Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17

Events of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points In the State and So
 Reduced In Size That They Will Alp
 peal to All Classes of Readers.
 Arthur Campbell of Southington plans to enlist in the coast artillery.
 Clifford NJ. Dickinson of New Britain has accepted place at the state game preserve.
 The meeting of the Rockville Cham Der of Commerce has been postponed to May 16.
 A number of Southington young men are planning to take the military course at the Plattsburg training camp.
 Four searchlights have been installed at the railroad bridge at Kensingtol to aid the militiamen in their work.
 William Collins Pease, siXty-four, of Somers died suddenly in Mercy hospi tai, Springfield, Mass. from heart dis ease
 Fifty-seven members were mustered in at a meeting of the Wethersfield home guard, and the first drill will be held in Academy hall May 16.
 A generous offer has been made to the Milford home guard by the Gas Light company to illuminate the green on the drills of the company.
 Second Lieutenant John Gordon Kcl- logg of NewingtOn Center has enlisted and passed examinations and will go to Plattsburg to study and drill. Miss Kate Tensen, sixty-five years of age, died at her home in Danbury from the effects of a dose of poison she took in mistake for medicine.
 Hamden farmers claim that the cold spell will hamper the planting to a great extent, and little growing is ex- pected until warmer weather comes. Charles F. Williams has been elect ed manager of the Wallingford com pany, Inc, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Major Henry Norton. | Jr.
 Successful examinations were passed and certificates received by twenty-six members of the first aid class in con nection with the Westville Red Cross | society.
 Terryville has elected John Barry delegate to the state convention of the Order of Eagles, to be held in Water bury June A. William Gray has been named alternate.
 Former Mayor John L. Fisk of Mid dletown is setting an example of pa triotism to his fellow citizens by work, ing in his garden.
 Mirton Lamb, Plainville, has pledged himself to go to France with the First ambulance corps. His cousin, William Lamb of New Britain, has enlisted for the mosquito fleet.
 Lester Allen, son of Nelson Allen of Fair Haven, has received a commission as second lieutenant in the regular army and is soon to report at a train ing camp in Georgia.
 It is announced that the American | Brass company, in Ansonia, through it's president, Charles F. Brooker has sub- scribed for $2,OOO,0OO of the new gov ernment 31a per cent bonds.
 Officer Clarence D. Lane, Walling- ford, who has been i'll for several weeks, having recently undergone sur gical operation at the New Haven hos pital, resumed regular duty.
 The report of the census committed submitted to Governor Holcomb shows that total expenditures of $24,557. .24 were made in connection with the mil. itary census taken recently.
 Michael J. Cawley has resumed his duties as caretaker of the Bristol city hdIA aAIcA uAuSl SoliS IIedLLneIlL Ior Ine past several weeks at the Hartford hos pital on account of eye trouble.
 Devon postoffice is to open June 1, according to word received by Post master Clark from Washington. B. H. Littell will be made clerk of the De von branch of the Milford office.
 The Dupont Rubber company in Fair. field is now having five acres of land plowed, where corn and potatoes are to be cultivated. The crops will be sold to the factory employees at cost.
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