Connecticut western news., 1917-02-15
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Events Of Az Kinds Gathered From
 Varioa. Points In the State and So
 Reduced In Size That They Will Ap-
 peal to All Classes of Readers.
 The police of New Britain have been notified that Charles S.lltus has eScap- ed from the refOrmatOry at Cheshire. Announcement was made of the mar riage in New York of Cornelius Collins and Miss Rose GOodfeld. both of For eStvile.
 William Gorry, son of MT. and Mrs. A. J. Gorry of Southington, will take the entrance eX; minations to Annapo- ! lis Feb. 19.
 Earl c. Young was elected president of the Hartford Christian EndeaVor union at the annual meeting at Center church house.
 Egbert Dart, one of the oldest and most prominent Grand Army veterans of Rockville. passed away at the Hart ford hospital
 A large number of the Southington went to Wallingford to pay visit to the tribe of that place.
 An order has been issued by H. O. | Averill commissioner of domestic ami mals, that all dogs in Terryville be muzzled beginning Feb.9.
 Louis F. Stoddard was elected presi dent of the New Haven Hotel com pany, operators of the Taft, at the annual directors meeting.
 Charles A. Hackney of Unionville has finished harvesting second crop of ice twelve inches thick and now has a supply of about 2,5O0 tons. The Hartford chapter of the Ameri- can Red Cross has received a gift of S1 OOO from a Hartford woman whose name has not been made public. Nearly 200 of the 225 manufacturers of Bridgeport stand ready to place their factories at the disposal of gov ernment contracts in the event of war. Roger Kennedy, for years a promi- } nent contractor in the state, dropped dead at South Farms of apOpleXy. He } was a pioneer dock builder in Connect icut.
 Alfred Grazel, employed as plumber } for John J. Mullings of Hartford, was badly burned by a flare of gas in the } cellar beneath George H. Pearson's sa. loon.
 Due to action taken at the annual i. town meeting in WetherSfield. the ! completed grand list shows an in ! crease of $660,OOO over that of last
 year.
 Mrs. Mary Bullman, seventy, ot
 Wethersfield was fatally burned at heI
 home on Spring street It is thought
 her clothing took fire from the kitchen range.
 Richard M. Thompson, veteran o1
 the civil war, died at his home il
 Highland park, Manchester. He was
 seventy-six years of age and was borr ! in England.
 James Sherwood, blamed with being
 responsible for the fire at the freight yards ill Plainville, was dismissed from
 service by Station Agent c. J. Mulvi
 hill after the fire. ~l A wooden movement clock nearly ( - century old stands ill the home of Mrs D Anna Coleman Newton Hawley ol 2 Hartford, where it is on duty daily ' and keeps excellent time. I Secretary Andrews of New Britain < has returned from the national con z vention of the chamber of commerce at Washington and is much in favor ' of the daylight saving plan. 9 Franklin Miller who retired in 1911 as treasurer of the Stamford Savings \ bank, after a quarter of a century ot ' service in that capacity, died at his \ home, aged eighty-one years. John Carpenter died at his home il = Wall street Middletown, at the age ot
 eighty years. He was a silk weaver
 by trade and had been a resident oi
 MiddletOwn for many years.
 Raymond Murray, son of Mir. an(
 Mrs. Francis Murray of Rockville, lef
 for Washington, where he has accept
 ed a position as stenographer at the
 office of the geological survey.
 Suspension for three months for vio
 Iation of the police department rule
 regarding drinking was imposed upon