Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-17
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 to his home in Larchmont, N. r.. We'd nesday night. During his visit here he went to Providence, where he attended commencement exercises of Brown uni- versity, of which he is graduate.
 Miss Sylvia Wheelock. Church street. in company with friends from Uxbridge and Worcester. was in Boston Wednes- day evening attending a performance of
 Elliott Newhall. known in Putnam where he is a frequent visitor while spending his summers at Camp Senexet, has been elected president of the student body of Wesleyan university for next year He Is a senior there.
 Mrs. Walter J. Bartlett was in Hart ford Thursday attending a meeting of | the executive committee of the ConnectI- party. At noon the committee was en- | tertained at luncheon at the home of Mrs. George Day, following which q | business session was held. At this time | 1t was voted to disband the Connecticut | branch of the party. This action follows | that taken by the national organization. l Mrs. Bartlett explained that now that woman suffrage has been achieved the need for the woman's party no longer ex- ists. Mrs. Bartlett has served as com | mitteewoman for this congressional dls- l trice since the party was organized in Connecticut.
 Miss Rhea DeCoudres. daughter of Mir and Mrs. T. H. DeCoudres, Woodstock avenue. who has been at Day Kimball hospital for several weeks following an operation for appendicitis, was taken to her home Thursday.
 The Juno issue of Life and I1KhG, pampelet sent out by the Congregational Woman's Board of Missions. Boston, which has just been received ln Putnam, contains photograph of Miss Phoebe Beard. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Willard Beard of Foochow, China, and formerly residents of this city. Mrs. Beard is the daughter of the late Myron Kinney and her brother and sister, Ebert Kinney and Miss Emma Kinney, make their home on Center street Accompanying the photograph of Miss Beard. who lived here several years, and was graduated from Putnam High school in 1914. Is the following sketch of her:
 ''The missionary circle In Foochow will be happy in the appointment of Miss Phoebe K Beard. daughter of Rev. and Mrs. ". L. Beard, since 1894 mission aries of the American Board at Foochow. Miss Beard was born in Foochow and after graduating from the high school at Putnam, Conn. where the family home was maintained Joy Mrs. Beard for sev- eral years while her husband returned to his work in the mission, she took the five years course at Oberlin college graduating in 1919. Since then. through teaching and in her church work and Y. M. C. A. work, she has fitted herself : for the foreign field, although as she ma- jored in sociology at the college she has been strongly drawn to Amercanization work. Her childhood among the Chinese people and all her family influences fit Q | her napntigrlW fOr "a eha hac chosen-that of an educational and evan. gelstic missionary in the land of her Q birth. She hopes to sail this summer : with her pa-ents when they return to China from their. furlough.
 Two significant sentences from her life sketch are wor,h quoting here. In speaking of her experience she says 7 Among the most important influences on my religious thought was the keen dis . appointment in my first year in America at finding so general the lack of interest in church work and the lack of adher- t ence to common principles of honesty and 2 altruism in this country, the home base i. of missions In closing the sketch, she ] writes: Tn my decision and hope for ac. tive missionary work. it is a source of 1 deep joy to me to know that l am filling ] the long cherished hope of my father and mother"
 . The first in series of Thursday after noon putting contests for the women of : the Putnam Country club was held on ] Thursday.
 Mrs. Herbert Smith of sunnyside We'd , nesday evening entertained two tables al [ bridge whist in honor of Mrs. James ' Kent of Larchmont. N. r.. who is visit ing in Putnam. Prizes were won by . Mrs. G. Harold Gilpatrlc and Miss EIler M Wheelock.
 Dance, Community House, Plainheld Monday evening, June 20. by Protection Lodge. l. o. F. Fidelity orchestra, Wor- lcester.-adv.
 A number of Amherst graduates arr planning to return for reunions mex week.
 t Frederick J. Daniels. e7, for ss year r. a resident of Putnam. died suddenly lat
 Wednesday night at his home on Rim
 street While MT. Daniels had been il = poor health for many months. his deatl
 was entirely unexpected. and was a shocl
 to all those who learned of it as the new spread throughout the business section O O the city Thursday morning. At the tim
 of his death Mir. Daniels was alone wit
 his daughter. Miss Ruth Daniels, nurs n. in New York city, who was at her par
 ents' home for visit Mrs. Daniels lief
 Putnam Wednesday morning for Man
 chester, N. H., where she had planned | = make two months visit At about
 o'clock MT. Daniels appeared at the doc
 of his daughters room and complained c feeling ill She tried to aid him, bu " soon realizing that something seriou ," was the matter, called the doctor, Be
 fore the physician had arrived Mr. Dan . iels was dead.
 Mir. Daniels was born in Oxford, Mass
 May 12. 1854, the second of five childre
 of George F. and Annie E. Whritne
 Daniels Until he was IS he lived i
 Oxford, where he attended the publi
 schools and Oxford High school He the left Oxford and for two years was a stu
 dent at Monson. Mass, academy. FroI
 Monson Mir. Daniels went to Manchestel
 N. H., where lss entered the employ c
 one of the largest hardware firms in tn
 state. It was not long before he va
 made head bookkeeper for the concerI
 In his early life at Oxford Mir. Daniel
 had as his chum John Davenport, son ( ' J. R. Davenport. of Davenport & Burt.
 Putnam concern, and later, after A
 Daniels had gone to New Hampshiri
 young Mir. Davenport in seeking a part
 ner in the coal and wood business
 thought of his former playmate. AcdOrd \ ingly he visited MT. Daniels and afte \ the plan had been outlined the latter rt \ signed at Manchester. where he had bee
 for 10 years, and in 1882 moved to Pu . nam. The new firm commenced bushes
 under the name of Davenport & Daniel - and the partnership continued until 1SS
 when MT. Daniels bought out Mir. DaveI - ports interest in the firm. In 1885,
 year or two after the firm had been es