Connecticut western news., 1917-08-16

company plant, is at the hospital suf- fering with severe burns on the face, hands and arms. He was burned with metal.
 Frank Eifen, forty. Polish of Avon, employed ill foundry in Derby, was killed when he stood up in an automo- bile and fell backward, striking on his head. He leaves a widow and four children.
 The Windsor home guard is now ready to start rife practice. A range has been selected on Cook hill on the Hayden-Pomeroy farm. As, soon as it is accepted by a range officer target practice will begin.
 Miss Hazel Pyne of the office of the commissioner of motor vehicles at Hartford will act as secretary and stenographer to the attorney general during the absence of Miss Helen Kel- ly on her vacation.
 Governor Marcus H. Holcomb and upward of 4,000 other people saw the hospital corps give an exhibition of the care of wounded on the field recently following a battalion drill of the Tor rington home guard.
 Jack Tweed. Madison, who is now enrolled in the United States aviation corps, will go to Boston for eight weeks training in technical work. Then he. expects to receive his com mission as an officer.
 Percy Getchell, son of Mrs. Getchell of Plainville, has arrived safe in France with a Red Cross unit which sailed some time ago. The voyage was thrilling, but the front is more so in Mir. Getchells opinion.
 Malcolm H. Ross of the Second bat tery and Clark O. Kimberly of the First battery, both of New Haven, <, have passed their examinations and have been recommended for commis- sions in the regular army. . Nels J. Nelson of New Britain is busily engaged in war service for the | ignated by the war or navy depart ment. He is at present perfecting model of a submarine destroyer.
 Two valuable horses and six young pigs perished in a fire that totally de- stroyed the barn and contents of N. Howard Strong at Vernon. By stren- uous efforts a herd of sows was saved. ] The damage is estimated at about 2, $4OOO
 Alex V. Mcdonald of Rockville, who has been employed by the state of Con- necticut as guard at the state reforma tory in Cheshire for the past four months, has been transferred to the state prison at Wethersfeld, where he Is filling like position. \ Carlson Zigler, nineteen, of Bantam, member of the home guard. went to the Bantam river after drill for a swim. He sank while in the water. and after the body was recovered the medical examiner inclined to the opin- ion that sZigler had had heart trouble. l At the annual meeting of the stock holders of the Peck, Stow & Wilcox company held in Southington the old board of directors and officers were re- elected, with the exception that T. R. Ray of Cleveland, O., succeeds Web ster Walkley of Durham as one of the | directors.
 I
 John H. Cain, who has resigned as superintendent of employment andsin- struction of'the Rochester (N. Y) lines | of the New York State railways, has gone to Norwich to assume the posi- l tion of superintendent of transporta- ton for the Shore Line Electric Rail- way company.
 Company A, signal corps, arrived in | Mantle in fine condition, but when they did arrive difficulty was found ill feeding them. However, Lieutenant Francis ]. Shearer took the rations in hand, and all were satisfied. No men were sick on the trip and all the horses were in good condition with the excep- | ton of one sick one.
 | G. Ellsworth Nee h, chairman of the Middlesex county committee of the state council of defense, has received a telegram from Richard NJ. Bissell-of | Hartford, the state chairman, congrat- ulating the Middlesex committee on be | ing the first county in the state to raise | it's quota for the regular army. Mid dlesex county's quota was forty-five men.
 The three masted schooner Charlotte Miller, which was struck and damaged by United States submarine D-2 near Bartlett's reef, was towed toward New London by a government tug and is | now off Black ledge. a short distance