Putnam patriot., 1917-03-16
CONNECTICUT
 STATE BRIEFS

Increase Of salaries for Ae-iden's public school teachers is engaging the attention Of the town school commit tee
 Miss Eldridge. Johusan's benefac- tress. has absolutely refused to dis cuss the embedding case after John sons disappearance from Norfolk. 1 James " Hurley. 8 former conduc- tor on the UnionvlEe line but who has since been living in Hartford. has re turned and taken his old rua. Fred H Dobson. appointed Park Commissioner by Mayor Cooke, is making record ia Meriden-
 selectmen Of the town of Norfolk will pay sl00 reward for the arrest ] and conviction Of Philemon ". John son. the embezzler
 Yale defeated Harvard h 8 fencing meet at New Haven by score of : to 2
 The epidemic of German measles. which has subsided al Westminster. has struck the simsbury High School over dozen pupils being taken sick with the disease during the we k.
 The biggest cheek for life insurance since the death Of Thomas sheylin in Minneapolis more than a year ago left the Hartford office of the Tray- elers Insurance Company addressed 10 the estate Of Frederick R. Hazard, Of Syracuse. N. Y. | was for s209 900.
 St. Francis's T. 4 & B Society, Tor rilgton's active temperance organiza- 1 ton. began a ten days campaign to raise $50 900 for new clubhouse. The February enrolment in the Ply mouth schools shows an increase over the corresponding months last year Of sixty-six. This makes a total Of 1129 enrolled with 9es average attendance. with sss perfect attend ance. ~ ..e
 A motion 10 lay f0 l-2 mill tax. one half mill to be put in the sinking fund was voted at the special town meeting at Rockville
 The Terryville committee. ef which George c. Clark ls chairman and Thomas J Finan secretary ard Harry Glow treasurer. to secure funds for the erection of new library building has gotten into working order Philemon W Johnson embezzler. was Town Librarian. Town Treasurer. and Treasurer of the Norfolk Mfg. Company.
 The price Of milk advanced Tn Plainville from 10 cents 10 II cents.
 Judge of Probate Curtiss s Bacon. of Middletow1. has accepted the ad- l ministration account of Wallace K. Bacon as administrator of the estate of Elizabeth G Wilcox. He has order. ed the estate distributed to the heirs. the estate of Mrs R Sumner Pease and William C. Edwards The estate approximates si35 900
 In an effort to get the farmers O, | the county more interested in ths raising Of hogs for the market. Coun. ty Agent Fay Of the Middlesex Coun- | ty Farm Bureau Is conducting a series of meetings i1 various towns of the | county
 1 Following the discovery of fourteen | eases Of smallpox ia Newtown. health l authorities learned that many people from Rethel attended a dance in the quarters of the Dodgingtown Fire l Company. Newtewn. at which at least one person who had smallpox was | present The quarantine order affects many school children and workers In factories
 Many and possibly all of the 1000 l employees recently let go by the Sco- vile Manufacturing Company, Water bury. are 10 be taken on again. start
 ing a new war order.
 Louis St Clair Burr of Center street. Manchester Is the owner Of fifty-six hens that are proving themselves to be some hens One day this week they produced thirty-four eggs and just 10 show that they could do better the next day they provided their own CT with forty-six eggs.
 Miss Alice Clark has resigned her place al the National Bank of Com ] merce. New London. which she has held for thirteen years. to take care Of her mother at Old Saybrook
 Although the milk dealers in other towns Tn that section are raising the | retail price of milk to II cents quart t is not likely that Torrington dealers will take any such action ow- ing to the fact that there Is an over production of milk.
 The Rev Frank w. Dell pastor o, the Congregational Church at South | Glastonbury. has been called as pas tor of the Fret Presbyterian Church at Thompsonville
 The Boy Scout financial campaign is almost completely wound up at Hartford few small contributions are coming in. but 1t is thought that they will not alter the final figures which are announced ss go 900
 The special committee of assistants at Hartford. 10 the Governor for for the military census. has revised the total of The number to be expected and counts on about 40o.o00 from the state.
 States Attorney Hugh NJ Alcorn. at 1 Hartford. believes that the police have given out too much information in the Taft murder case and has ordered that no more information be given out con corning the investigation
 Four men condemned to be hanged for murder are in the state prison at wethersfeld.
 l In police court al New Britain, Pat. sy neRoss, Of No T Temple street. I Ia A~s @Ax k~