Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-09-12
Connecticut
State Briefs


Howard A Parish of COllinsville,
shows that Notwithstanding the high
price of labor and materials the debt
of the town has been reduced during
the year by $4,264SS.
DIR. John F. Doebler, dentist, sixty
one years old, committed suicide at
his home in New Haven by taking |
poison. Dependency, due to poor
health during the past two years, is
believed to have been the reason for
his act.
Principal w. D. Hood of the Gilbert
school, Winsted, stated that on account
of war conditions there are but 80
students In the institution as against
$50 last year. For the first time In
the history of the school there have
been many changes in the faculty.
After suffering for over a week from
burns suffered when he fell into a
large tank of acid solution at the Win
chester Repeating Arms Company,
New Haven, where he was employed,
Harry Seaman, thirty-nine years old,
of Shelton avenue, died at Grace hos
pital.
The Rev. DR.. Storrs Ozias Seymour,
rector emeritus of st. Michaels
Church, Litchfeld, and one of Connec-
ticut's most highly esteemed men, died
at his home in that town of illness in
cidental to old age. He was in his
| eighty-third year and had been in poor
health several weeks. He was born in
| Litchfield, January "a, 1885.
Sergt. Michael Lamorte, nineteen
years old, Company 1, Forty-seventh
Infantry, y. S. Regular Army, whose
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel La
morte, reside at Toll Gate Hill, has
been severely wounded in France. He
is now in a base hospital, where two
operations were necessary to extract
the Hun bullets, and he may lose leg.
Orders to all men who were in the
Yale naval training unit at any time
during the last year to report at the
naval office in New Haven have been
issued by Rear Admiral Colby NJ.
Chester. Those enrolled in the Brown
section of the unit are ordered to re-
port to Rear Admiral J. Z. Edwards
at Providence within the same period
James Ryan, sixty-three years old,
of Port Chester, n. Y, died at the
Greenwich Hospital. Mr.. Ryan was
widely known through Litchtield
county as a builder and contractor
He~was born in Banksville, Conn, and
lived there until seven years ago
when he moved to Port Chester. He
leaves one daughter and two sons, one
of whom is in the United States navy
Fred Moore of Richmond Hill, n. Y.
who is with the GilmOr family at Quo
bin, Highland Lake, while fishing witt
George Gilmor from a dock on the
west shore of Third bay caught has!
weighing four and half pounds. a
first he thought his line had beer
caught on the bottom, but when H.
saw the line go out he got busy imme
diately and finally landed the fish in
: sailbOat.
AS a further evidence that there I
much business being done in the factC
} ries and elsewhere in SOuthingtOn, tn
I report of the local postmaster for tn
5 month, showing total receipts of 81
} 643.94, is encouraging. The bushes
: at the local office for several month
ing August are much greater tina
those of the corresponding month
year ago.
. Overworked and nerve torn becaus
III of the lack of nurses, thus having
] do more work than her constitute
| would permit, Miss Florence DOugls
= of Bridgeport, who enlisted some tin
cd ha
= Orably discharged from the serv1c
r She returned to her home, 52S Stat
ii street, where she will try to regain HI
IL health Miss Douglas was statione
for three months at Fort Sill, Ok
III homa.
9 Michael Reilly of New Haven h
n brought $4,000 suit against the Ne
r Haven road for the loss of his e
DE- while in the employ of the compar
Reilly claims that while he was opt
= ating a locomotive about a year ago
piece of coal entered his left eye ar
although the best medical treatme
@I was given him, he lost the sight of t
"a eve. He further claims that it W
8. through the neglect of the company
I furnishing the men with screens
Oh their faces while coaling up their {
q. CINE. The man is represented by Ma
I. or David E. FITZGERALD.
$ At the meeting of the COmmun
S Labor Board of Willimantic, viii
M consists of A. A Burton, charm;
81 representing the United States Lal
I Bureau; Clifford J. Alpaugh, rep
M senting manufacturers, and Rufus
"a Rood, representing employees,
ri matter of furnishing the quota of
Nd unskilled men from the Windham {
Z trict for war work was discussed. I
sM Windham district includes the TOW
S of Windham, Ashford, Chaplin, Es
|$aas ford, Hampton and Scotland, with
10 estimated population of 10000 7