Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-21
BRIEF STATE NEWS

Mcriden.--Dr E. T. Bradstreet is in his 17th year as medical examiner. of the town of Meriden.
 SufiieId.-The s2d anniversary of Sufield grange will be held in Maple ton hall this (Thursday) evening.
 Winsted.-Rev. Joseph H. King of St. Francis church, Torrington, deliv- cred the Lenten sermon at St. Joseph's church Tuesday evening.
 SuffieId.-Until further notice, Kent Memorial library will be closed Mon days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays each week because of the shortage of fuel
 New Haven.-Using milk cans for receptacles, seven young men collected $40 for the K. of c. fund in New Haven Saturday. mostly n nickels and dimes.
 Granby. Many farmers still have tobacco hanging and some have deliv- cred part of their crops as the buyers needed it to keep their warehouses running.
 Waterbury. - William Kirschbaum, who recently sustained a compound l fracture of the right leg in a coasting accident, is resting comfortably at the Waterbury hospital.
 Saybrook.-About 30 tons of sugar left on the Valley freight Tuesday for Hartford It was shipped from New York by boat, which unloaded 20 cars of freight for the up-river- towns. I RdgefieId. - County Commissioner
 John Brophy, who was injured by a | fall at his home in Ridgefield recently, | is still confined to his bed from the effects of his injuries and the resulting | illness, but is stated to be making favorable progress
 l Danbury.-Two Danbury residents have joined ex-President Taft's $1,000
 Limit War Savings society in Con- necticut c. D. Parks was the first to
 respond to MT. Taft's personal invita- ton to join the limit society, and his wife was a close second.
 PlainvilIe-Capt. G. Arthur Hadsell, | who headed the first company landing lin France, was born in Plainville and | has a sister, Mrs. Harry Castle, living
 on Canal street. .Hadsell was born in ] 1872 and as a youth enlisted in Com pan E, c. N. G., New Britain. Old Saybrook. - Local men have l butchered beef stock to be sold to the government for the lighthouse keepers. These ran short of food, due to the inability of the lighthouse tenders to
 reach them in season, because of the ice congestion in> the sound
 Collinsville.-The members of the Red Mems team are now in the lead in the Chicago pocket billiard tourna- ment that is being held at local pool
 room, and the Foresters are a close l second, the Red Men having a score of
 1.5SS for four games and the Foresters 1,545.
 ] Thcmaston.-The Foreman assotia- tion of the Seth Thomas Clock com pany will omit it's banquet this year It has planned a free lecture to be given in the opera house Friday even-
 ing. Corporal Holmes has been se-
 cured by Mason T. Adams to deliver
 the lecture. He will take for his sub
 iect A Yankee in the Trenches.
 New Haven.-The executive commit
 tee of the New Haven county farm bureau. the county commissioners an6 | LIt lSld1ltt Ol liliS NOulI-
 ty conferred yesterday with President Harry V. Whipple of the Metropolitan
 Chair company and urged that more
 jail labor be loaned the farmers o1
 New Haven county during the sprins
 and summer.
 | Waterbury.--Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Moriarty of 1253. West Main stree l; boast of five big blue eyed boys tt
 whom the words home and country carry a whole lot of meaning and sug- , gest principles and ideals that art
 worth sacrificing lives for. Three O the boys, Eugene, Marcus and Morgan are over there in the trenches ant , may be among the first Americans t l go over the top. The fourth, Morti mer is on United States ship in Nev York harbor and may be cruising to ? ward France, Hugh, the fifth boy, i : still at home, his mother still hesitat ? ing to part with the last of her son 1 to remain with her.