Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06
NORFOLK

MT. Charles Hotchkiss and daughter Edith are spending week with their son and brother at Danielson, Conn. MT. and Mrs. Eugene Darrow of New Brunswick, N. J., are visiting at MT. Cones.
 The new wall enclosing the east side of the Eldridge garden, and extending south as far as the brook, is just com pleted, and adds another touch of beauty and completeness to the already magnifi- cent grounds.
 Mrs. Isabella Bridgman is the pos sessor of a new automobile which came Friday. The machine is i've passenger Hupmobile and is very handsome model.
 Mrs. Will G. Wilcox attended the graduation exercises of the New Marl- boro High School at Mill River last Friday evening. Her nephew, Elbridge P Hamilton, returned with her, and will spend the summer in the employ of his cousin. E. E. Burr.
 There is just possibility that in the future we may have in Norfolk a center surpass that which existed her fifty or soventy-fve years ago. Prof. Pupin has been looking over the various unused properties, with a friend who is an %1a oy91 vii onment will justify the outlay, some thing along these lines may be accom- plished. At present there are no per manent plans, but the fact that a man like Prof. Pupin has put his shoulder to the wheel leads us to believe that in the future there may be something doing. The lecture given by Dr. Rowland G. Freeman in the rooms of the Norfolk Club last Saturday evening. was one of the most instructive of the course given under the auspices or the Agricultural society. AS the subject, tMilk" was one which intimately concerns every one; and as cards were sent to all mem bers of the society. and as it was through especial interest taken the so- ciety by Mr. and Mrs. A. s. G. Taylor, that Dr. Freeman consented Go speak here. it does not reflect very much cred it upon our farmers that there were present but six men who own COWS, and but one of our milk dealers. The op- portunity to hear speak man of Dr. 1'c hia Knowledge of his subject, should have entitled him to full house. Dr. Free man gave brief history of the necessity which led to the establishment and growth of the milk commission, and the benefits which have been derived from the work, and said that it only a ques- tion of time, and a short time at that, when every summer resort will have one or more certified milk farms. The speaker used lantern slides, giving his audience fair idea of the way in which the certified milk is produced to give he desired purity. One statenient sur sed the audience, and it was that the ,eaksr had tested milk one month old lat had been to Europe and back. and md it perfectly sweet, condition
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 Aer sister, Mrs. Ma thew gas and husband, Dr. Elgas, also nephew, M. J. EIgas, Jr. and wife d daughter.
 Jerome Alexander will erect fine house on the farm owned by him. aud known by the older generation as the n has purchased some land from the liar vey Coy farm, which adjoined his land, and the mansion will be built on a hill north of the old house, and will com mand a fine view of the adjacent conn.,