Connecticut western news., 1917-04-26

died at his home from pneumonia, from which he suffered only five days.
 Postmaster w. S. Clark of Milford has received orders from Washington relative to the establishing of better mail service at Devon. Carriers will deliver from some station provided in Devon.
 The Jennings & Griffin Co leads a movement among manufacturers in Meriden to donate land for the use of employees in raising vegetable prCt! ucts this summer to relieve the food shortage.
 The two grocery stores in Farming ton have decided unanimously to close their places of business every night ex- cept Saturday at 6 o'cln <. On Sat urday the stores will remain open un- til o'clock.
 The sudden death of Charles H. Xiii bourne sixty-two, occurred while he was at work at the residence of Ed
 
 Southington. The cause of death was angina pectoris.
 Miss Florence Marion Beecher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beecher of Bethel. has enrolled at recruiting station in New Haven as a yeoman of the first class in the coast | defense reserve.
 Letters to all large Connecticut man ufacturers, urging them to interest their employees in the home garden movement, have been sent out from the office of the Connecticut commit tee of food supply.
 The police have been Investigating to enforce the order requiring the closing of wireless stations in New Britain. They were surprised to find seventy two such stations. Fourteen licensed stations were found.
 The Stony Creek home guard, which is so fiourishing, met recently. There are fifty-nine men in the guard, and they were given their first drills by Lieutenant S. P. Butler, formerly of the New Haven militia.
 Considerable good trout fishing is being reported in different parts of West Haven, and those sportsmen who are acquainted with the secret haunts of that willy fish are bringing in fine catches every day or so. If Greenfield. Hill mail carriers for the past two weeks have been covering
 their routes by motor, giving great s | satisfaction, as the mail arrives quite
 early in the morning. This will con , tinue through the summer.
 A majority of East Granby farmers
 have sterilized their tobacco beds thi' , year. and practically all have the seet
 sown. Some report their plants up s but weather conditions have been yer! satisfactory for rapid development l. Captain Charles NJ. Robinson of tn - motor vehicle company of the NeV - Haven guard sent his resignation t. 2 the state military emergency boarC
 both as a temporary captain and re
 cruiting officer, to take effect at once. S Meriden printers have enthusiaStical E ly taken up the home garden movemen l. upon a suggestion of Marsden G. Scott
 president of the International Typo
 graphical union, and four acres will b r planted this summer on a co-operativ y plan.
 V pr. Benjamin H. Cheney of Admirs
 Foot post, New Haven, was unan
 mously elected department commando 1T for the ensuing year at the closing ( d the fiftieth annual encampment of tn e department of Connecticut, G. A. R $ in Bridgeport
 Frank B. Clark, who lost his larg T. house-the Frederick Welles place O Il Main street, Glastonbury-by fire las 70 fall, has completed arrangements IS erect a new house on the site of tn
 old. It will have a stucco exterior an
 cost about $7O00.
 It The large three story dwelling hous le on Prospect hill, Poquonock, owne + by James Nolan and which was occ'
 pied by him and his sons, with the
 families, was completely destroyed | Is fire, thought to have been caused L children playing with matches. u The Bridgeport Projectile compan
 was one of twenty-five intuition plan
 to submit bids to the navy departmel al on common and target shells for tl h. department. The company guara T. teed to deliver 1,2O0 six-inch shells ( C. 100000 one-pounder shells a month.