Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21
NEWS B9EVITIES
 OF CONNECTICUT
Happenings of Interest From
 Around the State.

ArOunQ tne SIdte.
 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.
 The New Haven trolleymen have be- gun their winter runs.
 Hartford is getting over a Jack the Peeper" scare. Several suspects have been arrested.
 Two Bridgeport corporations have filed papers at the office of the secre- tary of state at Hartford.
 John H. Beecher, retired business man and philanthropist. dropped dead of heart failure in Bristol.
 Hundreds attended a novena in hon. or of Our Lady of La SaIette in the Catholic church at Parkvil!e.
 Patrick Maher. fOrty-nine years old. was found dead i'll shed in tIP rear of 347 Front street. Hartford.
 One hundred and three enlisted men and four officers made up the enroll ment of Troop B, Fifth militia cavalry ] An overloaded chimney fire destroy ed the home of Mrs Sarah Tatum in Westport. The damage is estimated at $1O,OOO.
 Richard Lambert of Bristol has be- gun his duties in the Forestville post , office as assistant to Postmaster James r. Holden.
 Joseph Skinner. Sr.. former council man from the Third ward. Hartford was found dead in bed. Death was due to heart failure ~~ ' Leopold Loslosky of Bridgeport re ported to the Bristol authorities thai he was held up and robbed on the sta , tion platform of $SO. From injuries received when he fel downstairs at his home John B. Pixley died in the Bridgeport hospital. H. ' was eighty-six years old. James J. Graham has been named a. assistant postmaster at Plainville t fill the vacancy caused by the resigna tiOn of Clinton J. Morse. There were many mourners at tn M funn nf Cho ,lo IT { Chapman, which was held from hi former home in Westbrook. Five hundred dentists are expecte
 to attend the convention of the Nortl
 eastern Dental association to be he l in Hartford Oct II, 12 and 13.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank S. Nichols c
 Naugatuck celebrated their gode
 wedding. MT. Nichols is past con
 mander of Isbell post, G. A. R. New Yoril's tr"lley strike decrease ? the number of jitneys in Bridgeport { < noticeable extent. Many went E New York to operate their cars f The Yale Talking Machine compan sT New Haven has filed a certificat of incorporation with the secretary state The capital stock is $5.OOO. Fl The United States civil service CO
 mission announces an examination f, { janitor on Sept. 2S to fill vacancy
 the postoffice building in Hartford -- Eight-year-old Julia Craine sustai . ed only slight injuries when she Ey; five stories from the back veranda E hsr home, 26 Park street, Hartford. F Frederic Bernard of Hartford h @ been named student adviser to f
 freshmen who are to enter the Mass K chusetts Institute of Technology u A fall.
 President Wilson received the fl news of the election in Maine at bedside of his sister Mrs. Anna M Howe, who was i'll in her home at Nc @ London.
 E Thirteen young women who have M ceived their training at the New Br E ain Training School For Nurses. W H receive their diplomas Monday evt ing, Oct. 9.
 M Cortland is. getting ready to eelebri RkS it's seventy-ffth anniversary as a to, . asl Sept. 30. A big street parade,
 ginning at 10 o'clock, will be one the features.
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 < Governor Marcus Holcomb and Lii E tenant Governor Wilson were que 4 at the Waterbury lodge of Elks wl the members gave a reception to T
 man $. Lewis.