Connecticut western news., 1917-11-15
CONNECTICUT STATE BRIEFS

1CAl-o WSI6 u1oCu5SC0' 0pCahSAo NS clared that New England must raise much more food and that a start in the movement should be made at once. Wilson H. Lee ot New Haven preslG- ed, and the principal speaker was Richard H. Rice of Lynn, Mass.
 An official publication has it that Connecticut stands seventh among the states in good roads.
 Windsor's roll of honor now has passed the century mark, 1O1 of the towns young men and young women being in the service of the nation.
 Harry O Prentice of 38 Lyon street, New Haven, and Harry Hull, formerly of Winsted, are being held at the Winsted police station on the charge of stealing a Cadillac touring car, the property of Representative Dudley L.. Vaill, which was taken from near the Winsted club. The young men were arrested near the Cape in Norfolk by Officer Frank B. Wheeler of Winsted.
 The Choate school potato crop at Wallingford is now practically all harvested, and about 2,000 bushels will be the result of the war garden planted and cultivated by students at the school. After paying for har- vester the profits from the sale of the crop will be devoted to some cause to be determined by a vote Of the boys.
 That the women of Stratford are deeply concerned in the grave food situation is demonstrated by their en- thusiastic work in canvassing the town for signers to the food pledge and by the great response in every section of the town.
 Twenty officers from Camp Upton, New York, went to New Haven to in- spect the battery of French 75 milli- meter guns used by the Yale reserve officer training corps. Among the off cers was Lieut.. Col. Henry L. Stim- son, formerly secretary of war.
 The Hartford companies of the home guard for day did picket duty at factories, bridges and other strategic" points about the city. There was no alarm concerning plots or conspiracies, however; 1t was just practice for what might be needed later. The men patrolled beats with arms and went through the work like regulars.
 The state convention of the lodges of Sons of Italy in session at Bridge port pledged themselves and their or der not to purchase German or Aus trian goods now and after the war. About 75 delegates, from all over the state, were present.
 With the munitions industry soon to be taken up in the town by the Marlin company by the shifting of de- partments to their Hamden plant, for merly the Mayor Radiator company, on Dixwell avenue, the time of the in- ception of rife manufacturing in the town back in the days of the rebel lion, when the Whitney Arms compa- ny, on Whitney avenue, produced ri- fles for the government, are recalled. According to the report of the state board of health, recently issued, for September, Hamden ranks high in a health standpoint This is evidenced by the fact that Hamden's death rate for the two months was less than half of the rate of other towns in the state of it's size and with but one ex- ception, that of small town of 1,500 inhabitants, the least number of deaths. This certainly speaks well for the town.
 What is believed by officials at WalIingford to be part of propaganda to hamper the food administrators work in that vicinity or an effort to fraudulently obtain a lot of canned goods frw1 some of the housewives came to light in Wallingford when at l least two well-known women who re- side in the farming districts received letters purporting to come from an official source. The letters were post marked Hartford.
 New Haven seems to be a pretty good place in which to live, for, ac- cording to the, official suicide bulletin, the rate of suicides in the city is only 10 in 100000 population. The rate has dropped from 1915 to 10, or 4S.7 for the year.
 It became known that the auto number furnished by Mrs. Florence Gates of Wallingford as the number of the machine which ran her down is held by the police to be correct and that Samuel Ballow of Brooklyn is the man sought in connection with the ac cident.
 The National Association of Boiler Manufa' turers has appointed c. s. Barnum, president of the Bigelow company of New Haven, to serve on the war service committee to assist the emergency fleet corporation per taining to boilers.
 Members of Calvary Baptist church New Haven, were shocked to learn l l q l.