Connecticut western news., 1918-01-10
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 John +. nIr>iI'a,.. announI,,. ,L" h> would hOlu ,hr ..'' sed for he h., e" court under Loi.ds of $5GO. It as charged by the ..,,te that D Gnr.ilr had been ne, lis,.., n the 0. era. n UF his car, fail n- to see the Wea, 1 lsoy. who was standing in he rec. One of the automobile headli hts struck the "hild nnsing ueath.
 Mrs. Mary L. Woods, 90 years old, died at her home at East Windsor Hill. She was the widow of Dr. H. liam Woods, collector of birds nests and egg. His lifc accuni lHli"n f such articles is now at the Morgan Memorial and is said to be the finest of its kind in America. Mrs. Woods was the daughter of the late Erastus Ellsworth, who built the Hartford Theological seminary in 1894 in Wind sor, which has long been vacant be- cause of the removal of the seminary headquarters to Hartford.
 l The appointment of Edward Brom-
  torney Hugh NJ. Alcorn is pleasing to his host of friends in ThOmpsonville. During his term of chief at West Springfield Bromage has always kept { his legal residence in ThOmpsonville, 1 and his family has always remained there. He has been a police officer for 20 years and held various offices in connection with this line of work. His work has always been satisfactory, and he is expected to make good in his new position.
 Mrs. Edwin NJ. Fairchild, sixty years old, was burned to death and her hus- i band seriously burned by the explosion of an oil stove in their apartment in 1 Stamford. Neighbors who heard the explosion sent a call to the police and ] fire departments. When the police ar rived they found Mrs. Fairchild dead, her husband helpless and the room in flames. It is expected that MT. Fair child will recover. The damage to the room was slight. The Fairchilds were using the oil stove because of the scar ! city of coal.
 Fire caused by an overloaded stove did damage estimated at $4,O00 to a three story frame building on Main street, Winsted. The lower floor of the building was occupied by the Phoe- nix Garage, William Thibeault pro- prietor. and the upper floors were l used as tenements by colored families. There were several automobiles in the I garage when the fire was discovered but thev were safely driven out Chemists and engineers are being selected to take up the work of inves- tigating the special kinds of waste, such as iron. silt and paper, which go to pollute streams in the state, accord ing to the monthly bulletin of the state department of health. They are going to make chemical analysis of these wastes for the purpose of determining economic and efficient means of re- clamation and disposal.
 A fire thought to be of incendiarv origin, burned a tobacco shed contain ing the crop of one and half acres, at Windsor. The shed was the prop ,erty of l.. l.. Bedortha and the to- ibacco in it belonged to Joseph La iluka. The total loss is estimated at :$3000. This fire started another in the tobacco shed owned by William Fl. FiIfey, but this was put out without any great loss.
 Rev. Thomas B. McGarry of Putnam was appointed curate of St. Joseph's Church, Meriden, by the Right Rev. Bishop Milan, to succeed Rev. James J. McGettrick, who returns to his home in Danbury because of i'll health. Father McGarry, who has been pre- feet of St. Thomas's Seminary, was ordained and sang his first solemn high mass Christmas day at St. Mary's Church, Putnam.
 The factory of the Bon Ami Com pany at Manchester shut down for a week because of the inability of the company to get felspar, which is nee .essary in the manufacture of their goods. Most of this comes by freight, but because the cars are in demand for the carrying of coal and other pur- poses it is hard to get the raw mate rial, resulting in the shutdown.
 Theodore c. Wallen of the Hartford Courant, who enlisted in the United States navy a few months ago and who Is now a landsman for yeoman at Newport, Is spending a short fur tough at his home In New Britain. He will soon go to New York under an or der transferring him to the cable cen sorship office.
 | With the second month of no H. cense at an end, the figures of the number of cases before the Manches- 1 ter town court would seem to indicate ] there was a falling off in the amount ! of liquor consumed in that town by big percentage.
 Sweeping changes in method of daily living, so as to conserve as much as possible the rapidly diminish