fort for a months training in musketry.
 : John Esterbrooks. who was induct- ed into service from this district a
 short time ago, has been discharged. MT. Esterbrooks has done his bit, ]. however, for he returned in June l, from a year of service in Scotland with saw mill unit organized by the United States.
 r A contingent of five men left here
 Tuesday morning for Fort Slocum, , N. Y. These were general service : men, who probably will be assigned to regular army regiments The men .who made up the group were: Victor , St. Jean, Danielson; Joseph Aldor Guertin. Danielson; Eugene Alferie Latour, Putnam; Leon Myron Dodge, Woodstock; Harry Linwood Warren, Danielson.
 ! In speaking of the plant lice and other insect pests, County Agent Ben , jamin W Ellis stated that farmers 2 are not being greatly troubled with : them now. The recent rains have done much to kill the lice Mr Ellis , is inclined to believe that farmers I have overestimated the damage done : by these insect poets, and personally believes that the wilt mad the blight
 have in many cases been responsible I for death of crops that farmers have :, laid to insects.