Putnam patriot., 1916-05-05
CONNECTICUT
INSTRUMENTATION

iIiIiIiIiHIsIiiIIiIIIiuII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Connecticut ALLEY district con
vention of the Moulders' National In
ion viii be held at Bridgeport
The new mail drop boxes were set
up about Branford under the personal
supervision of Postmaster John p. Cal
lahan
Reports from various Connecticut
river towns show fairly good catches
OF shad. particularly II the lower
reaches Of the river.
Official denial was made of the re
port that General Manager C. L.
Bardo and Nice-President Whaiey of
The New Haven road. are to resign.
The general opinion among fisher
men seems to be that the season will
be fairly successful. The season clos
es June 10.
Wallace A. Smith rounded out TWEEN
ty-three years OF erviee as an EN-.
ploye of the government in the Bridge
port custom house.
The Rev. Scott Boyle Rathban, rec
tor emeritus of Trinity Church,
Woodbridge. y. j.. died in a sanitarium
at Stamford, in his sixty-third year
Irving P Griswold. investment
broker with offices at Winsted, COM
mitted suicide with gas at his home
there.
Eira dae+ravad tho Now Have, eoo
tory of the Rattan Manufacturing Co.
makers of rattan goods, causing $780,
900 damage
The city of Hartford built a large
swimming pool in the basement of
their last public school building. This
pool is most popular place in the
building.
Adjt. Gen. Cole, of New Haven. fixed
the time for the summer manoeuvers
of the First and Second infantry, c.
y. G., as from July 10 to Is. but the
place has not yet been de- 'ded on.
The spring meeting and banquet
of the Daily Newspaper Publishers
Association of Connecticut. which was
to have been held at Waterbury May
?, has been postponed indefinitely
Judge James Nichols. formerly head
of the National Fire Insurance Com
pany. died at his home in Hartford
of heart disease He was eighty-six
years old.
Preparations are under way for the
annual Y NJ c. A summer camp
known as Camp Pootatuck." This
year the camp will be equipped with
a comm9dious wooden dining hall
Stanley B. Bosworth, treasurer of
the Grand Lodge Of Masons of Con
nectieut and a leading pottery mer-
chant Of Hartford for years, died fror&
acute Indigestion. He was 70 years
Old.
The Bridgeport club of the Eastern
League, secured Neal Ball of the
Toronto International League club, as
manager and second baseman Ball
was formerly with the Cleveland
Americans and the Boston Americans.
The American Thread Company,
Willimantic, announced an increase of
10 per cent in the wages of the 200
workers in the local plant. An in
crease of per cent was granted last
January.
Fairgrounds for school children
have been opened in So school yards
of New Haven, each playground to
be in charge of two seniors of the
New Haven Normal School of Gym
nastics.
Six hundred school boys of New
Haven helped in the work of city
cleanup, visiting back yards, dumps
and other unslightly and dirty places
in the city for the purpose of inspect
ing and aiding in cleaning the city.
The law on Connecticut river shad
went off at midnight, May l. AT 12:11
in the morning scores of fishermen
between Windsor and Saybrook Point
were putting their nets into the water
for the first drift" of the season.
Notices posted in Witlimantic at the
mills of the Quidnick- Windham Manu-
facing company, makers of cotton
goods, announced ten per cent in
crease in wages to its 400 employees,
effective at once.
The Bridgeport Electrical Workers
union declared a strike for an increase
in wages from 1925 to 81 a day the
closed shop and a Al hour week.
About 100 electrical workers are af-
fected.
The fisheries commission have
place on the Pennington river near
windsor to propagate shad, but on &C
count of nets along the river below
no shad are ever able to get up that
far.