F. C. PUTNAM 
W. T. PUTNAM 
P. G. PUTNAM 
W. T. PUTNAM. Jr 
MAIL ORDERS TAKEN FOR 
DRESSED POULTRY. FRESH 
EGGS AND OTHER FARM 
PRODUCTS 
Xnternuiunt JTarrn 
INTERMOUNT FARM BUTTER. 
CREAM. CHEESE, SAUSAGE 
AND FRESH PORK 
W. T. PUTNAM & SONS 
THE MAIL ORDER FARM’’ 
Haftt Cusfmtan, Wasl). 
July 14, 1921 
My dear Mr. Deane:- 
I am sending you under separate cover the Tril¬ 
lium which I have promised you for so long. I hope it reaches you 
safely. It should have gone to you long ago, but we have been so 
rushed with our suit that we have hardly had time to breathe, it is 
now over and we are without & home, though we are allowed, to stay 
on till Jan. 1, 1923. It was a hard fought ease, where were several 
classes of suits and we came in the second 1 and the first jury gave 
the people very small damages, so small that there was a strong 
feeling throughout the county against it- Thus possibly reacted in 
our favor and also ours was the first case tried where the prop¬ 
erty was feo be entirely destroyed so that it was really a case of 
outright sale to Tacoma. We had a most excellent attorney and he 
neglected nothing and the city's attorneys were reduced to trying 
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to make our claims ridiculous- We had four days of it and finally 
the jury had the case turned over to them last Friday evening. 
About an hour later while at the hotel there came a call for the 
attorneys and judge and we all went to the courthouse. The judge 
told the foremen of the jury to hand the verdict to the clerk fo r 
him to reid- Instead he handed it to the judge, who took a look 
at it and smiled, ^hen he handed it to the clerk who began to read 
the title of the case, the names of the various defendants, the 
description of the property, a page or more of typewritten copy and 
finally came to the verdict, $66,000.00* y ou will realise what an 
