Connecticut western news., 1917-06-07
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 Classes of Readers.
 Wilbur Hayes son of Frank Hayes of North Bloomfield, died of infantile pa ralysis.
 Herman Carl Nelson of Forestville
 has enlisted in Company D of Bristol
 and has been sent to Ansonia. Willis Hines, Pennington, of the na } val reserve is on duty with the battle ship Missouri somewhere on the ocean,"
 John M. Crampton, the state super !. intendent of fish and game, has decided to extend the shad fishing season to June IS.
 Howard Register of Meriden has re- signed as playgrounds supervisor on ac- } count of being called to service in the coast patrol.
 c. s. Fuller, chairman of the com } mittee in Suffield, reports that $45,0OO of the Liberty bonds have been taken } in that place.
 At recent town meeting by unan-
 imous vote $500 was appropriated to
 finish out the equipping of the Madi-
 son home guard.
 Harold L. Smith, we'll known news paper man, has left Derby for Fort q Sloeum, having enlisted with the Unit ed States cavalry.
 Henry F. Davis of Washington, re tired business man, died suddenly of indigestion and heart trouble at his 4 summer home ill Stonington. s Allan Bean, son of pr. and Mrs Wright B. Bean of Rockville, a mem Der of the American ambulance corps s has arrived safely in France
 Dr. Frederick Rogers, eighty 1.-two
 died at a Willimantic hospital as a re suit of injuries suffered May 19 wher I he was hit by an automobile. X Memorial day, chosen as ''tag day by the Willimantic Jewish people fol collection for Jewish war sufferers 7 resulted in raising about $150. { State Treasurer Frederick s. Cham I berlain announced at Hartford that ht ] had decided to invest $2,OO0,000 of th' state funds in the Liberty Loan. ] H. Noble of East Berlin has passed entrance examinations at Annapolis ] He is a graduate from MiddletowI ! high school, where he was president O. ! his class. 1 Mrs. Richard Mansfield of New Lon ] don is in charge of the registration bu , reau of the National Leage For Wo : mans Service in that city, assisted b! - Mi Is Ruth Forbes.
 1'he Rev. r. S. Dillingham; of New } Britain resigned his pastorate of tht ? Universalist church after four years O service. It is believed he intends t , move to the west.
 2 Eugene $. Allen of Forestville ha resigned his position as rural mail car rier, and Ebert N. Bunnel will serv the route temporarily until a regula carrier is appointed.
 Chauncey Lewis, son of Mrs. Mar, E. Lewis of Stratford, left for New York to sail with one of the Yale unit 2 for France, where he will drive an am . bulance for the Red Cross. . Sergeant Schultz and Privates Der
 tini and Beverly, constituting the re cruiting committee, have been ordered
 to remain in Wallingford and continu
 recruiting until further notice.
 Dr. Vincent J. Irwin, Jr, of Granby
 has gone to Fort Harrison in Indiana
 Dr. Irwin enlisted in the medical re
 serve corps of the national army. H
 has the rank of first lieutenant
 The death of Andrew Clark occurre
 at his home in Milford after a lon
 illness. MT. Clark was born in Orang
 nearly seventy-siX years ago and ha
 been a resident of Milford many years
 The Boulders at Rockridge, the larg
 summer home of MT and Mrs. Edwil
 B. Close of New York, was completel
 destroyed by fire of unknown origin
 resulting in loss estimated at $3O0,OOC