Connecticut western news., 1918-09-05
Connecticut
State Briefs

Robbins b. Stoeckel has made an APP
peal to Connecticut motorists to OBJ
serve the request of the Federal Fuel
Administration not to use their cars
for Sunday pleasure trips.
Sixteen sheep barbecued after the
Lake Compounce style, with generous
portions of fried corn, sweet ana
white potatoes and tomatoes, were de-
voured by 225 members of the Croco-
die club of Bristol at its forty-secOnd
reunion at Lake COmpounce.
Augh CianfiOne, aged "a years,
tailor, living at Winter street, New
Britain, and Mary Antoine, aged 10
years, who lives at 129 Lawlor street,
have taken out a marriage license ana
the girls mother has given the neces-
sary consent for the marriage.
Only fifteen inmates of the Fairfield
county Jail are available for work on
the state highways, and Highway Com
missioner Charles ]. Bennett declares
that the small number may make it i'm
possible for the commission to use pris-
on labor on the state roads at all.
The harvesting of Connecticut's
largest crop of tobacco is now at its
height. 1t has been many years since
such a fine crop has been sent to the
sheds. The harvesting began among
the shade growers a month ago, and
now the outside grown tobacco plant
ers are cutting.
Organization of the Fuel Conserva-
ton Committee of the BRIDGEPORT Fuel
Administration was completed, and it
was announced that the factories would
be inspected under the recent govern
ment questionable system. Sixteen
inspectors were selected and will in
Spect the city in squads of two.
Suit was filed in the superior court
in Bridgeport by the Hegeman Harris
Company, Inc, of New York, against
Gutzon Borglum of Stamford to re-
cover OIL a judgment for $S575.3S by
the New York supreme court on June
% last. The Stamford estate of the
defendant has been attached for S12,-
600 to cover the damages claimed.
The first joint meeting of the SUI
perintendentS of the local branch Of
fees of the United States employment
service and the chairmen of the COM
munity labor boards was held with
Federal Director Leo A. KOrper at the
state capitol, Hartford. The purpose
of the meeting was to familiarize the
government officials with the new ma
chinery and functions of the commun-
ity labor boards.
One hundred and nine girls, teach
ers and students from New York who
were sent out recently by the State
Public Employment Bureau, Woman's
Farm Labor Reserve, to work on the
Farnham Tobacco Plantation at East
Windsor Hill, have arrived. Much has
! been done to make the girls satisfied
and comfortable. A warehouse has
| been turned into a dining room and a
dormitory six shower baths have been
installed; an outside kitchen has been
built, and two tents erected.
Farmers coming into Manchester with
| their garden truck for sale are getting
| better prices than are being paid in
| Hartford. The reason for this is the
! automobile A farmer can now load
his auto truck at his farm, run to
Hartford and dispose of his goods at
the market place and sell for lower
| figure than he can sell in Manchester,
although he has a shorter distance TO
travel. There is no market place in
Manchester, and he must peddle from
house to house. This takes the greater
part of his time.
Thousands of girls, women and boys
are being used in the Connecticut to-
bacco harvest to take the plae Of the
young men who have gone and are
going to war. The wages earned by
the youngsters vary from $1.5O to So
a day, and the experienced help is re-
ceiving from 81 to 81 day. The help
question has not bothered the growers
as much as they expected it would, as
| the Connecticut State Council Of De-
| Tense and the local auxiliary have en-
couraged boys, girls and women to en-
ter the fields and assist in the harvest.
Agents Of the United States Bureau
of Markets are making a strenuous
effort to unearth half a million baskets
that are stored away in pantries, attics
and cellars in the four principal cities
in Connecticut. Hundreds and thou
sands of homes are harboring and
unintentionally boarding these contain
nary half bushel peach baskets, that
are too often considered worthless.
These receptacles should not be used
for kindling wood or otherwise de-
stroyed to get rid of them. They are
too sorely needed.
In Connecticut dogs outnumber sheep
four to one, according to Commissioners
of Domestic Animals James NJ. Whittel-
sey There are only about $4,000 sheep
in the state, according to the commits
sioner, and if it were not for the risk
of ravages by dogs there would be
several times as many. Mr.. Whittelsey
said that unless people learned how to
make cloth out of dog hair they would
find it to their economic advantage TO
begin an extensive substitution of
sheep for dogs. The country needs
! the wool he said. and Connecticut has