Arrangements have been made with
B. B. Banks to perform the work and
he will probaHy' begin operations
next week. He is now .busy upon his
regular road contract. '
Town Treasurer W. H. Hill is still
at the Danbury Hospital where he
was successfully operated upon last
Thursday for the removal from his
stomach of a safety pin . which he
swallowed on the Sunday night pre
vious. He had withdrawn the pin
from his pajamas and placed it in his
mouth to leave his hands free to re
adjust the garment and before he re
alized what had happened the pin
slipped back into his throat. Efforts
to expel it by coughing resulted in its
passage downward. An X ray exam
ination at the hospital showed the
presence of the pin near the stom
ach's exit passage with the point
imbedded in the flesh. The doctors
say that its continuance there would
have caused death in a few days. No
complications have followed the op
eration and present conditions seem
to assure complete recovery.- Mr.Hi.ll
is 75 years of age, has been town
treasurer for about 30 years and
served several terms in the Legisla
ture. v
When George ' Russell came from
New York on Sunday last to his
house, which is located on the Easton
road a short distance below Pine Tree
Corner and has been unoccupied dur
ing , the winter, he found abundant
evidences of a burglarious visitation.
Entrance had been gained by pry
ing up a window. Although the only
articles missed are part of the con
tents of a box of tools the premises
were very thoroughly ransacked in
an apparent search for valuables and
in a spirit of wanton destructiveness.
