Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1916-12-22
CONNECTICUT
STATE BRIEFS

0ltlou OF ttS jail.
William Snyder OF The Bronx, was
Killed by freight train at Bridge
port
Michael Smith, an ironworker,
Beacon Falls, was struck by a train
and killed.
Twenty-Five out-oftown correspond
ents of the Hartford Times" held
their annual reunion at Harry Bonds
restaurant
Charles ]. York. factory superin-
tend ent OF the New England Bin Com
pany, died at his home in Winsted,
in his seventv-sixth year.
Tobacco buyers are becoming nu-
merous at East Windsor and many
sales are being reported at prices
ranging from la cents to 80 cents a
pound.
The Two Day Farm Extension
School, held at Simsbury in the Ca
sino. was instructive and interesting
and the subjects presented by the
lecturers and demonstrators were
those best calculated TO appeal to a
farming community.
An entertainment consisting of
moving pictures was given for the
employees at the Keiser and Boas-
berg tobacco plantation at East
| Windsor. which was attended by all
| of the 200 men and women that they
! employ.
Frank Miskill and Charles Ward
have opened their warehouses at
Broad Brook This will make total
of seven warehouses in operation
there and the question of help is
beginning to be a problem.
The development in the last few
| weeks of six cases of diphtheria in
| TIE lower grades of the Hopmeadow
| Grammar School, has caused the
| health officer of Simbury to make
| thorough examination of the threats
| of all the children. Cultures of sew
! eral of the children's throats have
been sent away.
| Miss Palermo Valentine Ann Engle,
| seventeen years old, daughter OF Mr..
4 HHu EH6ACt
residents of Sound Beach, died at
| Dr. Herbert w. Wiley's Sanitarium,
| Greenwich, of cerebral meningitis,
! She was taken Ill about week ago
and when her condition became seri-
| Gus New York specialists were called
into consultation.
When rabbit shooting. Arthur Rich
berg and Ray Bartles. of Wmsted,
were astounded by the actions of their
dog, which kept circling a hemleck
tree and looking upward The sports
men upon investigation discovered a
jack rabbit sitting In a crotch OF
the tree about six feet from the
ground.
Coated with ice and with her star
board ladder missing and po- adder
broken, the U. S. S. Amphitrite ar
rived in port at Bridgeport from New
Haven. The Monitor reports an un,
usually rough trip on Long Island
Sound. the waves at times breaking
over the forward turret.
Arrangements just completed made
it possible for the officials to announce
that the annual show of the Hartford
Automobile Dealers Association will
be held at the State Armory from
February 1e to February II. Ii will
be given under the auspices of the
First Regiment, c. N. G.
The state prohibition executive
committee met in the conference
room of the Y. NJ. c. A, Hartford
Recommendation were formulated
and submitted to the prohibition com.
| mittee with which it had joint con
ference. DR.. G. Whitefield Simonson
| of Seymour spoke on Some Ideas
| Born of 1000 Miles of Campaigning
| in Connecticut" in connection with his
recent run for prohibition governor
of Connecticut.
| Congressman-elect Augustine Lon
ergan presented to the Watkinson
| Library. Hartford, a copy of the first
| edition of Millions Paradise Lost,
printed in 1867 and once owned by
! John Eliot, the famous Indian teach
er. who died at Roxbury. Mass, May
| 20. 1890 The volume was left &c
| Mr.. Lonergan by the late Lewis Eliot
| Stanton.
| So encouraged is the Salvation
| Army and the citizens committee
! which is working in Hartford anc
| nearby towns by the result OF the
| first week of canvassing for the new
building to be erected on Trumoul
street that ii has been decided tf
| commence work on the structure aftei
| the Christmas holidays and also x
| keen at work canvassing for another
week. Nearly $4,000 has been raised
Assistant Secretary Edwin 5. Al
| len, of the Aetna Fire, was married
/ TO Miss Charlotte b. B. Clark, of th'
Aetna. Only immediate relatives
were present at the ceremony, which
was performed in the Chapel o
Trinity Church by the pastor. Rev
DR.. Ernest Def Mel. After shor
wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Allen vii
he at home at 2s Kenyon street, Hart
ford.
Fire damaged the Erskine-Danfortf
Corporation's furniture factory a
Stamford. at a loss Of $4,000.
The Hartford employees OF ths
| Southern New England Telephone
Company, numbering about 600 mer
, and women. viii receive their share
OF the bonuses on salaries announc
ed BY the American Telegraph and
| Telephone Company.
Three men entered the candy store
OF Joseph Hahlebean at Bridgeport
terrorized his daughter, Mary whs
...-~x as clark md eecapQd with