Connecticut western news., 1916-10-26

The Meriden park commissioners have agreed finally with the civic com 1 mittee of the hamber of commerce that Meridcn should have adult recrea- tion centers like Hartford and other cities.
 Frederick c. Alldis. seventy-two for merly postmaster of Torrington and a prominent member of the state legis- lature in the session of 1911, died in Newark, N. J., after an illness of about year.
 Governor Holcomb appointed Wfl. liam Brosmith of Hartford a member of the state civil service commission. to succeed GraLam K. Thompson of New Haven, whose term expired Sept. 1.
 The Auction SHles company, incor- porated, of Bridgeport, with a capital of $20,0OO, and the Hadley Bowditch company of New Haven have filed in- corporations with the secretary of state.
 Governor Holcomb has issued a writ holding of a special election for judge of probate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge. William J. Beecher.
 Lester T. Wilcox, Meriden, is one of six honor men of the Pennsylvania Military college of Chester reported to Governor Brumbaugh for highest standing in scholarship, department and military.
 Max Hurshon, Jacob Rotblatt and his son, Isaac Rotblatt, of Willimantic received severe burns when they tried to throw a pan of gasoline which caught fire l. . their tailor shop out of the window.
 Serene T. Jacob, Westport, was one of the young American volunteers for field hospital work in France with the American volunteer motor ambulance corps who sailed for Bordeaux on the steamer Espagne.
 Charged with having employed two girls under fourteen years of age, Fe- lix c. Pollock, manager of the factory of the Danbury Manufacturing com pany, was summoned to appear in the Danbury city court.
 With the opening of the old East Meriden station in new quarters Meri- den has two regular postoffices. The branch one Is fitted out with all mod ern equipment and has a carrier sys- tenn just like the main office.
 The New Haven road, in accordance with an understanding with the public utilities commission, will lose no time equipping passenger cars with hooks over the seats, where passengers may hang their coats and clothing.
 Because he has reached the age of seventy the name of Judge Frank s. Fay of Meriden will not be presented for his reappointment by the Incoming legislature. With the exception of two years he has held the office since 1902.
 A rousing reception that will ever finger in the minds of thousand sol iiers was the welcome accorded the boys of the First infantry, Connecticut national guard, when they recently re- turned to Hartford from the Mexican border
 Dr. Thomas F. Kane of Hartford has been sued for S1e,000 damages by twelve-year-old Morgan Craven. who alleges that through pr. Kane's mis- treatment of q fracture of an elbow his right arm has become permanently crippled.
 James Reilly. Democratic candidate for congress in Meriden's Third dis trict, while entering Yale field. New Haven. to see the Yale-Lehigh game had a rib splintered when n crowd stormed the entrance and broke down the gates.
 Tom King, one of Meriden's best known men, who quit work as foundry foreman of the NJ. B. Schenck com pany and other factories last month after being in the factory about sixty years, died and was buried soon after his retirement.
 While clearing out the shruhbery around his home Alfred H. Recor of East Hartford felt a sharp pain in his shoulder when he gave a tremendous yank on a refractory piece of shrub bery. An examination disclosed bro ken collar bone.