Putnam patriot., 1919-03-28
ATTAWAUGAN

There was brief scare Monday noon from brush fire in the rear of the home of Miss Mabel Moffett.
 Mir. and Mrs. Samuel Armington walked to Dayville Saturday to call upon q cousin of the latter, who is ill-
 Miss Bessie Weeks, who has been visiting at the home of MT. and Mrs. Timothy Sweeney at Manchaug, Mass, for a fortnight, has returned home.
 While playing base ball Saturday afternoon Wilfred Lafeve fell and disiocated his left elbow The frae- ture was reduced and the lad is doing well
 W. E. Barrett of Putnam, who sup piled as teacher here last spring, and IS teaching now in the Moses Brown school, Providence, together with Os- car Long, who some time ago lived on the Ballouville road, attended the lecture at the NJ. E. church Sunday evening.
 Manager Burton states that there is to be a benefit moving picture ex- hibition at the hall of the Atawaugan Social Club on Tuesday evening, Apr. lst The proceeds are to aid in the towns celebration of the returning soldier boys, which fl is understood comes T some time in May. On Fri day eyeEiDT of this week there E to be tkrowh upon the screen the bright little drama Of Polly of the Circus"
 There will be no service at the Methodist church Sunday. Pastor Woodward is in attendance at eon- ference at Taunton This holds from March 27 to 31 this year Reports from various departments indicate a substantial increase in missionary and other offerings this year. This is due largely to the weekly offering system which was successfully tried out last year. A little contributed regularly each week by several per sons has amounted to little over $60 for the different church benevolenees This IS aside from special offerings to the Armenians, French orphans and East Greenwich Academy. The little band of the W F. NJ. S. has done fine work for the fatherless children of France.
 The stores of the Attawaugan Co in both Attawaugan and Ballouville are repositories this week for cast off clothing, shoes. etc. The Red Cross is making a drive all the week up to and including next Monday for clothes for the refugees in Europe and the near East, save Germany. They say conditions in France, Belgium. Pc land, Armenia, and other countries are terrible They want clothing for men, women. boys, girls and babies Anything that will hold together" they are calling fer. Even shoes be- yond repair are desired for scrap leather for mending purposes. J. L. Pray in BallouVille and w. E. Frissell in AttaWaugan will receive all that the people are willing to bring, and send to Red Cross headquarters in Dayville
 There was quite a large attendance Sunday evening at the Methodist church from both Ballouviile and At tawaugan. there being d stereoptieon lecture on the great work of the Wo- mans Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church dur ing the fifty years of it's organization Principal Lusk of the Danielson gram mar school, manipulated the slides and the pastor Rev W D. Woodward. read the lecture. Interesting pictures were shown of the peoples and build ings in India. China, Korea. etc. An offering was taken A choir consist ing of Miss Dorothy Howard, the Misses Margaret and Florence Stott, Mrs. W. D. Woodward and Earl Weeks rendered special songs, and the pastor sang a little song in the Hindustani language.