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STATE AND COUNTY The twenty-second annual session of the Connecticut State grange will be held at the Auditorium, Hartford, Janary 2, 3 and 4. Dr. Streeter, the pastor, and the church committee appointed to secure the $10,500 to cancel the mortgage debt on the Methodist church at Torrington succeeded in obtaining about $8,000in pledges, to be paid on or before January 1, 1908 on condition that the full amount be raised. Henry J. Hendey, aged 62, president of the Hendey Machine Company of Torrington, died last week after a illness of several weeks. Seyeral newspaper publishers of the Second Congrsseional District of Donnecticut have petitioned against the bill to rate all postal matter at 4 cents per pound. Congressman Hill has introduced a bill granting a pension of $20 a month to James Burk of Winsted Charged with being an itinerant vendor, F. E. Capewell, of Bridgeport, formerly of Winsted, was arrested in that city last week. He was released under bonds of $150. There was a run one day last week on the Columbia Trust Company of Middletown and all who demanded their deposits were paid in full. A report became current that the institution was insolvent. The bank has $350,000 belonging to 1,700 depositors. Mrs. Olive E. Stanard was found dead in Mill Brook Friday. She resided with her son, Obed Stanard, and was in the sitting room. She had been left by members of the family but a few minutes when she was discovered lying on the floor back of the stove. Medical Examiner W. S. Hulbert of Winsted was notified and says death was due to heart disease. Mrs. Stanard was born in Norfolk in September, 1823, daughter of Preston and Olive Maria Miner. In the forties she married Appleton R. Stanard and went to live with him on the old Stanard homestead in the south end district of Norfolk. About 150 of the boss barbers of Bridgeport held a meeting Monday evening to raise funds to defend the case of Thomas Solazzi, the barber who is sued by H. H. Faulkner, a negro whom Solazzi refused to shave. The case will be argued in the April session of the supreme court of Connecticut. Faulkner is a negro porter in the employ of the Bridgeport Trust Company. He went to Solazzi's barber shop and asked for a shave. He was refused on the ground that the shop was not catering to the negro trade. Faulkner then entered suit for $500 against Solazzi, John Frank Swain, one of the prominent shoe manufacturers of Lynn, Mass., 20 years ago, and a former resident of Winsted, passed away at his home recently after a comparatively brief illness of cancer of the stomach. He was 53 years of age. J. F. O'Meara of Torrington won a pig at a Winsted fair recently. He took a chance on a 200-pound, $20 pig. The animal which he received weighed just 10 pounds. Mr. O'Meara will fatten it and later in the season will roast it. It is stated that the evergreen: which have hitherto been so numerous in the vicinity of Torrington are to be very scarce this year.
