The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-11
Ilitchfleld County News.
To Remove crossings.

survey for a proposed State road from Litchfield to New Milford for State Highway Commissioner James Macdon- ald, will submit a plan whereby two dangerous railroad crossings can be eliminated and the grade greatly inn proved Also, according to his plan, a. distance of nearly four hundred feet will be saved. Commissioner Macdon- aids plan is to establish what might be termed a trunk State road from Falls Village to New Milford via Iitchfield
 Still Cutting Ice.
 The Berkshire Ice Company of New York, has a gang of fifty men employ ed in harvesting ice at Bantam Lake. The ice is about thirteen inches in thickness and is of good quality. At storage houses in or about New York During the coming summer the com pany will build ice houses which are 10 have at least a total capacity or one hundred thousand tons
 Cost s40.47 in All
 Mary Piccolo. who was arrested on Monday afternoon, was charseu HI court at Torrington, Tuesday, with H. legal sale of liquor to Michael F'ennedio 1on Sunday morning at her boardlng house. She was fined s30 and costs. amounting to s4o.47, which was paid
 Seeking Jewelry Salesman.
 C. H. Leonard, a Winsted jeweler. was in Torrington, Tuesday, in search of information relative to one Dahir Gethaun, a Syrian, who owes him be- tween $500 and $400 and who is re- ported to nave made preparations to leave the country. Gethaun is known by various aliases and gave MT Leon ard the name of David Haddad, g. re- spectable Warrington business man. He had lived in Torrington about a year and represented himself as a l jewefry salesman
 Declines the Call
 Rev. Frank A. Scofield, pastor of the Sdxty-first Street Methodist church, l New York, has declined the call ex- tended to him to succeed Rev B. E. Kidder as pastor of the Winsted Meth otlfst church This leaves the church without g prospective candidate to sue, ceed MT Kfdder when he retires April |
 Saved by Car Fender. I
 As Charles Smith was driving into | South Main street. Tor1dngton, Tues day afternoon the horse becamej frightened at a north-bound trolley ! and ran across the track The car struck the horse and pushed 1t about i fifty feet- Smith was thrown on the horse escaped with slight injuries i The cab was wrecked The fender | of the car was broken off and the glass in the front of the car was knocked out. No blame t4 attached to the man in charge oc the car.
 - Masonic Veterans.
 The Masonic Veterans, Association | will deddcate the memorial erected to the memory Of wdMiem Wallace Lee, | in the cemetery at Pleasant Valley, | (Barkhamstead) Thursday, June "A.
 Exclusion of Reporters
 The representatdves Of the press ap- | peared before the Torrington borough | board on Monday. night. asking that | they be admitted to the regular meft- 1 ings of the body. The custom of other | quest The board decided that the | borough quarters were not large | enough to admit the press, but that | the borough clerk would furnish 'all the news fit to print"
 A Fake Telegram.
 ssCome home at once, your wife is dying-F'ather." was the telegram that reached William F. Newport of Tor rngton, last Friday in Watertown, Wis. When he reached his home in his wife well and very much surprised | to see him. Ills father was equally | astonished at the speedy return of his son, who had left houne but two weeks telegram. Inquiries failed to find any one else who did.
 Sage ys. Norton.
 Judge welch has handed down hfs decision in the case of Francis Sage against R. A. Norton, an action to re- cover a pTOkeIS- CO1dII1SSlOl 1OI t1l6 alleged sale of a. farm, which was tried in the court of Common Pleas several weeks ago. Judge Weich finds that while the plaintiff was in- purchaser he was not directly re- sponsible for the sale, and judgment is given for the defendant to recover his costs.
 .1O-Mfll Tax in Sharon.
 At a. recent town meeting Sharon voted to lay a 10-mdn tax for the en- suing year, which is the same rate as last year s
 Extradition for Alleged Burglar.
 Donald T. Warner, States attorney, has made application to Governor Ldl- ley for a. warrant to extGad1te Robert Edwards, who is under arrest in Al bany, N. Y., awaiting extraddtion pa pers from Connecticut Edwards Is charged with. breaking and entering a house at Woodbury on January 31, 1909
 To Be Concert Hall.
 Several wealthy residents Of Litch- field have secured the option of pur- chasing the old Armory Hall, with the view of remodeling it into an up-to- date music hall. The Armory Hall was formerly the First Congregational church and was built in 1926. the last year of Rev. Lyman BeecheTs pastor ate in Litchfield- In 1873 the society built its present church and the old building was sold. It was used as an armory for number of years by the company of militia, which was main tained in Litchfield at that time. Of late years it has been variously used as roller skating rink, dance hall and furniture repository.
 Escaped for IT Years.
 For seventeen years the Canaan camp ground and the buildings there on have escaped taxation but this year they were placed on the assessment roll. Under the law, the property was exempt from taxation so long as it was used entirely for religious purposes but during recent years land has been rent ed to various people and cottages have been erected thereon and have been occupied during nearly, or quite, all of and spIaced the valuation thereof at s9.O0O or an average of $50 per cot tara The hotel was also included.