Connecticut western news., 1917-05-24

The National Association of Audu- bon Societies and the Audubon Society of the State of Connecticut will hold q conference of Connecticut bird and na- ture clubs at the bird craft sanctuary in Fairfield May 2G.
 The New Britain Machine company will operate part of its plant on a twenty-four hours schedule in order to complete contract for milling hy- draulic speed gears, used in turret con- struction for battleships.
 Corporal Private Beckett, Company I, First regiment. Connecticut infantry, New Britain, is under arrest and is to be tried by a court martial on the charge of having threatened to kill one of the lieutenants of the company.
 Joseph Robic, a middle aged man, died at the Stamford hospital of gun shot wound inflicted when the jolting of the vehicle in which he was riding caused the weapon to be discharged, IhC NlidI Ol SllOI a
 On some of the farms near Fair Ha- ven where potato seed was put into the ground early it has spoiled owing to'the cold weather. 1t is said consid- erable early seed of various kinds has spoiled in consequence of the very backward weather.
 Clinton E. Sherwood, son of MT. and Mrs. E. B. Sherwood of Greenfield Hill, a student at Yale Law school, New Haven, has been selected as candidate for commission in the off, cers' reserve corps. He has gone to the Plattsburg barracks.
 Starting in mysterious manner, a fire in a barn owned by George C.. Hale, Jr, at Hale's bridge in the Com DO district of Greens Farms burned the structure to the ground and two oxen imprisoned in the basement of the barn, doing 5000 damage. e. Twenty-seven are now enrolled In the Milford junior home guard. Most of the boys have secured the wooden guns manufactured by John and James Ferguson of North street. They are good imitation, and several have bayo- nets of the same material.
 Major G. E. Verril of the United States army engineers department is now in New Haven and announces that application blanks for enlistment into the New England regiment, one of the nine authorized for work in France. may be obtained at city hall. Michael H. Brennan of Hawleyville died suddenly as the result of apo plexy. He had been in good health up toa-few weeks ago, but had not felt i'll enough to give up his work as section foreman for the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford railroad at Hawley- 1 vile.
 fr Congressman Lonergan was notified by officials of the postoffice department in Washington that upon application the free delivery system would be es- 1 tablished in the following offices of the First district: Collinsville, Unionville, Manchester, Pennington, Kensing ~on l and Suffield.
 The Rev. William J. Doolan, pastor of St. Thomas Roman Catholic church. i Southington, announced that he had 1 decided to grant the large acreage of land owned by him and the church to 1 the people of the church desirous of i planting and that the land would be granted free provided that the people cultivate it.
 Another shipment of two of the new P. A. Y. E. trolley cars arrived in Bridgeport recently. making a total of sixteen that have reached and have been placed in service on the various lines of the Connecticut company. There are still fourteen cars due on the | original order.
 Arthur Howe of Windsor, captain of the Yale football team in 1911, has been appointed by the Connecticut Committee on Food Supply as enroll | ing officer for the Connecticut junior agricultural volunteers, which will be part of the United States boys work ing reserve.
 The union label of the United Hat ters of North America was withdrawn from the factories of the Frank H. Lee Hat company and the S. A. G. Hat company, Danbury, as the result of the differences that have developed over the manner of framing the new wage schedule in the hat industry.
 The Rockwell-D Drake company, Plain vile, has presented the home guard with machine gun. The gun is Colt Marlin type with eight extra barrels, intrenching tools and the usual emer- | o,o,,o~x o,,4at UNho orift rao Ilu onpoao