Connecticut western news., 1917-07-12
NEWS BREWT|ES
OF CONNECTICUT
Happenings of Interest From
Around the State.

Around the State.
Events of Al Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That They Will APP
peal to All Glasses of Readers.
The Fourth was passed in compare
tive quiet III Madison.
w. B. Woodruff of Bristol was TAX
en- to the Hartford hospital following
an illness of a few days.
Quite a few of the farmers of Gran
, by have started haying, although the
season Is quite late this year.
Durham Floyd of Floydville has ac-
copied a position in Havana, Ga, and
will remove his family there soon.
Roy Goodihg of West Haven has en-
) listed in the ambulance corps and ex-
poets soon to see service in France.
Harry CarranZa a Japanese, was
drowned while boating on the Quin-
nipiac river near Cheshire recently.
Miss Doris Morton. Branford, is very
comfortable at the Elm City hospital
following an operation for appendi-
citis.
The lawn fete held by the Tariffville
Village Improvement society July
was a decided success, about 500 be-
ing Melted.
Chester Bunce of East Berlin left
for military training camp in Yer
mont, where he will remain during
July and August.
William H. Wall of New London was
Z killed by a locomotive ON the tracks of
I the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad at Midway.
Liberty Hill has Red Cross society,
branch of the Lebanon Center organ
ization, with Mrs. o. w. Gurley di-
7 rectress and thirty-seven members.
Antonio Serafini, twenty-four, fell
from a scaffolding in a Bristol factory
1 seventeen feet to a concrete floor and
was killed His skull was fractured.
Fourth of July in Cheshire was
satisfactory day. In the first place,
no bells were rung and no fireworks
! disturbed ones slumbers the night
| before.
: Companies K, L and l of Hartford,
/ Willimantic and New Britain are now
! in Willimantic and are encamped near
/ the Natchaug bridge, on the outskirts
| of the city.
The squad Of Company G of Middle
town which has been doing guard duty
/ at Sylvan Hill tunnel has been trans
! ferred to Waterbury and is encamped
| at Hamilton park.
{ 1t is Announced that Company II,
Hamden home guard, has lost five men
who have enlisted for active service,
and several more are contemplating
doing so in the near future.
D The rainy season has proved an ex-
Z cellent thing for the Milford garden
) crops. Vegetables are doing fine, and
the rain will be welcomed by all farm
} er's and the country at large.
Illness has caused DR.. H. G. Clifton
to resign as a member of the draft
exemption board for the Second Hart
ford district DR.. Clifton has been at
} st. Francis hospital for some time.
} In accordance with orders the mem
bers Of Company D, First Connecticut
, infantry, were withdrawn from guard
duty at the bridges and other property
Of the railroad company around An
d sonia.
: Colonel N. G. Osborn of New Haven
. was elected president of the state pris
! on board at the annual meeting of the
board of directors in Hartford. He
. was also elected president of the board
; of parole.
> Charles s. Chaffee, a former mayor
J Of Derby and one of its best known
, residents, died in Middletown at the
) home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank G.
; Hubbard, with whom he had been liv-
) ing for the past year
; Wesley U: Pearne, judge Of the Mid
, dletown city court, died at his home of
) a hemorrhage Of the throat. He had
, been suffering for some time, but had
) been able to be out and to attend to
; his professional duties.