Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-11
CONNECTICUT TOWNS
 HAVE NAMES MIXED Makes Confusion in Lyme, Old Lyme, HadIyme snd Hambura.

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 Towns down tlle Connecticut river, | in spite of war activities, are finding | time and occasion to complain about | the confusion in names and post off, 1 ees of tkat region, says a Middletowr1 1 special to the Hartford Times. The | town of Lyme, which has just rebond- | cd itself again for a Civil war debt i which it has paid several times in in- | terest money, has started the thing. | Now Deep River is ehiming in, which 1 neighbor across the river, Old Lyme. I
 Lyme folks don't like it because there is no post office within the limits of the township by that name. The town has two post offices with in it's borders; one at Hamburg and tho other at Hadfyrie. There is a post office named Lyme, but that is in the township of Old Lyme, and 9nly adds to the confusion. People in the southeast ern portion of the town of Lyme receive their mail by rural carrier from the post office Of Lyme iE Old Lyme. But Hamburg and Hadlyme people, whose mail is sent t6 Lyme, kent get in at all un- less the postmaster at Lyme happens to know them and takes it upon
 himself 10 straighten the matter out On the other hand Old Lyme has no post office by that name. It is well enough supplied with post off, fees for it has four. Lyme, South Lyme Black Hall and Sound View but the natives would like it better if one of them were named Old Lyme. Deep River is in the throes be- cause all it's official business goes astray and gets into the hands of it's H616EtYa6n r5 t11 neighboring township of Old Say brook, known in common parlance as Saybroek. Really, the only Say brook that the state comptroller's office knows is at Deep River, which is plump in the midst of the towns of Saybroek.
 The x. Y, N. H & H. R. R. Co.,, which has scrambled trolley car roads to the Queens taste, has mixed named it's station in the town of Old saybroojl, "Saybrool'' The postmas- ter-@Aneral has followed suit, so Midditsex county finds itself contort- ad io the extent nf paving the railroad sta'don 0nd postofHce called Say brook rot in the township at all, but within the boundaries of a neiGhbor- inc town.
 Some of the swivel chair generals down the river are for having the coming session of the legislature straishten out the tangle in the l names Of some Of the towns Chat
 ham survived the shock of a change Of name in 1915, and became East Hampton. much to the relief Of out ] siders who had never been able to 1 learn where Chatham was. in spite 1 of the fact that it had been given that | name in 176T. Deep River, Old Say 1 brook, Lyme and Old Lyme might profit that way, too, it is believed. When it comes to post offices. some 1 of the towns in MiGd!eseX county are no better off than Mother Hubhards | dog. Ancient Killingworth has no post 1 office at all. It has no railroad facili- ! ties either but corn is said to assume 1 the proportions of a giant oak with i only 8 little coaxing, while you can 1 drop your line from the Kitchen win dow into the dooryard well and pull, ] out trout enough for every meal in the ] week. But if you have a friend in
 Killingwortlo, to whom you wish to ad- | dress letter, you have to send it to l 8 post office in the town of Clinton, or 1 the town Of Madison, or to one at 1 Higganum in the town of Haddam T<illingworth never feels the thrill of l a nostmastership fight within her 1 borders
 East Haddam is Uncle sam's pet township hereabouts, if the number | of post offices is to be criterion. They
 have four post offices down there. There is one at East Haddam Center, one at MooAus another al Miliington, and a fourth at North Plain. Time was 1 when the Moodus post office was a first class off1e-that was in the day
 of pr. Fowler and his celebrated pat ent remedy. which is said to have brought about 'some miraculous cures So many sick people sent in their dol l lar bills for bottles of the medicine that the concern hired several women to sit in wire ea ges and do nothing
 but open letters with greenbaclls in them.
 Dr. Fowler brought race horses and ferryboats galore with his gains
 and the postma ster of Moodus built
 more barns to l/ld his salary. Later however. Moodus lapsed into a quiet
 state, broken only by an occa asiona'
 settling of the earth's crust in that vicinity when the village hall team
 won a victory, which caused the
 countryside to rumble and rock and sway, giving rise to the term 'the
 in that place has dropped to the l fourth class.
 Haddam, East Hampton and Els.
 sex have three post offices apiece
 Haddam Is next to the largest town,
 ship in the county f1l area, and the
 Haddam forbears got the whole for only 90 coats with brass buttons
 and the Indians thought they hat
 made a sharp bargain at that IT
 IIaddam the offices are at Higranum
 Tylerville and Haddam. East Harnp
 ton sprawls over the map in grotesqut
 style and has got into it's Uncle Sam
 uel for post offices at Chatham, Eas Hampton and Middle Haddam. II
 Essex Uncle Sam has hung out hi! shingle at Centerbrook, Iyoryton ant Essex.
 | Each of the other Ii towns il Middlesex county has two post offices with the exception of Killingsworth Chester, Cromwell and Saybrook. Tht last three named have. but one pos
 office apiece.
 In ali, there are B post offices il the IS towns in Middlesex county.