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Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
DOGGONE GOOD MAN

Louis Benoit, driver for Putnam laundry, is a dog lover and a dog say CT and doggone good one, too. While driving by the house of Walter A. Wheaton, Wilkinson street, Thurs day forenoon, his attention was at tracted by despairing yelps of dog dangling by a chain and collar over the edge of high stone woll.
 The animal was making his final yelp q good one when Benoit arrived, jumped off the wagon and ran to the rescue. 1t was a tough job and the dog was a husky fellow, but with an upward shove and renewed scramb. ling by the dog, which didn't mind il he scrambled on Benoit's arms now and then, the animal went over anC to the other side in safety. The dos apparently had started to go some where and had forgotten about tn chain.
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
WOODSTOCK

Mrs. Windsor Clark entertained Miss Flynn of Norwich over Sunday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Hardy have returned from their visit in New York and Mrs. R. B. Richardson is their guest this week.
 Mrs. Horace Clapp of Pomfret Landing has visited at George Lyons the past week.
 Major Flynn writes fror, Storrs college that after another months government service he hopes to re- turn to a civilians life on his farm.
 Miss Mary Perley gave tea last week in honor of Mrs and Miss Hin richs, and Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Hardy entertained the Hill ladies.
 Mrs Henry Lyon celebrated her ninety-second birthday Dec. 29th. Grandchildren and great grandchil- dren from Leominster, Mass. were with her on that day.
 An interesting service was con. ducted in the chapel Sunday evening by the Junior department of the Sun day school with Miss Elizabeth Har- rison as leader The annual church dinner will be served in the dining room Saturday at 12.30, followed by the annual business meeting of the church in the chapel
 The annual meeting of the Farmers Cooperative association of Woodstock was Tuesday afternoon and the old list of officers was reelected. The aim of the organization is to benefit the farmer by cooperative buying. The business for the year has aggre- gated $27,690,26. Purchases have been as follows: Fourteen carloads grain, $21,153.81; 5 carloads lime ] $602. Is; carloads fertilizer, $3871.- 05; seed potatoes, $553.00; carloads barrels, $840.95; spraying material $4SS.55; poultry food. $129.31. Sell ing of farm products has just begun the first sale being twenty-five bush, els rye.
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10

caring for her brother and his wife 1T Putnam, who were i'll with pneumon | ia.
 The dance given by the seniors of Tourtelotte Memorial high school was successful and all present report. ed fine time.
 Mrs. Ellsworth Kent of Byfeld Mass, is with her mother, Mrs. Har- riet Lynch. who is seriously i'll with pneumonia and heart trouble.
 The Woman's Foreign Missionary society met with Mrs. James A. Wood Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. M. A. Gov ell assisted Mrs. Wood as hostess.
 Miriam Bowen visited the Tourtel- lotte Memorial high school with Roma Sheldon Tuesday. Private Reginald Chandler also visited school on Tues day.
 The Helping Hand club will meet with Miss Dorothy Covell Wednesday night. The Boys Sunday school class will be entertained during the eve ming
 The dancing class will meet again this week for the first time in four weeks. All are anxious to get out on the floor with their partners. Some of the dacing students are from Bart lett high school, Webster, and we hope to have more from there soon. Miss Harriet Moriarty is unable to teach the dancing class because she is now in Fall River, and Miss Marian Spaulding will take her place
 Fazli Ali carried A crowd of boys to Southbridge Tuesday night to at tend the basket ball game. Those who wene with him had the experience of having to pull his machine out of the mud. It was raining very hard and on the way home they turned too far into Herbert Corttis' yard and could not get out. MT. Corttis hitched up his pair of oxen and with the help of some of his husky fellows, pulled the machine to harder ground.
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
Charles Sheldon

Word was received here Thursday morning of the death of Charles Shel- don, assistant treasurer of the Union Trust Co.,, Providence, and a resident for many years of this town. Cause of death was pneumonia.
 MT. Sheldon was taken suddenly i'll in the Providence railway station Sat urday as he was about to take the train for Thompson, as was his GUS tom to spend the weekend with his family here. He was taken to the nome of his brother, where he died at o'clock Thursday morning.
 Upon learning of Mir. Sheldon's lil- ness, Mrs. Sheldon and Miss Edith went to Providence.
 MT. Sheldon, with his family, came to Thompson about thirty years ago and purchased a residence on Main lstreet, making extensive repairs and
 kerations to it, transforming it into
 attractive house. Ehcih his family
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
THOMPSON
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Miss Muriel Backus returned to col lege Wednesday.
 Miss Gertrude Russ visited friends here on Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs Albert Bushy welcom- ed a little boy Sunday.
 Representative Thomas Ryan was in Hartford on Tuesday,.
 Miss Mildred Johnson spent Thurs day with Miss Lena Smith.
 Miss Hannah Tracy intends to go to Worcester for the winter.
 Raymond Appelt visited his grand father, Thomas Ryan, over the week end.
 Miss Ella Herrick is now staying with her grandmother, Mrs. Ella Her rick
 Miss Pearl Moves has been substi- tuting for Miss Minnie Jones the past week
 Robert Russ, brother of Bert and Alfred Russ, has ben killed in action in France
 Ralph Vito and Vera Jackson have both returned to the Tourtellotte Me morial high school.
 The Christmas exercises which were postponed will be held Sunday evening at ' o'clock.
 Miss Martha Knight closed her house Wednesday and intends to spend the remainder of the winter in Danielson.
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10

Mrs. George Seaver is affected with influenza.
 Leonard Mosher of Baltimore, Md. was with friends here over the holi- days.
 The chicken pox is somewhat prev alent in town, although no serious cases have been reported. The school in the Upham district has been closed for the past two days on account of the illness of the teach CT, Miss Hawthorne.
 MT. Kimball, who conveys the stu dents of Tourtellotte, has been obliged to procure substitute on ac- count of his illness. John Johnson will move his pool room under the Charles Johnson Go, which will be soon removed to the other side of the present store. A meeting of the Sunday school classes of the Methodist chruch was at the home of Marcus Covell We'd nesday evening for the purpose of dis cussing business matters of the class es. It was followed by social hour
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
THE CROSVENORDAIES NEWS SECTION

Patrolman Neri Coderre went to Providence on special business Thurs day.
 Ethelbert Aldrich, Providence, R. l., was here on a business and pleas ure trip Thursday.
 Ludovic Dion of Grosvenor-Dale has accepted position as timekeeper in the machine shop here.
 Private Frank O'Claire is visiting his home here, having recently been discharged from the army.
 Mrs. William Lynch, one of our oldest citizens, passed away Wednes- day morning at her home near here. She is survived by two sons, Frank and Oscar Lynch.
 The body of Archie Hill, who was killed in the Grosvenor-Dale mill last week, was taken to Riverpoint, R. l., Saturday for burial, by Leon N. Walker, the undertaken.
 A memorial service for Private Os- car ". Swanson, who died of wounds in France in September, is to be held at the Swedish Lutheran church Sum- day afternoon at 3 o'clock.
 A truck owned by Stephen Pratt, Webster, was demolished when struck by train on the Southbridge track in New Boston Saturday. Two men on the truck jumped before the crash. MT. Pratt owned truck which was hit at the North Grosvenordale cross ing year ago when the driver was killed.
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
JUST A WEEK LATE
Battery Boys Wanted to Hit the Hun, But Armistice Beat Them to It
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"Orear Elleaurer, ~. M. c. A. Secty.'

Here we are, only one week late. Here is the 5000 that was lost, stray ed or stolen" was the legend chalked on a car of troop train that stopped for a few minutes at the Putnam de- pot Monday morning. The khaki clad huskies were from Camp Jack son, S. C., and after several months of training had been about to leave to get, as they expressed it, "a crack at the Huns," but the signing of tho armistice forestailed their plans. Ths men were from battery at JacksoI and were en route to Camp Devens t be mustered out.
 Another inscription on car note the men were from Heaven. One na a cornet which he seemed intent Q straights~4ns ess stth . blast of !, ass'sI ass. S ss s''.s ' ' - 6 !I de.. =:so1 rs'
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
EAST WOODSTOCK

Mrs. Ida Anderson, 33 years old, wife of Joseph Anderson, died in the Day Kimball hospital, Putnam, Thurs day Cause of death was dropsy The funeral will be Sunday at 2 o'clock in the Swedish church at Woodstock Hill, and burial will be in the Swedish cemetery
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10

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Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10

medicine for woman's ailments I ever saw. Mrs. SARA SHAW, R. No. l. Portsmouth, Ohio.
 Mrs. Shaw proved the merit of this medicine and wrote this letter in order that other suffering women may find relief as she did. Women who anGnNes1ng = = 1as shoo|d 1 i.sss soes saa
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
THOMPSON TOWN TOPICS

The Misses Elliott have returned to their school in Westover.
 Miss Cranska is staying at her brother Floyd's in Moosup.
 The Thimble club met with Mrs. Fred Hutchins on Thursday.
 Winthrop Ballard has fox to his credit, caught last Saturday.
 Elmer White and family have re- turned to their apartment home in Boston.
 The new garage of Paul Augur is very busy overhauling ears for local owners.
 Mrs. George Brott of Hartford was weekend visitor at her brothers, Arthur Mills.
 The body of Joseph Town of Web ster was buried in East Putnam cem- etery on Friday.
 Miss Pearl Moves is supplementing as teacher in the primary department of the Thompson school
 Mir. and Mrs. Searls have been en- tertaining Mrs. Searls' sister from Ey- erett. Mass, for few days.
 Mrs. E. s. Backus is very much bet ter and her daughter Muriel return ed to her school on Wednesday.
 Mrs. Albert Herrick, nurse in the Westfield Sanitorium, was visitor with Mrs. Ella Herrick on Sunday.
 Florist Hermanson was out for the first time after two weeks confne- ment In the house with influenza.
 Mir and Mrs Alexander Maitland attended the funeral of MT. Malt lands nephew in Boston on Saturday
 Mrs. Marvin Elliott and her com panion, Miss Mary Noble, have gon' to New York to spend the rest of tn, winter
 Bibeault < Benoit, masons of Put nam, were in the village Tuesda. cleaning chimpeys on the residence O Dexter Elliott.
 Miss Ella Herrick is visiting he grandmother, Mrs. Ella Herrick. Sh, will continue her studies at the Tour tellotte high school
 Frank Peterson finished his worl for the season for Mrs. Dresser or December 31, and is employed about the premises of the Marot school
 At the grange meeting Tuesday the lecturers hour was devoted to read ings about and concerning the life of ex-President Roosevelt, by members sf the grange.
 The change in the weather from the fog and rain that had prevailed near K week, to sunshine and snappy cold, was joyfully welcomed by the many i'll ones.
 Peter Sandstrom of West Thomp- son is filing the place of Carl Peter son in caring for the stable of horses of Mrs. George Dresser during MT. Peterson's illness.
 Several automobile owners in the village were obliged to let their ears rest during the stormy weather on account of not being able to get out of their yards, it being so muddy.
 Edward Peterson of Boston was a recent caller overnight on his parents, MT. and Mrs. Frank Peterson. His sisters, Mabel and Edith. accompanied him in his auto on his way home as far as Worcester.
 Miss Augusta Elliott at the service m the church on Sunday sang beauti- fully as a solo, ''The Sweet Story, "l Should Like to Have Been With Him Then" Communion service was ob- served at the close.
 The trolley service between West Thompson and Webster was out of commission on Thursday morning. The scholars who attend the Tourel- lotte high school going by trolley, re- turned home again.
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
EGG COAL RESTRICTIONS OFF

The public is hereby notifea that after Jan. 10, all restrictions on the sale of egg coal are removed This is in accordance with instructions from Thomas w. Russell, United States fuel administrator, and is due, as he says, to daily improvement in the anthracite situation and the very conservative saving in use of egg coal.
 GEORGE l.. PADGETT.
 Chairman of Fuel Committee.
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
POMFRET

Patrick Cronin, 63 years old, for many years resident of Pomfret, died at Putnam Monday.
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
WOMEN OF PUTNAM

The Red Cross needs your aid to complete it's allotment of refugee gar ments for this month. The rooms are open Wednesday and Friday after moons. The work is simple and can be taken home if desired.
 ELLEN M. WHEEL0CK
 MRS. ANDREW FROST
 MRS. s. NJ. WHEELoCK
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
BEST MEDICINE
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Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
FOX HAS SNARE ON NECK

A dog fox shot by Charles [. Roth, Dayville, Tuesday, was found to have a wire snare on its neck that had cut through the flesh and nearly severed
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
How to Judge a Diamond

COLOR. Diamonds range ID color from white to black. The most de s,rable color is blue-white. One of tbe commonest color designations IS Commercial White-a clear white dia- mond with just suggestion of vel low These are, when in the best grades and properly cut, very bril- liant. and being cheaper than the blue whites. are in considerable demand. Below Commercial White, diamonds run into distinct yellows and light browns. cheaper grades, but often sold for more than they are worth by interruptions dealers, who set them in fine platinum and white gold mount ings. which minimize their of color
 Some dealers call nearly all diamonds blue-white, but no one can be de
Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10

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Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-24
ToDAY,s ANNIVERSARY.

England's first important naval victory was gained on this day in 1887 when the Earl of Dundel defeat ed & Flemish fleet of a hundred sail and captured eight of the enemy's craft. The navy of England had it's erigin in a fleet of galleys built by Alfred in s97. Considerable fleets were collected during the next few centuries by Edgar, Ethelred IL, Edward the Confessor, and Harold. Richard l., in 1191, was the first to snact a code of naval laws. In the 14th century the fleets of Edward III. met and defeated the French and spanish. In 14ss Henry VII. built the
 Soyal Harry which by some is con sidered the beginning of the royal navy. By 1546 the navy had 5s
 hips, but with a total tonnage of auch below that of a modern dread naught, and about 5000 men,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-24
AMERICANLABOR
 PARTY PLANS
Dudley Field Malone and Frank P. Walsh to Address
 April Mass Meeting.

The American Labor Party held a meeting yesterday at Machinists' Hall and laid out plans for the coming city campaign.
 The meeting was large and en- -th71saassttc and it was decide1 to place In nomination candidates for every office at the coming city election.
 Thomas Splaine, Patrick ScoIIins and Charles Haines were appointed a committee to draw up"a platform and report back to a meeting to be held on Sunday, April 6.
 This platform will be similar to the one adopted in Hartford for the cam padgn now being waged there.
 The Hartford platform demands that all city work be contracted for on union conditions and wages: an eight hour day and forty-four hour week; police protection for pickets and strikers; municipal ownership of any and all public utilities; schools to be open as centers for social, civic l and recreation purposes; increased pay for school teachers; the popular election of the judges of the police court and prosecuting attorneys; the initiative referendum and recall; ap- | pointment of commission, on which workers shall be represented to con- sider the advisa bility of having the ] OCaTu or aldermen elected at larger on the principal proportional representa- | ton; representation for workers and for women on all public commissions: | that the street railway be compelled ! to pay the taxes due the city; that principle of proportional representa- l constitutional right of free speech free press and lawful assembly; that the two shift system for fire depart ment be put into effect that the police and fremen should have one day of rest out of seven.
 The American Labor Party was born in Bridgeport at the time of the machinists strike and now has organ
 izations in 1 5 states and 67 cities.
 A committee of IS of the most prominent members of the Progress 1 sive Party have issued a call to the
 members of that party to join the | American Labor Party.
 Frank ?. Walsh and Dudley Field Malone will address @ mass meeting
 of the party in this city, early in April.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-24
TAX
 CAN BE FILED

Information regarding the payment of corporation, taxes may be obtained at the Internal Revenue office. The government has appointed expert ac- CO1Intants and lawyers from the Field service of the Treasury department to be stationed here and sgssist all those who have to pay such taxes. The cor poration blanks have arrived and no tices were received from Collector Walsh at Hartford today stating that all persons who have to file corpora ton taxes may do so at once, as everything is in readiness for their accommodation.
 DeHnquents who failed to pay their income taxes have been extended one week longer in which to sign a.ffida- wits and pay their taxes. This should be attended to at once.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-24
THE GRAND CANYON.

The first scientist to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado was John Wesley Powell. a distinguished geOlogist, who was born in Mount morris S5 years ago today. In 1869 Major Powell, at the head of an ex- petition of ten men sent out by the Smithsonian Institution, descended the canyon of the Colorado from Green River to Rio Virgin. The party made the trip in four boats, and faced many hazards and difficulties during the midsummer exploration of one of natures most magnificent works. Powell continued his ex- plorations in later years and wrote Canyons of the Colorado" 'sEx- plorations of the Colorado River" and other works dealing with the Southwestern country. The water worn trench of. the Colorado Is one of the most wonderful sights in the world, the cliffs or rock-waIls at taining a height of from 4,OOO to 1000 feet above the stream, which varies in width from 30 to 300 feet, with ire quent waterfalls and whirIpoo1s
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-24
NOTED WRITER.
 OF PLAYS DEAD
Henry Blossom, Jr., Author of Many Musical Pieces, Is
 Pneumonia Victim.

New York March 24.---Henry Mar tyn Blossom, Jr., author of half q dozen books and @ score of leading comic operas of the last 15 years, died from pneumonia after a three days illness at his apartment in the Belnord, Broadway and EIghty-siNth street, yesterday afternoon. He was 5 years of age. His wife, who was Marjorie Seely, the actress, has been notified by wire at St. Louis and Is on her way to this city.
 the Red NHn.' Checkers" which was first published tn book form: ''The Yankee Consul" "The Slim Princess and Mile. Modlste" His latest musical comedy, The Velvet Lady,' is now being produced at the New Amsterdam by Klaw & Erlan- ger.
 Mir. Blossom was born in St Louis May 10, 1866, the son of. Henry Mar tyn and Susan s. Blossom, was ed ucated at the Stoddard school and af- terward engaged in the insurance bus inezs. Discarding a commercial ca reer, he came to New York and be gan his dramatic work.
 Checkers, a, Hard Luck Story.'' one of his earlier books, was dramatized for the stage and was one of the first plays to be pictured. The list of his writing includes "The Documents in Evidence ''The Brother of Chuck McGa.nn," and the following plays in the order of writing:
 The Yankee Consu1,'' produced by Henry W, Savage; Mile NTodiste,'' a comic opera produced by Charles Dfl- ilnghan; '"The F'rtma Donna an op- era; Red MIL" a musical comedy 1 Miss PhiJura," produced by Liebler 6 O.; ''The Slim Princess'' 8 comic opera; Baron TrenCk," an English version, produced by F. c. Whitney; The Man From Cooks a nusica'
 comedy produced by Klaw & Brian | ger; "A Trip to Washin gton,'' "The 1 Only Girl,'' f'TThe Princess Pat ?
 Eileen and others
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-24
COSsACKS TO HELP

London, March 22,-The Cossacks of the Orenburg region have decided to supply Petrograd and Moscow with foodstuffs tn large quantities and "to observe Loyalty all the decrees regard ing food supplies" says a wireless re- port from Russia.
 This decision was made at a formal conference at which the delegates agreed to organize soviets in all local ities and to take stops against any at tempts to a, counter-revolution
 An elaborate program for the "So- cialistc organization of agriculture'' was laid before the conference. A series of agricultural cornnunes have been formed in the various districts and provinces. The Council of the Peoples Commtssaries, the report
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-24
JOHN SCHICK,

The many friends of John Schick, 0 well known driver for the Home Breweries Co.,, will be grieved to learn of his death which occurred at the Bridgeport hospital this morning. He 1s survived by his wife, who is also a patient at the hospital and two small children also his parents, MT. and Mrs. Christian ScfIick. two brothers and four sisters to mourn his loss. He was g member of the Bridgeport Schwaben Sick Benefit society, the Schwaebischer Maennerchor and the Brewers Union, No. 40, delegations of which orders will attend the funeral from his late home, 2o6 Sheridan street, on Wednesday afternoon. In- torment fin the family plot in Lake, -NieW cameterY.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-24
DUR VIEWPOINT
 NEWS LETTER
Especial to The Tin,es)

Newtown, March 24-Stephen Keane of zoar, met with a serious accident on Saturday afternoon while working with a wood cutting machine. The saw blade became loosened and in the swift revolution struck Mr Keane, cutting his head, ear and Inhicting sev- eral painful cuts Dr. Kiernan at tended his wounds and the patient is resting as comfortable as can be ex- pected. The accident occurred at the Breasen farm
 MT. and Mrs Hobert Curtis return ed from Florida on Friday, where they have been spending the winter.
 Miss Bianch Gilbert from Mt Hol- yoke college, is at her homo fin Bots ford for the Easter vacation.
 Miss Doris Downs Of the N. H, s. faculty, spent the week end and Sun- day at her home in Danbury.
 The Holy Name society of St. Rose s church. received their quarterly com EnunIon Sunday at the o'clock mass.
 Tuesday, Annupciation day, masses will be at and o'clock,
 Visitors in Danbury on Saturday were Misses Clara Sheehan, Gertrude and Catherine Crowe, Catherine Shee- han.
 Miss Mary Troy of the local tele- phone office, has been visiting in Dan 9Iry g few days.