Connecticut western news., 1917-03-01
~. "..2 } G3IIVVITES
 0F COunNN[CTICUT
n2~rc ITS of Inta est From
 Around the State.

Etens of All kinds Gathered From
 Earo.s Points In the State and So
 f2ed"ced In Size That They Will AP- peal to All Classes of Readers.
 Kenneth MacDougall, a Middletown boy, is attaining success as a play wright.
 A typewriting speed record of ninety three words a minute was established ty Miss Gertrude Wilke of Hartford.
 Frank L. Morse died in his home, lS Goodwin street, Hartford, following five, days illness with double pneumo- ma.
 Rev. William Adams Brown, Roose- welt professor of systematic theology at Union seminary, was chosen fel- low at Yale.
 Mrs. Olga Posniak, who keeps a rOoming house in Hartford, was fined $25 and costs on a charge of illegal liquor selling.
 At a meeting in New Haven the Yale corporation formally voted its support ] of President Wilson in the present in ternational situation. > Edward $. Young, leading figure ln ! Republican politics in Hartford for many years, died at his home after an illness of two weeks. The Bridgeport Baseball company of Bridgeport filed preliminary certifi- cate of dissolution in the office of the secretary of the state. Mrs. Sarah Lusk, who was 101 years of age on Nov. 3, 1916, died at her home in West Avon after a four days illness with pneumonia. Seven members of the Ninth com ' pany, coast artillery, national guard, of A Stamford, are acting as guards at the } railroad bridge in Mantle.
  seven years town clerk of Haddam up . to six years ago, when he retired, died 2 at the age of eighty-three. . Alfonso Nuzzi, fourteen-year-old so1 3 of Peter Nuzzi, died at the New Haven 2 hosital from the effects of being hit by ? a trolley car in New Haven. ''>@r' 2 Dr. David R. Lyman was unable to . attend a meeting of the State Tuber, . culosis Commission, of which he is a . member, on account of illness. . The temporary bridge across the Pc . quabuck river on Main street, Terry g vile, is being torn down. The new bridge has been opened for traffic.
 An explosion in a single story cement
 and felt roofed shack on North MaiI
 street, Waterbury, caused the death ol
 Joseph Treticlone, seven years old.
 John J. Chandler and Annie CrokeI
 have filed notices with City Clerk Pail
 man of New Haven that they will clain
 damages for falls on icy sidewalks. ! Miss Amelia Chapman of Rocky Hil
 was ninety years old recently. Mis-
 Chapman was born in Rocky Hill anC
 has lived there the greater part of hel K life.
 { Tramps are believed to have caused oI
 barn on the farm of Selectman James
 D. Gallagher on the outskirts O
 Bethel.
 . William Maynard, who conducted , S garage in New London, filed a petition
 in bankruptcy in the United State : district court showing liabilities O i $562.66.
 1 The annual luncheon of the Connect , cut State Federation of Women's Club l was held ia Waterbury, about 175 club 1 women from all parts of the state at 1 tending.
 1 Announcement is made that Mev 1 Haven railroad men known as ca nave tIdu IhC4 "dSGS ? $1.26 per week, making the scale g.; ! per week.
 An exhibit of work done in tn,
 schools of the state under state super
 vision has been placed in the soutl
 lobby of the capitol by the board O
 education.
 While cranking an automobile in tn,
 yards of the Hartford Coal compan!
 John Glynn, an employee, slipped anC
 fell, cutting his head against the iron
 of the car.
 Robert Perry, IT,, the five-year-olt
 son of Robert Perry of Montowese