Putnam patriot., 1916-08-11
CONNECTICUT
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Twenty a1H fEemea at tHe C0Hnectt clt Trolley CO power bglse at New Haven. gent aa strike
 Democrat ta Fairfield county arg inter sf6a a fae candidacy of Eaztaf O. Peck fer tAe c0usres onal nom.na> ri5H.
 F#eures sAsW the average size Of a FaEaa.d uty family s -5ar and oHehalf persons. The average mum. Der 0t people per dwelling in that county a six
 John A Leonard fire commissioner of Bridgeport ts said to ba in line for the Republican senatorial nomination in Che Tweniy-frst district represent. ei b the last Senate by Frederic 4. Bartlett.
 \ new hlgh record for bank clear. ings during June Is noted In the gen eral IeUa on trade conditions and business forecast issued for the month tonal Bank Of Bridgeport
 The Republican state convention VII meet in New Haven. Wednesday and Thursday. September and ', at the shubert Theatre to nominate the partys state ticket for he fall election.
 Alarm has seized all Eastern Con necticut because of the sudden ap- pearance of infantHe paralysis in a dozen towns Iu New London county where large colonies of children from New York City are summering.
 The recent epidemic of septic sore throat in Bridgeport - which was checked by the single act of ordering a milk supply 10 be pasteurized-cost the city of Bridgeport at least s100.- GOO according To the estimates of Dr. Abraham s5phian
 Deserted by it's mother. not cared for by Is father, a month old baby was found under the bed in the home Of its parents. Mr and Mrs Benjamin Wheeler m Bridgeport The child is now iu st Vtucants hospital Wheel cr. wh5 W5s found lying on the floor in his home, is under arrest on the charge of drunkenness. The mother Is sought by thc police.
 Mystery surrounds the death of Jo- seph BalhulH 2o years old who boarded at 46s Broad street Bridge port Whether he died Of natural causes or was killed by poison powder placed in liquid he swallowed is being investigated by police detee- tiYes woman who posed as the mans wife disappeared shortly after the man died in bed.
 The attempt of three men te swim the Connecticut river at Hartford re- suited in a double drowning and q mar row escape from q like fate by the third man. John Sopaluck. aged 37, and Peter Schultz. 20 were seized win cramps in midstream and sank. Martin Minuk grasped a floating tim Der and managed to hang on to 1t until help arrived.
 Many residents in New London and Windham counties are so terror stricken at the prevalence of inlantile paralysis and it's rapid spread that they are sending their children to Massachusetts and other New Eng land states te the north.
 Lack Of agricultural concentration and inadequate transportation facili- ties are criticized by Benjamin NJ. Ralston. farm bureau expert in a preliminary report issued by him on the work he did in Fairfield county recently when employed for that pur- pose by the chambers of commerce of Bridgeport. Norwalk, Stamford and Danbury.
 Mrs. Martha Holly Reed, widow of Jesse X. Reed, is dead at her home in Stamford. in her eventy-seventh year. Her ancestors were among the founders of Stamford. Two sons. Mir. WAllam C. Reed. of St Louis, and Mr. Frederick H. Reed, of New York, survive
 pr. Black. Health Commissioner. says thousands Of New York children eluaed quarantine regulations hy com ing into New London county from re mote points along the Connecticut River Many others crossed the State line from Rhode Island at un. fraaueuted points.
 If was learned here that Governor Marcus II. Holcomb is planning to call a special session of the general assembly to take such action as may he deemed necessary to ailew the Connecticut guardsmeu. now on the Mexican border. to vote at the forth coming presidential election
 County and town health officers are taking united action in an effort to Isolate all New York children Thirty health districts have established ahso- lute quarantine against those already in the stae and all others who seek to enter
 A man eating shark measuring ahont 200 pounds was caught In tran set by Capt Lemuel Champion of Ola Sayhrook or Griswold near Lyme. The creature had two double sets of grinders
 Inaeemeut for SS.o9l.S3 In favor of the New Haven read and against the town of Orange was awarded ny raaee Futile in the superior court
 The court finds that this is the towns share of the expense of erect ing the railroad bridge on Campbell avenue
 In the common pleas court of New Haven before Judge Wolfe the case of Cantain Frank s Cornwen against Mrs. Walter Bradley was heard It was for an injunction restraining her frem maintaining in Weodmont a nui-