Putnam patriot., 1916-04-28
CONNECTICUT
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Some farmers of Litchheld are dig

Some farmers of Litchheld are dig.
ging potatoes from their gardens.
The total receipts Of the Hartford
controllers Office for the year were
$3,569 ,606.90.
The freight embargo on New Brit
ain is expected to be lifted during
the week.
The Yale faculty gave a formal de-
eision that no undergraduate would
be allowed to play Sunday baseball
All OF the Il districts in Bridge.
port gave very substantial majorities
in favor of the 100000 issue OF
school bonds proposed.
Hartford has physical possessions
Of the total value of $131S1, 39130.
according to the annual report Of the
city controller. Charles II. Robins
The water in Snipsic lake is the
highest it has been for a number of
wears running over the dam by two
inches
Miss Harriet l. Eaton was reflect
ed president of the Hartford Union
of Kings Daughters and Sons at the
annual meeting.
From injuries suffered several days
before when struck by an automobile.
Ernest Litzi, married, % years old,
died at New Haven
The tobacco growers at Ellington
are busy preparing their tobacco beds
for the seed, and some have the seed
already in.
Just as soon as the new quarters
at New Haven can be made ready the
actual union of the First and Yale
National Banks will take place.
Mrs. Caroline NJ Seibold. who died
in West Haven recently, left in her
will $1,000 to the local Methodist
church.
Contractor O'Neil on the Park street
sewer. Hartford. is having trouble
in getting help needed. Laborers were
being paid from 1925 to So day.
A baseball team has been organ
lied in Rockville, for the season of
1916, and will be known as the All
Rockyilles
At present the volume of mail pass
ing through the New Haven postofice
in greater than at any time in its
history.
Every one of the proposed bond
issues. up for action by the citizens
Of Bridgeport on Saturday. was adopt
ed.
Hundreds of people dragged Still
River at Danbury for the body of
5-years-old John Michaels. who dis
appeared from his home. and was
'.st seen near the bank of the river
Girl emplo. res of the Winsted
Hosiery Company continue to cause
the officials of the plant some trouble.
though as yet it has not been found
necessary to suspend operations.
S. J. S. Rogers. of Winsted. is hav-
ing turnips for dinner dug from his
garden in Pleasant Valley. They were
in the garden all winter but were
uninjured by the frosts.
Miss Frances I. Martin, bookkeeper
of the Pelaghar Hardware Specially
Co., at New Haven, was held up by
AN unidentified man in front OF the
company's Offices The man escaped
with $1,000, the payroll,
A pail of horse radish shipped by
express from Winsted to New Hart
ford, distance of six miles, failed
to reach its destina ton. lnyestiga-
ton showed that the pail had jour
neyed all the way TO Hartford, ONO.
Manager Gene Mccain of the New
London Planters has strengthened
his pitching staff considerably with
the acquisition OF Freddie Rieger, the
former mainstay of the Senators and
also of New London.
Former Senator Horace r. Butler,
for years a leading contractor in New
Haven, died at his home, there at
the age OF II years and three days.
Mr.. Butler was a native of Cromwell,
being born on April II, 1S45.
Bridgeports good housing EXPOSE
ton closed with the announcement by
Thomas Martin, promoter OF the pro
ject, that it would be an annual event
there. The affair was a complete sue
cess from the beginning.
The adjutant generals office an
nounees the honorable discharge from
the Connecticut National Guard OF
Second Lieutenant Arthur D. Keys
worth, Sixth company, Connecticut