Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-14
BRIEF STATE NEWS

sridsepert.-within the last yea the City Savings bank has passed tn, $10. 100000 mark, the first savings banl in the city to do so.
 WaIiinsfo-d--Edmon S. Booth. ss a well known Bridgeport newspap pel man. died Wednesday night at thu Gaylord Farm Sanitarfum from tuber- culosis.
 Hartford-F'ive have been discharx
 ed from the Babies Hospital as cured Eleven babies are at the hospital,
 some very ill. There have been fodl
 deaths among twenty patients.
 Middietown-Accord to Insur-
 ance Press, one of the large pay
 ments Of life insurance in this state
 the past year was that of s1o.so6 on
 the death of Dr. Frederick H. Sage ei
 Middletown.
 sridaeport-Local industries are
 still booming. The payroll. which nearly one third, is today estimated by the leading bankers of the city to be more than s1,5oo.ooo per week.
 New eritain-The factory store. to be conducted by a cooperative organ iation Of employees of the Landers F'rary & Clark Manufacturing com pany. will be open for business in the building owned by the company on East Main street within three weeks.
 Hartford-Rev. Dr. s. C. Youngert. for five years pastor of the Swedish Lutheran Emanuel church. has &C., cepted d call from the Swedish Au- Gustana Synod and the board of di- rectors of the Augustana College and Theological Seminary at Rock Isl- and. H., to a theological professor ship.
 Milford-With an order from the government expected for the manu- lecture of hundreds of thousands of gas masks for the United States ar- my, the United States Rubber com pany has bought the old Milford Straw Hat works at Milford and within a few weeks will open the new plant employing 400 to 5e9 men and women
 Stamford-The Stamford Business Mems association has just applied to Mayor Treat to take steps to cause the closing of all but drug stores news they find a general tendency towards the comme-cializinc of Sunday and an increase Of what they refer to in their petition as unfair competition in this respect.
 Winsted-Strew w'berries from the garden of Goddard DuBofs in Cole brook River are being sold for the Oenent or the ReC cross, the enClre output being devoted to that purpose. The berries are unusually large. but twenty-five being needed to fill a quart basket and some of them have meas rred five and fTc-eights inches in 
 Ansonia.-The Employers associa- ton of the lower Naugatuck valley has to open office in the opera house block Monday, rooms having been secured which are now being f1t- ted up. The association recently open Sd an office in Derby. The association $ to be conducted by the naanufactur- Ars of Ansonia. Derby. Shelton and Seymour and will provide free em- oloyment bureau, cooperating between he employees and employers relative 70 places of employment. The local ,ffice will be in charge of expert offi- ,ials.
 Rockville-E. D. Robbins safe spe- :ialist of Hartford, was in this city He spent the entire fore noon working on the sub treasury of he postoffice safe. This is the safe inside the big safe. It has been eiv- ng Postmaste Forster and the clerks It the postoffice more or less. trouble for some time. It has been impossible Q open it for several days. Melting he steel with oxygen and acetylene. Ir. Robbins and his men succeeded n getting it open. The work attract ed much attention. It required great ,are and skill. go as rot to Burn the supplies inside the sub sIIry