The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-15
MERIDEN UNIONS
 GIVE SUPPORT TO
 OLD AGE PENSION
Many Join Movement to Urge Pass age of Such Law Before Next
 Legislature.

Meriden, Sept. I5.-Organized La bor in Meriden will bet enthusiastic cally behind the movement to have an "Old Age Pension established in l Connecticut, large number of the local unions already having signed up
 on the roster of organizations that are banding together to urge the
 passage of such a law upon the next Legislature. While the matter was
 first suggested in this state some years ago by the Connecticut Fedora toin of Labor it was impossible then to do anything about it. More re- gently the Fraternal Order of Eagles has become interested in the move ment and has started a countrywide effort to have such pensions establish ed in each state. In Meriden the Meriden Community Old Age Pen sion Club has been started and al ready has 30 organizations enlisted in it's support, many of them labor unions The Community club has drawn up resolutions to be presented to the nominees for the legislature this fall and learn their feeling to- MT. and Mrs. E. s. Hasspacker and their son, Curt, have returned home after making a 25,ooo mile automo
 bile trip, for which they left this city August I, 1921. They crossed the country by the southern route to Cal ifornia, spent most of the winter in that state, and returned by the north
 ern highways Their entire repair
 bills for the trip were less than $25 and they averaged 22 and fraction miles to each gallon of gasoline.
 The tota Registration in the Meri- den public schools, reported at the office of Superintendent David Gibbs, is 5,2oo. This is a gain of 100 pupils over the registration at the opening of the fall term last year. The en- rollment in each school this year fol- lows: Church street, 25o; Open Air, East Grammar, 358; East Primary, 6o; Franklin street, 323; Hanover, 17o; High, 1,156; King street, 3o6; Lewis avenue, 284; Liberty street, 31o; North Broad street, 288; North Colony street, 336; South Broad street, PIP; South East, 20; West Grammar, 382; West Main street, 2o7; Willow street, I47.
 James J. Fitzpatrick was elected to the c. o. F. central committee in place of Major w. H. Lyon, who held the office for years. The dele gates were elected at a recent pri- mary on an anti-Roraback ticket. MT. Fitzpatrick is member of the so- called Purity League" faction in the G. O. P. ranks here He is a former saloon proprietor, and prominent fra ternally. The delegates to the con ventoin are: George Crowell, chair man; Senator Eugene P. Golden, James ]. Fitzpatrick, Charles Kas- chub, Mrs Ida l. Pooley and Mrs. 1 Sarah w. Chamberlain
 Senator Eugene P. Golden will celebrate his 7oth birthday tomor- row. He was a superintendent at Factory E, of the International Silver | Company for a number of years, but l recently retired He is enjoying ex- ce1lent health.
 The sand annual reunion of the Eighth Connecticut Volunteer Regi- ment Association was held at c. A. | R. hall, yesterday. Col. C. L. Upham presided and the speakers included | Miss Wooley, president of Mt. Hol- yoke College and daughter of the late Rev. ]. J. Wooley, chaplain of the regiment, and Lawyer C. J. Danaher, son of veteran of the regiment, There are only four surviving mem bers of Company K, which left this city 61 years ago and Colonel Upham is the only one of the quartet still ilv- ing here The other three are Timo- thy Hall of Hartford, A. T. Booth ofl Waterbury and Edward E. Pelton, whose address is unknown.
 Rev. Kenneth Kingston, pastor of the Trinity Methodist church, has presented his resignation, effective next Sunday, and it has been accept ed by the official board. The pastor plans to leave church work.
 The Public Health Association has engaged Miss Mary 1. Gollnick, of 500 West Main street to take charge of all the tubercular work of the or ganization Miss Golinick is trained nurse She graduated from the Mer- iden Hospital in 1921.