Connecticut western news., 1917-06-28


 Secretary Frederick l.. Perry of New | Haven. John villi~rs Farwe1l, 1879, of Chi 'cago was reelected as a member of | the Yale corporation. There was no candidate against him for the vacancy caused by the expiration of his term of office.
 Charles H. Shapiro, a Bridgeport lawyer, defeated Dr. George H. Cohen of Hartford as delegate at large to represent the small towns ill the state at the American Jewish congress at Washington in September
 Government inspectors from the Brooklyn navy yard have taken over the steam yacht Cigarette, which has been laid up in the North cove chan nel, Essex. for several months, and are fitting her up for use.
 Carl Holbrook. son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Holbrook of East Haven, has joined the ambulance corps of the Yale unit and has gone to Allentown, | Pa, for a few weeks training and from there will go to France. l Camp Dewey, the eastern training | station of the United States Junior Ma val reserve, near the government navy | yard, New London, is now i'll full op- eration for the summer season, with over 300 cadets in attendance,
 An eight cylinder 400 horsepower eDiesenberg engine, weighing about two tons has arrived at W. H. Harrison's I boat works, Essex, and will be in- stalled in the United States dispatch boat being built in that shop. 
 An inmate of the state reformatory in Norwich named Benson was shot and probably fatally wounded when he tried to make his escape from d field where he, with sixteen other pris- oners, was at work under guard.
 A series of wage demands which be- gan at the plant of the Andrew Terry company, >Terryyille, ended with the
 
 crease to the employees, who number
 about 250. There was no cessation of
 work.
 Knowing that the end was near, but
 not content to wait, George B. Hol-
 brook of East Haven, who had- been
 i'll for the past three years with tuber'
 culcsis shot himself through the |, heart with an old time carbine at his : home.
 A dozen or more people were injured
 several seriously, in a peculiar trolley
 accident on Whitney avenue, New $ Haven. when a northbound Country f loclub car~-as side swiped by heavy , railroad ties protruding from a worl 4tEcar coming into the city.
 a%@9 <. -s. >s--s E.. ..- - s.-- {. l. Iss Announcement has been made tha V the meat markets of Bristol woult s close on Wednesday afternoons durini f the summer. This action was brough
 about by practically all of the larg
 markets in consideration of the lon 2 hours that the clerks have to work. i The members of the Eunice Denni l. Burr chapter of D. A. R., Fairfield
 have decided to take a French orphan
 which they will take care of for on IT year A~number of social affairs wi l. be given during the coming months t t. help raise money for this purpose. The seIectmen of the town of Vel
 non. comprising Frederick J. Coole, S, Frank R. Rau and Dwight B. Gart e ner. have announced the appointmeI S. of Carl Mannel of Oak street as tre IS warden. He has accepted the positio
 and will commence his duties at once Ill The vanguard of the Yale agricu le tural corps, over twenty strong, hs s' already settled at the Atwater hous " of the Choate school, and many of i
 members are already working by u day for Wallingford or out of tow Ill farmers. More men are expected 500 sn Stonington is stirred up over tt
 presence of Charmion H., submariI
 chaser. which came in to the wharf { ,a k. F. Delagrange for repairs to h. # engine, which broke while chasing III suspicious looking steam yacht in Lof n. Island sound headed toward Long l
 land.
 l., Frank Lewis Bigelow, president ar ta treasurer of the Bigelow company, Do , CT manufacturers, and prominent 'd. banking circles of New Haven and u N state, dropped dead of heart disea
 on the links of the New Haven Cou -., try club.
 ol Work of transplanting tobacco is WI 'r' along in Mapping. B. F. and E.