Putnam patriot., 1920-06-04
ASHFORD
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 Wedding bells for welded bellies ! soon.
 Flowing and planting pretty well along
 The Center school did not close Me morial Day. There was large attendance at church Sunday. James Nevilles, lead and oil artist, is in urgent demand. Sixty cents drink in Southbridge and poor stuff at that. Miss Pansy Neff has returned to her home in Clark's Corner. The Misses Gurney returned to New York Monday afternoon. Improvements are being made to Charles Tatem's garage. Eastford girls chew gum and wear peek-a- boo pink stockings. Ralph Davis of Bridgeport spent the weekend in this locality.
 The Misses Trowbridge entertained several guests over the holiday.
 Mrs. N. W Kennedy is entertaining Mrs. Wallace Smith of Putnam. Tine Young Peoples meeting Sun day evening was led by Geo. French.
 Several school children and George French's house have recently been shingled
 Eastford, in it's carpet of living green. never looked more beautiful and lovely.
 Rev. Harold Austin of Hartford will supply the Congregational pulpit next Sunday
 The recent social hop in Bartlett's hall was a prize winner Another will soon be given.
 The new state highway leading to the trunk line at Phoenixville has not yet been oiled.
 Adelbert Badger of Southbridge shook hands with old acquaintances the first of the week.
 Mrs. Ida Converse and daughter, Miss Sybil, are occupying their cot tage for the summer. Miss Jones, a school teacher at Mid dletown. has been spending several days with her parents here. Merrill Keith of Danielson greeted comrades and friends Sunday and Monday Always glad to see him. Several new subscriptions to The Patriot the past week. Ability and dependability win in the long run. Judge J. NJ. Tatem, one of the very best officials Eastford ever had, does not seek reelection as first selectman. Edgar Cutting evidently does not | believe in "feathering ones nest" so he has sold his flock to Phoenixyille parties
 The "Go Slow" guide board near the school house looks more like Derrick's pills sign than anything else. l Down with it. H. k. Bush of Mckeesport, Pa, su- preme auditor of the Loyal Order of | the Moose, was a guest at Gen. Lyon | Inn last week. l There are only four survivors of the Civil war in this town and two in the | town of Eastford. The old vets are
 fast passing away.
 The new Holt electric lighting sys- tenn recently installed in the General Lyon Inn. by w s. Bates of Putnam
 is working to perfection.
 Souvenir" w. H. Taylor of Hart ford remembers his friends hereabouts
 with little American flags to float
 over the little green tents
 Following the memorial exercises
 Sunday afternoon Lieutenant and | Mrs. Oliver Latham served ice cream
 and cake to the boys in khaki.
 John Hastings, who recently pur- chased the Edward Warren farm, left | for New York Monday. He contem- plates important improvements.
 Alfred, son of Mir and Mrs. William Warren, was taken suddenly ill with convulsions at school Monday. Dr. ]. J. Russell of Putnam was called.
 R. H. Bradley and daughter of Put nam were visitors Monday. Mir. Brad ley was born here and he richly en- 1 joyed the scenes of his boyhood days.
 Archie Green has the biggest wood pile in front of his door of any man in town. Like George Washington, he did it with his little hatehet. Axe him.
 Charles Clark has disposed of sev- eral cows the past fortnight. MT. l Clark and A. NJ. Bowen are among the i best judges of cattle in town, There i by hangs a tail. Pastor Meaeham left Monday for Southbridge and Springfield. He ex pects t1 be absent three or four weeks. most of the time to be spent at l his home in Iowa.
 Prof. Stanley Kelley of New York is scheduled to arrive at Crystal Lake within two weeks He will take charge of summer colony of students number from one to two hundred. ] Welcome
 The tea room at the Eastford Cash