Connecticut western news., 1918-02-07
CONNECTICUT
STATE BRIEFS

dHlInef NOAon. For four days the IlrlS /
household was without heat. Every |
day the mother went to the fuel adj
ministratiOn Goa. office or 10 u local !
coal yard, but she could get no coal. |
She Was told that they had none 10 |
give her After The infant died neigh |
Dors gave the woman coal.
Forty years ago The Ills, CONNER
clally operated telephone eAchu!.se in
the word was Opened in .>ew Ila, ell.
1t BEGAN with ~ subscribers. 'lnc
Southern New England Telephone
Company has now upward of I-JuJO
Subscribers, who use 144,2H tetc-
phones. From the single little ex-
change in the city of New LA. en- The
business of the Southern view r.nr-
land Telephone Company has grown
to include SO exchanges serving 6o5
communities in this state. Sill as
ISOLATED with the Southern New Eng
land is one man who entered the teIe-
phone business when it was less than
a year old. That man is John w.
Laid of Short Beach, general claim
agent of the company.
Yale will suspend all classes from
February 2 to February Z. The uni
versity will not be officially closed.
however, as the freshmen eyamina-
tons will be going on at that time.
This step is taken at this time as an
aid to the fuel conservation drive. The
chapel service will be omitted Sun
day. This is the first time in the his
tory of the institution that vacation
has been given at this time and indi-
Gates how strongly the people at the
head of the various departments of the
university feel that every possible
means should be taken to aid the
fuel commissioners in their efforts to
relieve the situation.
Closing all the doors In her apart
ment, Mrs. Michael Dim, thirty-tive, of
New London, turned on all the cocks in
her gas stove, laid down on a couch
and calmly awaited death. When her
husband found her she was lifeIess.
She and her husband were unusually
attentive to each other and apparently
lived quiet and happy life.
Careful analysis by chemistry ex-
pert of the paraphernalia confiscated
ley Needham, the boy arrested in con-
nection with the planting of an incen-
diary bomb in a theater in New Haven,
/ brought to light the startling informal
ton that the acids and chemical prep
arations owned by the amateur chem
list if properly mixed are powerful
enough to blow up good part of the
city.
Richard I'll. Cox, lifelong resident of
Greenwich, is dead at his home in Mi
anus, aged seventy-five. He was the
leading coal merchant there for 40
years, retiring from business ten years
ago. Two years ago he and his wife
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary. He held the office of town as
SCISSOR ia Greenwich for q number of
years.
! Mrs. George Smith of Milfod holds
/ the distinction of having become Il
mother and grandmother on the same
day, or, rather, the same night. A son
J was born to her daughter, Mrs. Charles
Hersham of Walnut Beach. Two hours
later reports reached Mrs. HerSham
that son had also been born to her
mother
/ Jumping too late to get out OF the
way of d switch engine in the Midway
yard, near New London, Rue Lepora, a
/ track laborer, was struck and killed.
! His head was completely severed from
/ his body.
Sparks from the kitchen fire set the
clothes of John Hodge, a fish dealer of
Montville, all ablaze, and but for the
intervention of his wife, who smOth-
cred the flames, he would have been
fatally burned. AS it was, he was
! severely burned.
AT meeting of repr sentative Ital-
ian women of Connecticut held i'm the
state capitol recently under the aus
pieces of the Committee on Woman s
Activities of the Connecticut Council
I Of Defense, an Italian women's COM
mittee was organized to work under
the direction of the general woman's
committee in furthering the work of
Connecticut in the war. Mrs. Sylves-
ter Y. Poll of New Haven was elected
chairman of the committee and Miss
Marie Bauby of Waterbury secretary.
Similar committees are to be organ
lied in every city and town of the
state which has a large Italian popula-
! ton.
Rev. Vernon w. Cooke, the eight
ing parson" of the First Congregation
al Church, has resigned. AS soon as he
/ is free he will take his family to his
wife's former home on the Pacific coast
and himself sail to France to engage
in Z. M. G. A. war work. He has been
the greatest religious live wire in this
section and very popular.
James ID. Phelps has been appoint
ed Windsor Locks director in charge of
! the sale of the thrift stamps and has
organized a committee to advance the
sale of these stamps through various