Putnam patriot., 1918-08-30

Miss Beebe is entertaining Miss Louise Howe of Norwich.
 Mir. Steel spent Sunday at the shore resorts on Providence river.
 Arthur Wilks of Worcester spent the weekend at his home here.
 Rupert Geissler and Ralph Vito are spending the week at Lords Point.
 Miss Oliver Peterson of County Home road has been quite ill the past week.
 Arthur and Warren Ryan of Web ster were visitors at Thomas Ryan on Sunday
 Thursday the preparatory lecture of the church was held in the vestry of the church
 Miss Kaulbaek of Greenfield, N. H, was weekend visitor with Miss Muriel Backus.
 Miss Ruth Nanarsdale of Boston is spending few weeks with her aunt, Mrs. Ella Herfick.
 Mrs. Leslie Luster of Putnam was a visitor with her brother, Clinton Lavis, on Monday.
 Mrs. Calvin Spinney returned from a weeks visit with relatives in Bos- ton on Wednesday,
 Lewis Blaekmar of Everett was a weekend visitor with his sister, Miss Mary E. Blaekmar
 E. s. Backus in company with his father attended the races at Read vile on Wednesday.
 The Ladies' Thimble club held an outing at Logee's camp, Kings pond, on Saturday evening.
 MT. Reynolds of the Fort Hill farm is disposing of a portion of his milk to parties in Webster
 Charles McNerney and family of Providence were callers on his uncle, Thomas Ryan, on Sunday.
 A picnic of the Nichols family was held in the grove of Olin Nichols at West Thompson on Tuesday.
 George Lester is entertaining his brother-in-law, J. W. Clifford. and family, from East Bethel, Vt.
 The Baptist covenant meeting is to be held Saturday evening at Mir. Ken nedy's in the Sawyer district.
 Mir and Mrs George o. Bratt of fidTl1OTu SpGHG IiIt NSth-eIlu W lbii M A. Bratt's aunt, Miss Frances Olney.
 Rev. C. S. Phillips of the Connecti- cut Temperance Union spoke Sunday evning in the yestry of the church.
 During Sunday night dogs got into the pen of Belgian hares at the Marot school, killing them all, nine in num- Der
 Mr and Mrs. Harry Green (nee Miss Edna Roe of Oxford were cal lers on friends in Thompson on Sun day
 Mrs. Frank TourtelIotte of Quine- baug has been spending few days with her mother, Mrs. Garolos Moves.
 Lawrence Backus with his new car entertained his uncle, J. NJ. Nichols of Kansas City, and family on trip to Providence and New Bedford, Mass, on Monday.
 A second crop of oats for this sec tion was the one lately threshed out for Oscar Munyan, 428 bushels be- ing harvested from six acres of land on his farm on the aSibley road.
 The illness of John Ballard few days last week previous to the end of his vacation which was spent here, did not prevent his being able to return to his home in Philadelphia on Satur- day.
 Serela Rhodes of Quincy, Mass, spent Sunday with his parents, MT and Mrs Everett Rhodes. Mir, Rhodes IS engaged in work for the govern ment as an inspector at the Fore Xiv CT shipyard in Quincy
 Miss Nellie Ryan spent the week end with her sister, Mrs A. Appelt, in Webster. Miss Ryan is so improved in her health as to think of trying to take her old position in the Webster Telephone exchange next month.
 MT and Mrs. Elmer White on their recent visit to Boston secured fur nished apartment house and will take up their residence there after Labor Day. It is to be regretted by our citi- zens to lose them as residents of our village
 The poultry culling demonstration held by Roy E. Jones at the Marot school was something instructive, and that every keeper of poultry ought to be acquainted with in order to be able to practice conservation in the keep ing of poultry.
 Among those from our community who went to the shore on Providence river on Sunday were Charles Davis, Jr., and family, Albert Joslin and family. Clifford Green and family, ac- companied also by Mrs. Greens un- cle, Edward Babbitt, MT. and Mrs. Wesley Winn.
 Our citizens who are inclined to be sentimental and care to retain the looks of the old Arcade block, as it used to be called in earlier days, must do so by purchasing picture card to