Putnam patriot., 1919-01-10
 PERTINENT TO PUTNAM
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 Miss Elizabeth Barnes left Sunday morning for Hartford to spend sever al days with friends.
 Pvt. Frank A. Phillips of the local board force, spent Sunday with friends in Manchester.
 Mir. and Mrs. Omer J. Milot have both been confined to their home on Fremont street, by illness.
 Sergeant James Charron returned to Camp Devens Sunday night after five-day leave of absence. Mir. and Mrs. George M. Fine and son Robert of New London were weekend guests of Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Simpson, Fremont street.
 Percy Richardson, student at i Wentworth Institute, spent the week 1 end with his parents, Mir. and Mrs. i Charles Richardson, of Intervale street.
 Samuel H. Walsh, Providence, was visitor in Putnam Tuesday. His son William of the U. s. S. Iowa, is spending a few days with friends in this city.
 By order of Judge Joel H. Reed, the January term, criminal side, of the Windham counyt superior court, scheduled to open Monday, was post poned until today, Friday, at 1 O. clock, at Willimantie.
 Miss Marion Carpenter is assisting her father, J. Richard Carpenter, in his office on Main street. Her sister, Miss Eleanor Carpenter, is taking coure in business methods in Hart ford business college.
 Attorney Charles L. Torrey was in Hartford Monday to appear before the supreme court at the argument of the case of w. W. Wheatley vs. Fred R. Dubuc, Danielson parties. MT. Torrey represented Mr. Dubuc.
 Pvt. Vincent McEvoy has returned to Fort McHenry, Maryland, after spending twenty-seven day furlough at his home here. He returned to U. S. general army hospital ? where he is still receiving attention for injuries received while fighting in France.
 "Will be back to old Connecticut about May 1,' is note from N. Wal do Kennedy, now district supervisor of the Moose with offices in Norfolk, Va. MT. Kennedy has purchased the hotel in Eastford and expects to open a hostelry on his return from the south.
 Children continue to be received at the Windham County home, and ten more are expected to arrive within a few days, eight from Willimantic, two from this city. This will increase the number there to t37, by far the larg est number of children ever in the home at one time.
 It is estimated that approximately two million feet of pine and oak lum- Der will be obtained from a wood lot being cut for David F. Clark on the Henry Wheaton farm just of the Bal louville road A kerosene engine which furnishes power for the mill consumes a barrel of kerosene a day.
 The open meeting of the Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, D. A. R., will be held in I. O. O. F. hall Mon day afternoon, Jan. 18th, at O. clock. Each member may invite one guest. Miss Ethel Johnson of the Howe-M -Marot school will speak. The board of management meets at 2.30 p. nl
 Chaplain Boynton Merrill of the U. s. s. Pennsylvania, who spoke at the Congregational church Sunday, was entertained while in Putnam by MT. and Mrs. G. Harold Gilpatric. Ali ter the services Sunday night, Chap lain Merrill left to take night train to Kentucky, where he is to visit friends.
 A meeting of the directors of the | Windham County Farm association will be held in the office of County Agent B. w. Ellis, Union block, Mon- day. It is expected that committee of three to have charge of the dis tribution of nitrate of soda from the United States department of agricul- ture will be appointed for the coun- ty.
 Weekend visitors along the Nor wich and Worcester line of the New Haven road had much to say about the arrival of trains Saturday and Sunday. The train from New Lon don Saturday night was two hours late and the one from Worcester Sun day night scheduled to leave at 9.15, really left at 1920 Monday morn- ing.
 Soldiers from Putnam and vicinity are interested in tn, announcement regarding plans for establishing at Camp Devens vocational and acad-