Putnam patriot., 1930-10-02
Eastford

Miss Edith Gardner's new well IS nearly finished
 Mir. and Mrs. Fred Parker moved to WarrenvilIe last week
 A. Nj. Bartlett is at the Day Kim ball hospital for a short stay.
 Oliver D. Bowen's new garage Is already lighted by electricity
 Saturday nights dance at Gener- ai Lyons hall was well attended.
 Mir. and Mrs. L. NJ. Hattin and children have been visiting in Bridge port.
 Miss Alice l.. Rindge and Mrs. N. W. Kennedy motored to Hartford Sat urday.
 Miss Ethel Gardner is visiting rel atives in New York City and Pitts burg. Pa.
 Foliage along roadsides and in lowlands hereabouts is now pie turesauely lovely.
 Mrs. Gertrude Frost and son Wal ter of North Dartmouth, Mass. were visitors last week.
 Mrs. Addie Chapman of New Hav- en visited her mother, Mrs. Emily Whitford the past week.
 Miss Addie Bosworth, who suffer- ed a shock recently, was somewhat more comfortable Monday.
 Rapid progress is being made on the new macadam state road exten- sion from near Kenyonville to Union.
 Captain Jonathan Skinner. who died October I2. 1858, was the first person buried in Eastford Grove cemetery.
 Mir. and Mrs Wendall Bosworth of East Woodstock were the eom- pany of local friends and relatives last week
 Mrs. Charles Deane and Kate Bick nell have been entertaining their niece, Miss Kate Whitman of West Hartford.
 The frame work to Edward Greene's new garage and repair shop on the Federal highway near Phoe- nixville is under way. ! The Warrenville Ladies Aid Soei- ety gave an entertainment at Town 1 hall Thursday evening for the bene- | fit of the Eastford society. Republican caucus in Town hall | Thursday. October 9. to nominate candidates for representative, judge l of-probate and justice of peace.
 r. Putnam recently called on friends in town. They contemplate spending early fall and winter in Florida.
 Rev. Walter Lanphear a former pastor, will supply the pulpit of the Congregational church, Sunday. Rev, George Reese is having vacation.
 Rally Sunday" was fittingly ob- served at the Congregational church. There was a large attendance, fine talks and fine music and fine day. ! Orris F. Wilson of Los Angeles, Cal, over forty years ago a report. orial attache of the Standard at Put nam. paid a fraternal call on N. Waldo Kennedy. Saturday.
 Mir. and Mrs. William H. Smith of Willimantie. MT. and Mrs. Frank Clemens of Brooklyn and Mir. and Mrs. Richard Mackey of South Wood stock were among the many Sunday dinner guests at General Lyon Tav- ern.
 A personal friend for more than fifty years, John Whitford of this place took a prominent part Satur- day evening in the program present ed at the golden wedding of Mir. and Mrs. Edward Burdiek of Moose Meadow.
 It is no joke to say that the min strel show which held the boards at Town hall Monday night was a huge success. with much credit to all con cerned. The Nurses Home Fund will be augmented by little Eastford's big endeavor.
 Henry W. Buell., the we'll known orchardist. had a fine display of fruit at Brooklyn Fair last week. He exhibited especially beautiful Red Macintosh apples. declaring them | to be the best in every respect par | ticularly as to coloring that he has ever grown.
 Two groups of visitors to the Gen. eral Lyon monument met Monday ! afternoon one of them being from ! Rhode Island and the other from : Southbridge, and an interesting con versatiOn ensued The Rhode Island man stated that he was ten years old when Gen. Lyon was killed in ! battle. and he has a vivid remem- brance of the event and of the fu- neral ceremony at Eastford in Aug ust 1861. He stated that no event of the Civil War caused such excite ment as the news of the fall of Gen. ! Lyon. He was the first general of- ! ficer to lose his life in the great