Putnam patriot., 1917-04-20
CONNECTICUT STATE BRIEFS

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 uayor Clifford B. Wilson has a plan
 sar consideration for the closing u1 .na saloons of Bridgeport an hour .arIier until the war is over.
 uulford is soon to have S2T,O0o .aI of which 1t is to pay but small saro The contract for the building .~ cement road from Milford center = Cherry street to Boards Corner ., Deyon. Wharf street and Nauga- .~oL avenue. has been assigned to co,tractor Robert E. Daly Company, ,ao built the west end Of the New Haven turnpike.
 Bridgeport was the scene Of intense military activity when delegates rom tbe SO posts in the state assembled ir tbe city to celebrate the 50th anni- varsary of the Department of Con- neeticut Grand Army of the Republic,
 0aicials of the Eastern Malleable ,ron works, of which the Bridgeport Naileable Iron company is a branch have announced an increase from 10 to 20 per cent. in the bonus allowed all employees.
 stubborn grass fire crept up to within ten feet of the powder houses of the Connecticut Fireworks company ii Kelsey Hill, Savin avenue. West Haven. being discovered just in time to prevent an explosion, which prob- ably would have resulted in great damage to property and loss of life. The sheds endangered contain about s3o,00O worth of powder, bombs, and fireworks. It was only the prompt response and plucky work of the West Haven fire department which saved the plant from destruction.
 Michael Welch, conductor on the Central New England Railway, is re- ported to have discovered trained rabbit between Winsted and Norfolk. Every morning the rabbit scampers for a grade crossing and awaits the approach of the train. MT. Welch throws food to the rabbit and it is credited with carrying it to nearby pine tree for breakfast.
 Coincident with the call ordering the Second company, Coast Artillery, to report for active duty, Somewhere East of Bridgeport" the Fourth Com- pany was also ordered to report to Major Beebe, the officer in command of the outof-town troops in Bridge port, for active duty Somewhere in Bridgeport" This is taken to mean that the Fourth company will remain in town for the present.
 Jerry Fitzgerald, 17-year-old son or Mr. and Mrs. James Fitzgerald, Of Branford, died at one of the hospitals nNew Haven after an illness of few days with spinal meningitis. The young man was we'll and attending the junior class of the high school when school closed last week, but was sudenly stricken a few days ago with the spinal trouble.
 The work of recruiting Company K. Second infantry, is being conducted at Wallingford by Captain Abbott.
 Branford's cleanup week is over and the town is quite the better for the work of boy scouts but otherwise the week passed more or less un- observed.
 New Haven will gain considerably in population at the expense of Hart ford by the moving to that city of the Soby cigar industry, which was recently purchased by A. Kafka & Co.,, of New Haven. There are more than 100 workers in the factory.
 Fairfield county raises about one. fifth of the food which 1t consumes, The remainder is drawn from the worlds markets.
 While 36 Grand Army veterans stood at attention as in the days of '6l and the congregation barred its heads a large American flag further sanctifed by prayer was raised in front of the United Congregational church, Bridgeport. It was the gift 6 the Young Mems Club to the church. George Fowler, 50 years of age. was found dead in his home at Bethel apparently a victim Of accidental gas asphyxiation. His body was found m the kitchen where the authorities discovered a gas stove jet partly open. Is thought that in turning off the gas MT. Fowler accidentally opened the valve.
 Many public spirited citizens of Bridgeport have offered to give their lawns up to the raising of foodstuffs turing the coming months in order 10 increase the food supply The spa eious lawns of the Bronson estate at sreenield Hill will be plowed and planted with potatoes. DeVer H Warner has also offered his beautiful estate in Fairfield and lawn surround. mg his Bridgeport residence. for a ike purpose.
 Waterbury hotel keepers have agreed among themselves to sell no hquor to soldiers in uniform.
 Milford is- to have big Red Cross benefit on May IT.
 A total of IA men have been ac- eepted in the Home Guard in Madi son, and between 75 and 100 are drill hg on the town green. Madison is proud of the record with which it is starting.
 large number of the unnaturalized Hermans who left the employ of the ooscn Magnetic Company, Hartford. VIII De employed on the tobacco farms in Sufleld. Twenty-Five went to Suf heid by trolley, and most of them were quartered in the home of Fritz "oldag in the West Sufield Road.
 baslness and professional men in NeW Haven over 45 years of age have