The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-19

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 which the execution was temporarily
 shelved. A copy of the injunction had
 previously been served on Lawyer
 Murphy and in consequence MT. Banks
 stil1 holds the fort.
 Mr. and Mra Raaph Ashcroft are
 about to remove from their cottage at
 the Mark Twain estate to Brooklyn,
 N. Y. They may return to the cot
 tage later in the season Mrs. Lyon,
 her daughters house in Farrnington-
 No further advance has been made to-
 wards settlement of the differences
 between the Ashcrofts and Mark undecided being the willingness of
 otherwise of the latter to accord Mrs.
 Ashcroft such vindication as has
 been demanded. It seems that Sir
 Thomas Iiptons twice contestant for
 the America cup, is represented by
 MT. Ashcroft in the Plasmon Mills
 Products Co. in which Mark Twain all
 so holds a, large block of stock The
 company makes from milk a. prepara-
 tdon in the form of g. powder which
 contains the milk's nitrogenous ele@
 ments, all the fat or oil being eIiminr
 ated. The pfeparatiop. which is de- signed as a food for invalfds, has gained quite extensive use in England,
 and MT. Ashcroft has undertaken to
 push 1t on this side of the water. In
 the terms of settlement which he pro
 posed to Mark Twain he offered to
 withdraw from his connection with
 formed to manage the commercial side Of the author'e literary interests, but
 Mr. Clemens does not wish him to do
 r,ss< x.,...y-<x -s.~x~ ,S..a ,< %L~s esxe<e
 earm in Georgetown last week brought
 together a. large representation of the order from all parts of the county Several brief addresses on farming and many of those present improved the chance to inspect the barns with their model arrangements for housing
 cows and to get informa ton regarding the methods Of feeding and otherwise caring for the stock which are in vogue at the farm. A good deal of the milk produced there is sold in fthe neighborhood and the rest is shipped to Stamfo1d. s Marshall Drfggs accompanied by his
 young friends. Misses Emma and Ruth Reid and Annie Banks. started Satur- day on an auto trip which will take in
 Narragansett, Provfncetown and points in New Hampshire
 Le Grand Baldwin has sold to Der hard von Beachemhausen his property on the back road leading from the Glen to the Center, and consisting of q barn and three acres of meadow. The price was about $500. The prop 9rty adJoins the Zeke Burr place re- gently bought by MT. Beach emha hausen. The lawn festival which the ladies of the Center Methodist church were poned on account of the weather to Saturday afternoon and evening.
 Herbert Barnes will occupy his new house on the Ridge within the next family expect to be installed in their fine new house before October. MT. Warmer, who superintended the con struction of the building, has gone to another job. and g. MT. Lee of Bridge port succeeds him here.
 The friends of MT. and Mrs Fred erick Maybrey have arranged to give them a. welcome home surprise party this evening.
 An effort is being made to revive local baseball, and if successful the first opponents of the Readings under the new order of things will probably be the Sport Hin team
 A largely attended dance was held at the gymnasium last Friday evening under the management of John MaIone and Dennis Ryan r Mrs. Patrick Mcdonald, who has been sadly afflicted of late by the loss nervous prostration. GaPriloyitch, the Russian pianist who was a member last season Of Miss Clara Clemens concert company is recuperafing at the home of Mark Twain after a serious peration for abscess- A New York specialist has visited him daily for the last two or three weeks. - James Sweeney is back from the Bridgeport hospital, where he has been undergoing treatment for partial paralysis. fully restored to health. The house on the Frank Lee place which recently became the property of Mark Twain. is being improved and a Clemens has developed a lively inter est in the farming operations carried on there. the raising of chickens being her particular hobby Miss Florence Sanford entertained her young friends last evening with a party at the residence of her parents MT. and Mrs Marshall Sanford
 Ben Godfrey recently had an arm amputated at the Danbury hospital in consequence. of the blood poisoning from which he was suffering as a re- suit of being shot by James Smith. The Morning Star Mission Circle o1 the Congregational church will give an entertainment in the social room of the church on Wednesday afternoon and evening, Aug. 25. There will be a sale of fancy and useful articles. also tempting refreshments will be served sandwiches, cake, ice cream and home ant evening.
 A salad supper and sale of fancy work and cake will be held under the auspices of the Parish Aid Society o1 Christ church, Bedding Ridge. at the home of Mrs. Randolph Bradley, Tfi-
 o'clock A literary and musicaz DO Erom VII follow the supper.