Connecticut western news., 1917-09-06
NEVIS B2EWTIES
 OF CONNECTICUT
Happenings of Interest From
 Around the State.

Events of All Kinds Gathered From
 Various Points In the State and So
 Reduced In Size That They Will AP-
 peal to All Classes of Readers.
 William Lebem, aged thirty-two years, of East Berlin died by drowning.
 George Hubbard, West Haven, has l joined the camp at Plattsburg, N. '.
 John Slaney, a we'll known wood worker, died unexpectedly at his home i'll New Britain.
 James A. Fireman of East Hartford has gone to Plattsburg, N Y, to join the officers training camp.
 Thomas Tenders, Jr., of Ansonia has gone to New Haven, having been ac- cepted in the naval reserves.
 The women who are working for the French relief in Hartford finished $50 pieces of work in a week recently. The building of the concrete road on the south side of Broad street, Milford, is being watched with much interest.
 A. E. Burke and c. O. Barrows of Cromwell are attending the Second of f1cers' training camp at Plattsburg.
 The large barn on the Turner place, in Glastonbury, has been moved back into the lot and made into a tobacco shed.
 Coon hunters in Hamden are prepar- ing for busy season and expect to in- augurate the coming season in grand style.
 Louis W. Sechtman of Hartford, Company B, formerly Troop L, has been accepted as member and is now l in Mantle.
 The annual convention of the Nation al Nut Growers association will be held in Stamford, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. and 6.
 Warren A. Wilcox, Granby, fell in his tobacco shed while hanging tobacco and fractured two or three ribs and bruised his shoulder.
 Mrs. Sarah Hallock, Tariffville, who has been spending the summer with the family of Stanley Griffin, died sud denly of heart disease. Edward Parmalee of Hazardyille has severed his connection with the. Leary Coal company ard has entered the em- ploy of George r. Thomas.
 Mrs Charles Alberta, fifty, was found dead in her apartments in Winsted, having inhaled Illuminating gas. It is said she had been Respondent. Munfort Wycoff of East Haven went to Mantle and enlisted with what was Company M, now the One Hundred and First machine gun company.
 Meadow land in the northern section of Hartford has been acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad to enlarge its freight yard.
 First Lieutenant Frank M. Chapin presented to Captain c. M. MaXfield in behalf of the New Hartford home guard a sword beautifully engraved.
 Frank K. Beckwith. aged sixty, jani- r T M. 4l-A church, was found dead in the small gas filled meter room in the church.
 A laundry run by Frank Evans and an icehouse of the Plainfield Ice com pany near by, in Plainfield village, were burned recently, with a loss of $6,500.
 Captain Henry A. Grimm of the Wind sor home guard has issued orders for extra drills from now until Sept s, the date of the review at Keney park, Hart ford.
 Dr. Matthew Griswold, Kensington, who for the past six months has been stationed at a military post in Indiana, has been transferred to Fort Ethan Al len, Vt.
 A telegram was received recently from Clark Hopkins, Madison, who is at Plattsburgh, saying that he had been assigned to the Sixth New England division.
 Dr. William H. Treat, Derby, who has been spending a vacation in Canada, has returned home and has resumed his practice. He reports having had ; fine time.
 The potato crop Is failing to meet ex- nooto lions in many p1acoS ohout Dppn