Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
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 Glasses of Readers.
 Alice M Vine is i'll with scarlet fe-
 yer at the home of Mrs. Ella Murdock
 in Portland.
 A home guard has been organized in
 Tariffville with H. E. Hotchkiss as re-
 cruiting officer.
 Clarence Hubbard has been appoint
 ed rural mail carrier from the West
 Haven postoffice.
 A permit was issued for the con-
 struction of the Fair Haven branch
 library, to cost $1SOOO.
 Warren Shapely Worth, we'll known
 resident of Columbia, died suddenly at
 his home after a short illness. Miss Bessie Stowe has forwarded her , | TeS1g11aLlOu LO pOoe } mistress of the office at Scitico. Frederick Grensel of New Britain died recently at his home of old age and complication of troubles. Captain and Mrs. Herman Fleischer ! of New Britain will observe their gold. en wedding anniversary April II. Alfred D. Buess, who suffered T broken back in a fall from a scaffold on Aug. 15 last, died at the Meriden hospital.
 Fire destroyed the grain and grist mill of the c. W. Campbell company, Stonington, causing loss estimated at $15O,0OO.
 The safe in the ticket office of the Milford railroad station was opened by burglars. It Is thought the cash loss was about $200.
 ? Mrs Mary Debler Vincent. forty s eight, died recently at the Charlotte D Hungerford hospital, in Torrington. after long illness
 2 The board of selectmen has given ? the use of the Judd house, on South ' Main street, to the Wallingford chap ? ter of the Red Cross society. D Frederick M. Cowles, cashier of the s First National bank, was the first man ? to enlist in the Wallingford home s guard at Company K armory. D The Central National bank of Hart 2 ford has given the use of its old bank . ing house on Main street as recruit 2 ing station for the home guard. = Mrs. Frances NJ. Diefendorf of Bris- - tol died at the home of her daughter,
 Mrs. Charles l.. Wooding, following a
 weeks illness with pneumonia. After a lingering illness Franklin S.
 Griswol1 died at his home in New Brit
 ain, Aged sixty-six years. His health
 had not been good for slime time. By the will of the late Elliot P,
 Skinner the to VII of Andovef is left ! S5,OOO for a public library. No other
 requests were of public nature. The fourth quarterly conference of the year was held at the Bristol Meth
 odist church recently. District Super intendent Dr. E. A. Dent presided. The new postal service is working we'll, and the residents of Elm Dee
 Manor and of King Terrace are pleased
 to get their mail by carrier service. = More than 4.300 persons are now 2 members of the Hartford chapter of { the American Red Cross. About 100 of the members live outside the city. New Haven's "clean city week" for 1917 was definitely set for April 23-2S at a recent meeting of the citizens committee held at Mayor Campner's office.
 ! The funeral services of the late Z Jules Turcas, an artist of Old Lyme, were held at the Turcas home in New York city. His death was from pneu- monia.
 V The home of F. R. Comstock in = Rocky Hill was entered by burglars or
 tramps and clothing, antiques and plat
 ed ware to the value of about $4OO
 taken.
 Congressman Augustine Lonergan
 has selected John c. Blackal a Hart
 ford newspaper man, to be his secre-
 tary during his coming term in Wash