Putnam patriot., 1919-10-10
ASHFORD

Lots of winter squashes. Coming! A new store? Yes.
 No adulterated milk hereabouts.
 Scarce: Eggs. sugar, potatoes.
 Auction at the O'Hara farm today.
 Garden truck is nearly all in--out. rather.
 Wild grapes and sour grapes are in abundance.
 Community Club meeting this tFri- day) evening. Foxes are destroying wild game as well as poultry. Considerable native beef is being lslaugthered here. The frost is on the pumpkin and on some politicians, too. Ice where? That is the question There is no ice in this hot town. Leonard Grefier continues for the present as mail carrier to Putnam. The galvanized culverts arrived Coon hunters are planning for big game, and rabbit hunters for lots of lem.
 Winfield Kenyon, Jr., has returned from Rockville to his home in the Valley.
 Carlton Tatem and Rev. Frank T. Meacham took spin to the Hub on Monday.
 Forty-five dollar hay the coming winter. Why not feed milk-weeds to the cows?
 Rev. Frank T. Meacham attended the Boston Ministers meeting Mon- day, Oct. 6.
 Playing with jack-o lanterns is fa- vorite pastime o'evenings among vi- cinity children.
 Harvey Converse, former resi- dent, now a detective in Boston, was in town Sunday.
 The dearth in potatoes continues. and all on account of the rot. "Taters is taters this year"
 c. H. Delaney of Kenyonville has sold his wood saving machine to A. Greene of this place.
 Grape juice is being put up in larg- CT quantities than usual. A little lat CT it will be put down.
 Mrs. Ida Converse, now serving as a nurse in Putnam, enjoyed the Sab bath at her home here.
 Subject at the M. E. church next Sunday morning: ,..aHow the Church Can Help You" Going? 4.
 Early chestnuts are being gathered by early pickerss Meanwhile the late bird is gathering worms.
 To use rural expression, wind falls and other low grades of apples are "scarcer'n hens teeth"
 George Gurley, the village barber, has returned to the Day Kimball hos pital for further treatment.
 The monthly church social at the chapel last week was a social event. Cake and coffee were served.
 Quite number of commercial trav- elers have registered at the Inn the past week Tt is just like home"
 Archie Green has decided not to move from Eastford. The Slye house which he occupies is undergoing re- pairs.
 Automobilists speak in the highest terms of the improved state highway to Providence via Putnam and Che pachet.
 Despite the lateness of the season, Saturday and Sundays heavy fog brought out large numbers of mos quitoes. Several summer visitors will con tinue to occupy cottages in this vicin- ity and around Crystal lake during the cold season. latt hnC fined to the house by illness the past few days. Dr. Spalding of Wood stock attended. M. B. Morse has sold the fixtures formerly used in the mill house in East Woodstock to Charles Wheaton of Phoenixville. At least two different parties are l trying to negotiate for the purchase of the pr. Converse estate. 1t is de- l sirable property. It is current comment that the Pa- triot's subscription list will materially increase at this postoffice between now and January 1. Ten to one genial John A. Dady, | Putnam's piscatorialist, will smile l when he peruses this: Pickerel fish ing will be extra good! ] Local fishermen and weather sharks predict an unusually cold winter. Luckily, however, almost every fam | fly has wood to burn.' Charles D. Hine. secretary of the State Board of Education, visited Put | nam last week Mir. Hines summer home here remains closed. | Ouinn to tha franuapt rains conn ing simultaneously with the best blooms, bee keepers expect an abnor- mally high price for honey.
 Oliver Bowens' bus conveyed par ty of merry makers to Willimantic Friday night, returning in the wee sma' hours of the morning.
 George Buck of Westford, we'll known here. has sold his oil interests at Worcester and Milford, Mass, in- cluding seventy odd horses.