Connecticut western news., 1918-06-27
Connecticut State Briefs

College, Hartford.
 Frank Michalski of Cromwell was killed by Walter Thorell, also of Crom- we'll, in a motorcycle accident. The accident happened at the halfway house" curve on the Cromwell road. The special committee of the Board of Aldermen, appointed to investigate the charge that landlords of New Haven were profiteering in their rental charges, held a meeting during the week and it developed that there was very little of this sort of thing going on in New Haven.
 Mechanic John E. Cronin of Com pany c, One Hundred and Second h. fantry, Is confined in a prison camp at Darmstadt, Germany, according to fn- formation received at Portland by his sister, Mrs. Harold Hodge. The news is conveyed in a telegram from the office of Adjutant General Mccain at Washington.
 Judge John E. Fahey has been ap- pointed chairman of the Four-Minute Men Committee of the Rockville War Bureau in place of Lawyer Leo J.. Kelly, who has gone to Washington to take up government work. A Strenu- ous campaign is to be planned within short time to make up for what speaking has been lost in the past.
 With the idea of democratizing re- ligion, Samuel Ellis Durham, minister by profession, but workman by prefer ence, expects to start q brotherhood and service campaign at Colts Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, Hartford, where he is employed as a toolmaker. During this campaign meetings will be held twice a week, on Thursdays and Fridays at noon, from 12 20 to 12 :45 o'clock.
 Three youthful murderers were hanged at the Wethersfield state pris- on. It was the first triple hanging ia Connecticut annals. Carmine Lan- Zillo of New York, whose brother Lui- gi escaped with a life sentence; Car mine Pisaniello, who wore a soldiers co DuSsO, gunman from Brooklyn, were hanged for the murder of Morris Goldstein, West Haven tailor.
 The name of the post office in Old Lyme is Lyme. In the town of Lyme there's Hadlyme and Hamburg. But the same thing is true of Deep River Legally the name of Deep River is Saybrook. The post office in Old Say brook is Saybrook. All official letters addressed to the town of Saybrook are always sent to Old Saybrook, because the name of its post office Is Saybrook, and hence there's a delay of 24 hours. It's time the legislature strengthened out the names of some of these towns
 For the second time within a year horse has been stuck fast in-t the tarvia in front of the Winsted Town Hall, on Main street, and had to be pried loose. Saturday horse owned by Elliott B. Bronson, forest fire war den, while left standing in the same locality where a horse experienced a similar difficulty year ago, got one foot stuck in the tar surface which had to be pried loose with a crowbar While this was being done a second foot became fast and the operation had to be repeated.
 Reports that come to the headquar- ters of the Manufac cturers' Association of Bridgeport from the various shop employment agents is that the work of women on machines is highly satisfac- tory. Some young women have shown remarkable aptitude to catch on to the technical side of the work and correct knowledge of the machine they xunrxinp hn g4o+a to add that the local federal employ ment bureau has on file the names of a great many teachers who desire work in factories or at clerical positions during the coming vacation.
 Rockville has the distinction of keeping all of its doctors at home during these strenuous war days. At the present time none of the doctors have volunteered to enlist, and 1t is understood that the government has asked for one or two volunteers Some of the doctors are so optimistic as to say that they woun't enlist and if the government wants them they will have to draft them. At recent meeting of the Holland County Medical Association there were several volun- teers, but none were from Rockville Ellington, which is about one-tenth the size of Rockville, has a doctor in the service.
 The large and we'll equipped hospi- tai, built for tuberculosis patients of the New Haven Hospital and located on the hills of Allingtown is now hous- ing large number of very sick Ameri- can soldiers and more of them who have recovered from the worst eff fects of theE experiences overseas. All those sent to this institution are the victims of the poisonous gases used by the Huns, and medical men assert that the only treatment which will bring response is that given to tuberculosis patients, The site is ideal for such a hospital. At the present time new buildings are being erected by the government