Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1919-01-24

MS. butchlns SiSlleu Doston On
Thursday.
Lawrence Backus spent the week
end in Boston.
Mr. and Mrs. Decker were visitors
on the hill on Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Searls have taken a
suite of rooms at Mrs Hutchins'
Frank Knight spent few days in
Providence the first of the week.
Miss Alice Reed of Brookline,
Mass, was in town on Tuesday.
Mrs. William Miller of Providence
road is suffering sprained ankle,
caused by fall,
Robert Gay of Attleboro, Mass,
was a visitor at Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
Hunyan's on Friday
Mrs. Frnak Knight of Sunset Hill
has been entertaining her sister, Miss
Covell of Providence.
Ice eight inches thick was stored
by Clark Pierce in several houses In
Quadic district last week.
Clifford Greene and son Lester
spent LHe Weoh-0Hu with MI. 1lCCHS .
aunt in Leicester, Mass.
Sheriff William Bates had two
porkersS butehered on Friday, whose
combined weight was 5S5 pounds.
Raymond Chase is at his fathers,
having obtained another furlough
from the Marine hospital in Chelsea.
Mr.. Reynolds of Fort Hill farm
held the winning numbers for the AL
ladin lamp and table given away in
the store.
Winthrop Ballard was one of the
successful ones to secure his supply
Of ice of about eight inches thickness
last week.
Miss Muriel Backus, since going
back to her school, has had an attack
Of tonsilitis which kept her from her
studies a few days.
The fishermen of last week have
turned their attention to trapping and
are quite as successful in that line of
sport as in fishing.
Mrs. Roland Mills, Senior, visited
with her daughter, Mrs. Olin Far
rows, on Woodstock avenue, Putnam,
a few days recently.
Several of our young people, stu
dents at the Tourtellotte High school,
attended the basket ball game IN
Webster on Friday evening.
Charles Peterson, Jr., of Worces-
ter, has been spending few days
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ghas.
Peterson lat Brandy Hill.
The body of the wife of George
Bugbee, who died in Woodstock last
week, was brought to West Thomp-
son cemetery Tor burial.
Mrs. Myron Elliott, who is inter
ested in the home department of the
Sunday school, has been visiting Its
members distributing quarterlles.
The Thompson Theft Detecting So
ciety met at the Probate Once on
Saturday evening. There not being
quorum present no business was done
Linus Logee has finished with his
mill on the wood lot east of the VII
lage and will move it to lot on the
Brandy Hill road near Thomas KY
ans.
Miss Fanny Brown, who has been
the faithful nurse for little Robert
Elliott the past two years, is to go TO
her home in Danielson for an extend
ed vacation.
Joseph St. Martin has purchased
the fine black horse owned by Thomas
RYAN, he owning one that Is a good
match, so Mr.. ST. Martin is now driv-
ing a pair of blacks.
The lecturer, Mrs. Richard Barton,
is to organize an orchestra IN the
grange, composed of members OF the
grange, there being plenty OF talent
among IFS members.
If YOU want to buy or sell farm
.rder nursery stock, field or garden
seed. do your business with A. b:
Randall. the farm bargain man of
Putnam. He is reliable.-Adv.
Contractor c. L. knight is putting
new roof covering on the reservoir
eistern on Fort Hill. This reservoir
supplies water for Mrs. Dressers sta-
BILE and the Marot school.
Telephone linemen were engaged
on Friday in changing the location OF
the telephone of C. E. Searls from his
residence to the suite of rooms ne mas
taken at Mrs. Hutchins'.
Calvin Spinney of Sunset road has
received a letter from his son Wlilian
dated Brest, France, stating ne Il
still on a torpedo boat and has nc
knowledge of when he will return te
America, although the war Is over.
Letters have been received from
Mrs. Dr. Paine, who has been In East
Mortified, Mass, since the doctor
went into the service, that she Is te
make a visit to the west before re
turning to Thompson in the spring.
Thompson is still in the industrial
worad. and the unsettled conditions IL