Connecticut western news., 1917-02-08
NEWS BREWTIES
 OF CONNECTICUT
Happenir gs of Interest From
 Around the State.

l
 Around the State.
 Events of Az Kinds Gathered From
 Various Points In the State and So
 Pe4uced In Size Th7t -hev Will Ap
 peal to All Classes of Readers.
 Joseph Gelganda of Waterbury died of hydrOphobia. He was bitten ny stray dog
 Representative Frank E. Boardman of Middletown has been elected clerk of the committee on woman suffrage.
 The test of the fire alarm system in Willimantic was successful in every
 way. all three alarms coming in prop
 erly.
 Charles P Walker was reelected
 without dissent as president of the
 board of fire commissioners of New | Haven.
 A two family dwelling owned by
 Charles Key in Boston Neck street.
 Sutfied, was damaged by fire to the
 extent of about $1O0.
 Samuel Campner. president of the
 board of aldermen, was formally
 sworn in as mayor of New Haven by
 Corporation Counsel Kleiner.
 mad dog bit four or five people i'll Torrington, killed about thirty chick
 ems and was finally killed at the cor
 her of North Main and Elm streets. A state meat inspection law is on2 of the recommendations of Dairy Con- missioner Frank H. Stadtmueller in his biennial report made to the gov ernOr.
 The chamber of commerce of Thompsonville went on record as ia voring the appointment of man of legal standing as judge of the Enfield town court
 The East Hartford town school com } mittee has put ban on high school pupils dancing in connection with the } basketball games under the auspices of the school.
 The JOurneymen carpenters of Bridge . port have just reached an agreement with the master builders by which, be } ginning May 1, the journeymen will re- 2 ceive $4.S0 a day.
 Convicted of assaulting his wife, ? Special Policeman Lewis Kurbes of Bridgeport was dismissed from the-po- } lice force at brief meeting of the police commissioners. , Mayor Hagarty has appointed Will 2 liam Fl. Putnam as a citizen member . of the board of finance to fill out the = unexpired term of Morgan G. Bulke-
 ley, Jr., who resigned.
 i Bernet Lander, retired merchant of l New Haven, dropped dead in the office of Abraham Lander, his son. Medical 1 Examiner Scarborough pronounced death due to apoplexy. II Plans are being perfected for the ob | servance of the twenty-fifth anniver. sary of the organization of the Lumber Dealers Association of Connecticut ill II New Haven on Feb. 20
 The home of David Daily in South Windsor, shed and barn connecting together with many farming impe ments, were totally destroyed by fire entailing a loss of about $3,OOO. 5 Frank c. Sumner, treasurer of tho !! Hartford Trust company and a direc |. tor of the state prison. has offered tC = the state the Sumner farm, in Bolton
 as site for new state prison. The largest organ in America anC the third largest in the world was ded icated at the first recital by Professor Fl. B. JepsOn on the new organ il . Woolsey hall of Yale university. 2 HOughtOn Bulkeley, son of Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley and Mrs. Bulke ley and a member of Troop B, FiftI 7 militia cavalry, was operated on il Hartford hospital for appendicitis. Y Esther Gale of Greenwich filed sui ' in the superior court for S1,00O agains
 the borough of Greenwich for injuries - alleGed 10 have been received bv a -fa |
 on an icy sidewalk on Feb. 22, 191G
 Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill Oi
 Co4.-.;,-,4~,. u..t @ ,ilG lUuse vI Itl
 resentativcs recently for the first time
 since he was taken ill early in Decem
 Der, suffering a complete breakdown.