Putnam patriot., 1919-10-31

farmers to sing This Wheat Buy and
Buy"
Miss Elsie Lewis of the Hartford
Hospital enjoyed Sunday at her home
here.
Miss Elsie Dryden of Elliott is
teaching the South Ashford district
school,
Pretty good for remote Eastford.
1t subscribed 1928 to the Pilgrim Me-
mortal Fund.
Contractor A. NJ. Bartlett has fin
ished the new ice house near the new
store building.
The good ladies hereabouts are
making holeless doughnuts. Now for
holeless stockings.
Whipple & Gilpatric are hauling
vast quantities of lumber from this
locality to Putnam.
The blight with which hickory
trees were afflicted last year has dis
appeared this year.
Mrs. S. S. Cooper has returned
from Memorial hospital, Worcester, to
her home in the Valley.
Mrs. Charles Clark has been visiting
her father, Rev. John Miller, at East
Thompson the past week.
Various housewives are canning APP
Piles without sugar, as this may be
done at the time of serving.
Mrs. Charles Jarkovis, who has
been at the Day Kimball hospital the
past fortnight, is improving.
Miss Marie Quincy of New York
City, who has summer home here,
spent the weekend in town.
Souvenir Taylor writes that
there is room at the top" Billy
should Knowles baldheaded.
A missionary prayer meeting was
held at the chapel Wednesday eve
| ming. Topic: "The World Outlook. I"
Miss Pansy Neff has been visiting
her mother at Clark's Corners. While
there Miss Sybil Converse was her
guest.
! For lack of space at the Arlington
station hundreds of chestnut ties are
necessarily strewn along the high
ways.
| The new shoemaker will make a
speciality of medicated footwear, the
virtue thereof resting in the heel
(heaD.
]. M. Tatem & Sons handle factory
cuts quite shine in its winter coat OF
paint fresh from the brush of Artist
Nevill.
Eastford will be represented at the
1919 corn fair to be held in Putnam
Nov. 20. keep your ears to the
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Herbert Merrill of Ashford, a
young man, is a wireless operator on
a steamer plying between New York
and Mexico.
The little girls Of the community
church Sunday school were filled and
thrilled with sunshine hike to Crys
tai lake Saturday afternoon.
Ralph Davis has finished work al
the Tatem handle factory and accept
ed a situation with the Columbis
Graphaphone Co., Bridgeport.
Communications relative to auto
mobile applications and renewals fol
1920 are being received from the
state automobile department.
Mrs. Elisha Perry of South Wood.
stock is a frequent attendant st the
l II.
been affiliated a long term Of years.
Supervisor John Fits Of the state
highway construction department, il
giving the new road just what his
name implies. Mr.. Fits is hustler
The proposal to establish Roman
Catholic church either at Ashford OF
Eastford is meeting much favor. The
more the spires the higher oul
thoughts.
Beginning Nov. 1, the mail route
between Eastford and Putnam will b.
in charge Of Mrs Richards, who now
runs from Woodstock Valley tc
Westford.
| In his Sunday sermon Rev. F. H
Meacham paid glowing tribute ia
the life and memory Of Theodore
Roosevelt. He was the noblest Of
them all"
The eenkury-old Latham homestead
at Phoenixville, recently sold to x. g
Gleason, was frequently visited BY
Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, whose burial
spot is close ~.
Interest is taken in the Hereford
breed Of cattle, which comes from the
XrG6I k0nEnGb VI tu< SOoSnWScs, WhCe e
much Of the dressed beef used in the
east comes FROM
Dana Lewis has laid cement side
walk from his residence to the street.
First Selectman Tatem In already
active in repairing thoroughfares in
the village and vicinity.
Old-fashioned eugarless ginger
bread, suggested by government
bulletin, graces the average table here
right now. It's simply delicious serv-
ed warm with whipped cream
Miss Lillian Wright Of New Haven,
teacher Of physical education in New
York City, is the guest Of Mrs. Amasa
| Trowbridge. She admires Eastford
and its picturesque SURROUNDINGS.
Judge Ebert H. Gary, chairman Of
the board of directors Of the United
States Steel corporation, attended
school in the Gary district between
Putnam and Pomfret, when boy.