Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-22
PUTNAM

Dr. F. T. Baldwin and Roy Shippee | were in Northampton, Mass, Tuesday, at
 tending horse races.
 Mr. and Mrs G. Harold Gilpatric, ac- companied by MT. Gilpatric's father
 George W. Gilpatric, and Sidney King,
 morning for Juniper Point, Me, where the Cilpatrics have a summer home. Dr. Robert c. Paine of Thompson held a clinic for the removal of adenoids and
 tonsils at the Day Kinball hospital We'd nesday morning. Three children were op- erated upon.
 A large Mack truck owned by the Inter state Trucking company and a truck owned by the Manhasset company of Putnam were in collision shortly before noon Wednesday. The Mack truck was | headed down Canal street, with the Man i hasset truck coming down Pomfret street | hill. The front end of the Mack struck
 the rear end of the Manhasset machine. 1 The only damage was dented hood on | the Mack.
 l Victor Chapdelaine and family -of Church street are taking an automobile l trip to Montreal
 William Macdonald, superintendent of | Putnam public schools, has returned from
 Maine where he has been spending his
 vacation. There was a lawn fete at the Putnam
 Methodist church Wednesday afternoon l and evening.
 Arthur Corbin stetson, 73, for many years a prominent business man of Put nam, died early Wednesday morning at his home on King street following an ill- ness of many months. While it had been
 known for some time that MT. Stetson was in poor health. his death on Tuesday
 came as a shock to the community. Mr Stetson was born in West Wood stock Dec. Il, 1S46 the son of, John Hewey and Mary Bayliss Rich Stetson.
 His early life~was spent in the town of
 Woodstock where he attended school un-
 tilw he was 19. During the summer
 months he was employed by his father,
 who wa sa carpenter, and from whom he
 learned the rudiments of the trade. At
 19 he was employed as teacher in the
 schools of the town of Woodstock and he
 remained in that profession until 1878.
 when he came to Putnam and entered the
 employ of Longdon & Morse, meat deal
 CTS. Two years later that concern re-
 organized and became Morse, Stetson &
 Co.,, Mir. Stetson acquiring an interest in
 the firm. Some few years after this MT.
 Stetson opened his own shop in Union
 block, and after two years business in
 that place moved into the Bugbee block,
 where he continued the meat business
 until July l, 1893, when he sold out.
 A few weeks after he had sold his meat
 business MT SteIson purchased the gro-
 cery business of the Wood Brothers. To-
 cated in Union block. and until 1902 he conducted this. In that year he sold to
 Edward T. Tucker. After a short rest,
 MT. Stetson entered the employ of the
 Putnam Savings bank, remaining there
 until about five years ago, when he re-
 tired from active business.
 MT. Stetson has always been a staunch
 republican. During the many years he has lived in Putnam he always has shown a keen interest in civic affairs, and has
 given freely of his time and energy in
 business matters. In 1902 he served as a selectman of the town of Putnam. MT.
 Stetson was at one timea director of the Putnam Foundry and Machine company, and was also director of the Mystic Valley Water company.
 Mir. Stetson was a member of the Odd Fellows and was a past master workman
 of the A. o. U. W. He was also mem
 Der of the Royal Arcanum, of which fra
 ternal organization he wa sa past regent. He has been an attendant of the Putnam Congregational church.
 Mr, Stetson married June 21 1871 Helen Janette Morse, the daughter of Orin Morse of Putnam. Mrs. Stetson died two years ago There is one son, Clar-
 ence, now engaged in the insurance busi- 1 ness in New York. He came to Putnam Wednesday night
 Mrs. Emily Warren. se. widow of Ed rnund Warren, formerly of Eastford, 1led Monday at the home of her niece, Mrs. James Page of Danielson.
 Dr. Stanley N. Osborn, director of the
 bureau of preventable diseases of the Connecticut state department of health
 was in Putnam Wednesday, and in con- pany with Peter A. Gardner, health officer of the city of Putnam, called upon the members of the Putnam board of health Dr. Osborn is visiting around the state with view of supervising, instructing and advising local health boards in order tha tthey may become more efficient and cooperate more actively with the state 1 health department. He is to return to