Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-01
PUTNAM

Tuesday. Sept. 9th, is the golden an- niver asryof Dr. and Mrs. James Bryden Kent of Church street. Dr. Kent has been a successful practitioner in Putanm for many years. He has always taken an interest in public affairs, has served on the school board, and was one of the local draft committee during the war. Mrs. Kent has been active in the affairs of the town, especially in the D. A. R. Both are prominent and influential mem. bers of the. First Baptist church Their son, Dr. James Manning Kent, of New York, has sent out the following relative to the golden anniversary:
 "On behalf of my father and mother Cr. and Mrs. J. B. Kent, I would like to say that on their golden wedding anni- | versary, Sept. 9th, 1922, they would be | most happy to welcome their friends 1 from near and far at their home on Church street. from to and to 10 D.. m. daylight saving time). They feel that it would be a matter of greatest difficulty to send formal invitations to ! all friends acquired in such a long period of residence here, and take this method of informal invitation.''
 Putnam people read with interest the announcement that John B. Byrne of this ! city. deputy state bank commissioner. will be appointed commissioner by Gov. Everett J. Lake, to succeed J. G. K. Biss- land who died July 18th MT. Byrne has been acting commissioner since the commissioners death. and the Hartford papers state that he is better fitted than any man in the state for the office as | well as being the logical candidate MT, Byrne has lived nearly all his life in Put Imam, is a graduate of Putnam High school, has been both alderman and all ] derman-at-large of the city, and has aI- i ways been prominent in civic and social affairs. The appointment will greatly 1 please his many friends in this city. | where he is so well known and highly l esteemed.
 A fleet of automobiles glided out of Union square Thursday evening carrying over hundred members of Putnam lodge of Elks en route to the Elks' car nfva1 at Wfl1imantic A stop was made in Danielson, where brothers from that place joined in. Two bands accompanied the Putnam delegation.
 l MT. and Mrs. George MontvilIe and Miss Marion Renshaw motored to Proyi. dence Thursday for the day.
 Haggai Levitt, formerly of Putanm. a
 conductor on the N. r, N. H. H. rail.
 road, has been elected chairman of a railroad mems union and will leave the road to establish headquarters in New
 London.
 The guarantors of Putnam Chautauqus
 met at the office of County Clerk E. M
 Warner Wednesday evening and made
 final arrangements for the weeks enter
 tainnnent.
 Funeral services for Mrs. Barbara k
 Potter, wife of F. O. Potter, who diet
 Monday following surgical operation
 were held at the family home on Wood
 stock avenue Thursday afternoon, witt
 burial in Grove street cemetery. Mrs
 Potter would have been 64 years old il
 October. She was born in Glasgow, Scot
 land, Oct. 14s 1858, and came to thi
 country with her parents Mir and Mrs
 Charles Swennay, when she was 8 year
 old. The family lived for while il Philadelphia and then moved to Paw tucket, R. l., coming to Putnam about 2
 years ago. She married MT. Potte March l, 1881, and he with five children survives.
 ..t Children of Joseph Emond. who own , property in this oity, have petitioned tn . probate court, through Torrey & Geissle1 to have a conservator appointed ove him. A hearing on the application vii
 be held by Judge David Flagg Sept. 12tf f, Floyd Bowen of Thompson died Wed nesday night in Worcester hospita