Connecticut western news., 1918-03-07
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Massachusetts Institute of "&r;i'
ogy defeated Wesleyan in Il sWinnnI&
meet at EIiddletOwn, Fl ~ -,
Dr. Fred Strong Frary of West .
Chapel street, New Haven, is one & IL /
list of dentists of the state appointed 5
to the medical advisory board connect
ed with drafting of men for militai
service.
Operating between New Haven ar. {.
New York now is the freight steali'
City of Brockton. The boat has been :
on the Fall River line and is in com
mand of Captain HandcOurt. The boat
has a carrying capacity of 900 tons.
Antonio De Angels, private bank
er in New Haven, filed volun AIRY
petition in bankruptcy in the United
States Court, Hartford. He gave his
Liabilities at $172,236 and his asse' $ a
S125, 625. Of the latter $4,000 is III
real estate and $23,955 in notes.
Holding back of income tax reports
| is proving a serious matter, and lndl-
Gates that despite every endeavor or
this office to meet the demands upon IL
| in the remaining time before April L
some people will meet with annoy
ance," said Collector James J. Walsh
of the internal revenue office in New
Haven.
The latest reports made to ). FREQ
| Strong as chairman of the War Saw
ings Committee of New Haven show a
distribution in New Haven of 14S24
war-savings stamps, having maturity
value of 1920, and 1892 THRIFT
! stamps, having a value OF S4o'ooo'
making the total sales to date OF last
report S11S,7OO.
The Shore Line Trolley Company is
anticipating no further suspension OF
operations on its lines between New
Haven and Saybrook and New London
1t was learned. While no coal his been
received by the company at the Say
brook power house by, boat for several
weeks, there is fair supply on hand
now that has been furnished to the
company by the New Haven road.
Awakened by the bowling of dog.
Mrs. John T. Sweeney of Waterbury
found her husband sitting in a rocking
chair dead. He was asphyXiated by
\ gas. Beside Mr.. Sweeney lay faith
full dog, dead also from gas fumes. A
4 second dog managed to give the alarm
y in time to prevent further deaths The
medical examiner found that the two
dogs, in playing around the Kitchen
- had disconnected the tube from gas
heater.
! Reports from 13 communities in
! Connecticut show a total or lsSol vol
{ unteers in the United States shipyart
volunteers of the public service re
, ! serve. The states total enrolment i:
now greatly in excess of Two thousand
/ Hartford has made the best enroll
| ment, showing between 900 and 1,00'
| volunteers. Saturday marked thu
close of the second weeks campaign
for the states quota Of 10000 skille'
| workmen needed to construct al
emergency fleet.
I For the first time i'm over 40 year
( passenger travel on the New Haye'
] boat line to New York has been sus
| pended indefinitely, and for the pres
! emit nothing but freight is being sen
from New Haven to New York 70
boat. Since the breakdown of ah
! steamer Richard Peck, a couple 20
1850 weeks ago, the passenger steane
New Hampshire has been in service
: but on Monday she made her last tri
from New Haven and has been put o
the Fall River line.
. William T. Haviland, clerk Of tn
2 Superior Court, died at his home
J Bridgeport OF pneumonia after
2 weeks illness He is survived by hi
! wife and two children. He was Dor
2 in Litchfield March 20, 1856, and wa
o graduated from Yale i'm 1880 and frol
z the Yale law school three years late
D He was appointed clerk Of the Con
2 mon Pleas court OF Fairfield count
. 4 and assistant clerk of the Superic
2 | Court and in 1891 and In 1908 was al
: pointed clerk of the latter court.
Z Reclamation of valuable tract {
. land, approximately IA hundred an
fifty acres in area, which has for man
years lain idle and waste, stagnan
- marshy, breeding place for mosquitoes
and an eyesore TO residents of thu
a section of New Haven, as well as
I strangers, and dts conversion into
I beautiful and spacious public park,
I the remarkable project undertaken
I she city and already under way in I'll
"a construction of a massive dam acDo
Oh Mill river at point $50 feet north I
M State street.
"a When the Board of Relief complies
81 the work for the year on the prese1
s Bridgeport grand list there will be
sM dent in it to the extent of about thrs
M million dollars This reduction WI
GA stand, too, in the face of many ado
Aa lions in the way of increases added
Dbl the Board of Relief. The grand Iii
ri on which the Board of AppOrtionmel
l will work out a tax rate of .abo
"a twenty-one mills will not greatly e
va coed $1S5, 100000. The sharpest cut
nj the grand list is that in favor of IL