Putnam patriot., 1919-02-07
THOMPSON TOWN TOPICS

]. Vinton Dart has been out of
town this week.
Miss Mary Wilkes is fast recovering
from her illness.
Rev William Chase was out of
town over the week end.
Mr. Huizinga occupied the pulpit at
the church Sunday morning.
Professor Cole of Ashburnham,
Mass, is a visitor at George Billiards..
Lumber is being rapidly manufac-
tured by the saw mill in it's new loca-
ton.
Henry Draper of Worcester spent
Sunday calling on friends in the com
nunity.
The Home Missionary society met
at the home of Mrs. Dexter Elliott on
Wednesday.
Mrs. Ida E. Smith of Harrisville,
K. L., was a recent visitor at Mrs.
James Ryan's.
George Dexter received word of
the death of his brother in Pawtucket
Tuesday evening.
Sessions of the legislature being
held four days week calls for Mr..
Ryan's attendance.
Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Lovejoy's
mother, has been i'll the past week, in
digestion being the cause.
Miss Mildred Sheldon of East
Thompson has been assisting at Miss
Wilkes during her illness.
Edward Rabbit has been engaged
m helping Roland Mills in the woods
near Quadic the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs Alexander Maitland
entertained party of invited friends
to whist one evening recently.
The interior decorations are being
renewed in the residence of Mr..
White, he doing the work himself.
Carol Ingraham and family have
been visiting Mr. Ingraham's parents
in harrington, R. l., the past week.
Newell Cutter, daily visitor to the
village, has been confined to his home
near Brandy Hill for the past week.
C. F. Knight, with workman, was
engaged in putting the scales owned
by Coaldealer Ryan, in condition on
Thursday.
Young Bradley Darlington, who
has been visiting his aunt, Mrs. Z. r.
Searls, is i'll with heart trouble at Mrs.
Hutchins'
Miss Mildred Knight, assistant to
Miss Munyan at the library, was
away from her duties at the library
on Tuesday.
Mrs. William Bates has been con-
fined to the house with illness a few
days the past week, but is out again,
feeling much better.
Sealer Of Weights Charles John
son of North Grosyenor-Dale was IN
the village on Friday testing the pub
lie scales near the store.
Ice IS being cut by those who have
been waiting for a greater thickness,
being satisfied to get it eight or nine
inches, the present thickness.
The fine weather is appreciated by
fur trappers and hunters. Skunks are
being dug out OF their holes, in some
Instances five or six at one digging
Twenty-Five cents cord above the
cost of ehopping and measuring was
the sale price named recently for one
thousand cords of five foot wood to
wood dealer in town.
Mrs. Paul Hanson, the housekeeper
for Leonard Mills, has sold her farm
at Brandy - IL district known as the
Horatio Rhodes farm, to parties IN
Danielson who will move to it soon
The railroad station at West
Thompson that has been opened part
of the day on Sundays will not be
opened hereafter, the services of an
agent for Sundays having been dis
pensed with.
John Wilkes, the faithful and de-
pendable mail carrier to and from the
station. failed to put IN an appear
nnce on Tuesday morning on account
of sickness. Claus Erickson has been
substituting for him.
Peter Sandstrom, who has been
taking care of Mrs. George Dresser 5
fine horses since the death of Carl
Peterson. has been relieved, Mrs.
Dresser having engaged a man per
manently. who will board with Mrs.
Peterson.
Recent visitors to our esteemed
former resident, Horace Morse, at
Indian Orchard, Mass, report that ne
is enjoying himself quite contentediy
and is engaged every day operating a
freight elevator in an establishment
IN that place.
Among the improvements that Mr..
Hutebins is making on the annex
property. has been the removal of the
large apple tree near the house on
School street. and two new extra
support columns have been added to
the circular piazza.
Persons who went away from
Thompson this season to escape cold,
disagreeable weather, made a mistake
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