Connecticut western news., 1917-11-29
CONNECTICUT STATE BRIEFS

r.g in that city.
 Autos take many from Madison to Jew Haven since the raise in trolley arcs.
 The Swedish Congregational church if Cromwell celebrated its twenty-fifth H, iYersary.
 The thirty-fifth anniversary of the irst conference of Baptist ministers
 f Connecticut was held in the Second Baptist church in SufTield { A troop of girl scouts is being or ;anized at the First Congregational hurch, Wallingford, by Miss Kingsley | If the High school faculty.
 For tEe past week the police at Vest Haven have been busy looking
 fter numerous complaints from own ITS of gardens over the loss of garden ruck. Not a day goes by without a complaint.
 A cablegram has been received by Editor H. B. Hale of the East Hart i ord Gazette from his son. Warren :. Hale, who sailed few weeks ago with the aviation corps, stating that i le had arrived somewhere i'll Italy" 1 Senator Stephen Whitney of New Haven is now lieutenant in the ord nance department of the army, hay ng received his commission last week after completing his training at Plattsburg. He left for Washington to take up his work. He expects to De transferred to the arsenal near Troy, N. Y. His brother, Harry Whitney, the explorer, is captain in he same department.
 Members of the Thompsonville 8card of Trade are in hopes of secur- ng a neW industry for the carpet will age now that at least three large buildings have been put in their lands for disposal.
 Rev Harold w. Tillinghast, pastor of the Baptist church in Cromwell, has resigned his pastorate and has accepted a call to the Congregational church in Hockanum. He will leave next month. Rev. MT. Tiilinghast Is ! Wesleyan man.
 Richard Williams of New Havens the architect who designed the court house at Milford, is to build the new schoolhouse at the center and is. al- ready at work on the plans. The se- lection should insure the very best results and something worthy to as- sociate with the present building. which Is saying quite little, may be confidently anticipated.
 J. Frederick Jackson of WhitneS- 1cA .-ko AA .-I ~r health, has been appointed director of the bureau of engineering con nected with the state board of health. Considerable surveying will come un- der the new branch of the health board, and from the reports the Whit neville man will have assistants.
 Cotton mill operatives in Plain field, Wauregan, Moosup, Jewett City and Central Village have been noti- fled of an increase in wages of from to 10 per cent, effective November 5. About $500 hands are affected. Rover Textile company in Mechanics vile will receive 10 per cent in e. crease.
 The new $250,00O hospital build ing of the Greenwich Hospital asso- citation, donated by Commodore E. c. Benedict, has been dedicated at Greenwich. Society was largely rep resented. Commodore Benedict ad- dressed the throng. John T. Pratt and other prominent New Workers are members of the association.
 Fire did s1O,0OO damage to the farm of George Schwink, Jr., dairy man, at Meriden, totally destroying two barns with 200 tons of silage. sixty tons of hay and twenty tons of grain. Neighbors helped to save thir- ty head of cattle and four horses. Schwink is director of the Connect icut Milk Producers association. The loss is covered by insurance.
 Philip Myner, prominent citizen of Enfield and Springfield, was ar rested at Thompsonville and held on a charge of entering the Hubbard inn, owned by Hendley Hubbard, To cated at Middletown, and taking therefrom one motor and four auto mobile skates to the value of $85. MT. and Mrs. Hubbard learned in some manner that Myner had offered the motor for sale and secured a search warrant.
 Frederick Henry Sykes, widely known as an educator both in this country and Canada, died suddenly at his home in Cambridge, Mass. Tn 1913 he became president of the Con- necticut College for Women at New London, resigning last year to go to Cambridge, where he planned to de- vote himself to literary work.
 Frank Dowd, twenty, of Waterbury was shot by an unidentified man while walking near the Naugatuck river with a young woman compan- ion. The man waded across the river