Putnam patriot., 1924-12-26
Many Attend Funeral
 s. Of John s. Ddigle
Well-known Putnam Ye0n9 Man Loses Fight With
 Tuberculosis
With Lixh. q Power Co.,. Many rsasss
 Fireman and City Emplove

A. funeral service and solemn higA masA of requiem for John B. Daigle held from St. Mary's church at 2 e. clock Tuesday morning was attando6 by many relatives and friends. There was beautiful display of floral 0tp hutes.
 The mass was sung by Rev. Chaxlae r. Redard assisted by St. MAry'n choir of mixed voices. For an o4sr- tory Joseph Eisard sang. Pie jss0s Dominie and following the AferN he gang the .crucifix" by Faufs. The bearers were Rosarin Mayotts and Joseph Page, representing the Haek Al Ladder company of the Putnam Fire Department, Alferie Lucier aA4 Adrian Laeier, representing the Put nam Light & Power Company. aaA Arthur l.. puvert and Joseph c. yu9v ent. representing the K. of c. Tek lowing the mass burial took plaee tA St. Mary's cemetery.
 Following il heroic but unequal battle with tuberculosis for thu DesA three years Mir. Daigle. salesman fev the patnam Light < Power Cnmpanys for many years member of tha Put nam fire department. superintendent of the fire alarm system for . nun ber of years. and one of the city'a best known young men. died at thA Norwich State Tuberculosis Sana- toTlum at o'clock last Saturday morning.
 Mir. Dasgir, wha had been in tho employ of the Putaam Light & Pows9 Company for the past eighteen yeArs.. ! had to give up his work three yeaxo ago on account af failing health. Hs went to the Norwich hospital for treatment and remained there skx | months. He returned to Putnam much 1 improved in health and was given tho position of salesman by the company. l He continued in this employment fer six months when the disease with which he was afflicted became viru- lent and he returned to the hospital He was there forty three dayA He
 never gave up hope and made good fight but death claimed him.
 Mir. Daigle was A pleasant gentle man to meet. He was cheerful even .n diversity aud III health. He never I spoke sf his troubles to hs frieu11 and bore his suffering with fortitude and brave spirit. It tx not too much Go say that everyone liked him and re-
 spected him. He was man of goo4 I moral habits. q kind husband and father, and enjoyed his home life Co l the fullest. iio was conscientious iu I bis religious duties and was a promt-
 neut member of St Mary's church. | Mr. Daigle was born in Mechanics f vile. October 10th, 1892, son of Ed
 ward D. and Mary sDesjardinsl 1 Daigle, and was therefore forty-two years old. Iiia parents removed ts Putnam when he was only three years old and he obtained his education tn St. Mary's school.
 After leaving school Mir. Daigls 1 went to work as boy in the Peoples Store on South Main street under tho
 management of Isaac Chempsau. | Being Of n mechanical turn of mind
 and not liking the confinement of
 store work he left the employ of Mir. l Champeau after three years and Ae-
 cepted position as lineman with the
 Putnam Light 4 Power Company.
 Mir. DaiRle was one of the frst euA-
 ployes ef this company and went with them twenty years ago when the com pany office was in the Wagner bioek
 over Mansfield's store. He applied himself closely to his duties and al- | ways considered the interests of hn employer. His worth was recognized and he was promoted from time to
 time until he became superintendent of the construction and upkeep de- partment. He was performing his re- sp0nsible duties when ill health over
 took him and he was forced to enter the hospital for treatment.
 Upon his return to Putnam six
 months later he was given the posi-.
 ton of salesman in this territory and
 did much to broaden out the com.