Connecticut western news., 1906-11-15
School Notes

The name of Kenneth Adam should have been included in the list of 9th grade pupils not absent for two months.
 Miss Stone the Superintendent was in town Thursday and Friday of last week.
 A number of girls from the upper grades enjoyed Miss Hume's talk at Pill grim church Friday afternoon.
 Bessie Davis of Falls Village has en- tered the higher grade of school here.
 Cabinets of books loaned by the Con- necticut Public Library Committee have been received by several of the teachers. These books are carefully selected for use by the children and may be taken home by them.
 Dandelions and violets in full bloom have been found by pupils of the higher grade during the past week.
 Death of Michael Joyce.
 Last week we alluded briefly to the death of Michael Joyce which occurred last Wednesday evening. A short time previous his wife went to the office of a local physician to procure some medicine for him and shortly after her return home, found him dead in the yard where he had fallen. In all probability his demise was the result of heart disease. He was 64 years old and for many years was in railroad employ. His final con nection with the road was in the capacity of fiagman at the Main street crossing for the N. Y. N. H. 6 H. This position he resigned in May of the present year He is survived by a wife, two daughters, Lizzie, trained nurse of Bridgeport and Mary, a telegrapher of South Norwalk, four sons, William of Nebraska, John of Arizona, Austin and Edward of Canaan. The funeral was held Saturday, the Rev. Father Bannon officiating. The remains were inferred in St. Jose ph's cemetery. Railroad RumbIes
 Engineers on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad are not now required to pick out a signal from six or eight or even more, displayed on a bridge, or post, when operating through passenger trains, as the general system in vogue throughout a good part of the United States in directing the movement of fast passenger service, has gone into effect on the entire road, says the New Haven Union. This change is con- sidered important, as it is an element in handling schedule time. Under the old code the posts were equipped with yard and station signals which required care ful scrutiny by the enginemen of express trains in picking out the particular sig nal lamp by which they were to be gov erned. These posts have now been stripped of everything except main line signals, with the result that heretofore where there were half dozen or more signals displayed there are now from one to two, and, in a few cases three. The signals that governed the movement of local trains and those that were run at slow speed have been changed to what are know as dwarf signals; that is, sig nals that are operated from the stand ards set low down on the tracks. This arrangement is considered to be entirely satisfactory as the dwarf is not to govern trains run on high speed schedules.
 Conductor Smith is temporarily off duty and conductor Boice of Winsted takes his place as conductor of the night switcher.
 Jesse Drumm, conductor of the day sw1tcher is to move his family from Springfield to this village.
 Engineer Edward Greer has been trans ferred from the Canaan switcher to a run from Rhinecliff and is to move his family there. Engineer Pierson of Hart ford succeeds him here.
 The change of time Sunday had no effect on the o. N. k. road. The N. Y. N. H. 6 H. changes may be noted in the corrected time table in another column