Connecticut western news., 1917-11-29
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mas tree and entertainment will be | substituted by different organizations for the separate exercises and enter | tainments heretofore always given by the Nor1eld Sunday school, Norfield Grange, and the Norneld Improve ment 4 Association.
 Alfred J. Bloor, eiGhty-nine years old, an architect, who attained prom thence as designer of many of New York's large buildings half century ago, died at Stoninglon. He was sec retary of the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War and a personal friend of President Abraham Lin coin.
 With a working force of $500 the Pratt & Whitney Company of Hart ford is rushing work on arms and ammunition machinery, which it is making exclusively.
 Rapid fire guns will be turned out at the Mayo radiator plant, owned by the MarlinRockwell Corporation in New Haven.
 Two new buildings will be built at the Colt Patent Firearms Manufuc- turing Company at Hartford.
 After her body had laid a day and a half in the dreary Bridgeport Hos pital morgue, unclaimed and uniden- tified, the twelve-year-old girl who was killed by an automobile driven by John D. Donovan of Naugatuck at the Bridgcport-St city line was recognized as being Beccy Kon- torovsky, daughter of Isador Konto- rovsly of the firm of Kontorovsky & Hanovitz, Bridgeport, junk dealers.
 Connecticut, North Dakota and Ok lahoma have kept the per capita cost of delivering a selected man to rail- road station under the $3 mark.
 Under the law State Attorney All ing of New Haven county appointed an office detective aid. The selection is Harry Futile of the New Haven detective bureau.
 Of the staple household foods that are being used daily in almost every house in Bridgeport sugar and salt seem to be the things that house wives cannot buy at most of the big stores.
 The George L.. Lilley Company of Waterbury has increased its capital stock from $9,000 to s450,000 and the number of%shares from 90 to 4,50O, according to papers filed in the office of the secretary of state at Hartford. This is the company that was organized by the late Governor Lilley.
 Maj. w. A. Mercer, recruiting off cer, announces that Connecticut has furnished more than 1000 men, more than the quota assigned to her April 1 for the regular army. Recruiting still continues brisk, as many young men are realizing the splendid chances offered to them by the many branches of the army now open to them.
 The American Valve and Tool Com pany of Marion closed its doors to business and will locate in Brooklyn. The company came to this town about a year ago and built large plant on the main thoroughfare of the village. It employed about 25 men. Small tools and valves were manufactured and business was brisk, but as the plant was located over a mile from a rail road station transportation of mate rials proved big expense.
 The West Haven police and Coro- ner Mix are conducting an investiga- tion to determine whether the death of Harry Platt of SIT Washington ave- nue, found with his skull cruhsed in a barn at 164 Orange avenue, was the result of foul play or the kick of a horse.
 The apple crop at Burlington, where the water department of New Britain owns considerable property, provided about 40 bushels of the fruit this sea- son. Employees of the department picked many of them, and about 12 bushels were sold.
 The sum of $141 has so far been subscribed in the borough of Nauga- tuck toward fund for public skat- ing rink. It is estimated that the sum of $500 at least will be necessary, and the subscriptions to the fund will close on next Saturday. The rink will be constructed on the grounds of the Naugatuck Golf Club.
 John Coughlin, thirty years old, was killed when he became entangled in the machinery of an elevator at the Willys Overland service station, Hart ford. He was working on the eleva- tor when his clothing caught, and he was badly mangled, dying almost in- stantly. He leaves a widow and four children.
 Twenty German and Austrian em- ployees of the Pratt & Whitney shop, Hartford, were given official orders of discharge from Washington. All the men discharged were enemy aliens. No reason was sent for their dis charge, but it is believed that it is a part of the national policy to get all Germans and Austrians out of muni-