The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-23
Fairfield County News.
Scarcity of Rents.

Scarcity of Rents. Danbury needs more dwellings. One l that Danbury has almost immediate | need of two hundred more houses. An other agent said that he, daily receiv- | ed about a. score of applications for with a negativ eshake of the head. 1 It is not the cheaper class of dwell ings that is desired by the majority | of the applicants There seems to be no deaEth as far as they are concern ed, but of the better class of dweIlin gs, with t-all the modern improvements 1 News.
 Judge Gregory Renominated. At the Norwalk Democratic Probate convention, held Wednesday afternoon, Judge Henry w. Gregory was renonai- l mated unanimously. Judge Gregory has been the unanimous candidate of both the Democratic and Republican parties for number of years, and he will undoubtedly again be endorsed by then Republicans this year.
 Facing Water Famine.
 NorwaIk faces water famine and will be in its grasp by the end of this week. unless Providence smiles, and fills up the reservoirs with rain. Not in years has there been such 8 drought in Norwa1k. as this summer. The wells and springs on Belden Hill and in Silvermine are exhausted. If the supply gives out, tn water cornnis-
 
 will be asked for assistance.
 Fire Damages Automobile.
 At Stamford. at 1:57 Wednesday morning, the touring car of pr. E. E. Powell, Jr:, caught fire. The uphel7 stery was burned and the wood frame charred. It is supposed that gasoline leaked from the tank and that a pass er-by threw lighted match of cigar cite upon the gasoline. There was small amount of insurance on the car.
 No Lack of Members
 The Presiding Elder of the Broad nies that lack of members and increas- ing indebtedness caused the sale. He says: 'tThe membership of the Broad River branch Is larger today than ever before. The branch is free of debt and has money in the savings bank" He also says that the branch will build again.
 wilIed to Each Other
 The wills of Mary Louise woeltge and Albert Woeltge have been filed in the stamford Probate Court. Prof. Woeltge. the first to die. passed away wife died there a day or so later. .oBth left wills dated April Il, 1895, and drawn presumably by themselves In his will Prof. Woeltge left all his es- tate to his wife, Mrs, Woeltge left all her property to her husband Prof. Woeltge inserted clause by way Of explanation to his nephew, Albert A.
 
 of New York, of this disposition of his estate It was, in effect, that the money by which he acquired the prop erty disposed of in the will came most, if not all of it, from his wife of her mother. It was in equity, he point ed out, the property ofshis wife. Prof. woeItge left two letters, one address ed to his wife and the other to his niece and nephew. The letter to his wife carried a direct expression of desire that. on her death. all the mon. ey he left her go to the children of his brother William. Mrs Woeltge wiIled practically all of he estate to her husband outright but, inasmuch as. he died before her, the estate. t is is intestate In that event the nearest relative of Mrs. Woeltge to whom the property would go, is one Rogers. of California, aagrand nephew of Mrs. Woeltge's brothers daughter, Mary Tudor Rogers The wherea bouts of this man is unknown at present: The estimated valuei of Prof Woeltge's estate was ST 600 real estate and $15,-1 Ooe personal. That of his wife was $50, coo all in personal estate. The Professors nearest relatives are his nephew and niece above referred to.
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