Putnam patriot., 1930-08-14
Woodstock

Mrs. Russell Linton is spendinQ several days in New York City with her sister.
 Miss Annie shippey of Hartford vas at her home in Sprucedale for the weekend.
 Miss Dorothy Williams and Miss Ida Sheldon spent several days last week in Worcester.
 Mrs. Samuel Gross has been spend- ing several days in Concord, Mass. with her daughter. Mrs. Alice Hem mingway.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry ]. Lamothe are entertaining Mir. and Mrs. Henry J. Lamothe. Jr. and daughter. Miss Fife, from Oyster Bay. l.. I.
 Miss Sarah Healev and friend. Miss Hazel Avery. both of Hartford. were visitors at Mir. and Mrs. Leon ard Healey's home over the week end.
 Ellsworth Williams and Fred Wilcox snent part of last week on a motor trip through Maine. New Hampshire. and Vermont, spending some time in the White mountains.
 The band concert sponsored by the Christian Endeavor was we'll at tended by the towns people. Ice cream and cake sold we'll and every body seemed to have a very pleasant time.
 Woodstock received it's share of the heavy rainfall last Thursday night. during the electrical storm. Many telephones were put out of or- der, and electric power was shut off for a while but no serious damage occurred
 Mir and Mrs. Fred Sheldon enter tained a large gathering of relatives and friends at their home, Sunday August 3, in honor of Mir. Sheldon. whose birthday occurred on that day. Mrs. Charles Sheldon of South Woodstock was among the guests.
 Mrs. Clinton Taylor furnished the flowers so prettily arranged at the Hill Congregational church last Sun- day morning. Rev Russell Linton del ivered an inspiring sermon and Miss Louise Lawton favored the congre- gation with a solo with Miss Con stance Williams at the organ.
 Miss Maud Healey has joined sew eral teachers in three weeks motor trip through the New England states into Canada. The teachers are talk ing this trip for educational purposes with Mir Howe as guide. Mir Howe gave a series of lectures at the Acad- emy this past winter for the benefit of the Woodstock teachers.
 Mr. and Mrs. Windsor Clark left home Monday morning for a motor trip to Maine to spend several days with relatives. Last week they en- ioyed a motor trip to Glens Falls. N. r.. where they were entertained for several days at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Harry Goodness. Mrs. Good ness was formerly Miss Kate Perry.
 The Ladies Benevolent society of the Hill church will hold a meeting on the church lawns on Tuesday af. ternoon, August 18th. at o'clock d. s. t Mrs. Edward Chandler is the speaker and her subject will be her trip around the world. All parishes and everybody interested are cor dially invited to be present at thii meeting.
 The people of Woodstock and vi cinity have been highly favored, dur ing the past three Sunday evenings by the privilege of listening to an in. teresting series of addresses or Signs of Progress in the Orient. delivered by Rev. Edward H. Chand- Ter. The speaker. with Mrs. Chand- Ter. recently returned from so. journ, in the Far East. of severo' months. In vivid word-pictures and telling incidents, present day condi. tions in. Japan. China and India were very we'll presented to appreciative audiences whose presence, in such lars-a numbers. betokened the s~lse of gratitude and interest felt. Mir. Chandler is particularly well fitted to describe situations in the Orient as he is the son of the late Rev. John Chandler. for many years a be- loved missionary in India, and spent his boyhood there.