They would prefer to employ this cap*
ital in actual manufacturing purposes
but no choice is left them in the1 mat
ter.
The Torringtou company, which is
laying the foundations, has just com
pleted the trig brick addition at the
mill. Machinery is being put in place
in the new rooms. It will he several
weeks before the* wheels will turn in
this section of the mill.
The contract for the construction of
the eight houses lias not been awarded
as yet.
John I*. Rabin, who is working with
the Torringtou company, lias a gang
of men leveling and grading a plot of
land into a first-c lass baseball field.
Manhasset in bright red letters,
across the breast of a gray uniform,
lias signified the advent of a Manhas
set Co. ball team onto the field. The
boys look real "nifty” in meir new
uniforms, and their real stoc kings, too.
They say the Manhasset team is go
ing to "make good." for some splendid
material as good as ever tossed the
pill or swung the willow, exists among
the workmen at the mill.
Next Saturday, the team plays the
Williamsville Mfg. Co., at Williams
ville.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
At a meeting of the senior class of
the Putnam High school Friday noun,
it was voted to purchase a bronze
tablet hearing Lincoln's GeDysbur*,
address as a gift of the class to tin*
school. M. Gould Heard was appoint
ed to arrange for a class benefit.
Frank h\ Gleason, Maud Carpenter. 1.
Allen Averill, Grace Kenary and Don
ald C. Johnson were elected to take
charge of commencement printing. It
was voted, if the weather was fair, to
hold the c lass day program on the
front lawn at the school.
