Connecticut western news., 1918-08-29
ConT1ecticu1h
State Briefs

| ed by physician. The dog that bit
| the pig has been confined and will be
examined.
HartfOrd's casualty list in France
! has grown to 172 names. 1t is known
that some Of those early wounded are
on active duty, and it is believed that
! several injured later are we'll again.
| Killed are "a; the wounded are 100;
the prisoners Of war are 8: those dead
| of disease are 3; the missing in action
are 3; the number drowned is 1, and
the gassed are 15.
Rev. Paul FL. Barbour, who left
Hartford for Camp Greenleaf for serv-
ice in the army as a private. received
the gift of wrist watch at the service
of st. Paul's italian Mission at Christ
Church. At the close of the church
service he received a purse of money
from the vestry I'm behalf of the par
fsh. Mr.. Barbour has been curate of
Christ Church three years.
The workers who have been cam
Vassfng Glastonbury in the interest of
the canning :ampaign have been sue
cessful in every district in town. The
quota assigned to the town by the
connecticut committee on food supply
was 10000 quarts of fruits and vege-
tables. Every district il town was
covered by loca workers, and the to-
tai amount pledged was 42.0S6 quarts.
A crowd of 300 gathered to lid fare
we'll to the eleven Terryville boys Sc
lccted by local Boart No. 20 to go to
Camp Greenleaf, Ga. These selectives
fn Al og
the board ut New Milford and were
taken there in automobiles, as has ev-
cry draft contingent that has left Ter
ryville. The local Red Cross branch
furnished each with Red Cross outfit.
Imperative need for Juvenile labor
in the tobacco fields and upon truck
farms has induced the school authOri-
ties to postpone the opening of Sims
bury schools until September 16 Va
cations will be shortened, and the
schools will close at the usual time
next June. 1t has also been found
that parents of children of school age
depend upon the money thus earned in
the fields.
The Elm City hospital, located at
the corner of Oak and Park streets,
New Haven, has been purchased by
Yale University and it is planned to
use the property Immediately for gov
eminent work in connection with the
Yale army laboratory school and the
medical side of the chemical warfare
service. Announcement to the effect
the university will take possession of
the hospital in September has been
made
In the draft registration at Bristol
of the new twenty-ones," or of young
men who have reached their twenty
first birthday since June 5, a larger
percentage of American citizens were
shown than in any of the previous reg
iStratiOnS. There were "a to register.
y of whom were American citizens.
one doubtful and the remaining six
friendly aliens, or about so per cent.
Of the registration being American cit
liens.
Forty young women are now EN-
ployed in the mechanical department
of the Coe Brass Branch of the Amer
lean Brass Company at Torrington. an
innovation made necessary by the scar |
city of male employees From the
large number of applicants the COM
pany selects those who are physically !
qualified for the work. In many in
stances the wives of the men work at |
the mills during the day and their hus
bands on the night shift.
AT the corner of Connecticut bouIe- |
bard and Main street any week day |
morning one can see truck load after |
truck load of boys girls and women |
being taken from Hartford to the |
fields in East Hartford and the sur
rounding towns, where they work all |
day and are carried back again in the |
late afternoon. There are so a large
number Of colored men from the south
ern colleges who work in the tobacco
fields there in the summer.
The Bartenders' Union al its meet
ing in the Central Labor Union build
ing, Hartford, accepted the wage
schedule which q joint committee of
the union and the retail liquor dealers
arranged, consisting of & Colour week
with minimum wage of $50. For the
past six weeks the barterders and the
dealers nave been at war on the mini
mum wage OF the men. The bartend-
ers were represented on the wage COM
mittee by Thomas Foley, T. z. Madden
ard John f. Colman.
Major Henry y. Beebe of the former
One Hundred and Second Regiment,
who has returned to this country for
instruction, was given a tes-
timOnal dinner ut the Hotel Garde,
New Haven, by the Connecticut State
Guard. Officers from Meriden. Wal
lingford and nearby towns were guests.
The dinner arrangements were in
charge of committee consisting of
Acknowledgment Samuel Moyle, Quar-
George H. Scranton
and Major Carl f. Bollmann of the
Third battalion.
Joseph E. Stead, thirty-eight years
old, proprietor of a meat market at
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