Connecticut western news., 1917-03-15
NEWS BREWT|ES
 OF CONNECTICUT
Happenings of Interest From
 Around the State.

Events of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points In the State and So
 Reduced In Size That They Will Ap-
 peal to All Glasses of Readers. A two weeks boycott of potatoes and onions was voted by the Mother hood club of Hartford. Mrs. Antonio Gade, seventy-two, of Rocky Hill died at the Hartford hospi- tai from the effects of fall. John Rennie of Manchester has writ | ten friends that he is embarking from Boston to join the English forces. P. s. McMahon has settled his case of cruelty to animals in the Berlin town court by paying $50 and costs.
 A commission as postmaster at South Coventry has been issued to John s. | Champlin. The appointment is for four years.
 Mrs. Frederick B. Kirtland died at her home in Chester after an illness of three months, following a paralytic shock.
 | Governor Holcomb has exempted from the operation of the civil service act the appointees of the bank commis- sioner.
 James D. Robinson, sexton at St. Johns Roman Catholic church, Middle town, has resigned after twenty years of service.
 William S. Ford, a prominent Hamp- l ton man, died at his home at the age of seventy years. Death resulted from pneumonia.
 The mortality report in New Britain l for February shows ffty-two deaths, of which eighteen were children under one year old.
 Miss Ruby Thompson, soprano solo ist of the Asylum Avenue Baptist church, Hartford, has resigned, to take effect May 1.
 Mrs Katie Spicer (Markham) Barton, wife of Town Clerk Frederick H. Bar ton of East Hampton, died at her home after a long illness.
 Pneumonia claimed sixty-four per sons in Bridgeport during February according to the vital statistical record compiled for that month.
 Chauncey R. Johnson of 34 Garvan street, East Hartford, slipped on the ic> Saturday while carrying out ashes and fractured his left hip. , A certificate of incOrporation has been filed with the secretary of state by the Evergreen Dairy company of Bridgeport. capital $10,OOO.
 Frank l.. Carter, Jr., who conducted mems furnishing store in Stamford filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court.
 Professor BruttOn, state tree expert will deliver an interesting lecture on trees and shrubbery in the Marion chapel, Southington, April 6.
 The Rev. Carlos E. Jones, assistant to Rector H. 1. Bodley of St. Mark s church, New Britain, rendered his res ignation to take effect May 1.
 Timothy Goodwin, aged sixty-five, Democratic registrar of voters of Meri, den, was stricken with apoplexy while shoveling snow and died later.
 Frank O. Thompson has been chosen chairman of the committee in charge of the Plainville firemen's fair, which will be held some time in April.
 John Nelson has been appointed fourth class postmaster at Quaker Hill and has been granted permission to change the location of the office.
 Fire which started, it is believed, from a careIessly dropped cigarette burned out room in Vanderbilt Scien- tific hall in College street, New Haven.
 Eighteen names have been forward. ed to Town Clerk Harold c. Lowell of Stratford for the machine gun battery company which is to be formed in that town.
 MT. and Mrs. Arthur Sikes, George Peckham, Henry Roche and William I Pinney of Suffield went to Washington to attend the inauguration of President l Wilson