Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26

EWS, THURSDAY JULY ? i Tn the death of Mrs Lo.:.Sa (ScotO | Morse, wife of John r. Mor>c ThOmp- soErille lost ope of it's oldest and best known residents. Mrs. Morse died at her home, following an illness of sev- eral months
 Extensive damage to the potato crop in the state is threatened by the preva- lence of an aphid, or plant louse, on the potato vines, according to a bulle- tin issued by the Connecticut agricul- tural station.
 Raymond Daniels. Short Beach, who in the past has usually spent his sum- mers with his grandmother, Mrs. Ma ziene of New Britain, Is in training with other high school boys at Peeks- kill this summer.
 l A benzine explosion from an unknown cause set the automobile department of the Goodrich Metallic Rubber Shoe company, Naugatuck, afire, and Patrick | White, night watchman, was severely burned in an attempt to put out the fire. pr. Donald G. Russell. Wallingford, has been notified that he has passed the examination as a surgeon in the regular army He will receive a con- mission as first lieutenant and expects 1 to be assigned to active service inn mediately.
 Approximately $25.0OO is the cost to the state of Connecticut for the prose cution and conviction of Mrs. Amy F.. Archer Gilligan of Windsor for mur- der, according to the bill of costs filed by State Attorney IT. NJ. Alcorn with the clerk of the superior court.
 Dr. Conrad Frederick Reiman passed a successful professional and physical examination for commission as first 1 lieutenant in the dental corps of the army. Appointments are now made di- rect from Washington. pr. Reiman has been in practice in Ansonia since 1910.
 Hudson k. Hawley son of MT. and Mrs. A. n. Hawley of Bristol, formerly 1 of the editorial sta~ of the Times and now on the New York Sun, has passed examinations and been accepted for the second reserve officers training camp at Fort McPherson, Ga, to report on Aug. 27.
 | Dr. George Stancultenu, physician to l the king and queen of Roumania, who l became ill while on a lecture tour in l New York, died at sanitarium in 1 Stamford Grief over the loss of his home and his fortune at the hands of the German invaders affected his | health.
 William Humphries, who as a door, keeper in the senate figured in Il sen sational incident at the state capitol i'll l 1895 as defender of the name of Abra- ham Lincoln against an attack made by a person referred to at the time as Hartford county lawyer, died in 1 Danbury.
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 Portland will be represented by at least four doctors in the medical re- serve corps: Drs. Chedel ]. w. Walsh, practicing physicians in Portland: Dr. William Bransfield of Philadelphia. son of Mir. and Mrs. John Branstield | of Main street, and Dr. II. Gildersleeve Jarvis of Hartford.
 A resolution asking that women phy- sicians of the country be recognized by congress and the president for service both in this country and abroad was adopted at a meeting of the executive board of the womens committee, COun- ciI of National Defense, Connecticut division, in Hartford.
 Napoleon Dexter of SOuthington has enlisted in the aviation corps of the army. He has gone to Garden City, N. r.. to get into active training. Gus tave Dexter, who has also enlisted in the same branch of the service and has had considerable experience ill avi- ation, will leave soon.
 Dr. Owen O'Neill, one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons i'll Willimantic and who has family and big practice, is making preparations to enlist for war duty. He will prob ably leave shortly and go abroad, where he will become a member of the corps of war surgeons.
 Among the Hartford members of the Yale mobile hospital unit which Is to work near the front ill France is LeOn- ard A. Beadle, son of Mir. and Mrs. H. Leonard Beadle, who is a member of the class of 1919 at Yale university and ] is believed to be the youngest man con-