The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-01
Fairfield County News.
Father of Ninetaen

Joseph Taylor of Glenville. father of
 nineteen children, one of whom is
 dead, was before Judge Hubbard. in
 the Greenwich Borough court Monday
 for non-support. The accused has
 been twice married, eight of the chil-
 dren being by his first wife His present wife to whom he has been
 married about fifteen years, testified that he had contributed little support to the family since Nov. and she
 had been >obliged to seek employment, while three of her children were put to work. Annie Taylor, daughter of the accused, fourteen years of age. told how she works in a factory, and all of her earnings, about SIS per month are turned over to her mother for the support of the family. Taylor told the court he was willing to work,
 but could find employment only three
 Or four days a week. He denied the statements made by his wife and daughter that he contributed nothing toward the support of the family dur ing the past three weeks. Judge Hub bard ordered that the accused be sent to jail for sixty days unless he gave bond of $1G0 to ensure his wife s5 per week for the next six months. Taylor secured bondsman.
 Whales in Sound
 G Louis Price of Norwalk and a party of. friends, while out ducking Monday morning saw two whales in the sound south of the Norwalk is- : lands. The whales protruded from the water at least twenty feet and there fore must have been big ones.
 Used a>File
 A fight over a girl was carried out in North Mianus Monday night be- tween Angelo Franko and Christmas BonZenito. and as the latter had a
 sharpened three cornered file as a weapon, he inflicted numerous wounds
 upon Franko. In one wound nine stitches were needed. The men were suitors for the hand of Florence Ri- peZna Saturday night she declined
 to go to a dance with either because of the ill-feeling between them. Af-
 ter completing overtime work Monday
 night Franko' approached Bonzenito and upbraided him for his attention to the girl. Bonzenito challenged him
 to fight and they did so. Bonzenito had with him file, which when he
 sharpened he is said to have declared
 was ready "to stick pig"
 Voluntary Petition
 Laborde & Co.,, Inc, of Danbury, on Monday mailed to the clerk of the Limited States district court in Hart ford a voluntary petition in bankrupt cy. Liabilities are placed at about g. 800. There are a number of credi-
 tors. principally with merchandise accounts, and none of them has claim
 for more than s150. The assets are
 placed at s2,700.
 Collection of Soil.
 Solomon Close, past commander of Minor Post of Stamford, where he lives, for thirty-seven years an en- gineer in the employ of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
 Company, has given to the State H.
 brary at Hartford, a glass jar filled | with soil taken from each State in the Union and from each of the posses | sions of the United States. MT. Close | has done the like for a tree planted I in Stamford by Minor Post and he | says that he stands ready to make d like contribution to any high school or | large school in the State which cares | to plant tree on Arbor day. For years MT. Close had collected soil l where other men have acquired coins
 or autographs and his list now com prises pretty much every historic spot | except the Garden of Eden.
 Danbury & Harlem Road.
 There have been no further develop ments in relations to the Danbury & Harlem railroad since the auction sale
 last Monday, when the property was bid in by Joseph A. Serre, of Danbury, for S21, 100, and matters are expected i to remain as they are at present un- | til the formalities necessary to the transfer of title are completed. MT.
 Serre, who bid in the road for him. self and other stockholders in the 1 Danbury & Harlem Traction Co.,, said | that it would be the effort of the new ] owners of the road to get it into oper- alton as quickly as possible. MT. i Serre does not consider it at all inn | probable that cars will be running as | far as Peach lake some time in the 1 spring or early summer. The track is completed to the vii age of North Sa-