Connecticut western news., 1917-05-03

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 I. H. Rogers of Windsor has enlisted for service in the Connecticut national guard.
 Arthur Foley of Portland has been appointed a special constable by the seIectmen.
 J. Randolph Griswod died at his home in PoquonOck of ailments incl dent to advanced age.e
 Senator Mclean of Connecticut spoke in the senate in favor of uni versal military training
 Tine public utilities commission is sued a finding that will improve trol- ley service in Stamford.
 Kirk Webster has been appointed first lieutenant commanding the Tariff vile company of the home guard.
 George Calender, aged eighty-twO. | died suddenly of heart failure at the home of his son Frederick in Torring ton.
 Brainard Norton of Rose Hill, South, port, has accepted a position with the Remington Arms company of Bridge port.
 Rev. Edward Newman Packard. FD.) D.. pastor of the Congregational church for the past twelve years. died at his home in Stratford. Francis c. Chadwick, factory man ager for the Colt Patent Firearms Man 1 uSacturing company, Hartford, for four and one-half years, has resigned. Leverett A. Dickerman, former rep resentative from Hamden in the gel eral assembly, died at his home in Hamden at the age of ninety-five years
 Many Milford garden plots have been plowed the past few days, but the gar dens are not to be planted until there have been a few warm days with sun shine.
 The tug Spartan. the largest owned by the Hartford and New Haven Transportation company, Hartford, has been chartered to the United States I government. s--ss.szfs. ----.t- --s=.
 F. Willard Smith, seventy, carpen ter. was found dead in bed at his home in Andover Medical Examiner Dr Higgins gave verdict of death from heart failure.
 The Meriden chamber of commerce has secured Sidney A. Edwards, a stu dent of the Connecticut Agricultural college at Storrs, to supervise home gardening in Meriden.
 Marshall Loomis has been awarded the contract by the postoffice depart ment for carrying the mail on the star route between Windsor and Poquonock for four year at $500 year.
 The New Haven county farm bureau has announced through its secretary the opening of an employment bureau through which farmers in New Haven will be able to procure labor.
 Joseph Synrott, deputy warden of the state park in the eastern section of Portland, with helpers is at work setting out 3O.OOO spruce and cedar trees.
 A detour has been provided between Berlin and Meriden because of the construction of a concrete road from the end of the concrete in Berlin street to the Warrenite at the Meriden town line.
 Superintendent John H. Walsh of the East Hartford fire district is en gagged in installing the eleven hydrants purchased by the Glastonbury fire dis trict. Two of them will be steamer 1 hydrants.
 Full of bones and goodness, the hum ble alewife, better known as "whop,'' is making his and her annual visita- ton to the waters of the Connecticut and it's coves and bays. Many are be ing caught.
 William H. Dixon of Hartford has enlisted in the United States naval re- serve corps for coast defense and has gone to Brooklyn for assignment. He expects to be placed aboard subma- rine chaser.
 James T. Morgan, a native of Had. dam Neck and for some years engaged ill the silver plating business in Win sted and later at Allegheny, Pa., died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Moodus