Connecticut western news., 1917-06-21
NEWS BREWT|ES
 OF CONNECTICUT
Happenings of Interest From
 Around the State.

Events of Al: Kinds Gathered From
 Various Points In the State and So
 Reduced In Size That They Will Ap-
 peal to All Classes of Readers.
 J. c. Thompson, West Avon, has set several acres of tobacco.
 Walter w. Hubbell was appointed harbor master of Stratford. Harry Ross of Stony Creek, who few weeks ago enlisted in the navy, has been sent to Newport. W. F. Aiken of New Haven was struck and instantly killed by New Haven road express in Bradford, R. l.
 Sixty Springfield rifles have arrived for the use of Willimantic's home guard The uniforms are expected soon.
 Mrs. Artemese Winchell died at the home of her niece, Mrs. F. O. Church of Barkhamsted, June 10, aged eighty years.
 Clarence T. Lane had his right hand injured at the plant of the Bristol Brass company when it was caught between two rolls.
 .rhe continued wet and cold weather l a1 nlo much of the land in Mapping is still ill unfit condition for blowing.
 Mrs. G. T. Carter has been under a physicians care at her home in East Creek for some time, suffering from an infection in one of her hands.
 Deputy United States Marshal G. Brainard Smith of Unionville, who has been ill with a severe attack of grip, is now able to be about the house.
 The First and Second platoons of the Shartenberg Store Defense guard in New Haven drill every morning on the roof of the Shartenberg building.
 pr. John l. Wiseman of the staff of the Connecticut Hospital For the In- sane, in Middletown, has gone to Wash ington to join the medical reserve corps.
 David Drier, a clerk at the Fair Ha, ven drug. shop, has gone to Fort Slo- cum, New York harbor. MT. Drier has joined the hospital corps of the regular army. The long continued cold, wet wealth CT is very discouraging to the farmers in Staffordville. Many seeds, having failed to come up, will have to be re- placed.
 H. Moss Gilbert, son of Mrs Ed mund Gilbert of Southport, is register ed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for special work in aero nautics,
 Henry A. Heise, one of the best known Hartford veterans of the civil war and for many years a f1oorman at the state capitol, died at his home in Hartford
 The Patterson Forge company's fac tory in Bridgeport was badly damaged by fire, with loss of $15,000. The origin of the fire is said to have been incendiary.
 !. The transplanting of tobacco has now started in earnest in Suffield, and some of the larger tobacco plantations expect to complete the larger part of | the work soon.
 Benjamin White, aged seventy years, died suddenly at his home in Terry vile. He was born in Sharon Nov. 19, 1847. and had resided in Terryville for a number of years.
 The war registration officials in Heb ron have ascertained that there are seventy-two men between the ages of twenty -one and thirty-one liable to be drafted for war duty. /
 John Francis White, aged forty-four years, well known in East Hartford fraternal circles, died at his home fol lowing lingering illness with dropsy and other complications.
 The executive committee of the Con- necticut State Firemen's association has decided to hold its thirty-fourth annual convention in Unity hall, in Hartford, on Aug. 15 and 16.
 John A. Quinn, machinist, aged about fifty years, was crushed in large planer which he was operating at the Hendey Machine plant in Tor rington, dying half hour later. Work will be started at once upon | three new factory structures for the