Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13
Brief State News

Westport.-The Westport Water company is contemplating extending the water system to Compo Mill and along the shore westward.
 New Britain.-There have been 1O1 shares of stock subscribed for by the New Britain Golf club, and seventy eight shares have already been paid in.
 Southport.-Judge Albert Pinney of Southport died this week at the Bridgeport hospital. He was 65 years old and had been member of the bar for A years.
 Milford.-Rev Edward Downes of Mt Carmel, a former member of the Connecticut missionary band, has been appointed national chaplain of the Daughters of Isabella.
 Stamford.-A government represen- tatlvc came here Tuesday to confer with members of the Harbor Improve ment association with a view to plac- ing more lights on the east channel. Torrington.-f the new eight hour bill relating to factories engaged in work for the government becomes a law, four Torrington concerns will be affected. These companies employ B. 200 men.
 lainvilIe.-Principa Orrin L. Judd and the party of grammar school teachers who went to Washington last week have returned after spending 1 several days in the national capital l and other places of interest. Watertown-The meeting of Sarah Whitman Trumbull chapter, D. A. R., was held at the residence of Mrs. Car ! rie W. Jackson Thursday afternoon. | The state treasurer, Mrs. L. K. Curtiss, of Southington, read a paper on Patron | Saints.
 Waterbury, -Steeplejack Dahill, who | is putting five lightning rods on the l top of the Waterbury station tower Is l obliged to wear corsets when at work | in order to support his back, which was injured few years ago by a fall from factory chimney.
 New Haven.-The estate of James H. | King, said to have been the richest | man in Connecticut, was probated on 1 Tuesday in New Haven courts and his 1 Connecticut property was inventoried 1 at $680, ,98287 His holdings in oil and mining fields is enormous.
 Ansonia.-When firemen were called l to a West Side house the other day ! they found Mrs. Annie Sphleock with
 her right side so badly burned that the l flesh hung from her body. She had 1 tried to put out a blaze by trampling
 on it, and her clothes had caught fire.
 BerIin.-Mrs Angeline M Bushnell of Berlin has been made an honorary
 member of the Connecticut Society of 1 ex-Prisoners Of the Civil War, which
 held its annual session in Hartford on Good Friday. Mrs. BushnelPs late husband was a member of the organ
 ization.
 Meriden.-John J. Ma1oney, son oi
 Matthew Maloney of Meriden, was given an Easter present of S50,000 by
 Percy G. Williams of New York, who
 had just completed the sale of his the l aters in Brooklyn and Manhattan. ME 8Ialoney had been manager for the l Williams theaters for 15 years.
 Bridgeport beautiful brass cross
 was carried by the choir at Christ church Easter Sunday for the first
 time It was the gift of Mrs. Frank Lyon and Miss Susan M. Leverich. 4
 handsome prayerbook was presented
 the rector by the Young Peoples guild
 The Easter offering amounted to over
 $1, 400.
 Cheshire.-AIr. Garvin, superintend-
 ent of the new Connecticut State Re-
 formatory. reports that it will be i'm
 possible to have the institution ready for opening by June 1, as the contract | called for. It will probably be ready
 for occupancy by September 1. Int ! delay is due partly to additiona
 changes.
 iartford.-Thirteen young womeT l took the final vows of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy at St. Joseph's con vent Tuesday morning. The ceremo- nies took place in the chapel of thu convent at 9.30 o'clock and were pre- ceded by an address by Bishop John J Milan. The vows were taken during the mass at which Bishop Milan wa } assisted by Rev. John c. Murray ant 7 Rev. William Flynn.
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