Putnam patriot., 1928-05-31
PoMFRET

! Mr.. Nathan Weed spent the week
+ end in Pomfret.
Mr.. Arthur Foster is spending a few
days at Fox Hill Farm.
Miss Helen Mabie Of Summit, New
+ Jersey, IS spending a week at Brisk
( To- High.
I Miss Mary Richards Of Boston spent
few days last week with Mrs. Chas.
Thompson.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. A. Sill Of Hol-
yoke, Mass, are expected al the Cabin
+ for the weekend.
Miss Katharine Noyes' niece, Miss
f Katharine Moves Of Stamford, Is visit
ing her aunt at Topsfeld.
Mrs. Roger Tileston left on Monday
7 for South West Harbor, Maine, where
she will spend few weeks.
Miss Martha Taintor, who has been
away on a two weeks trip, returned TO
( The Mad Halter on Wednesday.
/ Miss Elizabeth Andrews of Hart
I ford spent Tuesday at Fox Hill Farm.
to oversee the work on her cottage.
Mr.. Charles Swain is stopping at
Fox Hill Farm while the final alter
atoms are being made in his place.
! Mr.. James Donlon, Jr., of Hartford
and his two children spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. James Donlon
here.
4 Mrs. Ella Barnard Rowan is motor
+ ing from Jamaica. New York TO Pom
/ fret, Conn, on Monday with a couva-
+ descent.
Miss Dorothy Colt. who has been
+ spending a week on the north shore
of Mass, returned to Fox Hill Farm
on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward B. Chase and
+ Miss Evelyn Chase Of Providence mo-
tored over for dinner at Fox Hill
Farm on Sunday.
+ Professor Henry A. Perkins Of Trim
/ ity College. Conn.,, Mrs. Perkins and
daughter will occupy the Lorillard
+ house during July and August.
Miss Bertha Stevens. who spent the
winter and spring at The Great North
ern Hotel in New York, returned 20
Brisk To-High on Thursday Of last
week.
Mrs. Henry B. Holt, Miss Margaret
I Holt and Mile. Kentner arrived at
Fox Hill Farm on Saturday to remain
through June. Mr.. Holt came up for
the weekend.
DIR. s. B. Overlook announces the
engagement of his niece, Mrs. Gladys
Moves Wicks, to Mr.. Barthold r..
i Schlessinger of 4S Beacon street, Bos-
ton, Mass. The marriage will take
place early in June.
On Thursday evening Of last week
large number of friends gathered
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Hanley for a May basket party. There
were games and dancing, and refresh
ments were served
There will be a meeting of the Wo-
mems Benevolent Society of the First
Congregational church in the church
parlors on Wednesday afternoon June
9th, at 2 o'clock, d. S. (. The hostess
will be Mrs. Barker.
The Misses Keyes are leaving Pom
fret on Tuesday. June 9Th. for Sche-
nectady, n. Y. Later they will go TO
the state of Washington, where they
will pass the summer. Mr.. Gordon
/ will spend the summer months with
his son in Schenectady, and in Greens
borough, VT.
Miss Caroline Briggs of New York,
who is visiting Miss Katherine Noyes
at Topsfield, gave a bridge party and
tea at The Mad Halter on Monday
afternoon. The guests were Miss
Katharine Noyes, Mrs. John Camp
bell, Miss Boult. Miss Lowell; Miss
, Wiley and Miss 0lney Of Thompson
Miss Danielson of Putnam Heights
Miss Mathewson, Miss Colt and Miss
Stevens.
Willem c. van der Liam, formerly
of Pomfret but now in business as a
landscape gardener at Miami Beach,
Fla, is the author of an interesting
article entitled palms: The Pride Of
the Tropics" which appears in the
current number Of Tropical Home and
Garden, a magazine of Florida life
published at Miami. Mr.. van der
Laan's article is the first Of a series
and is written in collaboration with
John G. Paul.
The baby son Of Professor and Mrs.
Ralph Gibbs Van Name Josephine
Porter was christened last Sunday by
the Rev Howard Weir. in the Chapel
Of st. PauPs church, at New Haven.
Conn The child was given the name
Of John Addison, in memory of his
two grandfathers, the late John Ad-
olson Porter, secretary TO President
Mckinley, and Professor Addison
Van Name, former Librarian of Yale
University. Acting as godparents were
Miss Sylvia Holt of Woodstock and
New York, and Professor Ralph Van
Name. the baby's father.