Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
NEW EWS BAEWT|ES
 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 Glasses of Readers.
 Edward Maher of Milford has enlist ed in the coast artillery corps at Bridgeport.
 Cleanup week for Portland will be April 28 to May ,, as voted by the board of trade.
 Frederick w. Holloway of Milford is now first sergeant of Company F, Second infantry, of the national guard
 The road scraper is being used to put the roads of East Granby in better con- dition The roads have improved rap idly.
 = fire of evident incendiary origin damaged the residence of Edwin l. Duck in Danbury to the extent of ' $4,OO0.
 Miss Jennie Gilbert Jerome of West vile has accepted the position of junior assistant at the New Haven Public library.
 } / Several Weston anglers have been busy whipping the trout streams about town with gratifying success in most instances.
 Hamden sportsmen are out in large numbers on the brooks about town in their quest for trout, the season start , ing recently.
 Vice President F. B. Buckland of the } New Haven road said that in few days work on the new station in New Haven will begin.l
 Those who signed for the coast artil- lery company ill Stratford went to the armory in Bridgeport to see the Bridge ! port company drill
 The Bridgeport Hydraulic company has just completed raging the old Will sons sawmill, one of the oldest land marks in Bridgeport. A branch of the Red Cross was or ganiZed in Thompsonville, and the gathering was attended by many wo-- men interested in the work. -1
 Mrs. Sarah Adelia Strong, aged nine ty-one years. died at her.home in New Britain of old age She was one of the oldest women in New Britain.
 Frank Plunkett of Fairfield was ia tally injured when struck by a freight train between Fairfield and Southport and died ill St. Virfcent's hospital
 Fogmer Postmaster Adelbert w. Crane of South Glastonbury died sud : denly in Hartford of heart failure. He ] had been in ill health for some time. John F. Walker of Riverview, re- poNfs the first catch of alewives of the season. He secured 100 in his net ill the Connecticut river near his home. Frederick Woodhall, one of Rock | home after an illness of six years. Death was due to a nervous breakdown Henry, Haab of Bristol has accepted the position of mechanical engineer re- gently vacated by Montague Perkins at the Sessions plant factory, Forestville A meeting was held at the home of Henry Thompson recently and the Easf ] Granby Cemetery association was in- corporated under the laws of the state Lester C. Howard, q member of the Ninth company. Connecticut coast ar tillery corps of Stamford. died at hospital in New London of typhoid fe- yer.
 Harry Nelson of Centerville enlisted with the field hospital company of the Second regiment. x. Nelson, an older brother, is an officer ill the same com pany.
 Fairfield was treated to a spectacular fire when barn owned by James ScuI- ly, on the Oldtield road, burned to the ground. The damage is estimated at 5000.
 Much sap from the sugar naples ? about many homes around Weston is now being converted + to sirup and sugar of quality the finest in several years.
 Announcement is made that during the coming season 5,000 pine trees will be planted on the campus of the Con