Putnam patriot., 1927-07-29
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POMFRET

Mr. Horace Babb, secretary 10 Mir. Bigelow. is away on vacation.
 Many Pomfret people attended the Gala Day in Hampton Wednesday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Russell Perkins have returned from a brief visit in New port.
 Mrs. Marcus Kimball has returned from weekend visit to Gloucester. Mass
 Ms Bradley Randall. nee Eleanor Jacobs, is the guest of Mrs. Gladys Wieks at The Naples
 Mrs Wm. C. van der Laan of Miami Beach has been the guest of Mrs. Wm. Johnson during the week.
 Miss Alice Lowell. who has been spending fortnight at Winter Haven. Maine. returned Friday.
 Margaret Blackmore. daughter of Edward Blackmore of Worcester. is spending the summer in Pomfret.
 Mrs. Eustace Garratt of London. England. Is visiting Mir. and Mrs. Marcus Nj. kimball at Bark Meadow House.
 Mir. and Mrs. R. F. Petts and Mr. Warden of Southbrdge, Mass, were week end guests of Mir. and Mrs. F. J. Foley
 Among Pomfret people to take the first and second degrees at Wolf Den Grange were Mr and Mrs. Patrick Donlia and Louis Johnson
 Dr. and Mrs. Morris Murray and Miss Nancy Murray have returned from England and are at their sum mer hong in Abingdon.
 Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt and daughter of Newport. R. l.. who have been visiting with Mrs Joseph Clark Hoppin at "Courtlands' left on Thurs day.
 W. II. Blackmore and daughter Margaret Fishman. will leave on Wed nesday for Block Island. where Mrs. Fishman has rented a cottage for the summer.
 Mrs. William Whyland of New York. who had come to Pomfret for stay of several weeks, was called home on Monday by the death of her husbands mother.
 Mrs. Arthur B. Lapsley and Miss | Margaret Lapsley left early in the week for North Hadley, Canada, where they have taken a cottage for month. Mir. Lapsley will join them later.
 Mrs. Joseph Ripley Moves of Stam- ford is the weekend guest of Miss ! Katherine Moves at Topsfield. Mrs. l Noyes's daughters, the Misses kath- erine and Helen will return with their mother.
 The Congregational Sunday School picnic at Roseland Lake last Friday was a great success. The weather, though partly cloudy. was pleasant and there was large attendance oi 1 sixty-two. Games, water sports, and i the usual sumptuous luncheon we're the features of the day.
 Many Pomfret people heard with regret this week of the death n New York City on Monday of Mrs. Gordon l Cronkhite. who was Miss Mary Loril' lard. daughter of Mir and Mrs. Er- nest Lorillard Mrs. Grankhite 1T former years frequently visited Pom. fret with her parents at the home of MT. and Mrs. Arthur B. Lapsley.
 Mir. Carl E. Gilbert, Pomfret's sta tion agent over period of quarter of d century, suffered slight stroke paralysis Tuesday morning just be- fore the arrival of the early train, better known as the milk train. ' | Mir. Gilbert has not only endegred himself to the whole country side by his unremitting kindliness. but he has won a wide reputation for efficiency, courtesy, and public spirit. A few years ago, Mir. Gilbert was in very poor health, but had seemed quite re- stored to normal strength.
 Miss Ester Gustafson, who has been spending few weeks in Pomfret with her parents, leaves early in August for the Adirondack camp of MT. and Mrs. Harrison Grey Fiske. Miss Gustafson has had the great good fortune to be taken into the all-star cast, with Mrs Fiske. Margaret Anglin, and Otis Skinner, under the management of Mir. Fiske, who will tour large cities next winter with a production of the Merry Wives of Windsor. Miss Gus,afaaa, will have -l. sE +sssl awug.a in ba FataE