Putnam patriot., 1917-04-27
CONNECTICUT STATE BRIEFS

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 The newly organized East Haddam Home Guard was mustered in at Goodspeed's Hail. About eighty-hVe have been enrolled.
 At the present time labor is scarce l in Rockville Some of the contrac-
 tors are paying $2.50 and others sz.fo
 a day. There are a good many men | hanging around the streets who are
 willing to work day CT two to get
 a few dollars, but 1t is impossible to
 keep them working for more than a | week.
 The second band of automobile
 gypsies this spring visited Bristol and | received a seant welcome, being es- corted to the road leading out from | the city & few moments after their
 arrival.
 Connecticut's 1917 population ia
 over 1,250.000.
 A fve-masted schooner, the largest on the Atlantic coast, was launched
 at Noak. She has tonnage Of 3,7oo
 and is 2ss feet long.
 | The State Armory, Hartford, is Dc sIeged these days with large army | of dependents" all anxiously seek ing the release of husbands and sons from the service.
 Captain Joseph Smith, 55 years old,
 keeper of the Duck Island lighthouse of Saybrook Point, was found dead in his motorboat. The last time he | was seen alive was about lO:30 ] o'clock the previous evening. It Is 1 believed that he died of shock. He | leaves a wife.
 | Frank H. Lee. head Of hat mak- | ing plant at Danbury, has proposed
 Co his TOO men that they work an ad- | dltional hour five days each week dur
 Ing the spring and summer and de- vote Saturday to the cultivation Of vegetables.
 Military equipment and rifles will be furnished the Trinity College stu dents who are drilling twice each day. For the second time in the three
 years that it has entered the cam paign. Connecticut stands second. in Class A, in the number of Red Cross seals sold during the 1916 campaign conducted by the National Associa- ton for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
 The Avon boys potato club. which
 raised from twenty to thirty-two bu- sbels on each eighth of an acre last year. are starting In with renewed energy and expect to break the 1916 record.
 Caretaker William J. Alderman of the Mt Higby reservoir hopes to help solve the food problem in Middletown this year by sowing ten acres of land owned by the city with potatoes. Mayor Harold NJ Meech will provide the seed and fertilizer and collect for 1t when the crop has matured so that no capital will be required. Work will be done on the patch by city em- ployes and when the crop is gathered it is Planned to sell the potatoes at cost
 Avon is wide awake on the subject of home gardens. The Ensign-Bick- ford Company has had circular printed in Polish, Italian and English and distributed among their employees, | and the response has already been
 so great that available land and sup
 plies will be taxed to the utmost by the demand
 Speaker Frank E. Healy of the House of Representatives expressed the opinion that the present session C. the Legislature will complete it's
 business in three weeks and will be
 ready to adjourn finally in about five
 weeks. which would be about May 25.
 The aid of the lower courts and
 police department of the state will
 be enlisted to help solve the farm labor shortage. It is expected that plan to draft into farm work down
 idlers and "neer do weels" will be
 announced.
 Lieutenant Lawrence A. Howard of the Hartford Division of the Naval Coast Defense Reserve has been or. dered by Lieutenant John K. Murphy of New Haven to find out how many men of the Hartford division are ready to 20 Into active service. There are about 30 men in the local division. It was said that the so-called cpl demic of sore throats and sore eyes
 among the men stationed at the Hart ford armory would in all probability hasten the preparations for establish ing an outdoor camp for Headquarters Company. where the necessary paper work" can be carried on.
 The three Terryville physicians have announced a revision of pricee
 which they will charge after May.
 House visits within one mile of the
 center will be St.50. and after g
 o'clock at night. $500. Office calls
 will be 75 cents and medicine extra. Surgical attention and dressing at
 the office will be $l00 and up. Con fnement cases will be Sl5 and up. Consultation will be SS
 The Aetna company has it's unused
 land adjacent to its factories plowed
 and fertilized so that those of the
 employees desiring to do so can culti-
 yate small gardens. This later action anticipated the call issued by the Con. necticut Committee of Food Supply in
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