Connecticut western news., 1917-02-15

], THURSDAY, + EBRUAR ! Miss Clara ITq~c't~n of TaTs Village ! l:s: b~ri .. .,: e.. i.S Clara Madden, ~,, .atrly resigned as tvo her iu the pr.: .,.rj ra3cs of the <, Ufh BG.;.t.eio g:i."l,-Gr hool.
 James T. Moran. vice president of . the Southern New England Telephone . was elected president of the | at the annual meeting of tns . board of dircC tors in New Haven.
 Officials of the Hartford fire depart ! ment have a$tnd inc state police to at- tempt to lind the tirebug who is believ- ed to be responsible for fourteen in- cendiary fires in Hartford recently.
 Daniel Olson suffered the loss of three teeth while working at the Stan ley works in New Britain, A gear in a machine at which he was working fell out and struck him in the mouth.
 The directors of the BrlStol BraSs company have announced plans for the erection of two more factory buildings and seventy more houses as soon as the building season opens ill the spring.
 The petition of the Central New Eng land railway for approval of its plans for the elimination of a grade crossing at Canton was the subject of hear ing by the public utilities commission.
 Friends of Ed Case. formerly of East Granby. have received word from him that he has been in a hospital at Fres- no. Cal. for several weeks. He is suf- fering from a complication of dis cases
 The city of Mer:den will have been incorporated fifty years on July Il next. and Mayor Joseph A Cooke, tho city council and the chamber of com- merce are considering plans for a cele- bration.
 All the county and municipal build ings in Bridgeport were placed under the guardianship of specially detailed policemen night and day when the news came of the break of relations with Germany.
 Clarence Sherman. a machinist of New Londnh, filed a petition in bank. ruptcy in the United States district court, showing liabilities of $41S and assets of $500 worth of household goods, claimed exempt.
 George E. Bulkeley, who has been secretary of the Connecticut General i Life Insurance company, was chosen second vice president at a meeting of the directors following the annual meet ing of the stockholders.
 For the loss of his two hands while | employed as a brakeman in the rail. 1 Helm has sued the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad com. pany for $20,000 damages.
 Feb marked the passing of two l years since the Rev. Joseph Zebris, | then pastor of St. Andrews Roman Catholic church, and Eva Gilmanitis were murdered at the parish house on ! Church street, New Britain. The auxiliary schooner yacht Crusad- CT II. has been sold by Edwin Palmer
 of the Pequot summer colony to the l Haitian government, which will con-
 vert the yacht, well known to New
 London waters, into a gunboat.
 The New Britain branch of the Ma tional Association of Postoftice Clerks at its annual meeting elected the fol- lowing officers: President, John ]. Eng. fish; vice president. George Kings bury; secretary, William H. Jackson.
 The city of Hartford and the Con 1 necticut company are co-defendants ill suits totaling $20,000 brought by Michael Goldman because of the death of his eleven -year-did son, David. al the temporary bridge over the Park river.
 After thirty-six years of service the steamer Block Island will be with. drawn from the Block Island and
 Watch Hill route by the New England
 Navigation company. leaving no steamt
 ar line running to those places from
 Norwich.
 Robert Veitch of Manchester is con-
 vinced that Second Lieutenant D. c.
 LeDoux Veitch, who was recently kill
 nd in the fnIninn cnnfiict and MhnSn