Connecticut western news., 1917-07-12


oliver Porter, Kensington. who has
been in Oregon for two years engaged !
in forestry, has returned To his home. |
He will be an irsti1:C. - 1T Syracuse |
university next fall tbs Summer he
will DO forestry work in the Adiron-
dacks.
Mrs. Bonney. former postmistress at
the Whimcyville postotfice, has been |
engaged by Peter Larsen. now in |
charge, to continue in the duties for
two weeks. This is because of the
failure to have the new postoffice quar-
tiers completed.
John G.. HolbroolI of Westbrook, who |
was awarded the contract for the new
bridge over the HammOnassett river,
between Clinton and Madison, is erect |
ing building near the river, to be used
as an Office and for storage in connec-
ton with the work.
The work of checking up the list to
see If there were any slackers in Suf-
field who did not register on June 3 is
now completed. and the check up
shows that everybody between the
ages of twenty-one and thirty years,
inclusive, had registered.
The tracks of the Berkshire division
of the New Haven road, between Bots
ford and New Haven, were blocked
several hours by the derailing of
locomotive and nine cars of a heavy
freight train en- route from Poughkeep-
sic Bridge to New Haven.
A record for transportation of coal
In single train was established by
the Central New England and New
Haven roads when eighty-two cars,
carrying 5,7O1 tons and drawn by two
locomotives, moved from the Pough-
keepsie bridge to Waterbury.
Irving Versoy of Morris Cove, who
was in the boat building business for
a few years formerly run by Edward
Champion, left for Stratford, where he
has business interests, later going to
Rhode Island, where with Mrs. Yer
soy he expects to locate permanently.
Seized with cramps and unable to re-
sist the swift current surging through
| Stratford Breakwater, Frank Siciliano,
| twenty-one, of Bridgeport, an employee
of the Remington Arms company, was
| drowned. The body was recovered by
searchers working under lantern light.
! Edward A Gulstrand, twenty years
old, of Company G, First regiment,
Connecticut infantry, a militiaman OF
! Cromwell, on guard duty at a rail-
road bridge near Thomaston, was
found dead near the tracks. 1t is be-
lieved be was killed by a passing
freight.
| Former Burgess George A. Cook,
Fair Haven, has been promoted TO n
clerkship in the New Haven Savings
bank. Mr.. Cook has been serving as
! bank messenger since he left the
borough police force. His many
friends will be glad to learn of his pro-
| motion.
Axel Olsen, thirty-two years old, a
| farm hand at Fairlea farm, Orange.
was reported at the New Haven hos
pital as resting comfortably following
| the first serious swimming accident of
the year when he dove from the end Of
a pier at Savin Rock in about three
feet of water.
New Britain can boast of another
representative in the aviation section
! of the signal corps, for Fred W.
Greene, former assistant secretary OF
the chamber Of commerce. has success
fully passed the examinations, and he
! is awaiting assignment to some train
| ing station.
James French of Plainville, who shot
Miss Marguerite Farrar of Plainville
on the Pennington road, was given a
! hearing in the lower town hall before
Judge Thomas Z. Henebs and was
bound over to the superior court under
| $4,000 bond. For want of bail he was
taken to jail.
Captain Albert b. Randall of the
United States naval reserve force and
one of the leading naval men of Bridge
port. was selected by the naval au-
thorities at Washington as the COM
mander of the U. S. s. Bridgeport, for
merly the Breslau of the North Ger
man Lloyd line.
An attempt to. make good his boast
that he could run between George
| 4 Pratt and q target at which Pratt