Connecticut western news., 1918-01-24
CONNECTICUT
STATE BRIEFS

To unite their Sunday serN ices. Ill
turn each church VIII hold service, the
OiIcr two reIIdIlIinS closed.
flncInzO I.n,.I ""S SIiIuDeu 20 uea. Ill
and three ouner linen were woonued,
ole fatally, i'll d q.!,rrrel ill Il LeAInS-
ton avenue coffee house ill Bridgeport.
All are Italians. The ponce have
made four arTpS,S
The NewtOwn Farmers Association
elected the following officers Ut re-
cent meeting: President, w. q. john
son; vice president, John e. beers;
secretary, Eugene botsford; treasurer,
Edward S. Lowell.
Twenty men from StOrrS college
have been called for the officers train
ing camp at Camp Upton. Iaphank,
n. Y. Fifty Storrs men are now hold
ing commissions in the army as the re-
suit of the military training which
they received at the Connecticut Agri-
cultural College.
Arrangements are being rapidly COM
pleted by the Bridgeport Board of
Health for the organization of a thor
ough food inspection system in the
city. The sanitation of foodstuffs, the
detection of decayed or inferior goods
and of adulteratiOn are among the
first steps which will be taken up.
Edwin L. Scotield. a distinguished
member of the Connecticut bar and u
former state insurance commissi oner,
died at his home in Stanford. He was
born In Stanford sixty-four years ago,
was a graduate of Columbia Universe
ty and was twice mayCr of STANFORD.
He leaves one son, Edwin L. Scotield,
Jr.
The trustees of the Suffield School
have voted to place the institution on
military basis beginning with the
next school year. The Suffield School
prepares boys for college and has
about 200 pupils. 1t was known as the
Connecticut Literary Institute until Its
name was changed about two years
ago.,
According to a voluntary decision
submitted to Carl r. Siemon, chairman
of the Fuel Committee, the saloons of
Bridgeport will not open for business
& hereafter until z 80 In the morning in
/ stead of 6 80 as first announced. The
saloons will close at 10 80, making a
I saving of four hours consumption Of
fuel and light. ~.
Fire did $4,000 damage at the Ham,
den Plains Methodist Church, and the
old edifice was saved from total de-
struction only by the combined efforts
of the Hamden and New Haven fire.
men. Company No. went to the aid
of the suburban organization. There
is $4,000 insurance on the property.
A defective fiue was the cause, officials
agree.
The past year for st. Brendan's par
ish, New Haven, has proved TO be a
very successful one. over $4,000 was
collected. The entire debt of $4,000
was paid off, leaving the parish free
from debt There is now on hand a
balance of $1,000, $4,000 of which is
invested in Liberty bonds and the re-
der is in the banks of the city.
After conference at Meriden be-
tween members Of the local Fuel Com
mittee and proprietors of cafes, NOV
ing picture houses, bowling alleys and
drug stores the latter voted to submit
plan for reducing business hours to
the State Council of National Defense
which, IL approved by that body, will
result in their places opening one hour
later and closing one and half hours
earlier every day except Saturday un'
TIL April I. Mayor Fl. T. King presided
The little red boxes are still depos-
J tied in all the stores in Branford
catching lots of pennies for the to-
bacco fund for the boys of Battery E.
Every one is asked TO drop In as much
change as they can, for there seems to
he an urgent call from the boys for to.
bacco, and one young man Of Battery
e wrote last week that he paid &C
cents for bag of tobacco over there
the same size that could be bought
here for 10 or Is cents.
National banks and trust companies
of Bridgeport have arranged TO loan tC
members of we'll established pig clubs
of Fairfield county for the purpose OF
financing pig raising in the vicinity
The agreement was reached through
the efforts of Leonard M. Johnson OF
Danbury, president of the Fairfield
County War Activity Bureau. The
money is to be loaned at 6 per cent. In
terest on promissory notes, with the
prospective pigs as collateral
Word was received at Yale Upiversi
ty, New Haven, of the death ~ a hos
pital In Hoboken, N. j.. Of Benjamin
S. Adams, a Yale student, who enlisted
In the Twelfth u. S. Field ARTILLERY
last June. Adams would have been
a senior had he returned to college
last fall and was member OF the
VOLTS Head Society. Charles Taft
SON OF former President William FL
Taft, is sergeant major in the same