Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-01-31
CONNECTICUT
STATE BRIEFS

eight hold over Democrats The council
is now evenly divided, with each party
having eight members. The mayor has
the deciding vote in all deadlock bal
lots. The election was featured by a
challenge of the right of PA Il Messina,
a Democratic candidate for the coun-
Gil, to vote on the grounds of nonrcsi-
dence. The challenge was upheld.
Messina was formerly merlber of the
Republican Town Committee.
Announcements was made mt Hart
ford of the appointment by Governor
Holcomb of Thomas Holt of Southing-
ton as dairy commissioner To succeed
the late Frank H. Stadtmuc'ier. The
new commissioner has been deputy !
dairy commissioner since May l, 1917, |
and is president of the Connecticut |
Milk Producers Association and di-
rector in many other dairy and rural |
associations He has been first select |
man of SouthingtOn and is prominent
in Grange circles. His successor as
deputy commissioners Will ne named
later.
A numL err of families in Wethers-
field are solving the coal famine by
using a by product, little hoAght OF,
of Wethersfield's big seed industry.
Many a man has used corncorb to
burn tobacco in. but 1t has taken the
recent coal famine to make Ii known
that corncobs also make good fires.
For starting coal fires they cannot be
beat and as fuel give out an excel
lent heat There are two disadvan-
( fTnS N
! cobs, and there is IL chante CT burning
! out the CRATE and lining to he stove.
Home guardSmen of the state were
| called out Monday night presumably
In connection with the unearthing of
gigantic plot to destroy supplies and
| munitions and paralyZe shipping ana
! other traffic In the East. The assem-
bling of the guard at this time, taken
In connection with the added watch
fitness In and about New York. Is
taken to indicate the determination of
state authorities to prevent the carry
ing out of German plot said to have
been discovered by government agents.
According to reports in Norwalk
Home Guard circles, Capt. Charles B.
| Milne, commander of the Second Nor
walk company, Connecticut Home
Guard, will succeed to the command of
Battalion G, Fourth Military district,
vacated last week by Maj. Edward 2.
Weed, Major Weed left to report to
the Reserve Officers' Training Camp
II at Spartanburg, 8. G. Major Weed Is
the first officer of the Fourth Military
i district to be appointed to the training
camps. .e.... Vs.
Jerome B. Baldwin, seventy-four
years old, one of the most prominent
veterans of the Civil War In eastern
Connecticut, died at his home In VIII
. limantic after five days illness OF
pneumonia. He was born in Mansfield
September IA, 1843, and vas educated
In the schools Of that town. In Au.
gust, 1862, at the age of eighteen
years, he enlisted as private in Com
, pany D, Twenty-first Connecticut Vol
, unteers, serving until the end of the
war.
Raymond C. Commins, who for the
past six or eight years has conducted
the cigar store and billiard rooms or
the corner of Main and Railroad
streets, WilIimantic, has closed Tho
store and filed petition in bankruptcy
Charles Steppler, forty-five years old
committed suicide at his home at Hart
ford by taking cyanide of potassium
> Steppler had not been living at home
. for several months. Taking piece Of
: cyanide, he swallowed it in the pres
ence of his wife and three children.
Police Chief ]. Mckee of West Hart
nd II
: Williams of Hartford arrested Flor
: ence Chapelle at her home, East Hart
: ford, on q warrant issued by Prosecut
: ing Attorney Albion b. Wilson charg
ing the girl with being an accessory tt
the crime of embezzlement. The girl
;. 1t is alleged, left Hartford the latter
!. part of December with Charles III. Col
lister, former manager at the 5. Il
= Thing Shoe Company of Hartford.
Owing to the steadily increasing de
mand for more work the Red eros:
:. has found the necessity of having
headquarters at Unionville. The Sc
lectmen have given the use Of theil
: room in the town hal, which has beer
equipped with sewing machines ant
= will be opened Tuesday from to
:, %. m. and to $50 p. M, Wednesday
:, afternoon from to p. m. and Thurs
= day evening from to o: 80 p. m.
= The selectmen of the town of Wind
:. ham have received an offer of WOOD
3 lot containing several hundred cords
y. of wood which the owner Is willing tt
=. turn over to a committee and let meI
chop in during their enforced idleness
= ua c+o+oc in hic Iattar thnt olI he SKIS
is that he receive a fair price for the
: wood on the stump. The letter will he
It turned over to Chairman Burr of the
l. local fuel board.
o Chief William j. Mckee of the East