Hartford, Vermont,
February 22, 1915.
On Mr. Putney's seventy-fifth birthday the teachers of Edmunds High
School presented him with a beautiful loving cup. This note accompanied
the cup:
To our honored Friend and Co-worker,
Mr. Charles E. Putney.
The teachers of the High School, with the superintendent and his wife,
wish to send you hearty congratulations on your birthday and the many
years of usefulness that lie in its wake. They wish to emphasize their
appreciation of what it means to the whole school to have in their midst
a loyal old soldier, a kindly and genial friend, and a real gentleman
of "the old school."
They hope this loving cup will be to you a substantial evidence of their
appreciation in the past, as also of their good wishes for the future.