Connecticut western news., 1916-09-14

The revenue to the state received an 1 impetus from automobiles. The re- ! ceipts for the fiscal year of 1916 to the close of business recently amounted to $151,325, as against $536,970 for the en- tire twelve months of 1915.
 The veterans of the Seventh Con- necticut volunteers gathered in Mil ford for the annual meeting. About ei2hty-f1ve guests were present. and the town was we'll decorated and ev- cry courtesy shown to the guests.
 \ new sign has been placed on BeachSide avenue, on the Greens Farms side of Sasco creek, telling the public that they are entering or leav- ing Greens Farms, town of Westport. This has been the cause of much pleas ure.
 Preliminary plans of a parkway along the Trout brook valley in West Hart ford were reviewed by the town plan commission at its meeting. Although the commission looked favorably upon the plans. no action has as yet been taken.
 The figures for the New Haven roads earnings for the month of July, this year, show continued gains over last year. the increase for the month in net income being S64,6S5.53. while the gross shows something over $2OO.- GOO increase.
 The veterans of Redshaw post. G.. A. R., of Ansonia were favored with the finest kind of weather for the outing that was held at Momauguin. The af- fair was conducted by the Sons of Vet erans. who each year act as hosts to the old soldiers.
 A conference on evangelism for churches in the ten eastern states In the eastern division of the American Baptist Home Missionary society had a two days session in the Second Bap- tist church, Suffield, with about seven- ty churches in the conference repre- sented.
 Village delivery from the Glaston- bury postofflce for the territory adja- cent to the postoffice on Main street north and south on Pratt street and Naubuc avenue does not appear likely Co come soon. A petition for village delivery is. however, in circulation. It will probably be sent to Washington.
 According to Lieutenant Charles A. Wheeler, in charge of traffic in Bridge port. that city is the seventh in line for the greatest vehicular traffic in the United States. He says that 13,057 motOrcars pass through the intersec- ton of Main street and Fairfield ave nue during eleven busy hours of the day.
 Bridgeport jitney and public hack IT en are intensely interested in moves made by the convention of the Con- necticut Federation of Labor to have laws passed which would rigidly regu- late their business They would make applicants for licenses prove they can drive safely and favor indemnity bonds.
 While driving his heavy roadster Bar tholomew Carini of Glastonbury, a prominent fruit grower, went over the bridge wall in East Hartford, and his machine turned turtle fifteen feet be- low. Witnesses who ran to his relief expected to find him dead, but instead 1irnrV and without a scratch.
 Julius C. Stremlau of Meriden was reelected president of the Connecticut Federation of Labor at the closing ses- sion of the annual convention i'll Hart ford. Other officers elected: Vice pres idents, George Mordecai of New Ha- ven, Frederick L. Neebe of Meriden, William Fitzgerald of Norwich M. !. Kervin of New Britain and P. F. O'Meara of New Haven; secretary treasurer, R. r. Cunningham of Dan bury; state organizer. Ira Orburn Of New Haven. DanDury WAS chosen as the next convention place.
 lue lull IOA Sldt'A ii'S up personal tax bills in New Haven has been inaugurated by City Attorney Wallace S. Moyle. He ordered Clerk Dennis Hines to distribute among thr ratrOlmen a batch of 300 warrants. to be served upon delinquents. Some Of the tax bills sent represent unpaid bills for the past ten years. MT. Moyle says that with hundreds of local citizens returning from their summer vacations he believes 1t the oppOrtune time to serve the warrants. There are still several thousand delinquents to be cleaned up before the city's books are straight.
 4 sensation was sprung in police and hospital circles of New Haven when Detectives Sergeants Futile and Me Avoy arrested Theodore Johnson. aged twenty-one, an orderly at the New Ha- ven hospital, on the charge of stealing a watch from a dying patient at the It