The Newtown bee., 1891-10-02
FAIRFIELD.

d cally completed, but will not bs used fo the present. The platform has been ex tended to the viaduct on the east anC will be carried even farther on the west
 With the exception of point opposite the property of J D. Ioomey, blasting for the new road on the north of tht tracks, between the station and Mil Plain crossing, is finished. Contractor Birnie is making rapid progress with th' excavation for the tunnel at this crossing and the earth taken out is used on tho road. The four tracks have been stone ballasted as far as this crossing.
 Mrs Joanna Shay, generally known q! Molly Shay, has been taken to the almE house and will remain there for the pres ent. If her condition is not improved when there is q vacancy at the asylum she will be taken there. She has been living in Fairfield for years and has fol some time been mentally unbalanced. OI late, she has been haunted with the idea that she is being pursued by q number o1 men, who constantly force themselves upon her attention and make a practice of dancing on the table. She has beer eating and sleeping in the fields and in barns and has become quite crazy. She is 60 or 70 years old (she doesn't know her own age and no one else can tell her) and has been living in filth and apparent poverty. It is said that the only way to purify her dwelling is to burn it. She utterly refused to leave the place, how ever, and could not be induced to go un- til assured that the men who were trOub- ling her would be arrested during her absence, if they could be found. While she has lived in poverty and has been re- garded as destitute, she has considerable property, there being from $500 to S2000 in her name in Bridgeport savings banks, while she has the life use of the place in which she lived. The fee in the place is held by her son, Patrick Shay of Anson- ia. Application for the appointment of a couservator has been made to the pro- bate court and will be heard October TO-.
 Sid Beardsley is now in charge of the work on the Congregational church, Su- perintendent Philo c. Fox being promot- ed to the position of general superintend- ent. The church is nearly plastered and white coat has been put on around win dows and in parts of the chancel. The exterior of the church is practically done.
 The Revolutionary cannon ball found while excavating foundations of the Con- gregational chr ch, kept by P. l.. Fox of Bridgeport, superintendent of construct ion, is now to be presented to the ladies of the church.
 Albert H. Darcy has returned to Yale, where he is in the senior class.
 Shortly before school began, the hal- lizards were stolen from the flag pole at the Jennings Woods school house and no flag could be flown until new halliards were rove by James Bain.
 E. w. Dana, one of Fail fields old res idents and all authority on the local his tory of the town, is as successful crab Der as historian.
 A new National cash register, of hand some and improved design, has been put in by Merchant E. W. $. Pickett.
 Speaking of the incidents which led Fairfield residents to contribute to fund for the maintenance of special policemen in the village, a gentleman thoroughly nn A great injustice has been done Fairfield by the exaggerated reports in city dailies in regard to the lawlessness here. Why, it doesn't exist; and these statements, founded possibly on modicum of fact, are considerably amplified by the wierd imagination of the writers. Fairfield is not worse than other towns of her size in this respect. There are boys and young men who gather on street corners and oc- casionally pass remarks to passers, but nothing objectionable, so far as I have been able to learn, save in few cases. Depredations have been committed in many ca ses, no doubt; but these were by quarrymen and other transients, for whose acts Fairfield can hardly be held responsible. Undoubtedly it is not al- ways pleasant to be obliged to pass the young fellows gathered at street corners but this is far from saying that the pub- lie health is menaced or that violence IS used. The idea of a night watchman or two is very good, particularly in the Win ter, when many places are unoccupied but the impression that Pinkerton men are needed to preserve public peace and property is altogether wrong and mis- leading"
 Timber is being gotten out for the new bridge at Plattsville and it is expected that work will soon begin. Slight re pairs are necessary on the abutnents. Il is said that the road may well be chang ed, to cross the river nearer the black smith shop. This is said to be the olt layout.
 Congregational services at the Tow hall were disturbed on recent Sunda, by boys on the green, who flung stone and missiles against the side of the build ing.
 F. H. Baldwin, who has been living il Fairfield and teaching Middle distric school for six years, is to leave, thi week, for Stamford, where Mrs Bald wins people live. He has a Lucrative pc sition IS teacher in Rowayton.
 A we'll is being dug at E. W. s. Picl ett's store.
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