Connecticut western news., 1916-10-12

church at South Farms, is to leave to take charge of d church in New York city.
 Dewitt Clinton Comstock, well known hotel clerk and for thirty years d resident of South Norwalk, commit ted suicide by gas poisoning in bis room in Norwalk.
 Dennis Kelly of Bridgeport, sealer of weights and measures, asked that he be given an assistant to help in seeing that merchants and others give honest weight and measure.
 Internal Revenue Collector James '. Walsh estimates that the total amount that will be collected from the levy of the tax on intuition workers in the state will be $2,OOO,000.
 William J. Donahue, yard brakeman for the New Haven road at Putnam. was getting on the front step of the switch engine when he lost his footing His right leg was severed.
 John J. O'Donnell. inspector on the New Haven board of health, attended tkp national housing convention in Providence. New Haven was the only city in Connecticut represented.
 The sixteenth case of infantile pa ralysis was reported in New Britain when Frances, the thirteen-mOnths-old daughter of MT. and Mrs Frank An derson was stricken with the disease.
 BlandO VincenzO, forty-one years old, a laborer, was electrocuted at Burn side when he came in contact with a ing coal when he leaned against the pole.
 Bernard Heating, Bridgeport's city auditor, reported to the common coun- cil that the county tax, amounting to SIS, 135.O5, was due and that the levy was $135.O5 more than had been appro- priated
 At meeting of the senior class of Trinity the following officers were elected: President, Roger B. Ladd; vice president, James Madison Love Cooley; secretary treasurer, John Humphrey Pratt. Jr.
 Mrs. Dora Mason Wright, daughter of the late Governor Mason of Detroit. Mich, and widow of Colonel Edward H. Wright, who won fame in the war of the Rebellion, died at her home in Waterford.
 The New Haven railroad is prOvid- ing for new storage tracks that will track to prevent a recurrence of the congested conditions at Hartford .reight yards.
 Peter Ruskavich of New Britain con- plained to the police that six of his chickens were poisoned and that he suspects a neighbOr of the act. He was referred to Prosecuting Attorney George W. Klett.
 Because their salaries are lower than those paid unslzilled factory labor Con- necticut teachers are writing to the bu- reau of labor statistics at Hartford. asking for figures regarding th1 rate of pay for women in other occupations.
 Vera Wyckoff of Stamford has brought proceedings in the superior court at Bridgeport asking for an in- junction restraining Spofford Wyckoff, wealthy Stamford manufacturer, from prosecuting a divorce suit in Nevada
 As direct descendant of Gideon How land, who died many years ago, leav- ing q $3,000,0O0 trust estate of which the late Hetty Green had life use, Will liam Allen, a Myrtle Beach contra ctor has filed claim for a share of the es- tate.
 Joseph Corcoran of Battery E had just arrived in Branford to spend his furlough when a telegram reached him to go back and make preparations to go to the sorder. It is thought that the Branford battery will not get back before spring.
 Charles C. Linscott has been ap- pointed acting superintendent of the Cheshire reformatory to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation of Charles H. Johnson, who left to take up his duties as secretary of the New York state charities board.
 Those awarded Connecticut high school tuition scholarships on entering Yale college were Clarence J. Hylander of Waterbury, Llewellyn T. Spencer of Hartford, Paul E. Pihl of New Britain. John r. Bree of Bristol and Raymond F. Sullivan of New London.
 A committee consisting of William R, Dowding. chairman; James Taylor. Walter Kimbel, Paul R. and Henry Wobor Charles prp11o and ENraOIy Mabp