Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
kEWS BREv|T|ES
 OF CONNECTICUT

LII UUlinlUIl Happenings of Interest From
 Around the State. Events of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points In the State and So Reduced In Size That They Will Ap- peal to All Classes of Readers.
 An estate valued at $3.1S9965 was k&s by the late Thomas l.. Shevlin, for Eev Yale football player.
 Chicken pOx is prevalent throughout ysgmington, and number of cases are 1eTerted by the health officer.
 TRe large barn of L. E. Dimmock in West Stafford was destroyed by fire mn1 considerable live stock lost. A resolution asking that an assistant ha8Ith officer be appointed at salary ad H,O0O was introduced in the Bridge Rwe council
 Tyrc typhoid fever epidemic in Plain vzsse seems to have been checked. No Hrw cases have been reported to the ke&ath officer.
 Tne building operations of the past Jesr in Bristol will total one of the Largest years in the history of the city. G m expected
 Following a quarrel with young .ms, Miss Winifred Jude, a pretty Wexfden girl, attempted to end her life h Waterbury. Kose Bendit Berrill of Westport made nUgfication to Naturalization Clerk NRfnael J. Flanagan for a passport to .S~ssaica and Cuba.
 Returns of the school enumeration in bridgeport shows 53,357 children of ssssca age there, an increase of nearly 4sS@ over a year ago. Sergeant M. NJ. Shores, in charge of thr Hartford United States army re- crusting station, said recruiting had 1n- gsr@sed within the last month.
 Two automobiles stolen in Norwalls as@ being sought in Bridgeport. Search b slso being made for a coat stolen zkvsn an automobile in Stamford.
 1vr,; ;oI1 x>P H~mfret sent in his resignation to Gov enradg Holcomb as a member of the Hmte Fish and Game Commission.
 Kxank Calvin, who was injured in tnae automobile races at Uniontown. Na- died of his injuries. He was born E New Milford thirty-five years ago. Bridgeport firemen, who are trying fsw the two platoon system, are inter- nxsrt in attempts of firemen of New Ycrx city to have the system estab- NaArF
 Announcement was made in Meriden sf the resignation of Rev. pr. F. D. WEEker, pastor of the First Methodist SRfSeOpal church. III health is given nz fhe reason.
 kajor John J. McMahon of the First 5~kt&liOn, First Connecticut infantry. Msrf his resignation to Adjutant Gen ermH George M. Cole of the Connecticut nafannal guard.
 1n6 to1n 1 wg S4,5OO,OOO was recommended by N@yor Clifford E. Wilson of Bridge RuFa in his annual message to the rseRmon council
 Frank N. Davis was held in the Hart fDris police court under $1.OOO bond Ew further examination on the charge VI granddaughter in connection with an xxasmobile accident.
 s There fi5 some talk of securing char kw amendment in New Britain to hrHnr about the creation. of city build ne commission which will be in fact a RmkkJing. commission.
 xome other concerns in Bridgeport xrvr expected to follow shortly the eX ~- ,srxgte of the Bridgeport Malleablt M~xr works in establishing bonus sys ax~n throughout it's plant.
 Rk business meeting of the officer xmE teachers of the Congregations R~rsiay school of Granby arrange EErSs, were made to have Christina haer Sunday evening, Dec. A.
 Exaac Monoi, a painter, forty year ses was the ma who committed sui rSsr in New Haven by poison. Identt Ernsion was made by relatives, wh zuaa he had been in ill health
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