The Newtown bee., 1891-09-25
SOUTHPORT.


 speak at the Methodist church, next Sun day morning, on behalf of the woman's board of foreign missions.
 Miss Thompson is to meet the Kings , Daughters at Leslie H. Jennings's, Sat urday at ? 30.
 Three miles of claims are now owned by the Mount Wilson mining company ; as promising as the Silver Pick. John H. Sherwood is special agent tc collect samples of grains, etc., at the Huntington fair, for exhibition at the worlds fair, Chicago.
 Rev and Mrs Gleason and family and MT Walsh have returned to New York Prof Brewers school, Fairfield, open ed, Wednesday.
 Dr Brooks H. Wells has returned to New York city.
 Hughes Dayton and Warren Water man have returned to Yale university.
 William Bulkley was in town, Sunday.
 John Wood, Fred Wells, Edward s. Spring, Jr, Gertie Jelliff, Nellie Henson are attending the High school, Bridge port.
 Bridget Smith sailed for Ireland, We'd nesday, to be away for some time.
 Town meeting and election of officers, October ).
 Miss Martin is visiting Miss Annie Bulkley.
 The board of school visitors held their final meeting before election, Monday af- ternoon. Dr Dunham presided; all the members were present. Minutes of the meeting of September were accepted. The committee appointed to open the school in the Holland Hill district re- ported that they had done so and had employed Wilbur k. Winton as teacher report accepted. On motion of J. D. Toomey, Jr, vote of thanks was ex- tended to Dr Dunham for the courteous manner in which, as chairman, he had presided over the board.
 A decision awarding $6050 was reached by the appraisers on the Bulkley proper ty, Saturday and the sum has been ac- cepted by Mir Bulkley, though he still re- gards it as far below the actual value of the property. It is the estate of Francis Bulkley, near the Southport station; the life use was given to Mrs Mary Bulkley and the fee is owned by Benjamin F. Bulkley and Mrs Kate I. Nichols of Fair field Woods. The property consists of 1.S7 acres of land, dwelling house oc- cupied by Mrs Bulkley, 24x30, with a lean-to of 9 feet; smaller house, 18x22, both two stories; barn, 20x45; old shop and storage rooms, 25x00. MT Bulkley had asked $10,500 for the property, which was condemned by the railroad commissioners, last November. In Jan- uary, A. M. Tallmadge of Bridgeport, Tallmadge Baker of Norwalk and N. M. Belden of Wilton were appointed ap- praisers and MT Bulkley was given to at once. No further proceedings were taken, however, until last week Wednes- day, when the premises were viewed and a hearing began at the court house in Bridgeport. The railroad summoned nc Southport men as witnesses, because, as it is alleged, these placed too high a val uation on the place. Instead, Real Els tate Dealer James Staples, Banker W. E Seeley, Insurance Agent Thomas DeFor est of Bridgeport were called. None o1 them, as admitted on the stand, owned property in Southport, none had money loaned or insurance placed there. Thii procedure is objected to by Mir Bulkley and his counsel, W. H. Comley of Bridge port, who think that men conversan with the location should have passed up F on the value of the property. Architec , George W. Lengstaff of Bridgeport testi fled to the value of the buildings an( Real Estate Buyer Fiske closed the testi mony for the railroad. The highest val ue placed by these witnesses on the prop erty was $35O0. Witnesses for MT Bulk ley were William F. Northrop, B. B Middlebrook, on buildings; Henry Horl on the value of the trees; Charles Jen nings, W. B. Meeker, Charles F. Bulkley Arthur $. Sherman, Edward Henshaw B. F. Bulkley. on land. Part of the evi dence of Messrs Henshaw and Sherman was ruled out, the appraisers holding that sales more than 15 years ago coule not be admitted as evidence. These wit nesses placed the value of the property at about $12,000. The evidence was fin ished and the arguments made, Friday Lawyers Bishop and Shelton appearing for the railroad and Lawyer Comley fol MT Bulkley. Deeds have been passed and work begun at filling in the land Mir Bulkley has been given the privilege of removing the barn, shop and the fruit He is to build new house just west of his own residence at SascO creek, for his mother. It will be an exact counterpart of the house built by his father, even to the mortise and tenon frame and con- tractors have been estimating the cost, this week. The old shop, where Francis Bulkley once carried on the carriage mak- CTS business and where Bulkley & Hen- shaw conducted livery stable, was stor- ed full of old carriages and parts of ve- hieles, most of which were taken to MT Bulkley's and burned.
 Henry Zabriskie's prices:
 White onions, B 50 to $4; small $5 to $s; yellow, $2 to $2 25; red, $1 D to $2; $1 50 to $2; apples, Soc to $1 9.
 It can be seen by glance at the sub joined statement of Francis M. Pike, our tax collector, that he has done his duty