Connecticut western news., 1907-05-02
STATE AND COUNTY
Items of Interest Boiled Down and
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Items of Interest Boiled Down and
 Served for Quick Reading.
 While making call, Mrs Catherine Herzog of New Britain dropped dead.
 "Uncle Ben" Warmer of Woodstock. is already anticipating his 102d birthday in July.
 Caught fishing with net in Bantam Lake, Allen Bissell and Benjamin Cot of Bantam were arrested and fined S25 each, amounting to S49.16.
 Dennis Shea, Willimantic man, will be required to move building which he owns abutting from four to IS inches on the land owned by neighbor.
 James Coates of Thomaston about a year ago was sent to Lltchfield jail for burglary. He was released last week and is nearly gone from consumption.
 Intending to commit suicide, Charles Beisinger of Greenwich wrote his own obituary, sent it to the NewYork papers, then made up his mind to live little longer.
 Peace again reigns among the Baptists ill Colebrook and Rev. William P. Bart lett, who was locked out of the North Colebrook Baptist church few Sundays ago, occupied his old pulpit Sunday.
 Contest of the will of Richard Brad ley of New Haven is likely. It says; '' I commit my soul into the hands of the Creator" and leaves all his estate to the Evergreen cemetery, cutting off his widow and son.
 Driven from home at o'clock in the morning by drunken father and forced to walk four miles for shelter, was the fate that befeH six-years-old Ida Powers at Wallingford. She was taken and cared tor by neighbors.
 Hunting for housekeeper, John Kor- ter of Hartland, found wife. Dora Bennett of Montville declined his offer of a situation, refusing to '' keep house for any man unless am his wife" Kor- ter took the hint and popped"
 Someone with vivid imagination has set the following going the rounds of the press:
 Frightened by the words .' Rest in Peace-Died May 1, in Her Thirtieth Year, Glory Hallelujah," plainly i'm pressed in the bottom of fresh. baked loaf of bread. Mrs. Isabel Bronson. who had just moved into an old house near Kent, feeling that it was warning of her early death, hastily wrote note for her husband and left the house, going to neighbor's in an agitated frame of mind. She recovered her composure somewhat when she was informed that the hearthstone in the oven was piece of an old tombstone.
 The fellow who wrote this evidently didn't stop to think that the words would appear backward on the loaf and that the loaf would need to be about three feet long to contain the inscription. But little discrepancies like this need t spoil 8 good story.
 A great many Danbury people are ex-
  bler's formula" for the burning of coal ashes in the place of pure coal, and al- most unanimously with satisfactory re- suits. The first factory where the com pound of ashes and coal has been used in a large factory boiler is in the Green Soft Hat Manufacturing Company's s shop. One boiler of 80-horse power was run eight and one-half hours by the use of 2400 pounds of ashes just as they came out of the ash box under the grate mixed with 800 pounds of soft coal and wet with the solution of salt and oxalic acid. The engineer of the factory says that this fuel saved the factory not less than a ton of coal 1n that one boiler in one day, be- sides which it kept the steam up better and to such pressure that less coal was required in the other boiler. He is keep in an accurate record of the results.