Putnam patriot., 1918-10-25

Frank Knight is among those re- ported as being i'll this week
 Mrs Frank Herrick is entertaining her sister, Miss Lindsey of New York
 F s, Backus attended the funeral of his brother Horace in Andover on Saturday.
 Plenty of hunting. which cannot be said of game this season. is reported by the hunters.
 Miss Annie Cunning has gone to teach in the Wykeham school in Washington, Conn.
 The Ladies Home and Foreign Missionary society met with Mrs. Am idon on Wednesday. Lawrence Backus has entered Brown University in Providence, go- ing away on Monday.
 Mir. and Mrs Louis Ream have both been i'll for few days while wis iting at Carolyn Hall.
 Mrs Jerome Rhodes and daughter of Oxford. Mass, spent the weekend with relatives in town
 Mrs Elmer White has decided to remain in Thompson and not to re- ! Richard Brunette received several | severe bruises about his face by be- ing thrown from his bicycle recently
 Mrs Park Pitman and daughter of Fl Paso, Texas. have been stopping with Mrs Hutehins for short time Over three hundred bushels of po- | tatoes Is the yield reported by one farmer as his harvest of potatoes this season.
 Edward Babbitt and Mrs. Allen Babbitt attended the funeral of Silas Rabbit, brother of Mir Babbitt, in Danielson on Thursday. Services were resumed on Sunday at the Congregational church. A meeting of the Baptist members was held after the services. Mrs Angeline Mills was a visitor | for the day with Mrs. Felix Wende- l sheffer before Mrs. Wendelsheffer re- | turned with her family to Providence. Temperance seems to be, by the talk among the voters, the issue at the coming election, a temperance | man being up for election as senator. One improvement follows another,
  i boarding house kept by Mrs. Hill. It is steam heat that is now being in- stalled.
 The stateroads repairer, Mir. Ryan, is out with tar and other material, patching up the imperfections and the holes in the roads before cold weather.
 Alex Shaw of Providence. who is an annual visitor to Thompson during the hunting season, spent Saturday in town with Frank Herrick enjoying this sport
 Richard Petterson has given up his work in Southbridge and returned to his home at Brandy Hill. and is at work on Tony Nito's truck with Rob ert Johnson.
 Chicken thieves are not all confined to the human race, as in the case of Mrs. Marvin Elliott, who lost two by her premises being visited by dogs one day last week. Joseph St. Martin, the long day worker, is having the experience of a few days sickness this week, but | by taking the prescription of rest IS reported as improving. Forest Rhodes, who has been afflict- | ed by an attack of infantile paralysis | for over year, is in Boston being treated by a specialist Report comes that he is improving under the treat ment
 Fires in the gutters beside the street in front of many of our resi- dences have been the common scene in the village, it being the most suit | able way to dispose of the leaves | raked off the lawns A heavily loaded truck in passing | over the highway bridge near the | Claus Swenson place near Brandy Hill, broke three of the stringers to the bridge. Surveyor John Johnson has repaired the damage Dorothy Garbutt, who resides with | her parents on the Gladding place, her father being coachman for J. R. | Gladding, has resumed her studies in school in Providence on Monday. She 1 entertained the Junior Red Cross on 1 Saturday.
 Edward Johnson and Miss McGrane were united in marriage at the par 1 sonage in West Thompson on Friday by the Rev. John Ely MT. Johnson i IS to leave soon for Camp Meade ID Maryland He enlisted from Spring field, Mass, where he spent a few days before leaving for camp.
 A horse belonging to Mrs. George F. Dresser had to be killed last Sat urday, it having accidently broken it's ] leg, this being the second horse Sher- if William N Bates, who is agent for the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has been called upon to kill within a week The accident hap pened near the County Home,
 Miss Mabel Peterson, while return ing on horseback from her work in Putnam last Thursday, figured in an accident with an automobile, injuring her horse by breaking it's leg The animal had to be killed. Miss Petter- son escaped without injury. The oc- cupants of the auto were hurt and were taken to the hospital in Worces- AN,