Connecticut western news., 1917-06-07

| cured piece of land o@ the Goodyear | Rubber company and are raising po- tatoes.
 1 The girls who went out on a strike at the Rowe Calk company in Plants | vile have failed to come to any agree ment with the officials of the company and many of them are now working l elsewhere Guards at the Remington Arms plants in Bridgeport have been depict ed by at least twenty-seven men who have re-enlisted under their former commands, and several others are 1 planning to do so soon.
 The twentieth annual convention of 1 the International Sunshine society will be held in Hartford May Is, IT and IS of next year. This decision was reach 1 ed at the close of this years conven- tion in Wilmington, Del.
 Alden R. Wilcox, twenty-one, employ ed on a tugboat, was drowned at Stod- dard's wharf on the Thames river above New London. He was caught by rope and thrown into the water as he was | going ashore in small boat.
 Miss Mary L. Holbrook, regent of Elizabeth Clarke Hull chapter, Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, has been appointed one of the group chair men for the popularization of the lib erty loan in the Ansonia section.
 George Brace lost the end of the first finger of his right hand in an accident .ats the J. B. Williams company's fac tory in Glastonbury The finger caught in box machine and was crushed. It was amputated at the first joint. The next convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and auxiliary or ganizations will be held at Danbury in |. August. 1918, it was announced at a recent meeting of the state board, ofh- cers and county presidents at New Ha- ven.
 Two hundred and eighty gardens will be cultivated by the employees of the f Bigelow-Hartford Carpet company at Thompsonville this year. None of these gardens were planted last year. The company is furnishing the land and T fertilizer.
 There were only ten Meridenites who neglected or refused to fill out blanks in the military census of the state. The governors office has so notified Mayor Joseph A. Cooke, and the latter has called upon the police to visit the de- linquents.
 J. B. Darlington, Jr., son of MT. and
 Mrs John Hennett Darlington of New Haven, has left the Westminster school at Simsbury and has joined the Yale < unit of the American ambulance >serv-
 ice, which is expected to leave for
 France early in June.
 First Lieutenant Matthew IT. Gris-
 wold, Kensington, surgeon in the ofii- cers' reserve corps, received dispatches from Washington ordering him to pro- ceed at once to Fort Benjamin Harri- son, Ind, and report to the command ing officer at that post.
 Announcement was made in Wash ington and received in Bristol that John J. Jennings, a former Bristol boy, had been selected as one of four ex- pert automobile drivers to be sent to
 the front in Europe with Major Gen.
 eral Pershing and his staff. s1 The summer home of Henry Dyke of Brooklyn, situated in Weston, was bad ly gutted by fire which caused an esti- mated damage of $5,O00. In an attempt to check the blaze Mrs. Dyke was pain- fully burned about the head and arms. } The loss is covered by insurance.
 Private Julius Welch of New Britain,
 assigned to guard duty at Hartford factory. died in hospital from a bull let wound received when his own rifle, with which Frank Matulis, also of New Britain, was going through a manual
 of arms, was accidentally discharged. Captain Lucius B. Barbour, superin- - tending the work of taking the names of men liable to draft from the mill ? tary census cards at the state library,
 said he thought Hartford's list be-
 tween the ages of twenty-one and thir- ty-one years would reach about 14,OO0. : James Breen of Rockville, who has 3 been in the employ of the Hockanum
 Mills company for forty-seven years as
 overseer of the spinning department, has rendered his resignation to take , effect at once. MT. Breen's resignation ? was accepted by the company with re- 5 gret.
 Governor Marcus H. Holcomb ap- pointed the following to represent Con- , necticut on the New England general