Putnam patriot., 1920-11-26

party of friends from Cambridge
 over night on Friday, bound for the Harvard Yale football game at New
 Haven.
 1t is reported that Mrs. George H Nichols will remain in her residence
 near West Thompson through the win. ter, intending to occupy her new pur- chase in the village, the Hattie Knight house, in the spring.
 The Improvement Society has caus- Tea the leaves on the common to be
 raked off and burned, giving the com mon tidy and clean appearance.
 William Miller has been attending to it for the society.
 MT. Baekus has sold the tank and pumping attachments of the windmill i formerly usedqin connection with the Water arrangements about his place, to Oscar Munyan. Carpenters are en- Igaged in removing it this week.
 ] s.,I The Grange is to give. .a reception to I Nr.~and Mrs. Charles Whiting or ] Tuesday evening at. the regular meet ing, ' Mr. Whiting k very ,pop.ilat lwith, the, Grange, amembers and has l been, eleeted, Haster for another year.
 Mrs. Walter Pratt entertained her parents on Tuesday evening at dinner, it being Mrs. Pratt's fathers (C. L, Knight) birthday. A company of in- yited friends arrived later, making a very happy conimemoration of the event with games and songs. Thirty five were present.
 Civil Engineer Perry and John Sabin of Putnam met the committee for the placing of suitable memorial boulder or monument on which is to be placed bronze tablets containing a list of soldiers names, on Monday morning, and located the place on the common where it is to be put. A boulder has been selected.
 A coon supper was served by the manager of the Vernon Stiles Inn on Friday evening. The coon was fur lnished by Arthur Elliott, it being one he got in oile of his traps Coons are being captured quite easily this sea- son. MT. Reynolds recently got one Inear his place, Fort Hin Farm, shoot ilg it down from tree in the daytime. The winning team in the typewrit7 ling contest of Tourteilotte M. H. s.. Icaptained by Ralph Kelley, was entert Itained by Miss Sylvia Ryan at her Ehome, who captained the defeated Eteam, which can barely be called des Heated. as the ,aecision was 30 close, lit being onIy five per cent in a test ltrial of six sss scsonnsecutiye weeks. Tho Teacher in commenting on 1t said, "is was the closest one she had bad lr all of heT sxpsr1snce is te@hsr" s k Clinton Lewis and Arthur Elliott, while out hunting last week. dascoYs cred the skeleton of COW in the meaS dow swamp east of the village. It r supposed to be that of the COW winch strayed away last spring from the en- Eclosure of Charles Sandstron, traces of which could not be found ht the time and all search for her was aban- doned. Evidently she had attempted to 20 across the meadow and became mired among the alders where the hunters discovered she had perished-
 The Sunday evening sacred musical service drew out an unusual attend anee. Besides the singing sictroia nroyed an attractive and quite novel 1 feature for religious services, made Eso bv records being brought by those in attendance, many of which were exceptionally fine, somewhat lengther. ing out the time of service, evidenced in that they were appreciated. Nearly kaIl remained to listen to the playing Latter the close of the service proper The pastor feels quite encouraged ny the large attndance, and proposes to thaye another similar service after the Holidays. 8ssa1 .qae2 axi.1 ,ateH While Thompson is reputed to be twell up in enjoyment and it's soela' affairs. such conditions were m evi idence at the social held by the Ladies tAid Society of the Congregations tchurch on Thursday evening, when t tthe number of about one hundred they gathered in the vestry of tns
 church and entered into games with
 spirit of appreciation of the opportu nifty of having an evening for enjoy ment. where the youngest of thxe.