Putnam patriot., 1924-01-25


 about in full page adds iH the maRa zines Why l remember when the snow was ap ta the caves of my house and the thermometer and on he ram bled. rceountiug the Old Time New England winter.
 But this year." he shouted. in the hope of being heard above the roar of the wind in he trees across from McGarry.z store. has been vastly different Whoever heard of grass fire in Putnam in January or robins being in this locality during this month of the gear7 Both events oe ! cured last week and The Patriot of last Friday told about them
 Tulips Show Their Heads
 eAad here'- further proof that this ig fhe rafest winter nf them all THamas Jones. wh0 has the most beautiful flower garden at his hom off MniH street, during the summer months found last week that tulips had come up and grown ta hetght of thfre f1 four inches This never happened to Toms tulips before and he has been planting them for years aud years Incidentally l might add tHat Tom has a wonderful collection of dahhas n his garden every sum mer.
 ae had I2l varieties this last seq. aaH= many of them creations of his oWn. cultivated by Rrafting two or three species And they were won deefni People came miles and miles fa see his garden and inspect his dahlias And among the many other things that Tom grew in his garden were between 800 and goo gladioli pIants. hundred of them being Of a different variety The truth is that Putnam doesn't know what remark abIf thing Tom does Vith tIs flowers, their beauty during the summer and of the hour and hours he deyotes to their culture
 "But talking about Toms tulips re- spaHdlHH ta the warm sun.s raFz in January Do Eau want further proof that fhis ia rare winter for Putnam
 Play Golf at woodstoek
 fh. sind haalrd rleefuI seea" dz II lm8st b8wlea the Oldest h habftaut off hts feet "WeH. you old feurob fe ehuckled the old man. .heres good one for you and it made history up in Woodstock Last Friday afternoon, around 2 o'clock. Herbert N Bowen and his brother Frank of Woodstock iiiii. went 10 tho rolf grounds just to see how things were Arriving there and finding the course in fine shnpc and the weather being so hnlmy, they decided Co play big Conditions were nearly as good ae during the golf season and they played around And as additional proof uf the condition of the greens and faHW#y, they can point to their excellent scores, which were under Ah li Was the first time that anyone R known to have played Il round nf golf on the course during the month of January
 And here is another eorker. by which am able to heap up the evil denee of this. the rarest winter of them all mot SO much what we may have. but what we have had
 "Nnrcissus and hyacinth bulbs are growing beautifully today in the home of Walter J Bartlett that are the product" of heap of dirt in the backward. from which the bulbs were taken last week Laugh that of Last FaH the Rartletts threw the bulbs into the back yard. intending to have them taken Co the dump Pure ly by accident. they became covered with dirt The warm weather and hot rays of Che sun these weeks past have kindied the spark of life in the bulbs and they responded to the bidding of nature and sprouted. They broke through the dirt pile and last Friday their profuding stalks were noticed II Was then that they were taken from their resting place. transplantcd and taken within doors Reports today were to the effect that the plants are healthy and growing rapid lY
 "Other stories come to be, giving fresh evidence of the unusually halmy weather We have had this winter. Take for instance the starting of bushes and the like. Co show life, and rose bushes are beginning Co bud. ! There are others too
 Rat William F. Moss. one of our esteemed business men. called my at tfntion to a most unusual example of what nature has done by giving us this unreasonable weather I'm not sure that I'd Was not kidding me. go believe him when he said that he had Co fight his way out of swarm Of mosquitoes he encountered while in Cureiil Park Sunday. watching the roaring waters of the Quinebaug pour maicstically over the dam
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