Putnam patriot., 1917-02-23
CONNECTICUT STATE BRIEFS

living has been given. Potatoes have
 advanced to S3.30 a bushel. Thts IS
 three times the price in normal times,
 and if you ask your grocer why they
 are so expensive he will tell you it is
 And the end is not yet The "spuds"
 may go to $4 bushel before many
 days, according to State street, mer- chant. New Haven.
 An unknown man, believed to have
 been riding the bumpers of a freight
 train, evidently fell between the cars
 and was instantly killed. just east of
 the Lamberton street bridge, New
 Haven, in the cut. How many trains passed over the body is not known,
 but the body was cut to pieces and
 hardly recognizable.
 While playing with matches in the
 bath room of his home. the 10 year
 old son of David Jacobson, of 10 Yer
 non street, New Haven, set fire to the window curtains. Woodwork and
 part of the wall was damaged to the
 amount of $o0.
 Assurances were given by a com
 mittee of the directors of the New
 Haven road that 1t would have a GOV
 cred approach, or marquee. or even
 a subway leading from the new rail
 road station. when 1t is built, to the
 trolley tracks The announcement
 will doubtless be received with con-
 siderable interest by the citizens of
 New Haven.
 The annual report of New Haven
 city engineer Frederick l.. Ford,
 which has been filed with Mayor Campner, throws some additional light
 on the completed plans for the con- struction of a new bridge to take the
 place of the old Tomlinsou bridge
 now spandjng the Quinnipac river, at the head of the harbor.
 A petition is being circulated at Thompsonville for the necessary number of signatures to be presented to the selectmen for the calling Of
 a special town meeting to act upon proposition of purchasing site for new school building to be used for high school purposes in the future As the result of an automobile skid ding an dcrashing into tree on the Post Road at Darien, seven Norwalk people were injured. They are: Ralph Festa, badly cut about the face and body; Antonio Dodo, general shaking up and bruises; Charles Bradi, broken left leg; Tony Padula, broken bone in the foot of right leg; Mrs. R. Festa, cut above right eye; John Dino, lacerated face and wound in right leg; Mrs. Dodo, serious wounds on scalp.
 Selectman Albert Epstein has se- cured the following men to take the war census in Hazardville and out lying districts: Former Representa- tives James E. Loughlin and Arthur G. Gordon, Perlin Richardson, George J. Gordon, Louis Hawthorne, Herbert w. Allen, George s. Bridge. R. Ernest Moody, Ralph E. Moody, Alex Cybul- ski, Fred Root, William Wilson, Mayro Farnham. Blaine D'Arsey, Stan ley Gurinski and D. Everett Netlans. J. H. Eilers, president of the cham Der of commerce, at Windsor, has appointed the following members, l.. H. Eilers, G. M. Montgomery, J. F.
 Oates, J. M. Morse, J. D. Phelps and T. p. Conroy, to act with the select
 men for the purpose of calling town
 meeting for the purpose of acting on l a question of site and the erection
 of town building.
 Sixty men, about third of them Germans and Austrians. applied for l naturalization papers in the office or | the United States district court clerk at Hartford. There were Russians, Swedes, Italians and subjects of Great Britain among the applicants. M. J. McEvoy, superintendent for l the military census, at Waterbury, an- nounced that 1892 persons had volun- teered their services as enumerators. 1 All he asked for was 500. The work l of taking the census, it is estimated, will be completed in three days. Military census enumerators in New l London, in the house and tenement districts are meeting with refusals Of names and information by persons l who insist that they cannot be com- 1 pelled legally to answer. The Even l ing Day" advocates the immediate ad- ditfon of an amendment to the census l act providing for penalty clause and. predicts that in default of 1t the cen sus will not be success.
 l The Simsbury Electric Light Con- pany has reduced the price of serv- l ice. Householders were agreeabiy ! surprised when the bills for January l came in to find that the cost of house 1 service had been reduced from F | cents a kilowatt hour to Il cents. This l is understood to be the only change 1 in the price of the service, the price for power and the minimum charge i being the same as formerly.
 | Listed among the new projects are
 hospital building in Norwalk. resi-
 dences in Stamford, Greenwich, pr;dgeporf, New Haven and Hartford; high school building in Hartford; n :ne-family apartment buildings and | several frame houses in Hartford; al | seratious to business block in Bridge i port. addition to manufacturing plant fin Waterbury, and several one ana
 two family houses in New Britain
 Building permits were issued in the
 cities of New Haven, Bridgeport, Hart
 ford. Waterbury, Stamford and New Britain to the number of 67, for new construction work costing $214.96s. the largest amour. of new building con
 etruction being found In Briesepor.