Putnam patriot., 1919-10-17

will probably not be oiled before spring.
 Mrs. Leander Snow, Mrs. Augustine Bartlett and Mrs. N W. Kennedy mo- tored to Willimantic last week. The highway to the Thread City is in much better condition than the roads lead ing to Putnam.
 Stanley Sepnangei, the auto truck man, is daily hauling large loads of apples from the Henry Buell. orchards to the Providence market. Much of the fruit is consigned to the well known Child restaurants.
 Cold-water Baptists. luke-warm Congregationalists and shouting Methodists add zest to the social and religious activities of this township. It is delightful center in which to live, move and have being.
 The Monette home at Pomfret was entered last week, s60 diamond ring, gentleman's s25 ring, lady's watch, sofa pillow and pair of lace curtains being distracted. People hereabouts should be careful.
 Eastford and Canterbury are the only towns of the fifteen in the coun- ty not represented at the Children's Temporary Home The committee on visitors includes Mrs J. M. Tatem of Eastford and Mrs C. o. Balch of Ash ford
 Vicinity suffragists are deeply in- i terested in the fact that if Connecti- cut fails to ratify the federal amend ment, the women of the state will be l denied the ballot in the presidential l election next year. Thus far seven teen states have voted favorably.
 The stepping stone used at the home of Gen Nathaniel Lyon more i than half a century ago, now occu- pies place of honor in front of Gen. 1 Lyon Inn and attracts general atten- tion. At an early period in it's history the old stone was used in lye vat.
 The many different school-marms in the village Friday thought Eastford was 'superlatively lovely" The fair maidens resembled a millinery open ing at Bugbee & Wulf's department store. Some were "corn fed" and all of them felt their oats" Come again, | ladies.
 The dance in Wheaton's hall, Phoe- niville, was well attended. Shippee's | orchestra enlivened the occasion with music, and Prof. s. NJ. Coffey was right up to date in prompting. The admittance fee was sixty cents for gents and ten for ladies, and all had barrel of foot-fun.
 Interested friends hereabouts are assisting in the movement to bring some measure of relief to Mrs Mich ael Markovich and children of Union, who have been left to face the world since the husband and father pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to the state prison for life.
 Town Clerk Clark has issued hunt trs' licenses to Joseph Slovik, Fred Upham, Harry Tripp, John Ethridge, Jr., Ernest Stevens, Charles Morse, Jr., Urban Carpenter, White Hewlett, Ralph Davis, William Spink, Ariel Green, Jr, H. A. Eddy, Harvey Wells, Charles R. Tripp, Earl Young.
 Frank Sherman of Pomfret Land ing, who in the superior court pleaded guilty to stealing six chickens at the Kempf place near Harrisville several weeks ago and was by Judge Haines sentenced to serve six months in jail, formerly lived in this town, where his parents were highly respected. Booze beggars boys.
 Eastford's horticulturist is A. Darl- ing-Albert Darling, if you please. Just to go The Patriot of last week one better, he not only made the scribe's eyes water at the sight of raspberries the other day, but this week tickles his palate with full box of succulent strawberries freshly pick ed from his garden.
 | City buyers are after all the rabbit and beaver pelts they can get The latter skins are used alike in their na- tive state and dyed black to meet fashions decree Skunk fur now brings S9 or an advance of 25 per cent over last year Even cat skins are in de- mand Local trappers are preparing for big winters business.
 The new store, which has been put in shape under the supervision of Au- gustus Bartlett of Putnam, presents a handsome appearance in it's fresh coat of paint and new driveway sur rounding the building. Part of the fixtures arrived Monday. Work on a new ice house was begun yesterday. When completed the entire outfit will equal any store in Putnam or Willi-