Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1917-08-17
CONNECTICUT
STATE BRIEFS

PARTY a strong factor In the ranks OF
the Roosevelt workers and member
of the rogressiYe State Central Com
mittPee, is the first citizen OF Water
bury to announce himself a candidate
for the mayorality on the Republican
ticket this fall.
The price OF milk in Waterbury has
taken a jump OF three cents a quart
and consumers will have to pay fifteen
cents a quart for their mix. This Is
the result OF the milk dealers having
10 pay the farmers nine cents quart
for their milk whereas they have been
paying six and three quarters cents
for some.
Chief Of Police Green OF Darien,
realizing the need for an eating place
suitable to the character of Darien,
has set up a lunch wagon in the cen
ter where all the hungry may be
fed
The appeal to the supreme court. for
new trial for Mrs. Gflligan is being
prepared daily by Benedict M. Hold
en-, chief counsel for the condemned
former Windsor woman who Is now
in Wethersfeld prison.
This season has been a hard one
for the Connecticut farmers and all
those who have made an effort 10
raise something In the line OF garden
products. There have been more In
sects and bIights this year than ever
before and only the professional grow
ers have been able TO fight them sue
cessfuly and even these farmers have
had their hands full
Charles Finnegan, 81, OF Fairfield,
an automobile dealer In Bridgeport
was almost instantly killed when his
automobile turned turtle and was de-
molished at the foot of steep hill
In Park avenue on the northwest out
skirts OF the city Walter " Staple
ton of Bridgeport, the other occupant
of the car, escaped with slight injur.
les.
New Haven is to have the largest
wire rope making plant in the world,
and Fair Haven gets the making of an
industrial boom that should mean a
great deal to 1t. This Is the result of
plans of the American Steel and Wire
Company to enlarge its plant on the
Quinnipac river with buildings con
tanning many thousand square feet
of floor space.
No trace has yet been found OF the
masked man who held up and robbed
the cashier Of the Connecticut com
pany OF S459 at New Haven. The
cashier was compelled at the point of
a pistol TO hand over the days re-
ceipts turned in to him by conduc.
tors.
The Office and home OF DIR. William
Il. Maggie. OF Fairfield. are being
closed, owing 10 the fact that he has
gone to Mantle with the First Conn.
ecticut Ambulance company OF which
he is lieutenant
Frederick Walter Holloway, the son
of Mrs L. H. Holloway of George
street. Wilcox park. Milford, has re
ceived commission as captain of in
fantry in the Officers Reserve Cops
President II l.. Faux OF the Connec
ticut Berkshire Association announ
ces a meeting and field day OF tn,
association at East Lyme, August %
with the farmers of the state for bet
ter livestock, with OF course, some
partiality for pigs
Bids will be invited soon fo- thu
erection OF a new schoolhouse on thu
Pease property In Fairfield. II viii
be a brick building. two stories higl
With a gravel roof There will b.
eight classrooms. The building will b,
heated by steam and every conye
nience will be provided.
Paving which New Haven will la!
down this autumn viii cost approx
mately $500 600. according TO figure
made public by the Permanent PAWN
commission. About 10000 squar
yards will be contracted for
A large number OF the First Sci
arate Company (colored), which re
Gently underwent the physical eS
aminations. were rejected for varion
disabilities. leaving the ranks some
what depleted.
Two large tobacco sheds beinl
erected in West Smsbury One o.
the farm OF Mrs. 5. T. Stockwen
where II 5. Comstock is raising ia
bacco and another on the farm o
O. c. fuller Few sheds nave beer
erected this year in comparison Will
last year partly because OF the higl
cost OF lumber and the uncertainty
of getting it In time for this year,
crop and partly because there wa'
practically no increase In the acreag,
of the tobacco crop.
Searching parties succeeded in loca
ting the body OF Peter Sheidok, VIII,
was drowned while bathing in Bell
view lake. Waterbury. A friend VIII,
WAS swimming with him at the tim
told the police that Sheidok had So
in his clothes. but when the suit wa
found some distance from where
was laid less than dollar was toun,
in IT, The police suspect some small
boys who we're seen in the vicinity.
Enemy aliens in Connecticut VIII
have violated their permits by visiting
different zones without permission
and those who failed to receive pei
mits. are facing speedy prosecution
Officials OF the department of justice
are Investigating such violations Il
this state and Special Agent Nj. 4
Woodell and Deputy z. S. Marsha
HAYES are only awaiting instruction.
from Hartford before beginning the
roundup.