Connecticut western news., 1917-03-22
NEWS BREWT|ES
 OF CONNECTICUT
Happenings of Interest From
 Around the State.

Events of All Kinds Gathered From
 Various Points In the State and 50
 Reduced In Size That They Will Ap-
 peal to All Classes of Readers.
 A strong move is to be made this year to enforce the traffic laws in I Southington.
 A total of 10000 pounds of rice were delivered to the retail grocery stores of New Haven.
 Fire destroyed the large tool house in Elizabeth park, causing a loss esr- mated at $1 1,50O.
 William P. Kelley, representative from Killingly to the general assembly, died of pneumonia.
 The body of Thomas L. Healy, who died in Erie, Pa, was brought to Wind sor Locks for burial. Joel T. Case, one of Bristors promi- nent business men, dropped dead at his home at 239 Grove street. Mrs. Julia Coperthite, Meriden's old , est woman, recently celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday. ' Work is to be started at once on new building at the Ansonia plant or the American Brass company. Cornelius Lehane of Cork, Ireland, the leader in the docl- strike in Eng R land. will speak in Bridgeport April l. ' Attorney Edward Henry Rogers who died in New Haven, was well \ known by the older residents of Plain ! vile.
 Charles L. Dennis was unanimously elected dictator of Bridgeport lodge Loyal Order of Moose, for the eighth term.
 William +. Durham of Hockanun has purchased the Truman Hale farm . of Miss Cora A. Hale and Robert Hal' a of Glastonbury. Q Stimulated by the crisis with Ger Q many, recruiting at the Bridgepor . navy recruiting station has broken al c previous records. ! Q Following the completion of the mill = tary census a call is to be issued 70 . the formation of a home guard for th s town of Windham. = Patrick Murphy, railroad carpen ter, sixty-two and single, at work on S railroad dock, was struck and killed b, e a car in New Haven. g Rev. James Tregaskis, a retire = Methodist Episcopal minister, died a
 his homo in Cheshire after an Hines ,- of ten days of erysipelas.
 The mad dog that bit several othe
 dogs in the, northern part of New Brit
 ain was shot by a man named Fiene
 man on Pennington avenue. The funeral of Professor WilliaI
 Beebe of Yale university, who die
 after a short illness of pneumonia \ was held from Battell chapel.
 There are in Connecticut 4,O00 COW
 upon which records are being kept
 COW test associations and 1850 COW
 upon which private records are kept. Nine more cases of rabies, showin
 the seriousness of the epidemic in tt
 state, were reported to Jeffrey
 Phelps, commissioner of domestic an mals.
 . Preliminary preparations are undt . way for the annual session of the stat p@ council of the Sons and Daughters e Liberty, which will be held in Danbur | May 15.
 ' The records of the Hartford fire < employment office for the month I February show gain of ten in tE { number Of positions filled over Febr1 4 ary, 1916.
 |? Professor William H. Taft has col < sented to be the toastmaster at u I business mems banquet of the Ne { Haven Young Mems Christian associ I tions April Is. V Out of 55,741 completed blanks r
 turned to the state headquarters of u - Connecticut military census only ?:
 refusals to give the information aske
 have been received. That New London is to be one of u most important ports on the Atlant seaboard is the belief of Congressms Richard r. Freeman, who recently r turned from Washington.