The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-15
BUSINESS BRIEFS
 OF STATE INTEREST

aH<P H-A1.E IN ExltES0
 Reports from Norwich show that that fhe new industries committees or the
 Norwich Business Men asseSl esa1-, s..-s,.. .-., fz alive to the situation coTfrontlng them and at recent mee&ing letters ,--.-s.. 1-sssd from several concerns who Ws1zzid like to loczte in the tfose oIF New Engiand.'' The more favoranie . <-,ncerns wishing to locate here are =, 7.s i-rvsszs ieated. Progress has also 5,aer reported by the committee m
 westisat1ng the matter of consolidat- i-,< the Norwich and New lsonoon 5aiis Attorney A. J. Bailey has been
 retained as the assoc1a1ons s S1n v.,.s.is e1 Tor lssr,nt4aer year. The Norwich Bus
 s,,ss4 Mems association is receiving . r-<,rle<sts from all over the state Tor { s-,5,5esf of their charter and bylaws, which is indicative of the Irscz7easlnE interest shown in this orgaTat zat ion
 E,rrrax D. Lincoln has addressed f.,f. as,sociatiun- He is the New Ison5l
 l5.-, County Improvement league e5E
 -a-f and has told many interesting
 4.cfs At another meeting of this live
 association the vocational trFalIans school was thoroughly d1scllssed py
 -.-,r,,-,stsrnt sneakers
 Hlorvviet is unusually well fixed. for j 57, a<5aition to it's Business Mems asso- ciation it has wide awake board or
 trade w L. I5estar represerf fs the board tAes1ry a3e sz4 t1s1a sA7s'
 tee and he has been chosen president and placed sfn complete charge of the
 Al the regular monthly meeting of
 these two organizations a petition was
 received from Asnston asking aid In an attempt to get Amston and He f,orr, on the W91li7nantfc telephone ex-
 change May 19 has been voted as
 fhe date for the annual Ladies night
 celebration At this last monthly meeting Mayor Daniel Dunn gave rnod talk on the subject of efudnat- inc telephoae poles from the city
 <treets He said he thought the com z,zr.x should be forced by law to use sr1dergro1nd conduits. He thinks that If the two associations should start an agitation thas could be accom- plsshed-
 lAlttro,ses, much has been said on the. 5 sszbject there has not yet been any action taken in the matter of chang Ing the location Of the, Sheafon4 -B'1s- sr,ems AEnuss assoc1ation's rooms. roe.zmittee of eleven is to take the matter up for consideration and sew .ezal likely sites are in view A change Is also likely to be made dn the by Jaws before long
 staznford's board of trade has come out ffat-6ooted and stated in no un-8 bcertafn terms that what the city needs is an eff7cient engineering department and that as far as keeping accurate krecords iE concerned the city is sadly dehcfent At a recent meeting many papers were read by members of the board giving excellent arguments for piacing one of the most important city departments of the city govern unent upon a proper basis
 At a meeting attended by repre- sentatfves of the Hat Manufacturers EUnion. the United Hatters of North America and other civic organizations &the Danbury Business Mems assocla- Hfion took a stand in sharp opposition' E to the contemplated change in the frfght train service between Danburyi kand New York, whereby the train E7aaTing the hat town at 8.30 o'clock end also at 2:14 a. may be discon-1 k4irued when the summer schedule De- kcomes effective on June T.
 Danbury,s associat ton is also plan ming for the celebration of the erec- f1on of the new electric. slogan sign *1or the city. The sign will be installed Ednside Of two weeks
 Over in Derby the Business Mems association is taking steps in accord anee with a request from the Shelton association. to see what can be done <tovzardz securing a new bridge be- <p<v---a these two places
 Presfdent R. J. Patrick has com nIeted his appointments for the year Eand has placed T. s. Alhs as chair man of the new industries commit =Ree On Memorial day the Memorial day committee win represent the as-
 socfation in the exercises of the city
 On Thursday evening Of last week the Horrington Business Mems asso-
 s.tatior,. in connection with the reg uzar meeting. held a dollar dinner at
 Masonic hall State Highway Com
 missioner c. J. Bennett was the guest
 Of honor and told what the state was
 willing to do in building cross roads President C. H- Dougai was toastnnas- Ger and among fhe other speakers
 were Vice President E P. Jones of
 H7inated. Of the State association, President J. B Adams of the Wfnsted sassoc1ation, and Judge Ryan cf Idtch- Hesd-
 Putnam stands in line to get two Enc new industries as the result of fh activities Of the rejuvenated Bus Anens Menss association. A deal or