Putnam patriot., 1917-11-02
CONNECTICUT STATE BRIEFS


 received q summons from a New York exemption board. which vii be told he will be hanged November 1s.
 Men and somen Of sOelef. in Bridge yort and other cities 10 tbe number Of more than o9a attended the wedding Of Miss Edith Whiting Eiker and Lieu tenant BerfFam AiHHw0rfh. which WAS solemnized in g. Paul.s church, Fair. teld.
 faleott II. Russell. one Of the most prominent lawyers in New Haven county. died at New Haven He was seventy years old. Mir Russell was graduated from Yale in 1869. He leaves his wife and two sons.
 Frederick Aagee scalfe Of Prts- burgh. a junior in the Sheffield scien- life school. was killed when he WAS thrown from an automobile in which he was a passenger. Robert Carson, 2d of Pittsburgh. a Tale academic freshman. and William W Blair, Jf5 also of Pittsburgh and member Of the Sheffield school freshman class, were slightly hurt. The accident is said to have occurred when Blair. who was driving attempted 10 pass anoth- er automobile. The wheels of the two cars locked and the collision threw sealfe to the roadway. William W, Blair, Jr., a Yale freshman. was held by the police.
 There was most enthEEiaStic re sponse 10 the call for workers Al the new Tabernacle building in Ansonlat and az a result the entire structure was covered in during the afternoon. Although asking for 200 workers 10 assigt on the job the church workers were surprised al the response, more than double that number presenting themselves. All were armed wlth hammers Of some sort. and under the direction of the foreman Of the con struction gang. all busted themselves in enclosing the structure.
 The first of Hartford's sons 10 die lover there" in the great world con fict was Private Walter T. Sullivan Of the One Hundred and Second Unit cd States infantry, machine gun com pany. His death. due to pneumonia, occurred in France September z4.
 The Windsor home guardsmen held their rst shoot at the range on the Hayden Pomeroy farm. There were many men who had never shot gun, but only five failed 10 hit the paper
 Rev. pr. William II. Vibbert. graduate of Trinity college in the class of 1858. has been elected first vice president of the Berkeley Diyin- Ity School Alumni association to sue eeed the late Rev Dr. Samuel Hart.
 The decision by the superior court that Joseph W. Alsop was elected se- Iectman of the town of Avon may be taken to mean the return of MT. All sop to participation in the activities Of the Republican party.
 State Treasurer Chamberlain is putting all his available funds into Liberty bonds.
 The British recruiting mission has obtained about POO men for the fight ing forces of the empire in and near Hartford
 The trustee in bankruptcy of the International Casket company an nounced at Meriden the sale Of the property to Arthur Manning of Hart ford for sl5,000. Business will be resumed.
 IL is expected that the Tariffville home guard will be transferred to inc Granby company soon, where they will receive uniforms and equip ment
 Fully 10000 Hartford people crowded into the Union station to say goodby to The $50 young men who were returning 10 Camp Devens, national army cantonment, after a week end visit b the city. A real patriotic rally they made It. with cheers for the Hartford drafted men and the singing Of national songs.
 Liberty choruses are soon to be or ganized in the towns and villages Of Connecticut and letters have already gone out to the council of defense town committee asking for sugges- tions The choruses will be organ tzed SO that on important public oe- casions there will be patriotic and inspiring music available.
 Devon is to have a new fire house. costing about s7.000 and to be erect ed on Spring street.
 The state tuberculosis commission awarded the contract for the erection of the new addition to the infirmary In shelton to Lewis Miller of Meri- den for s5l.223. The addition will enable the commission to provide ae- commodation for 64 more patients.
 George s. Burr Of Higganum died al his home as the result Of fall from an apple tree week ago. lie was seventy years old and leaves widow and a sister in Meriden.
 Complete arrangements have been made by the fire department for the joint parade of the police and fire men in Bridgeport November 3.
 Rev. c. s. Nightingale of Moosup has been called by the First Baptist church of Winsted so he its pastor.
 Herbert F. Watson. one of the young men lost when the transport Antilles was sunk by a German sub marine, was we'll known in Willi- mantle. having formerly been resi- dent there with his uncle, Miriam N Fenn. He enlisted in the navy as electrician. third class. at Boston April g. 1917. and had made three trips across the water. He was born in Norwich, Conn. the son of MT. and Mrs. Frank Watson.