Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
NEWS ABOUT THE STATE
Personals and Other Items of Interest
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object of the corporation is to promote the general welfare of the dealers In automobiles ard accessories and to pro. mote and conduct contests and exhibi. tions ofaut0mobiles and accessories.
 Tho Standard Electric Time company of Waterbury has filed in the office of the secretary of the state certificate of issue of 2,000 additional shaios of stock amounting to $5o,O0o, thereby making the total outstanding stock S60,000
 Representative Henry of Connecticut last week introduced a bill providing for public building at Manchester, to cost $75, ,000.
 l. H. Butterfield of Detroit, Mich. has been engaged as manager for the Connecticut fair
 Mayor Fisher of Middletown has or dered thorough investigation of the city water department.
 Miss Ethel Eccles of Waterbury has won the state championship for type writers. She wrote 2,79s words in 30 minutes. There were eight contestants.
 From all the state Connecticut reports kicks by people, chiefly corporations and business leaders. who ask for substantial reductions from lists made by the assessors. The significant thing is that so many boards Of relief refused the Y reductions.
 A correspondent to the Bristol Pres writes: Food is getting scarce in the bird world and it is humane thing for bird lovers to fasten suetin the sheltered places out Of the reach of the family cat. That they appreciate it is evidenced by the flocks of chiclladoes, uuthatches, etc. that gather to feed each day. Tho recent ice storm covered all usual supplies.
 Gov. Frank B. Weeks has sent to the mayors of the several cities of the state letter Tn which he calls their attention to the number of deaths and accidents due to the celebration of the Fourth of July. He asks the mayors to take the matter of surer aud safer Fourth into consideration.
 John Roeblin, aged 30 years, of New Milford died last Thursday of humps. He leaves wife and two children. New Milford has been suffering from an epidemic of humps for the past two weeks. This is the first fatality,
 Mrs Margaret Sullivan, for 2l years an inmate of Brookside home in Waterbury, Is dead at that institution at the age Of | 107 years. Up to within the last five years she was actively employed in the kitchen of the institution, but was obliged to cease work on account of infrmities due to old age, which caused her death. She leaves t son and sister, neither of whom she has seen for years
 John Kilmartin, laborer employed on the borough streets, Torrington, dropped dead at his home on Brookside avenue about o'clock Friday morning as Inc was preparing to go to work. Death is supposed Ito have been the result of heart trouble. He leaves a wife and two daughters, Mrs. Forbes Dick aud Mrs. Michael Gleason, and son, William Kilmartin.
 The Meriden Boys club has filed articles of association in the office of the secretary of the state. William Rush, an employee of tho Bridgeport Brass company, was drawn over a drum i'll drying machine Friday, receiving injuries which proved fatal His clothing caught and other workmen nearby could not stop the machine ln time to save his life.
 President Taft last week sent to the Senate the nomination of Joseph k. Sperry to be postmaster at Warehouse Point. Sperry was recently recom- mended by Representative Henry after the Warehouse Point office had been raised from the fourth to the thirdt presidential class.
 The Layman's Missionary Movement Convention to be held in New Haven March 5, 6 and ', promises to be great meeting. Speakers of national reputa- ton and ministers of the local and other churches will make addresses at the different me, tings of the conyentiou:
 Joseph F. Carey, the largest land owner at Highland Lake, Winsted con- templates building two more cottages there in the spring, to be rented to people who intend to pass she summer at that resort.
 A Ferry street, New Haven, trolley csr was derailcd Saturday at Grafton street, It collided with trolley pole and forr persons were injured. Miss Lizzie Ellis of 100 Exchange street will die of her injuries.
 Elder George Wilcox, who for yea s has been the leading member of the Shaker settlement in Thompsonville, died Sunday morning at the house of