The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-17
TWAIN PROFITS BY REAL ESTATE
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FAMOUS AUTHOR SELLS FRANK
 LEE PROPERTY FOR $6,OOO.

FAMOUS AUTHOR SELLS FRANK
 LEE PROPERTY FOR S6,OOO.
 This Leaves Him Larger Part of
 115 Acres of Land-ToO Much Cid-
 CT Ground For Divorce.
 Bedding, Feb. 17.-Mark Twain, through Harry Lounsbury as his agent, 1 has sold the former Frank Lee prop erty near Georgetown to Arthur Nash of New York. MT. Clemens bought the property last summer for the sum of about 5000 and receives substantially the same consideration in the recent transaction which embraces only the house and farm buildings and forty acres of land. The purchase by MT. Clemens comprised 115 acres so that he retains the larger part of the farm The house was bettered during his ownership by the installation of a water Supply and furnace and other improvements. MT. Clemens daughter Jean, who was drowned in her bath on Christmas day in consequence of an apoplectic seizure, spent much of 1 her time last summer on the Lee place l attending to the raising of chickens and experimenting the farming work. l Papers in a divorce suit brought by Stella Benedict against Stephen H. l last week by Deputy Sheriff Banks. The grounds named for the action are | habitual intemperance and cruelty. A like suit on the same grounds was l tried in Bridgeport before Judge Case eight or nine yeers ago and decided that trial showed that the alleged ex- cesses of the defendant consisted in , over indulgence in cider. MT. Benedict 1 did not sidestep this issue but on the contrary justified his consumption of that beverage. In fact he extolled it as great aid to the working mans efficiency, likenihg it to the steam which alone mad a steam engine of any use His wifes attorney asked him how much cider he could absorb with advantage in a single day of strenuous toll and the defendant promptly named three gallons as the quantity, adding, however, the quail fcation that this allowance was re- quired only when he was cradling rye in very hot weather. The court delib- erated weeA- on the case before giving judgment.
 The boards of assessors and relief at their recent joint session held to ex- empt indignant and inf1rm citizens from their poll tax made a deviation from the local custom heretofore pre- vailing by not giving ministers of the gospel the benefit of the exemption. Such exemption has formally been ex- tended as courtesy to the cloth, but l the present boards decided to be guild ed by the letter of the law which makes no exceptions in favors of cler- gymen Only few applications for reductions in property valuations have so far been made to the board of re- lief. The applicants include CoInm0. dore Luttgen who for one thing objects to the listing of his four autos and other tangible personal property on the ground that an enactment of the last l legislature made such property. when owned by non residents, subject to taxation only when it had been seven of the board of relief are Beni. SB. Banks Randolph. Bradley and Edgar 1 T. Field
 l Miss Emma Goodsell. daughter of the late John Burr Goodsell, and Marian Williams of Easton were married at noon yesterday at the brides home in Newtown. the pastor of the Easton Baptist church performing the cere- mony. Only a small gathering of rela- l lives and friends was in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Williams will have their future residence at the brides present 1 home
 1 Frank Favarean has given up the blacksmith shop which he rented from Greenbaum & Klein to become engi- neer of Charles R. Warehouses port able sawmiiI in Weston. His success sor in the shop is Fred Klein of Bethel who will be there on Tuesday. Thurs days and Saturdays. William Bean of 1 Bethel has rented Henry Shaw's black smith shop on the Ridge.
 Albert A. Gorham of the Center is about to join the ranks of the local motorists, having ordered a 35 horse power Maxwell which is being con- :, structed with some variations from the regular type to suit his ideas. Julius Rifkin of Jump Hill has ordered runabout auto from Sears & Roebucks. | A tract of sixty acres mostly sprout Hand. has been purchased by Commo- dore Luttgen from Floyd Wood. It adjoins the property of the buyer and L. O. Peck on the east and north. The little daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Jepson is seriously i'll with pneumonia in Bridgeport.
 The work of reconstructing and en- larging the Franciscus house, recent ly purchased by Mrs. Virginia Run- yon. will be done by Contractor H. c. Mcclellan.
 Herman Smith, son of Dr. Smith, is now filling the position of instructor in normal training at the Sanford school
 A baby girl arrived last Saturday in the household of MT. and Mrs. Fred Crouch of Lovetown last Saturday.
 
 the guest of her cousins, Greenbaum & Klein.
 Clinton Sanford has sold his oxen to Philo Lyon.
 George P Williams has a new pair of work horses bought of Nichols in Bethel
 The Hill academy was recently clos ed for a few days on account of the illness of Principal Bishop from grip. B. B. Banks and Walter P. Rowland were summoned for jury in the Com mon Pleas court at Danbury last week.
 G. T. Talmadge has closed his house in Sanfordtown and gone to Philadelphia to remain for several weeks.
 Miss Mary Flood. who has been suf- fering from nervous prostration for several months, is considerably inn proved.
 Charles Burr Todd, the author is in Florida where he will remain for the rest of the winter.
 James Kennedy received the third degree from the Ridgefield lodge of the Knights of Columbus on Sunday last.
 Mrs. J. B. Sanford is recovering from painful attack of erysipelas of the face.
 CARR REMOVED.
 Special from United Press1
 Mare Island, Cal, Feb. 1.-The ac- tion of Secretary of the Navy Meyer