Connecticut western news., 1916-10-26

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 During the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 Connecticut received $2, ,454, ,S23. .29 from insurance companies.
 The voters of South Meriden have appropriated $1,5OO so that the volun- teer fire department can have a new home
 Edward Geery, sergeant in the Mid dletown militia, who got back from Nogales recently, has returned to Southington.
 Isaac W. Brooks, seventy weight. pio- neer banker of Torri4gton, died of the infirmities of old age. He was na- tive of Goshen.
 The fiftieth anniversary of the we'd ding of MT. and Mrs. Albert F. Sher- wood of Waterbury was quietly ob- served recently.
 Friends honored George l.. Goodsell, assistant postmaster at Bristol, on his twenty-fifth year of continued service in the postoffice.
 Frederick Lent, Ph. D., of New Ha- ven was elected president at business session of the Baptist state convention in New London.
 Joseph Morelli, Southington real es- tate dealer, has been removed to the New Haven hospital, where he will undergo an operation.
 Mrs. Anna NJ. Holden of Thorndyke Mass, died at St. Francis hospital Hartford, from a fractured skull re ceived in thirty foot fall.
 The annual convention of the Con- necticut Christian Endeavor union is to be held at the First Congregational church in Meriden Oct. 27, 2S and %.
 Terence Riley, an employee of the Hartford Electric Light company, who fell from a telephone pole, died of his injuries in St. Francis hospital, Hart ford.
 New Haven, Hartford, Norwalk and Norwich will entertain the Connecti- cut school teachers at their seventieth annual meeting which will be held soon.
 At the annual session of the patri- archal branch of the Independent Or der of Odd Fellows of Connecticut a large gain in membership was re ported.
 An unidentified man, apparently about fifty years old, was struck and killed on the New Haven railroad about half a mile east of the Milford station.
 At the annual meeting of the board of directors of the Young Women's Christian association of Hartford Miss Alice Wilder Smith was reelected president.
 Over 15O visitors arrived in Bridge port to attend the sixteenth annual convention of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, which was held in Lyric hall.
 At the October meeting of the Yale corporation the gift of $125,000 was an. nounced from Robert w. Kelley of the class of 1874 of New York city to the alumni fund.
 Elliot H. Porter, prominent busi- ness man and member of New Brit aims common council from the Third ward, died suddenly at his home in New Britain.
 George s. McLaren has been appoint ed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John S. Fowler as as sistant clerk of the New Haven county superior court.
 When there was a gas explosion i'll Longley's restaurant in New Britain Michael Brophy, a pastry cook, was badly burned and two plate glass win dows were smashed.
 Mayor Wilson, Bridgeport, has chang ed the date for the special election on the proposed new charter embody ing commission form of government from Nov. 9 to Nov. %.
 There was a large attendance and the liveliest interest at the annual state convention of the grand temple of the Pythian Sisters of Connecticut in Electric hall, New Britain.
 The body of John +. Daly, aged thirty-two, of Waterbury, was found hanging in a grape arbor. Medical Examiner Crane gave 1t as his opinion that the man committed suicide.
 Archibald Bullock Roosevelt, third son of the ex-president, is at work in