Putnam patriot., 1916-08-11
Connecticut State Briefs

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 The Stamford semi professionals de feated Portland. ot the Eastern Leasae, in an exhibition game at Stamford. to 3.
 Yale scholarships 1t was announced. have just been awarded to 4l0 stu dents in the several schools of he university. They represent total value of S621S5.
 Members .of the Waterbury board of charities visited Hartford and were shown about Harttord's city hospital. The visitors were interested in getting an Idea of how Hartford handles it's aims houses.
 The magnitude ef the housing prob. lem in Bridgeport may be realized from the estimate given by City Plan ner John Nolen. after survey of the situation, that 5000 families in the city are in need of housing
 Several packages of magazines have been sent to members of Troop A. Firth Connecticut cavalry. at N0gales, by Milford friends. and more are to be sent. Packages should be sent in care of the Second Regiment arm0ry, New Haven. and will be forwarded.
 The new telephone directories went into effect and people looking ever the pages devoted to Milford are surprised at the number of telephones in the town. There are 1266 subscribers in Milford; 3S5 have private lines, the rest are on the l56 party lines.
 Angelo Mignome. r years old. of Torrington. was So severely iniuroi in an automobile accident near Liteh- field that he died a few hours after ward in the Winsted hospital. His skull was fractured. Miguome was one of a party Of 21 young men who left Torrington for Brewsters, N, Ya in three automobiles. On the way back, it is said, the three machines were rae. ing. The car that Mignome was in hit railing and overturned. Two others l received slight injuries.
 Gross revenue of the New Haven road for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, broke all records in the road s history, rising to more than St0.0000o0 above the previous year The surplus was 2.3 per cent. on capital of SI57- 11790o.
 Dental clinics iu the Bridgeport schools at which school children may have their teeth attended te free of cost, closed to reopen again at the opening of schools in September. The report for the year will show as near l Ia., d ,aSyi mately 21 LOGO children in the lower grades had their teeth cleaned; that 5150 toothbrushes were purchased and that approximatelJ 10900 cavities 1 were filed
 Superintendent Charles H. Johnson of the Cheshire reformatory, whose resignation is soon to take place, and l the Rev. Albert C. Dieffenbach, pas 1or Of the First Unitarian church, will be among the eghtyfour Connecticut men to report at the final camp al i Plattsburgh
 Ada Beach, nine years old daugh ter Of Mr. and Mrs. Frank j. Beach who died at Milford with infantilt | paraIysis, was buried in the family plot in the Milford cemetery Mucl sympathy is expressed for the be reaved family, in which another ehilC ls iii with the same disease.
 Many Milford people are already anticipating the business mems outins at the Rustic inn. and it is probabl, entire families will attend. The out ing includes a ride of 30 miles bl auto. a chicken dinner with all the ac | cessories. and games and sports Stores and business houses will elos' al noon Aug. Y.
 Jeremiah Tierney, formerly Deput. Judge Of the Crminal Borough Cour of Greenwich. and Judge of Probat' there for four years, died at his hom' in that place h his seventy-seconC year. He was a veteran of the ciVi war. Mir. Tierney was q natter bl trade and was the first National See 1 retary of the United Hatters Unioi of Nor1h America. Later he studied 1 law and was admitted to the bar Hi | son and three daughters survive him
 Hartford policemen have act!ee; ! the Bridgeport blueeoats of the re | ceipt Of invitations to attend the fielt | day exercises to be conducted a l Pleasure Beach on August 26 by tht police force for the Police Sick Beue it fund. The Hartford city copperi say they are coming down to hell k make the day a gala one. In Investigating the death of Frani Kriyda, a seveB-yearold boy who fel from q porch at Bridgeport. Deputy Coroner Henry (. Stevenson discov cred that the raHing of the porch il question has eight pickets missing 1T one zap. and through this hole the boy plunged to his death. The deputy coroner points out that this condition could not have been unknown to the owner of the property. yet for many months be made not the slightest ef fort 10 remedy it.
 Daniel Winfield. 24, of Bridgeport who was arraigned in the city court New Haven. charged with having run down Fred Vonaa. r, of 24 Edward street. with his motorcycle while the latter was proceeding i'll State streei on July 5. was fined $50 by Judge Booth for reckless driving.