Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-05-16
Connecticut
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liner for Hartford, has been commits
stoned a captain in the Medical Re
serve Corps and will probably enter
the service May1.
William G.. Jones, for the past eight |
years baritone soloist and choir direc-
tor of the South Park Methodist
Church, Hartford, will become direc- |
tor of the choir at South Baptist
Church on May !.
John Fl. Riley of Danbury, secre-
tary Of the Central Labor Union, has
received notification of his appoint
ment as member Of the Liberty Loan
Committee, labor division, of the Sec
ond Federal Reserve district
The summer residence at Hemlock
dam, near Fairfield, Of Charles FL.
Phelps of New York city was totally
destroyed by fire; loss, $4,000. MIR.
Phelps Is connected with the Austrian
American Steamship Company, which
before the war operated SO transatlan-
tic steamers.
The Cristf1eld Construction Compa-
ny Is cutting off the timber on the land
to be flooded by the new lake made
by the damming of the Housatonic
river at Stephenson, which is large
enough for timber to be flooded down
the river on RATS. All of the build
ings at the village of Mapping are to
be moved before fall, and the state
highway will be changed.
The Community Garden Committee
of Bunker Hill announces that the
tract of land given by the Brown es-
tate, situated east of the Metal Spe-
cialty Company's factory, will be
ready to till in short time. There
are about IA small gardens of 20 by
so feet to be rented on the following
| terms 1t will be plowed and harvest
ed for from rs cents to $1.15, accord
| ing to size of plot. One or more plots
may be taken by person in family.
| With samples of candy from every
store in Waterbury gathered at detec-
tive headquarters analysis for glass or
other poison In hundreds of brands Of
sweetmeats was held in the High
School under the direction Of Prof.
Harrison Allen, head of the science
department of Crosby High School.
He was assisted by Alden Merrill,
chemist of the American Brass Com
pany, and William B. Price, chemist Of
the Scoyill Manufacturing Company.
Glass was discovered in numerous
i samples.
4 After their demands for a general
| reimbursement of the wage scale per-
hitting of a minimum wage of 81 n
day for male adults and So day
minimum wage for female adults had
been refused about a thousand en-
ployees of the Eagle Lock Company at
Terryville went out on strike. The
strikers at mass meeting held in the
auditorium framed demands which
call for the minimum wages for male
and female adults mentioned above
and also for a IS per cent. increase in
the present scale.
Ground glass in pie has been found
in one of the eating places in Tor
rington. While a guest at the estab-
! lishment was about to partake of
portion he had ordered his teeth came
In contact with a piece that was not
ground. He thought a piece of one Oh
his teeth had broken off, but was sur
prised to learn that it was glass. He
called the attention of the party In
charge, and the waiter took charge OF
the piece of pie that was left, wrap
ping it up to show to the person from
whom it was originally purchased. L
} Is understood that German enemy
! aliens are engaged at the place where
the pie was baked. r
Kurt Wolf, the enemy alien wht
I was reported to the federal authori
ties for travelling about without a per
} NIT, which all enemy aliens are re
quired to carry, paid visit to thu
; United States marshal in Hartford AM
made application for such. Mr.. VOL
has been In Torrington about st
weeks and upon his arrival registered
with Postmaster Hanley. He failed Il
obtain a permit from the United State
marshal in New York state, from
4 whence he came Wolf states that h
had no intention Of going into restrict
ed zones and did so unknowingly. Ell
/ claims his actions were in accordanc
with those of any loyal citizen.
The United States government
through it's Bureau of Markets, is pre-
a
4 cal news service by which farmer:
I dealers and consumers will have a cor
i tinuous and detailed report of the IL
cal wholesale vegetable and fruit mai
ket. The United States department @
agriculture received a request froI
the local farmers who conducted tn
public market in Waterbury last SCI
son to establish such a service at Wa
j terbury, and Nc. F. Kerby Of Wash
ington, an official of the Bureau q
u Markets, and Prof. Guy @. Smith q
storrs Agricultural College, were
! Waterbury making necessary plana
Although it has been known for IL
past few years that there has been
y blight In the chestnut trees, 1t hi
ID been discovered recently since the e