Connecticut western news., 1917-09-13
NEWS BAEWT|ES
 OF CONNECTICUT
Happenings of Interest From
 Around the State.

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 Around the State. Events of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points In the State and So Reduced In Size That They Will Ap- peal to All Glasses of Readers. A number of Granby farmers have 1 finished harvesting their tobacco Robert Warren of West SuffieId has bought the Alanson Hoffman farm of 1 over 100 acres.
 Axel Larson is ill with diphtheria at his home in Portland. The house has been quarantined.
 The death of Sewen White, aged eighty-three, occurred at his home in Southington after a long illness.
 Fire in the two family dwelling 1 house owned by Mrs. Joseph Pierce, East Hartford, did damage estimated | at $500.
 Catches of some big turtles up the river near Red Bank, Fair Haven, are reported. Some of the turtles weighed forty pounds.
 Frank Virelli of Fairfield was pro- noted to a sergeancy at the meeting of | ,fof fo in O Qrt- ford recently.
 | J. Allen Butler, long prominent in the | affairs of Portland and a former rep resentative in the legislature, died after brief illness.
 Lieutenant Philip Hurley of the Mil | ford home guards on reporting at P4attsburgh for the camp was selected as an instructor.
 Miss Elizabeth Dodd Hayden, wid- ow of the late Captain Nathaniel Hay den, died at her home in Unionville after long illness
 August Matthias of Greens Farms, the first young man from this place to be called by the draft, will go to the central camp at Aver, Mass.
 Lauriston M. Stark, one of the oldest residents in the town of East Haddam, l died at his home after suffering for some time with pneumonia. L. Alfred Larsen, sixty-three years old, stepped fin front of trolley car of2the l Shore Line Electric company at Say brook and was almost instantly killed.
 Leslie Cunning of Westyille, who en- listed in a medical corps and was first sent to Fort Slocum and later to Fort Ethan Allen, is at present in Anniston, Ala.
 A number of coal pits are now being burned at Rockland. As many young CT people do not know the process of making charcoal it Is quite interesting to them.
 Mrs. Harold Archer of Oakville died at the Waterbury hospital of injuries received when her clothes caught fire while she was pouring kerosene on the kitchen fire.
 The Dauntless Shipyard company's new boat shop in Essex is fast nearing completion and will make one of the finest spots on the river for building small craft.
 J. c. Barnes, Branford, has sent in his resignation as driver of the fire chemical. Mr. Barnes has been in charge of the chemical for the past seven years.
 Clarence Bradley, we'll known Ham den resident, died suddenly at the home of Sherwood Atwood of Mount Carmel, with whom he had been residing for the past year.
 Orville Lyon, a civil war veteran, who for the past few years had resided in the house of G. H. Merwin, Green field Hill, was found dead in bed by his son George. n Kirk W. Dyer of Cromwell, tenor in the quartet of the South Congregation al church, has resigned. MT. Dyer has been a member of the quartet for the past ten years.
 William Blamey, stratford, contrac- tor, has been appointed by the select men building inspector to fill the un- expired term of Harry A. Burnes, who is at Plattsburgh.
 George Sullivan, barge hand who was bitten in the cheek by a mosquito and who refused medical aid at the time, died in the Greenwich hospital as a rosI1lt of tho hitp