Putnam patriot., 1916-09-08
VI CONNECTICUT.
.ha,,ln.li,i,iill,I,I ,IIII,Ii.Ii,tiluIniIIu


 Tenth Connecticut association vas
 he'd al Sayia Rock Thursday. Sept. [. E. .. Spencer was found dead .n bed 4t Glastonbury by .his son. Grover. Medical Examiner Or II. G. Richards pronounced the cause Of death as heart disease. Mr Spencer WAS 30
 years old. His home was iu Hlgga-
 aam He was employed by Rankin i X Evans 0u saw msli. Vita als 1 son and two other men. ht was living it. a small house on Hubbard street.
 As the mIil was not running Inc other
 men we're away an a job fer tae aaFs Mir. Spencer leaves a wife. two sons
 and a daughter in Higganum
 Announcement was made of the an. poIn5ment 0G Carl A. Reed. physical
 director in the Middletown schools,
 as physical director n town schools
 also Mr Reed Will devote three days q week to the town schools and two days to the city schools. The share oI the tewn tor the work will be S6a0 Tn former years a physical u rector has been engaged fer the town schools Tor the last six weeks 2. tae year. hut the plan Of having one tor the entire year will now he tried Amoug those who left Camp Won peset, Bantam Lake, with the lifting of the quarantine was Herbert Thomas. the If.yearold son of Mrs. X. C.
 Thomas of New York, in whose case l Theodore P Shonts, the traction mag
 nate. has interested himself.
 Fire was discovered in barn owned
 by Wesley Whiton of Willimantic and located in Mansfield, opposite the l Wnlimantie pumping station. The
 fire had started in small shed at taehed to the barn and in which there were about two tons of hay. The cause of the fire was unknown. su. perintendent George II. Allen of the Willimantie pumping stetion and other neighbors formed a bucket bri-
 gade and while they could not save
 the barn they saved the house nearby which caught fire twice.
 A shed. l5o feet long, owned by Griffin < Newberger was burned at
 East Granby. It was filled with a crop of second priming tobacco and
 the shed alone was valued at S1,oo0, with the value of the tobacco not
 made known All was covered by
 insurance The cause of the fire could
 not be determined.
 Boys and girls at Wilhmantie who have vacation certificates from the
 state board of education allowing them to work during the summer vaea-
 ton. will be allowed to continue at their work until September Is, now that the school committee of the town has decided not to reopen schools un- til September IS. This will give the boys and girls q chance to earn two
 weeks more pay.
 Joseph Lawrence, 16 years old of Sheldon street. was arrested al Colt
 Park. Hartford. for carrying con.
 eealed weapon by Sergeant ]. H. Weleh. The boy said that he had
 left reform school He said that he
 had had a quarrel with two older and bigger boys in the park and that they
 had threatened him with q severe beat.
 ing. so he went home and made a blackjack with which to defend him.
 self.
 Alfred Spencer, jr., president ef the Hartford-Aetna National Bank, is the
 Hartford sub-treasurer of the E. F. 1 B. permanent blind relief war fund
 being raised throughout this country, England and France to be used In RltuAad nrfftgh IFFpffFA and Belgian soldiers in trades not requiring sight so that they ca1 sup pert themselves and families.
 pr. Frank A. Ingram, deputy com
 missioner on domestic animals, an- nounced that the cattle owned by Max Case of Windsor avenue, Hartford, which have been quarantined, because of infections of anthrax in the herd about six weeks ago, were released from quarantine The cattle owned hy William Williams, who has an ad- joining farm, will also be released
 from quarantine. as they have been cured of the disease.
 Miss Ethel Ferguson. IT, daughter of Dr. J. s. Ferguson of New York, Is visiting MT. and Mrs. H. c. Fay at Sesta Lodge, Highland Lake. Miss Ferguson swam the length of Highland Lake in one hour and fifty five minutes, being accompanied by Miss Priscilla Fay in a rowboat. Appearing before the board of street commissioners, at Hartford to enter a protest against the laying of a sewer in what she thought was her lot. Mrs Garner Battaline Of Tower
 avenue was greatly surprised to learn that the property had been taken by the city department two years ago for a street. and that $350 was waiting for her in the city treasury.
 Benjamin Franklin Williams, Of Plainfield, eighty years old, for many years New London County Commls- sioner, one of the most prominent Republicans in Connecticut, and de- cendant of Benjamin Williams, who went to Plainheld in 1862. died while attending a religious convention at Northfield, Mass.
 The commission of Willis Hodge as postmaster in South Glastonbury to succeed Adelbert w. Crane, re signed, has reached him. MT. Hodge was appointed In July.
 The question of competent help IS still a troublesome one with tobacco growers at Suffield. Many of the men who are secured, are not familiar with work in tobacco. and most Of the transient help are not of the lingering variety. They are willing 10 work for s2.50 the first day, but want g the next. Children 10 and 12 years