Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1919-10-24

w contributor to The Patriot and af-
terward was connected in an official
capacity with the New York World
He is facile and forcible writer.
1.-The furnace is useful thing,
No one can really doubt it.
1t bothers us, and yet we knoW
We couldn't do without it..
And pretty soon, az usual
For nothing ever hinders-
Twill transform fourteen tuhs of
To twenty tons OFT cinders.
Wet weather ard cold nights have
so interfered with the formation of
nectar as seriously to deplete the bees
food supply. Between five and fifteen
pounds of sugar must be fed to each
swarm before cold weather if they are
to survive. AS result small box of
honey in the comb that formerly sold
for a quarter now retails for half
dollar.
Over ON the Grape farm, below
PhoenixviIle, several COWS belonging
to the Brazo corporation, got SO
beastly drunk on apples gobbTed up
from the ground that they have not
fully recovered yet The milk rs said
to have an aromatic punch lip-srnack
ing flavor, and during the rainy days
workmen quaffed quarts and quarts
of the lactated fluid.
According to the Putnam papers,
Byron Morse thinks that the faw on
partridge should be fitted because he
and others have lately seen good sized
| lavt lr+ .
1920, and is considered a Just one
here, where large numbers alike of
partridge, pheasants and quail are OBJ
served almost daily. Give the game
birds living chance.
The last few days Judge j. NJ Ia
tenn has been very busy collecting
promissory subscriptions for the new
state highway between Eastford and
Phoenixville. Promptness the result.
The stretch of roadbed already laid
grows better and better day by day.
| The past fortnight tourists through
the village have had to drive via. Geo.
Bowen's on the upper street.
Charles H. Tourtellotte of Provi-
i dence and John F. F'allon of Boston
| (both formerly of Putnam, together
with the Boston Post, are anxious to
learn who's Eastford correspondent
| to The Patriot 1t reminds one of the
| headlines to an ad that Col G. ID.
| Bates penned when John Lindsey and
j he opened their clothing store in Cen
trail block: who, What, When,
| Wherey"
Lawyer Charles l.. Torrey should
| shoulder rifle and hike the pike to
this neck o the wood if he wants an
other expensive "deer at any price,"
A herd of fourteen beautiful speci-
mems, fat and sleek, is noticed almost
daily in and around the lumber camp
of the Brazo corporation. The large
quantities of apples in orchards near
| by tempted the animals from their
hiding places.
| Souvenir" William Hustling Tay-
Tor, now of Hartford, writes that fifty
years ago Joseph D. Barrows Of East
ford was state senator, that Preston
B. Sibley was deputy sheriff and that
Perry B. Wilson, native of East
ford, was postmaster at Putnam. All
three are now in the land beyond. The
building occupied by Senator Bar
rows and his father as a tannery is
now used as a wheelwright and black
smith shop.
The Church" was Rev. F. II. Mea-
CHAINS morning theme at the union
service held in the NJ. E. church Sun
day. Members who are only human,
may have their short comings, and
some may go about in Sleeps cloth
ing. Nevertheless. the church has
withstood all carping and criticism
and it's the mightiest force for good
in the world today. The attendance
was increasingly large, and Pastor
Meaeham's stirring address made q
deep impression, as, also. did his talk
to the Juveniles on "The Horse Shoe
Nall Pastor Meacham will present
book TO the boy or girl submitting
the best four papers on his discourses
between now and Jan. /.