Putnam patriot., 1918-10-11
PUTNAM NEWS
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Mrs. C. L. Adams. Wilkinson street, is confines to her bed with illness.
 Word has been received that Corp. George s. Shay has arrived safely overseas.
 Mrs. stratton is spending a few days with her daughter and family in Abingdon
 The high school and parochial school closed Tuesday on account of the epidemic.
 Mrs Joseph Cutler returned Sat urday from few days visit with her mother in Taunton, Mass.
 George Farley. clerk in the Bay State hotel, Worcester has been call inc on friends in Putnam this week
 Mrs Alfred AIlard received word Thursday that her son, Sergt Ray mond Allard, has arrived safely over seas.
 There were six deaths in Putnam in the twenty-four hours ending Tues day morning. Only one was from in- fuenza.
 MT. and Mrs. Edward Auger have just received word that their son, Helika Auger, has arrived safely overseas.
 Eugene Bibeault of the Johnson House, Willimantic, has been at his home here He has just recovered from an attack of influenza. Miss Florence Murray. daughter of Mr and Mrs John Murray, South Main street. who is in training at Worcester City Hospital, is at the home of her parents. MT. and Mrs. Fred Fulton have an nounced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Alice Miller Fulton, to Walter Chandler, who is in the ser vice and stationed at Camp Devens.
 Rev. F. D. Sargent, who has been i'll for the past ten days, is reported as about the same Miss Gertrude Hall, who has taken up nursing the past year, is with the family helping to care for him.
 J. Harry Mann went to Boston this morning. His daughter, Miss Edna, who is training at Massachusetts Gen eral hospital, is seriously i'll with pneumonia, but according to last re- ports is holding her own.
 Corp. Nelson Mansfield, Camp Deveus. was in the city for few hours Thursday on his way from Dev- ens to New York, where he is to un- dergo treatment preparatory to the fitting of an artificial limb
 Captain J. J MeGarry of L Com pany, Third Regiment, State Guard, has received an official order direct ing him to furnish d military escort at funerals of soldiers whose bodies may be brought to this city for burial.
 The name of Jousaf Mustafa, of Grosvenordale appeared in the cas- ualty list published Tuesday. At Gros- venordale Tuesday it was stated that Mustafa was an Armenian mill hand who volunteered for service and who has been in France for several months
 Miss Hazel Clifford, Ring street, was surprised by some of her friends Tuesday evening, who called on her in recognition of her birthday ami versary A pleasant evening WAS spent, with games, music and refresh ments. The visitors left gifts as tok- ems of their friendship.
 Members of the high school facul- ty are assisting the local board in the large amount of detailed work they have to do. The classification of all those who have sent in questiuunaires was completed Thursday afternoon. The order numbers have not been ar ranged as yet from the master list.
 Miss Elizabeth Donovan, who re signed some time ago as a member of the Putnam High school faculty, left Tuesday for Bridgeport, where she is to teach. Miss Agnes Osborne another member of the hlgh school faculty. also left Tuesday for visit at her home in Bridgeport, to remain until the re-opening of the high school