Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

.dl0 El.ltA -t- EAltt't thsN LII I laAliN w. tIurd. f!el with .!ud-p Paul l.. Mil { Ter of the bridg"."r, probate court. l deceased left $13G.422. There was decrease of fourteen | deaths in Bridgepor: during August over the preceding month. accOrdiI to the vital statistics report filed in tho town clerks office. Henry ChenchOZ was accepted Tor the navy in the recruiting station in the pOstoffice building at Eartf"rd. He will go to state naval headquarters New Haven for enlistment Members of the heath charities building committees of Rrid@er Ht la|t to visit several of the large ciTies of the country to inspect public clinic buildings and isolation hospitals.
 The Rev. William s. Voorhies. for the past seven years pastor of the First Presbyterian church at ThompsOnville, announced his resignation to take ef- feet on the last Sunday ill October.
 The Rev. r. ]. Furst. for the past two years pastor of St. Matthew's German Lutheran church of Collins vile. has accepted a call to the pas torate of a church in Johnstown. Pa.
 Ernest NJ Smith of the East Hart ford dahlia gardens has obtained sev- en first awards and one second award on gladiolas and one first on shower and fancy dahlias at the Berlin fair.
 The 4S5 applicants placed in August marks the biggest August business in the history of the Hartford state em- ployment office, according to the report of Edward r. Clarke, superintendent.
 Herman Escholz, former councilman from the Eighth ward of Hartford. left that city to take up his residence in Boston, where he will act as treasurer for the New England Bakeries con- pany.
 The New Haven road is planning for dll S"llCh DldHl dl 'LCGh- wich. Plans for the improvement call for a tower to house thirty-two cleo trio machines and sixteen mechanical machines.
 A masked burglar. carrying a re- volver. entered the residence of Mrs. Emma P. Nuhn. on the Waterville | rnol Noforh11ry- taking diamond rings and other arti- cles of jewelry.
 pr. J. H. Nolan and Dr. W. ]. Nolan of Hartford are gaining attention by their work in fighting the infantile paralysis epidemic in New York. Both made a special study of the disease at Bellevue hospital.
 Word was received at the headquLr ters of the Prohibition state central comm ~ee in Hartford that Frank ] Hanly. the party's presidential can II date, will swing through Connecticu on Saturday. Oct. 2S.'
 The employees of the Hartford Elsc tric Light company presented gC;C watch and chain to Patrick Driscoll who risked his life to rescue John Dee cowOrker on an electric light DO . Drtscoll was badly burned.
 Edith Hoffman, fve-year-old grand child of Charles H. Morris. former har
 bor master of Bridgeport. was badl.
 torn on the right leg when q cat. sud
 denly gone mad, leaped at the girl an
 secured a fast hold on her leg. Miss Harriet Maria Penny. at on
 time prominent in state temperanc
 work. died at her home in Greenwich Tn the early seventies she was a teacf CT in schools in New York and late
 conducted a private school in Greer
 wich
 Willis H. Wilcox. president of tn
 Greenwich Savings bank. died in hi 70 automobile while passing thrCuA
 North Haven on his way from Li
 home in Greenwich to the White.moul :. taiRs. He was about seventy year a old.
 :. Albert Hastings Pitkin. for thirt
 years cashier of the Hartford agenC
 of the Connecticut Mutual Life Il f surance company. resigned his pos :, tion to accept disappointment as gel , eral curator of the Wadsworth ath '. neum.
 Dr. c. H. Lavinder. Dr. Wade
 Frost and Dr. A. w. Freeman, eXper F in the federal governments researC !, service, lectured on the various phas, of infantile paralysis at special mec
 ing of the physicians of iHartfol
 county.
 n R. E. Chambers, assistant cashier . the New Haven bank, left for the co :, ventiof of the American Institute
 Banking in Cincinnati. From Cinci
 natl he will go to Kansas City to re , resent the New Haven bank at t