Connecticut western news., 1917-05-31

Beginning June 1 al ears operated by he Connecticut lU.Apany within i the city limits of II .rtford will adopt 1 the near side stoJ schedule. now in operation ill various yi .es oi the state.
 Hartford will save its waste to help make possible the proposed plant for fruit drying. Everybody in the city will be asked to cooperate in the prof ect. 'Stop wasting waste" will be the slogan.
 The pumping engine located at the Whitneyville engine house is again in order. the necessary repairs having been made on the engine. which was iaid up following a trip to a fire on the " 'tford turnpike.
 Isai Marion. sixty-ive. an employee of the city of Putnam, was almost in- stantly killed when the side wall of a sewer trench in which he was at work caved in, burying him to his shoulders and breaking his back.
 Farm implements and forty tons of | hay owned by Jacob Lieze and valued at $1,OO0 were lost in a spectacular fire that destroyed a large barn on sylvan avenue. North Bridgeport. The cause of the blaze is unknown. | Losses suffered by Hartford fire in- surance companies i'll the Atlanta (Ga) fire will probably not exceed $250O00. | The largest loser was the Aetna Fire. Vice President Henry F. Rees gave S119,500 as the company's loss. 1 c. Russell Yates. one of Ansonia s auditors, has rendered his resignation to Mayor Mead Mr. Yates, who has been working In Waterbury for sev- .eral months, removed to that city, where he intends to reside perma- nently.
 Ex-Senator Frederick F. Fuessenich | was elected president of the Torring- ton National bank at a meeting of the board of directors held recently. MT. FueSsenich succeeds John F. Alvord, who has been president of the bank since 1909
 Robert Stuart and Arthur Anderson of Derby enlisted in the commissary department of Uncle Sam's service at the recruiting station in New Haven. Both are experienced chauffeurs and
 will doubtless be assigned to automo-
 bile work.
 A camp for 1000 or more boys of the : United States Junior Naval reserve will be opened at Kittemaug, Conn, in
 June for the purpose of instructing
 boys between the ages of fourteen and ' eighteen in naval and merchant ma rine service.
 Rev. Edward Murphy, assistant pas
 tor of St. Augustine's Roman Catholic z church in Bridgeport. was instantly - killed when the automobile in which : he was, riding overturned on the road
 to Hazardville, about three miles from
 Thompsonyille.
 ' pr. Otto c. Weidman of Hartford is t one of three Connecticut physicians
 among the six whose appointments tc
 raise hospital and ambulance comna n nies were announced by Major James l. F. Hall of the United States medica e corps at Boston.
 Tons of hay and great quantity ot s lumber were, destroyed when the barn n in which they were stored. adjacent 1t to the American Brick company fl l. Berlin. was buEned. The origin of the
 fire was not ascertained. The loss is g estimated at $500.
 IT All home guard organizations in Con l, necticut are urged to participate il
 Memorial day exercises in their re
 spective towns and are granted per Il mission to parade under arms or with ls out arms in a general order issued b. le the military emergency board.
 James Wilson and Sydney Gaytor " have enlisted i'm the United State al navy. Six from Broad Brook hay, ,s enlisted within the past few days
 Those who previously enlisted ar
 Clyde Arnold, Carlton Loftus, Lewi
 Schadlich and George Sargent. N pr. Burton E. Lovesey of Granis = Corner sailed on the Chicago for serv 'o ice in the American ambulance service - He is to be detailed on the Servial
 front. Dr. Lovesey volunteered fo