Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
NEWS .BREWT|ES
 OF CONNECTICUT
Happenings of Interest From
 Around the State.

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 Around the State. Events of All Kinds Gathered From
 Various Points Tn the State and So
 Reduced In size That They Will Hp'
 peal to All Glasses of Readers.
 The Wallingford postofice was bro ken into and robbed.
 Yale's freshman baseball schedule contains twelve home games and three out of town.
 Detectives are still busily engaged
 working on the incendiary fire cases
 In New Britain.
 Plans for the establishment of an
 aeronautic base in Bridgeport are pro-
 gressing materially.
 Business i'm New Haven since the
 war started has raised the total pay roll $7,OO0OOO annually.
 Billy Sunday may visit Bridgeport at
 least for one day If the plans of the
 Pastors association do not go astray. Stratford has voted for new sewer system. 1t will cost $35O,OOO and VIII } be assessed on the grand list for thirty years.
 } Henry Waldo forty-flve years old single, employed as woodchopper' } hung himself In shanty near Will- mantle.
 The First Baptist church of Willi- , mantic voted unanimously to extend call to the Rev. w. D. Swatiield of Dantelson.
 The annual convention of the state chapter, Daughters of Patriots and Founders, brought sixty-fve delegates to Bridgeport.
 Mrs. Nancy A. Endress, Suf1eld's oldest resident, celebrated her eigthy' ' seventh birthday recently at her home in South street.
 Tax Collector George H. Howe of Manchester has given notice that he } will have the rate bill on town taxes ready March 20. Theodore A. Stanley, a successful } scientific farmer and milk dealer of New Britain, died at his home, follow ing a long illness. The Rev. J. J. Papillon, pastor of } St. Mary's Catholic church, Williman' } tic, was admitted to St Joseph's hos } pital, i'll with typhoid fever. After a postponement of five weeks duration, caused by the discovery of a smallpox case near Greenfield Hill, . the Dwight school was reopened. The Interurban line between East
 Hartford and Stafford Springs will
 continue running pending a decision
 of the public utilities commission.
 Fire partly destroyed the home of "A
 ain. The blaze is thought to have
 started from a defective chimney. Mrs. Tryfna Erasinia, who WAS
 burned as the result of pouring kero-
 sene oil on a fire in her home in will
 mantle, died in St. Joseph's hospital Baby week will be observed in Hart
 ford this year from May to May 12.
 The plans being formulated will be
 more extensive than those of last year
 The POO foot war submarine Isaac
 Peral, built by the Electric Boat com pany for the Spanish government. ? sailed from New London for Cadiz. Spain.
 For two or three weeks the hens in the laying contest at StOrrs fell behind last years records, but in the sixteenth week they more than made good their losses.
 Patrick Barrett died possessed of a personal estate valued at $5,460.S6, ac- .oording to an inventory filed with ! Judge Paul L. Miller of the Bridgeport ' probate court.
 Following considerable discussion the Southport school committee decided to F build a new school structure on the
 present location of the Pequot school.
 to cost S40,O0O.
 Plans for the imposing home to be
 erected by Meriden grange incorporat-