Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1919-10-24
EASTFORD

No elm tree beetles this season.
Adjourned town meeting Nov 3.
Increasing demand for domestics.
limited: Retaliation of town prop
erty.
Walnut thieving continues. Cracl
'emi
Large focks of birds flying south
ward.
Water, like the H. C. o. L., is very
high.
Motorcycles and bicycles are nu.
merous.
o. B. Carpenter does big lumber
business.
Cider mills are doing a pressing
business.
The coons refuse to come down
law or no law.
Austin Lincoln of Putnam was q
recent visitor.
Recent visitor: Highway Commits
i sioner Bennett.
Bigger hens and bigger eggs are be
ing talked about.
hdLyuluo nave slOppeu lHtii
threats are frozen.
Ashford farmers are trucking their
wood TO Willimantic.
Probate hearing on the Phillip Voor-
his estate tomorrow.
Numerous walking parties through
wood, field and farm.
Several touches of frost make
shrub hydrangeas kin.
New census next January. The
last was taken in 1910.
Archie Green is the champion corn
husker--let him tell it.
The Ladies' Aid will soon hold a
holiday sale. social or supper
Even an apple pole will not knock
down the high price of apples
Eastford peaches require no sugar
ing to make dreams come true.
Yum-yuml The fapjack and lass
es season opened here this week.
Theodore Smith of Ashford has re-
ceived coon dog from the west.
To have, or not to have? A dis
trict nurse. That's the question.
Plenty of coal, but not much sugar
Bound to keep warm, if not sweet
1t is Amasa, not Grant Trowbridge
who leaves next month for London.
The Lewis saw mill near Phoenix
vile has shut down for the present.
Miss Dorothy Kennedy of Putnam
whiled away the Sabbath in Eastford
Miss Mildred Jones pens that hen
vacation trip south is charming one
An immense sign, Eastford Cash
Store, is being lettered by Artist New
, il.
John Young, Jr., has disposed of hi:
flock of poultry to Providence deal.
er,
Grading around the Inn property
was finished Saturday, for the pres
ent.
Red ants and red headed aunts have
been uncommonly thick the past sum
mer
| Suggestion. Town tablet bearing
the names of the, World War veter
ans.
THANKSGIVING turkeys hereabout'
will be scarce and correspondence
high.
J. Fl. Wilbur of Abingdon SHOOT
hands with former acquaintance las
week.
The population here is slowly bu
surely increasing. One birth las
week
Mrs. Helen Kenyon of the Vale,
has been xisiting relatives in Provi
dence.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. w. Kennedy hav
been spending most of the week il
Boston
George Bowen's herd of Ayrshire
is one Of the finest for many mile
around.
Mrs. N. w. Kennedy entertaine
her Sunday school class Saturday at
ternoon.
C. Latham and William Smith hav
been engaged in work at Chaplin tn
past week
Frank Lyon declares that both tn
goosebone and backbone indicate
cold winter.
No AQUA in milk here. thank you
Our dairymen do not carry any wa
tered STOCK.
Notices to nonresident tax payer
have been duly mailed by Town Cler
Charles Clark.
Apple pit is the favorite pie now
Next winter squirrel pot-pie and the
printers pi.
Eli Weeks does not like Mort
Windham. Eli knows poor thin
when he sees it.
One Eastfordite returned from tn
Stafford fair $11 short. Says he ha
had it long enough.
Fresh fish is now sold here regular
". There is also a good supply o
native beef and lamb.
Eastford was represented at tn
Home and Community conference i
Willimantic Wednesday.
Judge j. NJ. Tatem was in DAME
son Saturday. Thinks Goodyear is
wonderful factory center.
The Community Club idea is an e,
cellent one. Woodstock has caugt
on. Other towns will follow.
Edgar Cutting talks of opening
barber shop. His name suggests /
This is the unkindest cut of all.
Eastford and vicinity apples will
on display at the New England fru
show in Providence Nov. 1918.