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Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
ENLARGE MOVIE SCREEN
Church Makes Improvement Fss
 Motion Picture Service

Those attending the motion picture service at the Second Congregational Church on Sunday night. took due no- tice of an improvement that was brought about by the installation of a new and larger silver screen.
 The screen that had been in use be- fore, was smaller, but was the recon mendation of the expert who install cd the equipment. Figures, though smaller. were distinct and excellentiy portrayed.
 But there was some dissatisfaction on this score and for this reason the larger screen was ordered and placed in position-in incidentally three feet lower than the old one.
 Under the new condition. figures m the photo drama are larger and read ing matter Is also increased in sixe and therefore more easily read.
 Altogether the improvement Is welcome one and met with the ap- provai Sunday evenings eongrega~ tion.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
AUTO HITS CHILD
Lillian Bibeault Knocked Down by o.
 P. Baneroft's Machine

Though Lillian Bibeault. nine year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Armand Bibeault of Livery street. was knock ed down by the automobile driven by 0. F. Bancroft, at the corner of Main and Richmond streets, Monday afternoon. she was not hurt particu- larly. She dashed out into the street in front of the machine. Mir Ban croft picked her up and took her to the Day Kimball Hospital When no one was looking the little miss ran out of the building and getting lift" from motorist, soon arriv- ed at her home Tn the meantime Mir Bancroft had zone for the child's mother and their surprise may be imagined when they discovered that Lillian WAS not there, but had dis appeared. They found her later how ever. in good spirits d apparently not harmed a bit by her narrow es- cape from serious injury.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
Personal Tax Notice

A warrant having been issued to me fv the Selectmen, for the cellec- tion of all personal taxes in the town of Putnam, by virtue of said warrant, will meet all persons who are by law liable to pay said tax at my office in Central Block, Main street, Putnam, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 25, 26 and 27. All persons who do not pay said tax before March l, 1924, will be liable to collection fee.
 JOSEPH PtfSSIS,
 Personal Tax Collectos, Town of Putnam. 5-s
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
POMONA TO MEET
Members to Gather Tomorrow With
 killingly Grange. Danieison

The first regular meeting of the Quinebaug Pomona Grange No. 2, P. of H., will be held with Killingly Grange No. ii2, at Odd Fellows Hall, Danielson, Saturday. Feb. g at l0.30 H. m. in the fifth degrees for general business, including reports of treas urer. secretary, and executive com mittee. The program will be as fol- lows in the afternoon: i2 o'clock. din- ner by members of Killingly grange l.30 p. m, program open to all, will include an address by Dr. Elizabeth Ingraham, director bureau of child hygiene. "The Important of Keeping We'll Children We'll" A film, Our Children" This year Quinebaug Pomona offers an annual prize also prize for each meeting to the sub ordinate grange having the best per- centage of attendance in fifth degree sessions.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
PomFRET SCHOOL DANCE
Six Formers Entertain For Many
 Young Lady Guests

Students of the sixth form at the Pomfret School held their annual dance at the school last Friday eve ming. Card dances were enjoyed dur ing the first hour after which there in the dining hall which was beauti- fully decorated with school banners, the Pomfret colors, red and black pre- dominating Mrs. Frederick B. Olm- sted entertained at tea on Friday afternoon and there was an informal dance on Saturday evening. The pa tronesses were Mrs. Olmsted. Mrs. Wiimer, Mrs. Alexander. Mrs. Palmer. Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Walker, Mrs Fergu- son. Mrs. Chatillon and Mrs. Lucas.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
ORGAN RECITAL PLANNED

It was stated today that arrange ments are going forward for series of organ recitals to be given on Sun day afternoons at St Philips church. beginning March 2. Mrs. Pierre H. Myers, church organist, is preparing the schedule. Several church organ ists in Putnam and nearby towns will present the programs. and there will be assisting vocal and instrumental artists.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
ROTARY ANNEs ENTERTAIN
Give Turkey Supper as Leap Year
 Compliment to Men

Thirty nine Rotarians and Rotary Annes were in the party from the Putnam Rotary Club which went to the Willimantic tea room conducted by the Misses Stiles last Monday evening and enjoyed a hnng-up tur- key supper given by the ladies in com plirens so the men. Following the five course supper, and during its progress, there were violin selections by Mrs. Frederick Prince and piano solos by Miss Annie Ash and Miss Wflhelmina Frost. Also the Rotary Annes sang a number of compliment tary songs for the diversion of the Rotarians.
 Those who attended the party in- cludcd: Mir. and Mrs. Warren Averiil. Mir. and Mrs. 0mer ]. Milot. Mrs. Edward Burt, Mir. and Mrs. E. l.. Kelley. Mr. and Mrs Henry s. Lyons, nr. and Mrs. Karl Phillips, Mf. and Mrs. Frederick Prince, Mir. and Mrs. Howard Bradford. Mir. and Mrs. Ray Bosworth, John A. Dady. Mrs. Andrew V. Frost and Miss Wilhelmina Frost, Senator John Ash and Miss Annie Ash. Mrs. Hazel Davenport Lewis. George Lewis and Miss Rachel Brady. Mir. and Mrs. Philip Faueher and T guest, Frank Warren, Mir. and Mrs Guy l.. Baker. Mir. and Mrs. William Wheaton, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Jen- kins, Mir. and Mrs. W. F.. Moss.
 The supper was arranged by com mittee consisting of Mrs. W. W. Aver III, Mrs. Karl Phillips and Mrs. W. F.. Moss. Favors were presented to the men and at the close of the eve ming Senator Ash expressed the ap- preeiation of the Rotarians.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
ROTARY MEETING

At yesterdays meeting of the Put nam Rotary Club at Odd Fellows hall, the time usually given to a speaker on current topic was devoted to gen eral discussion of the plans of The Putnam Industries, Inc, Samuel Key holds answering many questions re- garding the organization of which he is one of the prime packers. The Ro- tary Club has been highly interested in the Industries from its inception.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
SUES FOR DIVORCE
Mrs. Edna Young Brings Action
 Against Lawrence Young

Information on file in the office here of the superior court, discloses that Mrs. Edna Young of this city has filed suit for a divorce from Lawrence E. Young of Thompson. Mrs. Young seeks custody of the four year old son of tine couple. She as- leQes intolerable cruelty as grounds for divorce. Mir. and Mrs. Young were married on May 1, 1919. The peti- tioner has retained Attorney John F. Carpenter.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
MIR. AND MRS. AvERILL INVITE
 ROTARIANs FOR RADIO SPEECH

MT. and Mrs. Warren w. Averill have invited the members of the Put nam Rotary Clubs to be their guests tomorrow evening when they will have an opportunity to hear President coolidge's Washington's Birthday Speech over the radio. This Is a speech Of the presidents which will have especial interest for Rotarians and more. too, in view of the poiiti- cal developments of the past week.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
MISS WHEATON WINNER

Announcement was made this morn ing that Miss Helen Wheaton has been adjudged the winner ofthe silver med al offered by the Illinois Watch Co.,, through F.. L. Prince & Sons, jewellers of this city, for the best essay on the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
ELECT THOMAS P. RYAN
City Clerk is Chosen as Assistant
 Prosecuting Attorney

At Tuesday nights meeting of the common council, Thomas r. Ryan. city clerk, was elected to fill an additional city office--that of assistant prosecuting attorney. Mir. Ryan has taken the oath of office and Is discharging his new duties. At the meeting of the council the resignation of proseeut- ing Attorney John F. Carpenter was taken from the table and by unanimous vote. was not accepted.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
NEW HALL OPENING
 COMES SATURDAY
William St. Ongc Opens Assem- bly, Place With Public
 Dance
Will Fill Big Need in Putnam
 Large and Attractive

putnam's new public assembly place for dances and other kinds of enter tainmcnt will be thrown open to the public tomorrow night. when the own CT of New Music Hall on Livery street. William 4. St. Onge. will hold q public dance there. The hall will i'll distinct need in this city, be- cause there has not been large hall available since the closing of Union Hall.
 The general layout of the interior of the hall will remind people of the dance pavilion at Wildwood Park. Of course New Music Hall Is far more attractive to the eye and the floor space is larger. There is a prone rnde ten feet wide about the enclosed dance floor, on the east, north and south sides of the building. On the north end is the stage thirty feet wide
 Excellent Dance Floor
 The interior of the hall Is ninety feet by sixty feet, the area made avail able for dancing being practically as large as provided in Union Hall The dance floor is of hard pine, excellent ly laid and is spoken Of as having no superior in this part of the state. Special seats on the east and west sides of the building provide ample seating capacity for those who wish te watch the dancers and enjoy the music.
 The side walls are sheathed for six feet from the floor and the rest of the walls and ceiling are sheathei in blue tinted plaster board.
 Special attention was given in the manner of finishing the interior, to acoustics. This isespeeialiy true of the stage and the result Is that voice and music are distinctly audible in all parts of the hall On either side of the stage are rooms that may be used as dressing quarters for those who may choose to stage entertain ntents and dramatic performances at l the new hall.
 Entrance on Livery Street
 Entrance to the place is gained OH l Livery street, where an attractive ar. rangement has been created by MT St 0nge On the north of the hall way leading to the dance hall, there IS large room which is to be used for the checking of clothes.
 Mir. St. Onge has given To Putnam an assembly place that IS excellently laid out. attractive and of ample size to meet the requirements of the city. That 1t will immediately come into public use seems n certainty. The first organization to hold public affair there will be the Putnam Fire Department, whose annual concert and ball is to be held on Monday. Mar.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
OFF TO BERMUDA

State Treasurer c. Harold Gilpat- ric left Tuesday for Bermuda, where he will spend weeks vacation. MT. GiIpatric will join W. Irving Builard at Hamilton. Mrs. Gilpatrie k spend ing several weeks in New York City.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
THE WEATHER

Never mind, New York and Bos- ton suffered as much from the storm as we did. The end is not in sight, for the weather man pre- diets more snow or rain followed by fair and somewhat colder weather.
Putnam patriot., 1924-02-22
Mr.. A. 10. Mcintyre gave . b;rsh-

day party Tuesday afternoon for her small daughter, Janet. whose ninth birthday it was. Eighteen little boys and girls were present.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09
PREMIER
AMERICAN
JOCKEY
Was One of Best-Liked
Jocks-Integrity Never
Questioned

Earl H. Sande. severely injured
at Saratoga, has ridden to victory
on numerous tracks in the United
States, he has ridden in all sorts
Of weather and under all sorts Of
conditions, but his greatest triumph
came last year when he brought
home Zev, the American entry,
ahead of Papyrus, nominated by
England, in the international race
at Belmont Park on October 20.
The victory netted the owner OF
the winner the purse Of $50, 900 and
1t kept in this country the gold
cup offered by the Westchester
Racing Association to the winner.
Sande also established a new money
winning record last year, bringing
his mounts home IN the money on
enough occasions to net his EN-.
ployerS a total of $144.125.
He was twenty-five years old on
November 10. He was born at
Groton, s. D., and learned the rudl.
ments of horsemanship in the same
school as johnson, the Fators and
other successful jockeys, his first
mounts being on COW ponies in the
vicinity Of his home. Like many
Western lads. he took part in many
impromptu races at home and at
the local fairs, but 1t wasn't until
the autumn of 1917 that he got a
chance to become a real jockey.
He Joined the stable of the we'll
known Western owner, Joe Good
man. and went to the fair grounds
track at New Orleans. In the first
professional race he rode he finish
ed second. and on January %, 1918,
he won his first race on Prince s.
Sande attracted the attention of
horsemen from the first and It
wasn't long before he was getting
many engagements. Goodman trans.
ferred the lads contract to John.
son and Kane and he was riding
for their stable when G. H. Bed.
well noticed his work. Bedwell at
that time was handling the big
stable Of Commander J. X. l.. Ross,
OF Canada, one of the most power.
full aggregations of thoroughbreds
IN America, including such well.
known horses as Cudgel. Sir Bar.
ton. Billy Kelly, Cons:ancy and
others. With such mounts II
wasn't long until Sande had earned
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09
FAVOR CONLON
AS HARVARD
COACH
College Baseball Wonder Fall
ed to Size Up As
Major Lacquer
BY THOMAS S. RICE.

NEW YORK. Aug. 9.-Arthur j.
(Jocko) Conlon is being considered as
the baseball coach for Harvard next
season. The job might have gone to
Fred Mitchell, former manager Of
the Boston Braves and now business
manager of that club. Mitchell
coached the Harvard batteries last
year and made a very favorable i'm
preston, but he is too busy in the
spring with training details for the
Braves to become a full-fledged
coach.
Jocko Conlon is an evidence THAI
you never ran tell. He looked like a
million dollars when he was with
the Harvard team in 1921 and 1929.
Seldom have we heard a college
player so highly touted by men in
and out of college, and the report
was he received a large bonus when
he turned professional at the end
of the Harvard 1923 season to sign
with the Braves.
When the big league test came
Conlon failed. He played thirty-slx
games at second for the Braves in
1928 and was away down IN the list
OF second basemen. He batted in
fifty-nine games and made thirty-tw0
hits for an average Of .21S. His bes.
blows were three two.baggers.
Conlon might have improved both
III fielding and hitting II he had
gone to the minors, but he declined
that and has been playing this sum.
mer. with Nashua, N. H., indepen.
dents. Moe Berg, who came to the
Brooklyn Superbas last spring from
Princeton, batted 1876 in forty.nin"
games, but Moe this year Is reported
10 be batting around 300 for Mime
apolis, where he is playing third
base, and will be recalled by Brook.
lyn. Conlon was immensely popular
ct Harvard, and with his season In
the majors behind him should make
q good coach.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09
RAGING
FANS HAVE
It SOFT
Go to Mexico in Winter Time
and Cross to Canada in
Summer

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9.-Pacific
Coast racing fans win not be pat
down.
During the winter months race
fIends have their fill at Tia Juaua,
across the border, IN Mexico. and
now they are crossing the. Cana
dian border for the summer meets
at Victoria and Vancouver, in
British Columbia.
This is a long jump, but weekly
there are hundreds Of Californians
who are making the trip to the
north.
The season opened con June Is,
ran to June Is; starts again Au-
gust Z to run until August IA.
A new track known as Colwood
Park will be opened this summer
at Victoria. The plant cost more
th1n. 100000 and Is complete with
ESQ stables, jockeys quarters and
stewards rooms. -
Betting on the Canadian tracks
Is under the totalizatOr System.
The betting is supervised by the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
According to T. G. Coventry
managing director Of the Victoria
Racing Association, the British 60
lumbia population Is extremely
friendly to horse racing. and there
is no chance, he says, that hostile
legislation will be attempted
against the sport.
Gov: ntry is making plans to or
ganizc a central jockey club. which
will be linked with organizations
in the United States, England,
France and Australia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09
MISS BURNS PICKED TO
RETAIN CHAMPIONSHIP

oNWENTSTA COUNTRY CLUB,
LAKE FOREST, ILL.,, Aug. s.-Miss
Miriam Burns, Of Kansas City, de.
tending champion, was a favorite
today in her match with Miss Dor.
othy Klotz and expected to win
through the upper bracket Of the
semifinals Of the women's western
golf tournament.
Her opponent in the finals, which
a rained.out second round post.
poned until Monday, Miss Edith
Cummings, national champion, who
today met Mrs. Lee Mida, another
Chicagoan, in the lower bracket Of
semifinals play.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09

score and during the late rally I'll.
made three-base hit off Aleck.
In the fourteenth the Cubs
scored what proved to he their
only run off Yde, but in their haii
OF the same inning the Pirates
won the game and Yde featured
the winning rally with another
extra base hit.
Would you rather pitch a no.hit
game than make two home runs in
one contest?" Yde was asked.
Il would rather get the home
runs" he replied. There is notn.
ing a ball player likes more than
base hits, and I'm not an excep.
ton"
In answer to another query Yde
said that 1t is easier for him to pitch
In the major leagues than It Wa.
in the Western League.
up here" said Yde, You pitch
to the batter's weakness more than
IN the minors. Also you get the
support Of smarter players WHO
know just about where each batter
will hit the ball. For that reason
it is more difficult to get hits in
The major leagues"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09

Yde'S name Is pronounced as if It
were spelled Edee, with the accent
on the first syllable, but he was
with the Pirates several weeks be.
fore he got a glimpse Of it in head.
lines and box scores.
Once he was used in a champion.
ship game, however, he made such
a hit with his manager, Bill Nc,
Kechnie, that now his name ap.
pears in type at regular intervals.
It Is destined to have a place on
sporting pages for a long while.
This Is Yde's second year as a
professional player and his first
year in fast company. He is an in.
telligent lad, and before he took I'D
baseball as his profession he at.
tended the University of Illinois
and later the University Of Wiscon.
sin.
While in the colleges he was an
all around athlete and starred in
baseball, boxing and track and
field events. He knows a lot
about the glove game and started
Sammy Mandell" on his pugilistic
career.
Last year Yde was a member Of
the Oklahoma City team of the
Western League. He was a pitcher,
but did not confine his activities to
slab work. Frequently when he
wasn't pitching he played an out.
field position, and he held the out.
field job chiefly because Of his abil.
ity to hit. AS a pitcher he won
twenty-eight games and lost twelve.
He pitched in forty-seven contests.
His batting average for the season
was 1888 and was compiled IN
ninety.three games, so 1t may lie
seen that between pitching and
playing the outfield he was a. busy
individual.
He was the leading hitter Of tho
league until a week before the sea.
son ended, when Shag Koran, now
with the Yankees, and who was
then with the Des Moines team,
nosed him out. Koran had a bac.
ting mark Of All when the season
closed.
With the Pirates Yde is strictly
q pitcher, as McKechnie has plenty
OF good outfield material. AS d
twirler Yde is getting along very
well. He has won eight games a I'd
Las yet to experience the humiiiA
ton that goes with being defeated
His first victory in the big league
was scored over the Cardinals. Yde
shut them out with four or five hits
Since then he has pitched thre.
complete games against the Robii.s
and also has fourteen.inning dc
clsion over Grover Cleveland Alex
ander. He did not start the game
in which he defeated the Cubs, but
broke in as a relief pitcher in thu
second inning. In the ninth tnt
Pirates scored five runs and tied tn,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09

the reputation of being the leading
jockey In this country.
Sande left the employ of Com.
mander Ross after Frank KeouRh
was given the mount on Sir Barton
in the match race with Man o'War
at Windsor in 1920. Commander
Ross announced at the time that
there ives no reflection on the in
tegrIty Of Sande, but that the SUBJ
stitution was made with the belief
that Sande was not riding at the
top of his form at that time.
Sam Hildreth stepped in and en-.
gagged Sande to ride for the Ran.
cocas Stable at an annual salary
said to be $4,000. Sande was a
good jockey before he came to
Hildreth, but under the tutelage of
that master his skill has increased
and today he Is Eimitted to be the
greatest on the American turf. His
percentage of victories, taking the
number Of races in which he has
ridden into consideration. is very
high. He has faultless pair of
hands, seat that is the envy of
other riders and that hypnotic quail.
ity of getting the pest there is out
Of his mount.
In 1921 he was married to Miss
Marion Hildreth Casey. a daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Harry Casey,
of Cambridge. Mass, and a niece
Of the trainer for the Rancocas
Stable. His mother and three sis.
terS are living at Salem, Ore,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09
Giants Spurred By
McGraw's "Soft"
Talking

McGraw has lectured to his
team on overconfidence. With
Pittsburgh playing its present
brand Of ball, the Giants can't
afford to loaf. Others may
already be talking Of McGraw's
fourth straight pennant, but the
Giant manager is letting the
others do the claiming. He has
seen other teams blow up after
having substantial August leads.
He never will forget 1914.
However, Pittsburgh is bound
to have a reaction, just as De-
troit experienced on its return
home from a record-breaking
Eastern trip. The Tigers lost
onl ythree games in the East,
but since returning home they
lost six out of eleven to Phila-
delphia, Washington, and New
York.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09
Dencio Has Fights

Young Dencio is going out after
a lot Of experience which he figures
ought to help develop him into a
first rate fighter. He in Boston
trying to get a fight. Three
fighters have backed out after sign
ing to meet him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09
AViators Win

When Boiling Field and the Navy
Yard Marines played each other it
was a good game until the aviators
scored seven runs in one inning.
After that there was nothing to It.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09
Tate Tastes Task
Taking Thumps
From FirpO

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y,
Aug. 9.-Luis Firpo appeared
to be an improved boxer today
after mixing several rounds
with his sparring partners.
Bill Tate, who had things his
own way in earlier workouts,
was severely pummeled by the
Wild Bull.
FirpO has abandoned his style
of launching wild swings from
here, there and everywhere.
The Argentinian is concentrat-
ing on short jolts to the body.
Several of these blows shook up
Tate considerably.
Other sparring partners are
expected soon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09
YDE POPULAR WITH
NEWSPAPER PRINTERS

who set up the major league box very fire.
quenty abbrevate
into the allotted Names heaved sigh Of ref
"nen Emil Yde came along member of the Pirates
1t wasn't to shorten his
% Merely necessary to pick out capital Y e.
arrange ne IN that order and the complete II the
printers to chop off few letters wouldn't be long before
pitcher. - ' -AS' 0Ae'AUS He" IeAI-nanoeo
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-09
Potomacs in Game

The Washington Potomacs will
play Hilldale, Of Pennsylvania, Sun
day. The Potomacs have done well
in the last few weeks and a victory
would not be surprising.