Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
BRIEF STATE NEWS

New Haven-More than 80 of the 100 cases returned Tuesday to the civil side, superior court, are acOons for divorce brought for the ex-parte I list
 Bantam,-A certificate of increase of
 stock has been filed by the Bantam
 creasing its stock from $1OO,oOO to | $250, ,o0o.
 Naucatuck-Mrs. Sarah c. Page,
 widow of John M. Page, has presented St. Michaers Episcopal church jew eIed processional cross, in memory of her husband, who for 35 years was
 warden of the church.
 MiddIetown-wher the 25o or more
 employees of the local plant of the Goodyear Rubber company were paid off this week they found in their en- veIopes a bonus equal to 10 per cent of their wages for the past three
 months.
 Hartford.-E. Kent Hubbard of Mid dIetown has been chosen by the Trin- ity alumni to make 1he address Sun
 day afternoon of commencement week
 in memory of the late Dr. Samuel Hart
 MT Hubbard is well known Trinity
 graduate.
 New Britain.-The privilege of hav-
 ing students at the local high school
 enter college without taking examina-
 tions which was granted some time
 ago, has been continued until 1920, ac-
 cording to information received from
 the New England college certificate
 board.
 New Britain.-James E. Bea1e, 6S, of No. 428 West Main street, newspaper man and globe trotter, died Friday at the New Britain general hospital of cerebral henorrhage. He was stricken while at work in the printing depart rnent of Landers, Frary & Clark's factory.
 coIIinsviIIe-Leonard B. Hough, son of MT and Mrs. F. J. Hough of this place, will leave today (Thursday) for New York, and will sail day or two later with the Amherst college unit for duty ambulance driver with the American field ambulance service in France.
 MiIford.-Robert Buckingham, 19 years old, a paroled Cheshire reforma- tory youth, was arrested at the revol- vers point by two officers early yes terday, as it is alleged he was break ing into a safe in the office of Edgar T. Clark, a coal dealer. He was locked up to await a hearing on a charge of burglary.
 Waterbury. - Superintendent of Schools Berlin W. Tinker made an nouncement Monday afternoon at the meeting of the board of education that 773 students were to enter the high school next fall from the public schools and 193 from the parochia1 schools, making a total of 966. Last years total was CTS.
 New Britain. The health depart ment at its next meeting will probably recommend the drafting of a new or dinance governing the handling of milk in restaurants as an Investigation which has been made by Meat, Food and Milk Inspector D. B. D. Radcliffe has convinced him that unsanitary conditions are prevalent.
 NorfoIk.-The Litchfeld county chor- Us on Thursday concluded a three days festival, including much new music, which attracted the usual at tendance from New York and other cities. The chorus this year numbered 115 voices, under Arthur Mees, and an orchestra of. 75 was assembled from New York by Henry P. Schmitt.
 New Haven.-Much surprise was oc- casioned at Yale by the announcement Phelps, professor of English literature at the university and fan1iliarly known to all Yale men as "'Bi1ly" Phelps, and a score or more other prominent Yale men and undergraduates were found in the lists seized by secret service men in New York at the headquarters of the Collegiate Anti-OdiHtarist league.
 Meriden.-Pians for the organizing of an ambulance company to be form ed in Middletown, Meriden and New Britain by Dr. H. F. Lockwood of Mer- iden, to accompany the northeastern division of the United States army to France, are progressing rapidly, and it now looks as if a sufficient number of men would be secured by the end of the week so that the physical examina- tions can be commenced the first of next week.