Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-15
BRIEF STATE NEWS

Harwin+on+The town of Harwinton has laid four mill school tax.
 Middietown.-Every room and every cot in the Middlesex hospital is fCll. The hospital has not been so crowded in several years as at present.
 Thomaston.-The coal problem is not as serious here as many people believe it is. One coal merchant re- ports that Thomaston is better sup piled with coal than any town in the state.
 New Britain.-Frank Fedl and Agnes Pirker were married last week by Justice S. Russell Mink at city hall The license to marry was issued by L. D. Penfield, who was city clerk, on Aug. 6, 1912.
 Hartford. - The Hartford County league and farm bureau, cooperating with the Connecticut Dairymen's as- sociation, will hold corn show in Unity hall, No. 62 Pratt street Jan P, 23 and A.
 Plainviiie.-Miss Genevieve Conlin has been engaged as chief operator for the Rockwell-Drake division of the Marlin Rockwell corporation. Miss Conlin formerly operated at the local Southern New England Telephone company's exchange.
 Waterbury.-A new dormitory for girls will be opened soon in connection with the Waterbury Girls club which will accommodate about 30 girls. The house at "A Central avenue. which is next to the Girls club building, has been secured for this purpose
 WaterviIle.-A poster has been placed in the lobby of the postof1ice an nouncing the need to use more wood and thereby save coal Many local people no doubt would be glad to live up to this if they could obtain the wood. It is said to be just as hard to obtain wood as it is to get coal 1 ,Hartford.-The municipal evaporat- ! ing plant conducted by the Hartford Chamber of Commerce was a success according to the report of the com mittee on food conservation, submit ted to the board of directors. Running expenses amounted to $705.24, and be- tween 50 and 60 tons of food products were evaporated. About 27 different commodities were dried.
 Hartford.-Edward Chreest, who has a bakery on Franklin street, pleaded guilty in the court the other day to z complaint which charged that he solt adulterated food. The analysis by tt{ authorities showed that saccharine ha. been used for sweetening instead O.
 sugar, but Chreest said he did no know it was against the law.
 New Britain.-If possible, the bod, of William Denby, the first New Britain man to die on the European battle
 fields, will be brought to the Unitet
 States and buried in the family plot il
 Windsor Locks at the conclusion of tn,
 war. Denby was fighting with tn
 Canadian contingent when he wa
 overcome by gas and died, and hi
 body now rests in Belgium.
 Waterbury-St Mary's Hospital Ali
 society held it's annual meeting las
 week. Mrs. M. J. Lawlor, the presi l dent, expressed the great satisfaction } felt in the work accomplished durin, the year. Miss Susan O'Neill, tn , treasurer, reported as the balance ol
 hand Jan. 1, 1918, s1,01S.35. It wa voted at this meeting to subscribe $50
 to the free bed fund, this in accord
 ance with the custom of giving sub
 scription toward this object each veal New Haven.-That fewer children c poor foreigners go astray than is tn case with children of the well to d natives was the statement made b
 Clarence R. Preston, general secretar of the Florence Crittenton league c Boston, an authority on welfare worl
 who spoke at the annual meeting c the Florence Crittenton home hel Friday afternoon in United churc
 house. The foreign born parents kee
 close watch on their. children, he sait : They do not allow their daughters t chum with young men or even wit rrir.l IL ,ac.t