Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-25
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East Lyme-The graded school
opened yesterday after being closed
for a week, owing to the illness of
Principal /. w. Shearer and Miss
Moulton.
Windham - Governor Woodruff
has authorized the admission OF
Lilly Baker to the school for im-
beetles at. Lakeville.
East Windsor-Dairy Commission
er J. B. Noble, who has been Ill at
his home, is improving and is now
able to leave his bed for a part Of
each day.
neutrality-suspicious. Thomas D.
Bradstreet has awarded the contract
for printing the annual bulletins OF
the Connecticut Agricultural college
to the Rockville Leader Go.
Waterford-Dr J. N. Dimon OF
New London was yesterday held for
trial at the May term of the superior
court on the charge of manslaugnter
in causing the death of Mrs Magdelin
Buivet of No II Clement street, Wa
terford, May 10 last.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. difficulty
is being encountered in installing the
elevators in Bonner & Preston's new
store on Pratt street, for after the
shaft for the plunger had teen sunk
about twelve feet bed of red sand
stone was encountered. 10 pele-
trate this a special machine is being
used.
New Britain-The Y. M. c. A.
Hiking club, which took walk TO
Meriden recently and visited the
Connecticut School for Boys, will go
on its second hike Wednesday, April
IS. They will go on a walk to Weth-
ersfield and will visit the state
prison. The trip home will be made
by trolley.
New Haven-Herman d. Chap
man, owner of farm of sixty-tive
acres in Plainfield, has brought a
suit against the New York. New Ha'
ven and Hartford Railroad Co,
charging that seven different times
during the past two years his wood
lands have been set on fire by sparks
from locomotives.
Greenwich-There was reward
of $500 offered for the recovery of
the body of H. Clifford burlington,
who disappeared on November 10,
and whose body was recovered yes
terday from the Chenille mill pond
by Augustus and Alonzo Lowden. 1t
Is thought that this amount will be
paid.
Hartford-The jurymen now do
ing duty in the civil side of the SUI
perior court have something good
to eat every morning before they
begin duty. The other day Mills H.
Barnard of Bristol brought in some
ice cream and other jurymen have
brought in good things. Yesterday
Samuel Alexander of this city
brought in several boxes of cholo-
lates and they shared in the other
good things too.
oquonock-Traffic on the rail-
road bridge over the Pennington
river at this place has been indefi-
nitely suspended. The bridge, which
was never adapted for the passage
of heavy cars and which was neces.
sarily strengthened last year, has
been declared unsafe. Passengers
are transferred from the Hartford
car at station IS to car which
runs between station SO and Rain
bow on the regular schedule.
Hartford-The state library re-
ceived yesterday from the govern
ment of Chile several volumes of
Laws and DEGREES" for 1906 and
1907 and also the house and sem
ate journals for the same period.
The latter make the journals of the
Connecticut house and senate for
1907 seem almost Insignificant so
far as size go. With these was
sent a work entitled 1.-THE Economi-
cal and Social Progress of the Re-
public of Chine" printed in English
and we'll illustrated.
Hartford-A colored woman has
been canvassing the neighborhood
of Asylum avenue recently, repre-
senting that she was collecting
funds for a school which is being
built on Hamilton Heights by the
Sisters of Mercy, and to strengthen
her plea has been mentioning the
names of two alleged Sisters of
Mercy as endorsers. Rev John G..
Murray, chancellor of diocese says
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