Connecticut western news., 1918-07-04
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| union is preparing to make another I demand upon the master barDers. This l. time it is understood the demands will l have to do with wages only and will not be for a shorter working day. l The chain started by the Williman- [ tic Woman's Charitable Fund d few weeks ago to raise money for the local Red Cross Chapter is successful, and 1 the returns financially are gratifying, as $264 has been turned in to the treasurer
 The United States department of 1 agriculture has assigned to Connecti- cut a quota of 5,000,OOo quarts of can- ned fruits and vegetables, exclusive of 1 factory products. Sixty-five per cent. of goods regularly canned is to be used for the soldiers, the remaining B per cent. to be saved for the people who for economic reasons are unable to conserve any. .@
 The exemption boards have been mo- | tified by Governor Holcomb that men who registered in 1917 for the draft may register in other branches of the l service in case they have not been mo- 1 tif1ed to leave with draft quotas. This | is in direct opposition to an order pre- viously issued by the governor and is ! the existing rule until ordered changed. 1 Although returns are still far from | complete, there is every indication that more than S50,000 adults of Connecti- | cut pledged themselves to buy war
 savings stamps at regular intervals in substantial amounts for the balance 1 of the year, according to announce ment at the office of the Connecticut
 War Savings Committee at the capi- | tol. The graduates of the commercial l department of the Rockville High
 School are in demand by the business men in Hartford. Twenty-three out
 of the thirty-nine of this years class l have taken commercial work. The
 majority of the students went to the
 Aetna Life Insurance Company, and
 one of the officials of this office went
 to the school to see the pupils work
 in the classroom. -
 Richard Ziegra of Deep River has re-
 ceived word that his son, Louie R. Zie- | gra, is, a prisoner in a camp at Ham, mellburg, Germany. The news was of ticial and came through the American Red Cross. Louie was a supply ser | geant in Company D, One Hundred 1 and Second Regiment, and was report ed missing in action on April 15. Later news came to his parents that he was l captured in a night raid on April. 15, IrY4 T. hnI hot IyiIi in1 two Huns. s.y. The two days convention of the l State Federation of German-American l Catholics of the Hartford diocese
 closed with a business session in Bar. decks Hall, New Britain. The report presented showed that the present en-
 rollment totaled 1,012 members. The
 officers elected for the ensuing year are as follows: President, Englebert
 Miller of New Britain; vice presi-
 dent, Charles Hess of Hartford sec
 retary, Martin Lemke of Meriden, and treasurer, Adoiphe Meyer of Torring- | ton. ' Arrangements have been made to | hold weekly summer sessions at the | Collinsville schoolhouses. The war work of the children will occupy the l most of the time, including Red Cross work, the buying of thrift stamps, in- struction in home economies, reports on the home gardens and all of the work in which the children are inter- ested. Supervisor Mandrey and H. P. Jones, secretary of the School Board, have arranged to have the schools l opened on Thursday mornings for this 1 purpose.
 While drawing switch ties to the
 station at Coventry, Justin Lathrop miraculously escaped being crushed to | death. He was, driving two yoke of oxen which were pulling a load of over 1,2OO feet of green switch ties, weigh
 ing approximately four tons. MT.
 Lathrop slid from the seat between the cart and the oxen and accident 1 ally fell under the wheels. Both
 wheels ran over his legs at the knees
 and yet no bones were broken and he
 was able to get on his feet and walk a
 short distance. Both legs were very severely bruised and scratched.
 Three successful. milk depots have been established at fire stations in New Haven by the city home demonstra- tion agent of the department of agri- culture and the State Agricultural Col lege. The fire stations make clean, central places, where plenty of volun- teer help is available for handling the milk. Bottled skim milk from two large dairies outside the city is sold at cents a quart. The stations are open during the noon hour, with two women volunteers on duty at each one to su- perintend the sales. Children stop for the milk on their way home from school. The firemen cooperate in every way.
 Herbert Hall of West Guilford re- ! ceived letter from his son, Herbert Hall, Jr., stating that he was pris- oner of war in the German prison