Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-15
NUTMEG CRAVINGS.
Interesting Items Boiled Down for
 Our Busy Readers.

Our Busy Readers.
 Niantic-A large storehouse owned by the state of Connecticut was struck by lightning last evening and completely destroyed by fire, with its contents The loss is S6,0OO.
 i Greenwich-The Mills Feed Stores l Cos store on Arch street was entered by burglars early yesterday. Two safes were opened and a quantity of checks and some cash were stolen.
 Thomaston-W was resumed in l the factory of the Thomaston Knife l Go on Monday after shutdown Of three weeks. The shop started off on a full time basis of sixty hours week.
 l New Britain-The H. R. Walker 1 Co is doing the eXcavating for the new factory of the Stanley Rule & ! Level Go. The factory will be three stories and basement high and will be so constructed as to permit adding on f three more stories.
 Plainville-Work has been started on the new macadam road on Whit HE StT66l. He IOdu WhSh SSiiipASNNN will extend from the Allderidge block
 to the macadam road further down on Whiting street and will form a straight stretch of macadam to New Haven.
 Terryville-A gang of Italians ar rived Monday and went to work cart ig away soil where the new reservoir of the Terryville Water Co is to be.
 Theodore H. Mckenzie of Southington is the engineer in charge. z. F. Gran miss of Pequabuck will have charge of the men.
 I Southington-The borough is to
 erect a sixty-five foot f1agstan on the green in response to the petition of the citizens presented at the last meeting of the warden and burgesses. The pole will be placed on the plot
 of ground where, the soldiers monu-
 ment now stands.
 Torrington-A rumor that Private
 Thomas A. Calder of Company M,
 Second regiment, c. N. G. had been
 shot in the side while running the
 guard at the Pine Plains military camp in New York state, cannot be
 verified. If any foundation for the
 story. exists, it is believed to have
 been a private matter.
 Bristol-The report on the loca post office site is not to be announced until the latter part of September
 James c. Lowe of the treasury de partment was here a week ago ana looked over the different sites. Ht now announces that his written re port will be submitted to the depart .. ment in about two weeks.
 Middletown-The new theater al
 the Hospital for the Insane, which |
 to replace the one burned down twt
 years ago, is nearly completed. 4 little outside decorating and the sett ing of the downstairs seats is al
 that remains to be done. An electri sand papering machine has been a work on the dancing floor. Whel
 finished the floor will be one of th' best in the state.
 Bolton-The barn on the place re
 gently bought by MT Lenti wa
 struck by lightning and burned dur ing the storm yesterday afternoon which was especially heavy in tn
 south part of the town. Twenty-fiv e tons of hay were als odestroyed. M s Lenti had just finished remodelini
 the barn. At one time the house too a fire, but was saved by the neighbors d This is the third barn burned b lightning within three weeks. | New Haven-James E. Meecham, conductor on the Derby line of th l. Connecticut Co, was sentenced t Q twenty months in jail yesterday i f the city court after being found gull 2 ty on four counts of embeZzlemen j. from the company. The charge wa k that on June 27 he kept 95 cents ou e of his collections; on June 2S, s1.1i !. and on June 29 and 30, sS.25 on eac Q day. His sentence is the heavies [ ever given in this state for that 'oi D fense.
 e mpsonville-Edward Ledge -- aged IA, son of MT and Mrs Edwar d Ledger of Maple street, Thompson s vile, was drowned in the canal on tn e Suffield sled of the river yesterda
 afternoon and at late hour tn
 body was not recovered. Ledger i
 company with some other boys, cross
 ed the river from Thompsonville an F went to the duck houses" on tn
 canal bank for a swim. The drowr
 ed boy became separated from th e others and when last seen by Charlt n Lockwood, he was sinking in a swi n moving current and the boys coul e do nothing to save him.
 ,- Putnam-Albert c. Bostwick {
 Mamaroneck, l.. l., who inherited IS large fortune from his father, wh IT was leading factor in the Standar i. oil Co, together with two oth, e young men, met with an accident ; e West Thompson yesterday, whi L. passing through there in his s10,0C
 touring car. The machinery brol D. down, and being in a rush, the me l. came to this city and ordered SD .e cial train for New London, which le " about l o'clock. The train cost nea a ly s150 but Bostwick told Static
 Agent Jewett that money didn $. count as he was in a hurry. He di
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