Connecticut western news., 1917-06-28
NEVIS BAEWT|ES
 OF CONNECTICUT
Happenings of interest From
 Around the State.

Events of Al! Kinds Gathered From Various Points In the State and So Reduced In Size That They Will Ap- peal to All Classes of Readers. Czaia Theopolis has joined the Mid dletown home guard. , The shad season ended recently ana proved most successful one for nsh- } ermen in Cromwell.
 Elliot Bills, East Granby, was obliged to reset. over an acre of tobacco that Twas badly washed by recent storm. The Rev. Jeremiah J. Curtin, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Catholic church at Waterbury, died unexpectedly of a shock.
 S Miss Esther Whittemore of Peace ' dale. R. l., has been appointed the new e librarian of the PequOt library ill Southport.
 Lynn S. Miller, Middletown, a grad uate of Wesleyan, has enlisted in the machine gun battery of the Fifth h. q diana infantry.
 Judge William F. Mangan of New Britain has gone to the Berkshires to recuperate after his recent illness with s. double pneumonia.
 Thieves in an automobile stole $700 v worth of shoes and hardware in the general store of the estate of I. Agrane- K witch in Colchester.
 N Henry Hart of Southington has been K selected as juror at the Gilligan trial N in Hartford. John Donahue of South M ington was excused.
 E Amherst college conferred the de- gree of master of arts upon the Rev. E George l.. Clark, Wethersheld, at It's E commencement exercises.
 Governor Holcomb appointed Dr. " John T. Black of New London state health commissioner for six years at = salary of $4000 year. -, The Rev. Roger A. Dunlap, pastor of the Congregational church, has ten ! dered his resignation of his charge in ! Windsor Locks, to take effect Sept. l. [ Contrary to expectations, Dr. James +. Faulkner, New Britain, was no s sent to France, but is doing recruiting [ duty at the old statehouse in Boston.
 The Rev. l.. H. Merrill read his res ignation, to take effect the last Sunda,
 in July. at the end of the children
 day service in the church in Yves
 Avon. =.
 Fire destroyed a large barn belongin
 to Edward H. Rider near the Danbur
 mated at S6,O0O, partly covered by ir
 surance.
 But little coal has arrived in Fai . Haven the past few days. In Quir = nipiac river there is only one boa
 with about 600 tons of coal, now di @@ charging. I Alec Wright. seven, of Beacon Fall who was run into by an automobil 4 at Beacon Falls, died in St. Mary's ho { pital. Waterbury. The boys skull wa < fractured.
 4 The planting boom had rain and mu 1 to contend with thus far, so that thel z are few crops, except grass and weed { in Andover which make much shoy ( ing as yet. { Word has just been received { Bridgeport of the appointment of Jof W. Dawson to a captaincy in the T
 serve officers corps, quartermaster
 department.
 After several weeks absence, duriI which time he was patient in a Hal
 ford hospital, Captain J. H. TrumbJ
 resumed active command of the Plai
 vile home guard.
 The fifth annual meeting of the o
 Residents association will be held
 East Hartland on June 28 at D.
 The secretary of the association is E gar B. Case of Granby.
 Mrs. James Tyler Patterson, wide
 of James T. Patterson of the firm
 Cornwall & Patterson of Bridgepc
 and resident of Milford, died folio
 ing stroke of apoplexy.
 Governor Holcomb appointed boa
 of examiners in chiropractice as f
 lows: Charles J. Carlson of Hartfol
 @. Hurd Wilbur of Ansonia and Jo
 A. Keeler of Bridgeport.