Connecticut western news., 1917-08-16
NEWS BRENT|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 Alp.
 peal to All Classes of Readers.
 F. NJ. Cotton of Granby has begun picking his tobacco.
 A Red Cross society was organized in Bethany quite recently, starting with fourteen members
 George Parks, Jr., of Suffield has en- listed in the regular army and has been sent to Fort Slocum, ". I.
 Seth Daniel Bingham, aged seventy three years, of Naugatuck died at St, Raphaels hospital, New Haven.
 Robert OBrien of Wallingford has enlisted in the aviation corps and has been sent to Fort Slocum, N. Y.
 Luther Hancock of New Britain has joined the New Jersey artillery. He has been employed as an accountant.
 Tobacco crops in New Milford suf- fered damage estimated at about $50,-. 900 by recent severe hail and rain storm.
 Gordon Holloway, Hazardville, sta toned at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, has been promoted to the grade of cor poral.
 A. D. Williams of Middletown has been appointed appraiser in Connecti- cut for the new federal farm loan bank of Springfield, Mass.
 Roger B. Briggs of Stratford has ac- cepted a commission with the United States reserve ordinance company with the rank of first lieutenant.
 Charles Chittenden, eighty-five, of Guilford was found dead in a field after work His horse was feeding beside the road. Death was due to heat
 Henry w. Tibbits, a well known res ident of Norwich and member of the general assembly from that town in 1907 and 1909, died at his home in Nor wich.
 W. s. Butcher of East Hartford, who recently joined the navy and is as signed to the U. s. S. Quinn, near Bos- ton, spent Sunday with East Hartford friends.
 Marshall N Jarvis, manager of the Charles L. Jarvis company, has join ed the ordnance department, United States army, end will leave for Wash ington soon
 Damage estimated as high as $150- 900 was done in Windsor when a furi- ous electric storm, accompanied by hail, recently swept over the tobacco fields there.
 Fire, causing the greatest loss in Stamford in many years, came in the factory of Baer Bros, makers of bronze powder. The estimated loss was $30O,OOO.
 The Utica chemical engine for the Glastonbury fire department has ar rived and is stored in the hose house at station 35. It has a capacity of forty gallons.
 The death of Frederick Mead, we'll known farmer and for many years a resident of the western section of Brookfield, occurred at his home after a long illness.
 Cornelius Collins, who has been tem- porary carrier on the Forestville rural mail route, has resigned, and Vincent Glynn of Plainville has been appointed to succeed him.
 Harold Beard and his brother, Ray mond Beard, of Bedding, Conn, but formerly of Milford, have both enlisted in different branches of the service of the United States.
 Frank Shannon, one of the men in cluded in the first draft, left for New York to join the medical department of the regular army He preferred en- Hstment to the draft
 The body of William Hastings, which was found near the mill of the Collins vile Grain company, was taken to Wa terbury for interment. Relatives were located in Waterbury.
 Harry Dumeer has resigned at the Connecticut Hospital For the Insane