Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-03-07
Connecticut
State Briefs


ments were sent To the headquarters
in Waterbury,
The sale of thrift and war savings
stamps ut ThomaSton since December
has reached a total of $6,5S9 10, almost
one-tenth of Thomaston's allotment
for the year 1918, which is $4,000
The war vegetable garden movement
at Bristol this year promises to be
even greater than last. due to 10
creased interest aud I'm many eases the
advantage Of n years experience.
Constable James II. Graham, seven
ty-two years old. one of the best known
figures I'm Hartford and long prominent
in Democratic circles, died of heart
trouble at the Hartford Hospital,
where he had been for several months
The will of Mrs. Enos B. Lockwood
of Stamford, who died In Pasadena,
Cal, on February IL, leaving nearly
half n million dollars, contains be-
quest of $1,000 10 the Stamford Hos
pital and bequest of $1,000 for the
support of the Perret Memorial IL
brary of Sound Beach, Greenwich.
Samuel Derecklor of Meriden, a
member of the class of 1910 nj Yale
University and who enlisted In the
United States Naval Reserves, has
been made an ensign and has gone to
Annapolis, Md, for four months to
study engineering. He was RECON-
mended by Admiral Bird of the Brook.
Ign Navy Yard.
The families In Waterbury which
are represented in the fighting forces
of Uncle Sam by three or more MEM
bers are becoming quite numerous.
Included among them is the family OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James Fallon of Griggs
street. Three sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fallon are with the colors I'm active
service at the present time.
1t is expected 1t win be necessary
to call so more men from Waterbury
within the next two weeks for Camp
Devens to complete the official first
draft quota. They will be supplied
principally from the first and third
local divisions, which were unable to
select a sufficient number at the time
when the orders for mobilization be-
came effective.
A letter has been received by officers
of all Connecticut library boards from ,
the office of the State Board of Edu-
cation drawing attention to the posi-
bilIty of there being on the library
shelves books tending to spread Ger
man propaganda. with the letter Is
blank report to efillcd out and re-
turned, showing the nature of any such
books discovered. ..
I President William A. Riley and Sec
rotary Joseph o. Goodwin of the
East Hartford School Committee have
drawn an order on the state of Con,
necticut, payable to the treasurer of
the town of East Hartford, for the
sum of S5,S54.50. This is the towns
proportion Of the returns Of the school
fund and the state appropriation, the
allowance being So.25 per pupil.
Miss Prudence Nj. Cudworth, grad
uate of the class Of 1916, Hartford
Hospital Training School, left for
Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. @. She
has been appointed Red Cross nurse
and is sent TO Camp Greene by the war
department. Miss Cudworth offered
her services to the Red Cross Inst
December and has been on duty at the
Hartford Hospital awaiting orders.
A committee consisting of George
Goodwin @. Henry Olmsted, Fred NJ.
Smith, James A. Hopewell and Frank
M. Fitch has been appointed by the
East Hartford War Bureau to look up
suitable location for public vegeta-
BILE garden and to draw up rules to
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of land for the raising of garden truck
will be allotted to townspeople who
wish to raise fodstufrs, and the land
will be plowed and fertilized and put
In condition for planting.
The Board OF Selectmen OF East
Hartford made popular selection for
tree WARDEN to succeed the late How
ard s. Pitkin In the appointment OF
Charles Barnes of Wells avenue. Mr..
Barnes, who has been n member OF the
Board of Commissioners for the fire
district for number of years, is, part
ly through his experience on the board,
we'll informed as to the duties of his
new position. Because of the many
shade trees and the lines OF poles and
wires on the streets In East Hartford q,
the position of tree warden is quite i'm
portant.
Captain Edward c. Leonard predicts
that 1.-The Connecticut river will not
break up until lIarch II, when he ex-
poets to see navigation open. In l5e
fall Captain Leonard won quite rep
utation by predicting that the river
would close to navigation December 10.
1t had not closed as early MS that for
many years. and there were not few
who were inclined to scoff at his pre-
diction. When the river finally closed
December 13 people thought that he
was a pretty good prophet, and now
they are ready to listen when he talks
about when IL will open.
George II. Waddell, clerk of the