Putnam patriot., 1916-09-15
Connecticut State Briefs

[ Ebsnezer J. Hill Of NOrwalk rppra sentative from the Fourth Connectiogt district, was renominated by acclama. ! ten by the Republican convention at l Bridgeport.
 A milestone In the career of the 1 new East Hartford Trust Company | was reached last week when the total deposits aggregated the handsome l amount Of SI00.000.
 i large barn of c. N. Le Geyt on Washington Hill. Barkhamsted. was struck by lightning during the night | and with contents burned. Loss $2.000; insured for $500. The Connecticut Funeral Directors association held it's twenty-eighth an 1 nual meeting at the rooms of the | Hartford Burial Case company Captain David T. Lyon, longest | service silver worker "a Meriden. Is beginning his S3rd year in form that | indicates he may live to be a cen. tenarian.
 On account of the prevalence of in- ! fantile paralysis, Wesleyan University l will not open until September 2S a week later than usual, it was an. nounced at Middletown.
 The Ancient Order of Hibernians of New Haven county will hold their hi- | ennial convention in Waterbury, on Thursday. Sept 2S, that date having been chosen by the executive board l Scout officials throughout Connec. ticut are preparing for the annual state convention of Boy Scouts which will occur at Hanover park, Meriden. l Saturday, September 30.
 The fremen of Bridgeport are go- ing to have a chance to show the people of the city what they can do in fighting flames and rescuing hu- man beings from burning building somewhere about the middle of Oe- tober.
 Sunday marked the thirtieth ami. versary of the eonseeration of St. Johns Catholic Church, Middletown. the solemn event taking place tn Sep. 1 tember 1SS5 At that time Rev Bernard o'Reilly Sheridan was the pastor.
 Mary Ghesnai, born at Waterbury, win a perfectly normal body, but two cbins. two noses, two sets of eyes. and two mouths died one hour alter birth Before death, however, the In. fant was christened. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chesnai. The child had one neck the fusion be- ginning above that part of the body.
 Meriden's second oldest woman, | Mrs. Sarah E. Rice, who this week celebrated her 93rd birthday, does all her own housework, raises beautiful | flowers and also variety of vege. tables in her back yard, reads quite 1 extensively, uses the telephone and does some other things that mark her | as a somewhat remarkable nonogenar- ian.
 John F. Cohn, former president of the Queens County Mortgage Company 5f Brooklyn. died at his summer home in New Canaan, of heart disease. MT. l Cohn was born in New London April g. 1870. and had been in business in Fulton Market for thirty years. He was president of John Feeney Inc. | wholesale fish dealers.
 Joseph Rorner, of East Norwalk, was a surprised man when he re- ceiYed work from ". J. O'Connor, gen eraI storekeeper of the Interberough, to call at the eompany's Lost and Found Department in New York, and get S1.250 in bills which he lost in Fulton street elevated train in Brook lyn
 The bluefsh haven't been biting, and Lonnie Burns, veteran fisher man, politician and selectman of Mil ford, could catch only sharks in bis net. Edward Parmelee solved the puzzle when he went to the break waters to fish He caught one small | fish; then he saw a rat come out, swim into the channel and return with fish in his mouth Fishermen are now batting their hooks for rats
 instead of harbor blues.
 For the first time in the history l of Connecticut traction company IS charging six cents fares. The Dan bury X Bridgeport Trolley Co. an nounced that the fare from Bridge port to Danbury will be sixteen cents i and that the fare from Bridgeport to BeL0dUg 0udpSl Will De SlA SOhtS' " 1 extra fare is not popular. | Nelson Richmond, 13 years old, nephew of Dr. E. H. Richmond of | Windsor Locks, died of infantile | paralysis. He came from Brooklyn, | N. T., on July '.
 The annual outing of foremen, as- sistant foremen and inspectors Of the | Hartford Rubber Works Company was | held at Harry Harris's Grove at WetA- ersfeld and was attended by about l4V' 1 who left the factory at noon and went | to Wethersfield by automobile.
 The tobacco season this year IS | fully twelve days behind year ago and from the beginning of the harvest it has been realized that 1t would | be necessary to make every minute | count, or in the natural course or events frost would come and damage the crop many thousand dollars.
 Less than one-guarter of the 4,ooV acres of tobacco raised in Sutf1eld Is | still 10 be harvested. but it IS eA' 1 peeted that by the end of the weeA | almost all the rest of the crop will pc under cover if pleasant weather con tinues
 The Connecticut tobacco crop IS 1 banner crop, the best in years, II spite of the diseouraging outlook al 1 the first of the season. the lateness | +N