Connecticut western news., 1917-01-25
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 Tea hers in the grades of the public schools of New Britain will get all in crease of pay in the next school year.
 The new tObacco warehouse of the \ American company at East Granby Y was opened with about twenty-five men at work.
 X recruiting officer of the United St2tns pavT will assist the recruiting off CT st1tinnod in New Britain from Jan. zS to Feb. 3.
 Seven thousand parishiCners and frields attended tLe funeral services for the Rev. John MacLaren Richard son. late pastor of the First fresbyte rian church of Bridgeport.
 The J. N. Lapointe company. ma | chimes and tools. posted notices in it's New London factory announcing an | increase of 10 per cent in wages. Lawyer H. c. Camp has been ap- 1 pointed prose utine attorney of South ington for the borough and assumed | the duties of the new position at once. Fire totally destroyed the St. John homestead at Simsbury, which has been in the St. John family for over 1 130 years. The loss is estimated at about S6.000.
 The bodies of Peter Stumpf. four years old and Mitzie Schrumdorfer. 1 seven years old, of Addison. who had been missing. were taken from the Addison pond.
 First Lieutenant William c. Hascall battalion adjutant First Connecticut infantry, has been appointed major of l the First Connecticut infantry by Gov. ernor Hol comb.
 District Superintendent Rev. pr. Me Cormick has appointed a committee to arrange for a Methodist mems dinner to be held in Stamford on Thursday evening, March 1.
 The gray stone mansion of Mrs. Ma, than c. ScOville of New York, one of the show places of Litchfield countw was destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $275,OO0.
 Patrick Keenan, sixty-ei2ht years old of Bridgeport. suffered lacerations of the left hand and forehead when he was struck by a jitney as he WIS about to board a trolley car.
 The inventory of park property in New Haven presented by the superin 1 tendent shows the city parks to be valued at $978,51S.0G and the city squares at $3,6S1, ,667.71.
 Hartford as the seat of Hartford | county, is to be the scene of a mass meeting of citizens on the morning of Jan. ?. when the new federal farm loan act will be explained.
 w rested August F. Schmittgall of New Haven, charging him with reckless driving and attempting to evade re- sponsibility for an accident.
 The Manchester City club will in corporate. the matter having been plac. ed in the hands of a committee con sisting of Harry NJ. Burke, William sS Hyde and Alexander ArnOtt. Olaf Nelson, a structural ironwOrke'' employed on the new factory of the New Departure Manufacturing com. pany by Lowering x Ga@gigues. was found dead in bed in Bristol.
 A hemOrrhage of the brain. result ing from q fall. caused the death Of Eugene B. Waters, sixty-three years of age, a caretaker at the home O; Lyman M. Law at New Haven.
 A large barn on the farm of AleXan der Bruce on the lower end of Berlin street, New Britain, was destroyed b., fire. The loss was about S3000 and was partly covered by insurance.
 Residents of Putnam Heights have complained to the police of a ''peepine : Tom" who has been active in tine neighborhOOd. He is described as a tall man wearing black overcoat.
 The Democrats won sweeping vic tory at the off year city election i'll MiddetOwn. The only. Republican elected was w. J. Kieft, tax collector who was indorsed by the Democrats
 Joseph r. O'Connen of Bristol, son of MT. and Mrs. Stephen O'ConnelI who recently passed his State har av