Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1920-02-13
EASTFORD

Mrs. Hazel Keith is indisposed.
Wanted: A resident physician.
Mrs. Joseph Gurley is i'll with the
flu.
Mrs. Fred Bowen is one the invalid
, list.
Charles Gebrovitz will move to New
York.
VERNE Bowen remains about the
same.
All kinds of wood, but no wood al
cohol here.
Community Club meeting this tFri
day. evening.
Eggs sell at zoe this week. Very
few potatoes.
Miss Myrtle Marcy, seriously i'll the
past week, is convalescing.
Town Clerk Clark issued fourteen
hunters licenses in January.
Mrs. Clifford Bowen was badly hurt
J while eoasting the other day.
The school board voted Tuesday to
engage school nurse at once.
Charles Trip has named his house
on High street, Terrace Cottage
Albert Darling will be 80 years
young April L. This is no jokel
The C. E. session Sunday evening
was conducted by Mrs Arthur Keith
Lincoln's and Washingtons birth.
day exercises at the public schools.
Earle Young and Miss Beatrice
Bartlett were in Willimantic Wednes-
day.
Franklin Walker is confined to his
home at West Woodstock with pneu
monia.
Minister Meacham's mother and
sister are under the doctors care at
Boston.
The fellow who shot Edward
Keith's pet rabbit Saturday met a
hare breadth escape.
With school nurse engaged by the
school board, Eastford will be in the
line of progress.
A decrepit horse owned by Thomas
Case was killed by Ernest Farnham
the other day.
During the illness of Fred Bowen
Darwin Lewis is substituting at A. M
Bowen's store.
Warren Keith may not lose his
thumb, cut off and "spliced on again"
two or three weeks ago
Ellery Bartlett is always on the
move He is considered Eastford's
king of checker players.
The seven young ladies are making
splendid proficiency in their rehears-
ais of "The Farmerette."
William Warren braved the snow
banks Sunday to visit his mother at
the Day Kimball hospital.
| Unable to secure horse, Mail-Car-
rier Young, with mail sack on his
back, went part way afoot.
The Ladies' Aid Society was enter
tanned Wednesday afternoon by Mrs.
Charles Tatem, Bank street
There is talk of buying the M. E.
church building and converting the
same into a community house.
Capsized three times between East
ford and Abingdon was the expert
enee of Ellery Bartlett Monday.
The mother and sister of Rev. f.
T. Meacham arrived at the Congre-
gational parsonage Wednesday.
No freight at Abingdon railroad
station and no mail at Eastford post
Office for five long wearisome days.
| Manager Flanagan of West
Thompson was here Monday and
Tuesday testing the Postal Telegraph
line.I
Pleased to note that Miss Sybil
Converse is recuperating rapidly at
the Day Kimball hospital. Append
citis.
Mrs. Augustine Bartlett, who for
merly lived here, is laid up with rheu-
matism of the shoulder at her home
in Putnam.
When the two mails day service
to Abingdon materializes, we will for
get all about the blizzard just ex-
perienced.
The Nj. K. church society of this
place will be represented at the dis
trict meeting to be held in Putnam
Feb. l6 and II.
Attorney Harvey of Willimaptic,
officer of the Humane Society, made
an official visitation to Phoenixville
Tuesday. No arrests yet.
John Etheridge, Earl Young and
Grover Cleveland Bowen walked to
Putnam and back to witness the wrest-
ling match Saturday night.
James Nevilles is looking for Diog-
enes' honest man with tallow dip
lantern over $50 years old. 1t came
from the vicinity of Westford.
In Union there is financial strength
for its agricultural society reports a
balance of S1,075.88, with the state
appropriation of 500 yet to come.
Follow Me-" was Rev. F. 7. Meach-
ANS timel ytheme at the M. E. church
Sunday morning. In the afternoon
he conducted service at Phoenix
vile.
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