Putnam patriot., 1918-10-04
Thompson, Oct. LIST, 1918.

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Thompson, Oct. LIST, 1918.
Frank Spinney is visiting with
friends in Providence.
Ellsworth Chandler has been Wis
itor in town the past week.
Church services were suspended on
Sunday on account of Spanish influ
enza.
Miss Sarah Crosby is home visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Crosby.
Mrs Allen Rabbit. a relative of
NJ. Thompson, attended his funeral
on Sunday.
Arthur Mills entertained his broth
er. John Mills of Boston, over the
week end.
Miss Jennie Rhodes of Oxford has
been spending this week with Mr. and
Mrs Everett Rhodes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maitland are enter
tanning Miss Packer of Boston, a rel
ative of Mrs Maitland.
The schools throughout the town
have been closed on account of the
epidemic CT inHue1Zd.
Mrs. Paine, who has been i'll sew
eral weeks, is improving, being re-
ported as much better.
Mrs. Frank Spinney has been visit
ing her brother, Alexander White, in
Worcester few days.
Mrs. Colclough has closed her
house for the season and returned to
Providence on Wednesday.
f. E. Rhodes has been having
few necessary repairs made to his ten
ement house in Quadic district.
A force of laborers from Boston
are engaged on the Gladding place
and are boarding with Mrs. Hill.
Miss May McMullen is to go to
Brooklyn to take commercial
course at Pratt's institute in that
city.
E. W. Scarborough spent the week
end and a few days in town with
friends, taking his meals at Mrs.
Hutchins'.
Howard, Louis and Earle Thomp-
son were in town on Sunday to at
tend the funeral of their uncle, f. F.
Thompson.
Miss Cotton. who has been stopping
at Mrs Hutchins' through the sum
mer, has returned to her home in
New York.
Miss Marion Bowen through her
| father is the owner of a pony with
colt by it's side, purchased from par
ties in Brooklyn.
Clifford Greene and Mrs. Greene
and son Lester have been among the
worst cases i'll with the grip, but are
said to be improving.
The heavy rains of the past two
weeks have made extra work on the
highways for Mr. Ryan and his teams
! filling the many washouts.
Mrs. VIM. Peckham, who with he
children, have been spending the
month of September in the village
returned to her home in Providence.
residence of Mrs. Henry Elliott has
been cut down. Too much shade we
presume was the cause of its being
removed.
Mrs. Henry Cruff, a veterans wild
ow, died at her home near Brandy
Hill on Sunday. Funeral services
were held on Tuesday. Burial at
East Thompson cemetery.
The committees of the trustees of
the library have negotiated with the
new owners of the Quinnatisset prop
erty, for the purchase of about thirty
! FIVE feet in the rear of the library lot.
Miss Reed has had as guests her
two sisters, Mrs Margaret Freeman
of Hyde Park, and Florence Morton
of Worcester; also her sister in-law,
Mrs. Charles Reed of Worcester, a
few days the past week.
First and second degrees were
worked on eight candidates at the
grange on Tuesday evening. The
harvest supper is on the program for
the next meeting, when the third and
fourth degrees will be conferred.
A meeting of the finance commit
tee of the War Bureau of the town
was held on Monday at the probate
! building to arrange to be helpful in
whatever way they can in the sale of
the fourth Liberty Loan bonds.
Frank Buxton, native of Wood
stock, now living in Springfield,
Mass, was a caller on relatives in
town on Sunday Mr. Buxton is a
veteran of the civil war and is in his
eighty-frst year, but looks several
years younger.
Floyd Bowen has been making ex-
tensive repairs to his house by taking
down two chimneys and building
new ones John Sabin and men of
Putnam have been at work on the
last one this week, the other one hav-
ing been done about a month ago.
The trees owned by George Ross
of Putnam that have formed the little