Putnam patriot., 1919-10-03


 ed fifty bushels of spuds from his eel
 lar and had to throw them away.
 The tract of land north of the state l road at Phoenixvilie. recently bought l of the Latham estate by Grant Trow- l bridge of New Haven, whose summer
 home is in Eastford, includes several building sites.
 James O'Hara. stone and brick ma
 son, who will sell his household effects
 at auction October 70, returns to New York City to educate his children. The farm, located half way to Kenyon
 vile, will not be sold.
 The village square has six points, all leading to different cities. In this | respect Eastford, perhaps the small est town in the state, has one on New York fthe largest city in the country which boasts of 'sPive Points
 The late Henry Bosworth left no will It is understood that the estate is valued at S15,000 or more, of which the widow will receive one third, the remainder to be divided equally among twelve children.
 Eastford points with pardonable pride that Representative Charles w. Clark was one of the number to slgn the petition for special session of the general assembly to act upon the question of ratification of the equal suffrage amendment.
 Rev Frank T. Meacham whirled around the Hub this week to meet his sister from the state of Jersey, who has come east to take q technical course of training in domestic science. Pastor Meacham's mother IS expected in Eastford the coming November.
 Mrs. P. B. Sibley of Danielson, for nerIv a resident of Eastford, will rep resent the town of Kilingly at the annual meeting of the board of man. agement and committee of visitors of the Windham County Temporary Home for Children to be held at the home Thursday, October 5.
 Owing to a misunderstanding as to the amount of bonds required, VII liam Bates declines to take over the mail route from Eastford to Putnam beginning October l. It IS pleasing to note that the government may se- cure the services of Oliver Bowen, a most careful driver and estImaoie young man.
 Town Clerk Clark has issued hunt CTS licenses to the following: Charles Downing, Roy Latham, Wflfred La than, Abel Weeks, Caro- Latham, Ol- iver Latham, George A. Reed. BenJ- Stevens. When the open season be gins on gray squirrels, quail, wood cock. etc. the number of licenses will he largely increased. Already Hart ford sportsmen have bookings Tor this part of the state.
 Apples are being squeezed worse than investors in Wall street stocks: Almost every farm is being ransacked for cider mills, now running at full ca paeity in the manufacture of the good old amber fluid that tickles the palate and washes down pumpkin pie galore By the by. apple cider is not only sspippin of a drink" but the ofigfnal bug juice. fWithout bugs It would not be 90 per cent pure N. E. cideT)-
 Although, generally speaking, ap- pies are scarce, first quality pickings being from S7 to $9 barrel, and sec onds from $5 to $6, 1t IS estimated that the orchards of Henry Buell. will yield S5,000 worth of fruit this fall. The trees, in the sunlight, are yer itable picture of horticultural beauty Among feeea. visitors to MT. BuelfS farm was City Judge M. Ii. Gcissier of Putnam, whose attention was lnl- mediately arrested in helping himself to peaches.
 Over thirty feet in the air on the top rung of a ladder whose tips bare ly touched huge limb being sawed of about half way of the bough, which sprang upward, was the exeit-