Putnam patriot., 1918-11-01
THOMPSON TOWN TOPICS

Frances Elliott has returned to her school in Westover. Mrs Church of Cambridge is a wis ltor with Miss sherman
 The Junior Red Cross met with Miss Sylvia Ryan on Saturday.
 A Halloween party was held at the town hall on Wednesday evening
 Mir and Mrs. Dart are spending a few weeks with relatives out of town
 Miss Gray has been spending a few days with her sister. Mrs C. E. Ol- ney.
 Miss Olney has closed her house and returned to Hartford for the winter
 Miss Arthur Kitchen. niece of Miss Granger, Is spending the week with her
 Mrs. F. A. Decker has been enter tainlng some friends from Wauregan few days
 Carol Ingraham made a flying trip to Norwich in Mrs Henry Elliotts ear on Friday.
 Contractor Knight is engaged in shingling part of the stable build lngs for Dr. Paine
 Mrs. Gardner Miller closed her house on Monday and returned to Providence for the winter.
 Mrs. Carol Ingraham entertained Mrs. Charles Houghton and two children of Webster on Friday.
 Rev. William and Mrs. Chase wis tied Camp Devens in company with MT. Steele in his car on Monday.
 Dr Burroughs and Mrs. Bur roughS of Danielson have been spend- ing several days at Mrs. Hutchins'
 Big Closing Out Sale of Furniture at Racicot Bros. Store. Putnam, now going on. Big Bargains Hurry adv
 Mir. and Mrs George S. Crosby celebrated their thirty-ninth marriage day on Tuesday by taking an auto mobile ride.
 Dr. Paine has received an appoint ment as first lieutenant in the med ical corps, and is to report to the war department Nov '.
 Hon. C E. Searls and Mrs. Searls are occupying their house after hav- ing taken their meals at Mrs Hutch ins' through the summer.
 Miss Rusher returned to her home in New York on Friday, having spent nearly two months of the beautiful autumn season in Thompson.
 A gathering for the children at the library is to be held on Friday after noon from 430 until 500 o'clock, to be treated to talk by one of our local ladies.
 Fire in the woods near the resi- dence of Dr. George Towne called out the tirewardens with assistants to put 1t out. Five or six acres were burned over.
 Dr. Paine visited his son Hamilton, who has been sick at Mount Hermon college, on Monday, and reports that he finds his son much better and ex- poets him to visit home on Saturday
 The dog hen thief has been still on his job the past week and this time a on more extensive scale, having been at work among the flock of fowls belonging to Everett Rhodes, killing several.
 Mrs Stevenson, who has been stay ing with her daughter, Mrs. Maitland. through the summer, has been called to Mills, Mass, to assist in caring for her daughter, Mrs, Humbolt, who is sick with the influenza
 Winthrop Bullard came in from one of his hunting trips with a coon weighing twenty pounds. Myron FL liott is another who has a coon to his credit Both were obtained in the woods in the Sawyer district.
 One person who forgot to set his clock back reported on his job for work at o'clock, which last week was B. Another case was a lady ar irving for the first mass service at the Catholic church at West Thompson an hour early.
 Between 250 and 300 barrels of ap- ples have been harvested from Sunset Hill farm by Providence parties who purchased them on the trees Several truck loads have been seen passing through the village at different times on the way to that city.
 Dr. Newton J Jones, who was pas tor of the Congregational church here few years ago, was in the village calling on friends on Mon day His son Chandler has enlisted in the navy, and is at Pelham Bay training school for ensigns.
 Miss Mary Phinney, niece of Miss Sherman. who will be remembered by many in the village, she having been frequent visitor to her aunt here, has been very i'll at her home in New Jersey, but from letters received from her she is rapidly improving. Raymond Chase, who was wound ed in France last year, has arrived back to the U. s. and spent the week end with his father. continuing his journey to Boston on Monday, where he is to be located in the naval hos pital until his recovery from his wounds
 Peter Dumas and family of Web ster were callers on relatives in town on Sunday. Hr. Dumas will be re- membered by those who witnessed the Pomona Grange last August, as he figured conspicuously in the parade