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Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
OFFERS ITS LAND
 FOR STATE HIGHWAY

Five acres of valuable farm land in Thompson have been offered to the state through the legislature by the Grosvenordale Company of North Grosvenordale. The offer was laid before the committee on roads, bridg- es and rivers Tuesday by John Rear don, resident agent of the company, who said that it was conditioned on the Worcester-New London trunk line highway between West Thompson and Grosvenordale being built.
 Estimates obtained by the commit tee on roads, bridges and rivers, show that it would cost about $90.000 U build. the stipulated highway. It would be about two miles long and would shorten the trunk lne route from Worcester to Norwich by an equal distance, and eliminate two dangerous railroad crossings, one at West Thompson and the other at Grosvenordale.
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
 ORDER OF NOTICE

At Court of Probate held at Woodstock within and for the District of Woodstock on the 7th day of Feb ruary, 1921, Present, Clarence H. Child, Judge. Estate of Frances H.
 Butler, late of Woodstock in said Dis trict, deceased. The Administrators having made written application to said Court, in accordance with the statute, for an order of sale of the whole or part of the real estate de- scribed therein. it is ordered that said application be heard at the Probate Office, Woodstock, on the 18th day of February, 1921, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon; and that notice thereof be given, by publishing copy of this or der in the Putnam Patriot, a newspa- per having a circulation in said Dis trict, deceased. The Executor trict, and posting a notice thereof on the public signpost, and that return be made to this Court. Attest, RILLA H. CHILD, Clerk. 6
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
STATE ERECTs AN
 ATTRACTIVE NEW SIGN

At the eastern boundry of the town of Putnam, beside the state highway leading from Putnam to Providence via Chepaehet, the state of Connecti- cut has erected a monster sign board which carries practically complete set of warnings as to what motorists must not do while operating vehicles in this state
 The big board Is erected with a view to permanency. is attractive in design and is lighted by a series of electric lights so that those who pass at night may read what the state mo- tor vehicle department wants them to know about violations of the motor vehicle laws of Connecticut. This is one of number of such boards to be erected just inside the Connecticut border where interstate improved highways carrying heavy streams of traffic from adjoining commonwealths
 The word Warning" in glaring red letters heads the list of don't" for operators of cars coming into this state. The list includes a practically complete code of information relative to speeds. limits of loads, car equip ment, kinds of wheels for trucks and much other valuable information.
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
NOTICE

wish in a public way to thank Mr. J. Richard Carpenter of Putnam for the help he gave me after the serious hre, which l unfortunately had a few days ago. when I lost my large barn and contents, known as the Fort H1l Farm barn at Thompson. This prep erty was insured by MT. Carpenter for sl4,00o, and without a word of com plaint the loss was promptly adjusted and l was allowed every dollar. for which l again express my spprecia- tion. HENRY c. REYN0TDs.
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Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
MARRIED

FACETTE-DRAGON - In Putnam, Feb. ', by Rev. A. W. Routhier, Henry Facette and Miss Aldea Ora gon.
 FAVREAULT- -BREAULT-In Taft vile, Feb. :, Albert Favreault, for merly of Putnam, and Miss Dora Breault.
 BULGER-In Winooski, Vt Feb. s, James Oliver Smith and Miss Mae Elizabeth Bulger. HEALEY-DURAND = In Putnam Feb. 2, by Rev. Fr Dykeman, AL bert Healey of Newmarket, N. H., and Miss Ida Durand of Putnam. DURAND-LUCIER-In Putnam, Feb. [, by Rev. Fr. Dykeman, Frederick W Durand and Miss Evelyn Lucier
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11

After being directed to Putnam's trouble maker, the two men set off and soon there was heard from over the river near the railroad trestle the crack, crack, crack of breaking glass. It would have been the most enjoya- ble occasion in boydom if the lads of Putnam could have had the pleasure of breaking those ten hundred bottles, but the law took it's course and the opportunity is gone forever.
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
DEPARTMENT PRESIDENT
 VISITS LOCAL w. R. (. POST

The A. G. Warner W. R. (. No. 3s. held a meeting Tuesday afternoon in Odd Fellows hall Department presi- dent and staff from Hartford and Nor wich were present and initiated four candidates. A dinner was served be fore the meeting and lunch was served to the visiting members at the close of the meeting. An enjoyable afternoon was spent.
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
FOR SALE

A nice large bungalow, located on g beautiful hill with five acres of land. good for garden. Contains 6 rooms and nice l1-fost porch on three sides. Was built five years ago when things were cheap. Fifteen minutes walk from depot For further inform aticn see A. B. RANDALL, The Real Estate Man, Putnam, Conn.
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
ATTENTION FARMERS

Egg boxes to hold one dozen eggs for safe and neat delivery to custom CTS, with your name and farm name and address neatly printed on paper box, 509 for $500. PUTNAM BOX CORP, Truesdell street, Putnam, Conn. 4-tf
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
DIED

L0SHE-In Fabyan. Feb. ', Max Loshe, aged A years Norwich. Feb. 9, Par
 ley Walker of West Woodstock,
 aged TT years. WILS0NtIn Putnam, Feb s, Mrs.
 Robert Wilson, aged 6 0years.
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
WOOD FOR SALE

Good hard wood, $12.00 a cord :; chestnut wood, $500 a cord; mixed wood, S10.00 a cord. Saving $1.50 extra. H. R. HURLBUT, 255 Wood stock avenue, Putnam, Conn. Tel. 1885. 6-7
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
AUCTION SALE Monday, February IA, 1921 At II O'clock A. M, Rain or Shine

The residence and farm of Clayton Wright, located one mile north from Danielson, Conn.,, on the main road to Putnam, consisting of one extra good family and farm horse, weighing 1150 pounds, lumber wagon, buggy, sleigh, corn on cob, blows, harrows, cultiva- tors, and many smaller tools of all kinds, also many household goods, both modern and antique All clean and useful. Terms CASH. Caterer in attendance
 CLAYTON WRIGHT.
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
LOST

Last November, hound vith brown body, white feet and head and half tail. Finder please communicate with F. N. HARRIS, Star Route No. 6136, Putnam, Conn. Phone 266 ring 12.
 6-7s
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
FOR SALE

We have got few cords of Chest nut wood that must be sold at once, No fancy price. Some good mealy Green Mountain potatoes on hand can deliver most any time. Write FRED B. CONVERSE. Putnam, CT Tel. 353-s
 53-tf
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
SHEET MUSIC

On receipt of $1.o0 we will mail 20 selected copies of popular sheet music. Bishops Studio, 1T Bank street, New London. b-7.
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
FOR SALE

Pure bred s. c. Rhode Island Red Breeding Cockerels, Tompkins strain. Also a few Barred Plymouth Rocks. JOHN R. STROMBERG, Abingsn. Conn. Tel 259-4. 36
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
WANTED

Two rooms for light housekeeping, or tenement for couple with one child Must have before first of March. Call or write PUTNAM MUSIC SHOP. Tel. 48 6
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
WE ARE GOOD BUYERS

Give us chance to bid on your furniture. PUTNAM FURNITURE EXCHANGE, 10 Pomfret street, Put lam, Conn. 4-7s
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
FOR SALE OR TO LET

4 grocery store with good business, located on Woodstock avenue. NJ. J. Bibeault, 45 Woodstock avenue. 6
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
VIOLIN INSTRUCTION

Complete and thorough method. Be- ginners or advanced pupils. For terms and appointments apply to H. H. FISH, Putnam. 3-tf
Putnam patriot., 1921-02-11
WANTED

To exchange a good eosntry hotel, 15 miles from Putnam or state road and one mile from depot for other somewhere. A chance for somebody. 4. B. RANDALL. 6
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12
REFORM WIFE HERSELF A
 VICTIM

Portland, Ore, Jan. 11Arthur Test, 32, son of a we1l-to-do Seattle family, loved his wife dearly and his wife returned his love. But recently his wife, cold in death, was taken to the public n1orgue a few steps away from the city jail where young Test is con fined. When they brought the news of the death of his pretty young wife to the man in the cell he burst into a wild fit of laughter. He laughed loud and long, but it grew gradually hollow and died out in a moan.
 Test is in a raving condition caus- cd by the excessive use of drugs. Now and then he breaks out into some ri-
 bald song or gives way to unconerol-
 liable laughter. His eyes dance bright
 1y when he laughs and they seem to
 tell of times when they laughed nat urally in wonderful boyhood days. Judge George Rossulan, of the su- perior conrt, investigated the case of the Tests and relates what he has called the Saddest case in his career l on the bench. Judge Rossnaan, who wrung the story from the napless prisoner, stated that no more beauti. full woman ever came into his court room that Mrs. Arthur Test. She, too died of excessive use of drugs''
 A Wife's Devotion"
 It is the story Judge Rossrnan ex. ] plained, of a girl wife's futile attempts l to save her young husband. Two years ago Test came before Judgs l Rossman- He was quite healthy ther and promised to rid himself of the drug habit. On each successive visit
 to the court of Judge Rossnian. Test
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12
Beauty Chats
Ann Kent Forbes
ARE PRETTY GIRLS SERIOUS

Are pretty girls serious2 What do you think? Every once in a while 6 discussion comes up among my read CTS and some of them seem to treat the question as though 1t were ot great importanie. Strangely enough, the question never interests the pret- ty girl or the homely girl, but mostly but who seems to suspect the beauu- ful woman of frivolity-
 What do I think?'' one young man wrote me yesterday
 Frankly I don't know There is no reason why the pretty girl shouldn | be as sensible, as practical and as serious minded, as the one who Is not blessed with so much personal attrac- tion. l do think that most of the training given to pretty girls is not Of sort to make them serious They are apt to be spoiled when they are bab abies and too much admired when they are children. They are fed upon compliments and often given toe much f1attering attention at an age when they are susceptible to such l things.
 Since the homely girl rarely gets so much attention, she has much more l time to give to serious pursuits Yet | have known many pretty girls who were serious and practical enough to
 satisfy the most severe critic And | without an element of personal att | traction or charm who were inordin-
 ately conceited-
 So there is the problem Gf it is a tproblem) as I see it Every reader will base his or her judgment upon his or her own experience I would
 rather like to think that pretty girl:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12

Do you sometimes feel out of place in the modern scheme of things, when it comes to a question of clothes, as one of those unfortunate square pegs in round hole Do you wish for that individuality that you fear it is beyond your means to achieve? If you are wishing that you knew just where you do belong, put on your hat and hurry up to the Metropolitan Museum. where there is a possibil- ity of your being able to find your self and arrange the most becoming and most enchanting party frock you have ever worn.
 l. Disguised by the conventional twen- tieth century hat, veil and tailored suit, many a lovely woman is not nearly at her best. Hundreds of types there are whose greatest charm can never be appreciated in modern dress They seem to revert to such types as those of ancient Egypt, or of the later Copts; others are distinctly Grecian, Roman or Byzantine, Moyer | Age, Renaissance, Eighteenth Century
 or even early Victorian, where we car
 see them best pictured on some quaint
 valentine.
 | Of course, for average occasions mi | lady must be conventional, but she is l afforded a chance to find in the pop. 1 ular fancy dress costumes, easily and | inexpensively created almost on tht
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12

would bring with him his wife and their two youngsters And on each occasion the wife would plead for leniency for her husband.
 A year later Test was brought into court again with his. wife. This time the judge saw the glow departed from the young woman's face. She Was carelessly dressed. as were also the children. Judge Rossman suspected that Mrs. Test also had Succuml}ed to the lure of the drugs He was right. But the young wife explained that she took a little bit in order to please her husband. and thinking she could win him over more easily by living his life with him and suffering with him. But the drugs proved too great an evil
 Mrs. Test was placed in q hosiptal and was cured. Judge Rossman saw
 to that Her children were given
 back to her. The mother os Test
 then pleaded for the release of her
 son and offered to watch him close
 ly and well in their new home. Judge
 RosSman released the youn:, man. A
 few days later he was found in a
 north end dive, again satura ted with
 morphine and cocaine. Again his wife
 and mother pleaded for him ard vow ed their love for him. Though he was Steeped in drugs, his wife'S love for him did not die
 Victim of Cocaine.
 Mrs. Test then journeyed from their fine country home in Washington and sought out her husband in the dens of the north end She found hin, but could not drag him away Unwilling to leave hfm she played with him as one would a reckless child lest it grow too reckless. She accepted a few | doses Of cocaine and then tried to bring him home. But the cocaine got | the best of her, and in her hysrerical l condition she demanded more and | more, and 1t was given her. She died l that night.
 The Tests were married ten years | and before e~husband was forced
 :ato Hfe's gutter by the drug habit | they possessed one of the most inn 1 posing homes in Seattle. Test has been sentenced to jail for four months
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12
UNSEEN HANDS
4 BeuiZdering DetectiUe Story
 By Robert Orr Chipperfield

his tone was still that of one pro pounding an abstruse and impersonal argument.
 eff the crime, as you call it, were for gain and happened to be com rnitted by member of the family 1t would be reasonable to suppose that the guilty person would be the one to profit ultimately, would it not?"
 ultimately, perhaps, but not nee. essarily direct1y.'' A quick flash of memory had recalled 1e note which Odel1 himself had laid before his chief an hour Before, and with a sud den inkling of the possible truth had come. "If some member of the fam fly were placed in compromising position by an outsider and forced into crime for the immediate benefit of that outsider, in order to gain inn munity for himself, it would cease to be a purely family matter, and it's investigation would very likely bring shame and unhappiness and possibly incarceration to the instigator. Are you entirely disinterested in this the oretical discussion, MT. Drew?''
 He smiled steadily into the dark, smoldering eyes across the table, and Drew forced sickly grinace in re- turn, but the fingers holding anis cigar tW1tched murd erously.
 "Quite.'' His voice was curiously even. tI confess I am disappointed in you, sergeant; had taken you to
 
 | action, not hidebound like the major rty of your confreres. I have been speaking from a purely altruistic point of view. I wished to spare a heart-broken and panic-sstricken fam fly from further pain, and to save one young person from an unmerited pun lment."
 And in saving the family from fur ther annoyance incidentally protect the real criminal, who had used the tool, from the consequences of what he himself had instigated % OdeEl laughed in the others lowering face. Let him go scot free with the ex- tortion he had practiced upon one young person you mention as a. mere member of he family in order to keep from the rest a knowledge of the truth :? You are not serious, MT. Drew. The young person may be in l too deep, as. it was meant he should l be, for him to extricate himself; but if the matter is not exposed he may | be in conside daSbly deeper before he is through Even if the affair did not come within the bounds of the case ] am Investigating, I think that ]
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12
THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES MAGAZINE PAGE
When A Girl Marries
Bv ANN LESLIE

"Did ever say I wrote?" coun-
 sNo-but of course knew you'd not fail to write and explain
 Did your brother ever set-soe" a letter."
 NO. but -
 Did your brother ever write to me making one protest against the Way our engagement was orokn
 NO, dear. But -
 Then. since neither of us heard from the other. it looks as If neitheI of us wrote And, of course, 1T any one didn't write to any one unoer these circumstances. thatd mean that he was glad not to be held to any rash, youthful promises. so, now, Ann, if you and I are to remain friends. will you please drop the mat ter? It's annoying and humiliating 10 have it brought up all the time
 Phoebe made the whole of that long speech with the utmost self possession and calmness - like young Virginian- And had to turn and leave her victorious at the end I knew that couldn't bridge the gap between her and Neal
 well. she didn't write. did she - asked Neal as came back to him Tn
 I'm not so sure." I said slowly. The Harrison pride"-then I re | repeated my conversation with Phoebe as well as I could rememoe-
 ..No, she didn't write It was noth ing but-calf-love. She's glad to be ! rid of me. And now that I'm oack | without a job. it's probably Just as | we'll Mrs. Dalton wouldn't nave stood for me-without a cent Yes it's just as we'll Now I'll call EvvE i if you'u give me the number please- wait I remember it'
 | Five minutes later Neal turned from the phone into which he had been speaking in a low voice. and 1 said:
 '.She was glad anyway. Wre go ing 10 a show tonight So you car T keep whatever date that was to go tS theatre. Evvy's all right - Again I was conscious of Phoeb. lin the doorway. This time it was cool. self-contained little Phoebe wh' ordered q taxi. and assured Lieut. | Hyland that she knew how Slad h' and his sister would be when she go out of the way and left them to thei visit
 But the edge of my visit" witl Neal was off, This was a sad homecoming fo my soldier-his Httl sweetheart Wa indifferent, his job was gone
 wondered how Neal would in' again his place in the scheme o
 CTo Be Continued-)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12

spur of the moment for some fancy dress holiday party or ball.
 At the Metropolitan Museum you will find, among many other interest ing displays at the Fifth Industriai Art Exhibition, a portfolio of cos tune sketches of fmouS people in history, art, literature, poetry and fic- ton, as suggestions for the next Beaux Arts Ball. Bellies and wits. hero and heroines, who set the pace in
 fashion for all the centuries gone by, depicted in their full regalia by the students of the New York Evening School of Industrial Art Cooper Union and the Brooklyn Teachers Association class under the direction
 of Ethel Traphagen.
 Study your type and make your
 costume. You will find Orestes and
 Electra, Daphnis, Chloe. Dante and Beatric, Romoe and Juliet, Madame
 de Sevigne, Sir Joshua Reynolds, An
 gelica Kaufman, as we'll as the Duchess de Chevreuse, Lorenzo de Medeci, Mime. de Pompadour, with | some scores of others as entertain ing.
 Charles I, and Henrietta Marie were taken from a pair of eighteenth cen tury Crown Derby hgurines; Oreste: and Electra were adapted from sixth
 century Athenian black figured pot tery; Lorenzo de Medeci, taken from
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12

should s s'd find f, myself compelled to take
 For a moment there was silence while Drew blew a series of smoke rings thoughtfully in the air.
 ''So Gene lied" he said at last. "He told me that he had destroyed that note. You have it in your possession, sergeant?'
 4'fNo. I turned it in to my chief tonight to be brought to the atten- ton of the bureau which it would or dinarily concern if I say the word" Odell watched the others face mar rowly. @I may add that no letter, no telephone message. nothing but my request in person would enable me to regain possession of it.
 ''But you could regain it?" The eagerness in Drew's tones was unre- strained. N ''It is highly probable, MT. Drew" :"
 Could anything- induce you to dc i so? mean nothing so crude as brib- cry, sergeant. When two men each possess som mething that the other wants and their need is equally urgent 1 it is sometimes possible to arrange an amicable trade.'
 l The compromised It had come al last. Odell turned upon the other a gaze of mild inquiry:
 'If I am in need of anything, al 1 least to the extent Of compromising g l felony in order to obtain it, I am un-
 aware of the fact" he said blandly
 Can you be trif1e more explicit ! MT. Drew?"
 'tYou are young and ambitious. | think you have a real love. for you ] work, an immense enthusiasm. an6 you are impatient to reach the toI of the ladder. I've seen life. Int
 case you are working on promise
 to be the biggest thing that New Yorl has seen for years. Gan you den.
 that for the sake of your caree; alone it is not vitally necessary tha
 you should discover the one who i guilty? I do not want the note back
 I merely wish to see 1t destroye.
 in my presence and to receive you assurance that it and the matter t 7 which it pertains shall be officialI forgotten If in return for this I fur
 nish you with the motive for thi = series of crimes and attempted crime and the strongest kind of circum stantiaI evidence of the identity o their perpetrator, would you. not con ! sider it a fair deal?' 7 Gro Be Continued)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12

oand in opening the interview, and the detective was well content to aeave the situation for the time being in the others control. He was curi- ous to learn the motive back of his hosts attitude. Drew had spoken of 8 ''mutualiy satisfactory understand ing" That could only mean 6 bar gain, a compromise or attempted bribery. Odell believed the man be- fore him to be too clever to essay the latter; yet what compromise could he hope to effect with the police. The very fact that he sought to establish one told against him in the present situation, ass he must realize.
 Drew, meanwhile, had taken box of cigars from a drawer of the side board, selected one .and lighted it leisurcly before he Strolled over to the chair across the table from his guest and seated himself.
 Odell looked up and waited for him to speak.
 with speculative eye on the glowing tip of his cigar, from what my young friend, Gene Chalmers, has told me tonight l believe you to be a. man of not only common sense but intelli- Cence: if I did not I should not have sought this interview. As I under stand it MT. Lorne sent for you through the mediation of his attorney to look into the coincidence of the deaths and other recent accidents which have taken place in his home. That, of course. is no concern of mine; but if, in the pursuit of your investigation, you should encounter evidence of some--er-irregul gularity which had no possible bearing on your case, what would you do?"
 'sIrregularity? Odell repeated.
 .Don't let us waste time in split ting hairs" Drew shrugged. We will say rather that you might unearth a matter which would in no way inter est the homicide department of you1 organization; a strictly family mat ter,rthe probing of which would cause only shame and unhappiness to peo- ple already burdened with grief anc perplexity. Would you consider i your duty without consulting those most immediately concerned to bring it to the attention of--er---anothel branch of the police seryice?''
 .'If I discovered evidence of an other and separate crime unconnect cd with the matter now under investi gation?" The detective paused il seeming reflection. That is rather complex question, MT. Drew. I fame. St would depend largely upon the na ture of the crime and who u1timatel Benefited by it"
 Farley Drew's, eyes narrowed. bu