Connecticut western news., 1917-07-19

EWS. THURSDAY JULY i The ministers of Connecticut are be- | in- aSkc,. nv the cnmI.t'Ce on food
 conservation to >siar ill bringing the l importance of the Hoover pledge to the attention of the housewives of the state.
 The Old Time hotel on Worthington | Ridge, an old landmark. for many 1 years q stopping place for people tray- cling between New York and Boston by the old Boston post road, is now closed.
 Daniel Lewis. siXty-siX years of age,
 sexton of Grace Baptist church, Wa terbury. was drowned while fishing in 1 the old Tannery dam at Meriden road
 and the Mad river. The body was re- l covered
 Arthur G. Edwards. twenty-three. ] and Charles Ellis. nineteen. arrested
 in Hartland charged with having bro-
 ken their parole to the Cheshire re-
 formatory, were taken back to the in- | stitution.
 Judge Wolfe fined William J. Phil-
 lips, proprietor of the Pembroke hotel
 and the New Merwin inn in Wood-
 mont, $50 and costs in the common
 pleas court on a charge of violating the | liquor law.
 The strike of machinists and tool
 makers of the American and British | company at Bridgeport was averted
 through the mediation of William
 Blackman, federal commissioner of conciliation.
 Investigation shows that the greater
 part of the story about the discovery
 of a wireless plant at Noank and it's
 dismantling by representatives of the | United States navy was the product of | imagination.
 John Jay Van Schaack, elder son of Mir and Mrs. David Van Schaack of | Hartford, sailed for France to train for service as an aviator. He is a
 member of the class of 1918 at Will
 Hams college.
 Governor Holcomb appointed Lawyer
 James R. Edlim. assistant clerk of the
 superior court of Middletown since
 1909, to succeed the late Judge Wesley | U. Pearne, who died recently, as judge
 of the city court.
 Lieutenant Leonard A. Duff of l Bridgeport, formerly employed at the
 Remington Arms, has received his com ! mission as lieutenant in the royal fly | ing squadron, now stationed at Camp ! Borden, Canada.
 1 Alfred S. Kedzie of West Haven,
 chief clerk in the road and equipment
 department of the New York. New | Haven and Hartford railroad, was
 struck and killed by a train while on his way to work.
 At a meeting of the directors of the | Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance i company Daniel H. Wells, who for 1s,many years had been actuary of the l company, was made consulting actu- 1 ary, a new position.
 The Connecticut Women's Defense
 league is making preparations to go
 into camp at MiX's pond in Hamden.
 Some of the girls are learning to oper
 ate automobiles. while others are study
 ing wireless te!egraphy. l Ralph H. Bates. seventeen, son of MT. and Mrs. William Bates of Moun-
 tain View, Plainville, died at the Hart 1 ford isolation hospital. where he was i taken about three weeks ago suffering | from spinal meningitis. Farmers near Plainfeld are making 1 complaint of an additional pest which
 seems to fatten on most of the tender 1 crops. From the Connecticut Agricul- l tural college word comes that the pest is known as the saw fly"
 David Rosenblum of Bridgeport mar
 rowly escaped drowning when he be- came exhausted while swimming at Lordship Manor. He was dragged to | the shore by bathers and had consider l able difficulty in breathing. The Hoover food pledge has been 1 distributed in practically every home | in Hartford. The city was organized by wards for the distribution. Each
 ward had captain, and these captains chose aids to assist in the work.