The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-19
BEDDING RENTS A PORTION OF
 HILL ACADEMY
Mark Twain Mansion Will be
 Offered For Sale Soon
PROPERTY COST s32,OOO
Dogs Attack Flock of Thorough
 bred Sheep and Mangle Four

Bedding, May 19.-Arrangements have been effected between the trus- tees of the Hill Academy and the town acquires a lease of accommoda- tions in the academy building for 8 period of five years. The contract was closed last Friday. J. B. Sanford and John c. Read acting as a committee to represent the academy trustees who as a body had previously given their assent to the proposition. The condemnation of the Center district school house had necessitated other provisions for housing the pupils of territory formerly divided into three districts and the plan arrived at is considered highly satisfactory solu- tion of the problem. By the terms of the agreement the town will pay the cost of changing partitions in the building so as to better allOt the space for the two schools-the academy and the public school-and will also bear the cost of installing a furnace. The rent is to be $75 a year, the heating expense being divided. One of these days of course the town will have to erect a school building of it's own at the Center. Some years ago there was considered the plan of making
 
 town with high school. but the pro- ject fell through for two reasons, one being that the present method of sending pupils out of town is less ex- pensive and the other that it would be less convenient for west side pupils to travel over the hills to the Center than to reach Bethel, Danbury or Norwalk by train. The Hill Academy was founded by the$late Sanford Hill of New Haven and has been during a good deal of it's history a sort of a fickering institution partly by req son of an insufficient endowment al- though the town added s1,000 to the sum given by the founder.
 As was generally anticipated the Mark Twain place, "Stormfield' is to be sold soon or at least offered for sale. Since the house was built at a cost of about 1000 there has been local specula ton as to what the prop erty would bring when it came upon the market. a contingency looked for ward to as not many years distant. Property of that class usually has to want for a customer and seldom brings the amount of the original investment. For one thing Stormfeld will at least have the advantage of being well ad vertised. Mrs. Clara Gabrilowitsch the present owner, and her husband are to occupy the place for the rest of the summer and will then return to Europe where they expect to spend most of their future lives.
 Early one morning a few days since two dogs attacked flock of thorough bred sheep at the Storrs College farm in Georgetown and fatally mangled three or four. The attendants suc- ceeded in killing one of the dogs but the other got away and to whom it belongs has not been learned. The tag worn by the dead dog shows that hn oJ hQ1OnOn6 Tn l who recently moved from this town to Newtown.
 Starting on Tuesday next Greenbaum & Klein will operate a weekly pas senger service between the Ridge and Bridgeport. The stage will leave their store here at z a. m. and the corner of Fairfield avenue and Middle street, Bridgeport at p. m. for it's return trip. It is some years since there has been 8 passenger line between here and Bridgeport and if the present venture pays the schedule may be in creased to more than one trip weekly. A contract was recently closed be- tween Albert Bigelow Paine, who is now permanently a resident of Red ding and Harper Brothers, wherein the sum of $10,000 is named as MT. Paine's compensation for certain spe- cif1ed literary work. Whether this con- tract includes the Mark Twain bio graphy which MT. Paine is hurrying to completion and which the Hampers will publish the writer's informant did not know but was inclined to think otherwise. The Harpers have just brought out in book form MT. Paines travel sketches depicting his obser- vations over the same route which furnished Mark Twain with his ma terial for "Innocents Abroad
 The dramatic association of the San ford school are rehearsing the farce comedy "The Elopement of Ellen,'' for presentation at the gymnasium on the evening of Thursday, June g.
 Preparations are going on apace for the fair to be held in August for the Mark Twain library. Committees met last week to outline the general plans and some of these are already taking shape.
 Up to the 18th of this month Town Clerk Nickerson had taken in and paid over for dog licenses the sum of $119 which is a record breaker as compared with former years.
 John s. Sanford is recovering from