The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-06
Fairfield County News.
39 Grandchildren, 10 Great Grand
 children.


 Mrs. Joseph Hudak, who passed away at her home in South Norwaik Tuesday night left five daughters, each Of whom is married and owns real estate in South Norwaik. Each son in-1aw is a voter Mrs. Hudak leaves thirty mine grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. The Hudaks were pioneer Hungarian settlers, com ing to South Norwalk. twenty years ago. Mrs Hudak was eighty years of age.
 Clerical Changes.
 Rev. Ralph Hartley of. Willimantic of the. South Norwalk Baptist church and also one to the First Baptist church of Waterbury. --.,- :. ;; Rev. Charles Anderson has resigned as pastor of the Swedish. Congregation al church of Norwalk and a call has been extended to a former pastor, Rev. Charles J. WahlstrOm, which has been accepted.
 A call to become pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich ha been extended to Rev. F. M. Carson, pastor of the Fourth Park Presbyter- ian Church of Chicago. It is under stood Rev. Carson will accept.
 Hose and Jumpers. !. At a special town meeting in Darien, the selectmen were instructed to se- cure 800 feet of hose for each of the three companies and to secure three jumpers at $50 apiece.
 Common Pleas Court. In the Common Pleas Court at Dan- bury, Saturday, the following short calendar matters were disposed of:
 Edward B. Lee vs. Maria Morehouse Case heard and decision reserved. Patrick Ginty, administrator vs the Prudential Insurance O., Judgment for want of answer denied.
 Wilhelmina Schoenfeld vs.s Russell Hatch. Plaintiff's motion to reopen Judgment. Withdrawn.
 August Porwitzki vs. Jacob Porwit- zki ct ux. For leave to file reply to certain paragraphs of answer. Off.
 Discharged from Bankruptcy.
 Beverly R. Sweet of Danbury and Joseph Herbert Platt of Greenwich, have been discharged from bankrupt cy.
 Enumeration Figures.
 School officers have filed with the state comptroller the following report of the school enumeration in their towns: Salisbury, 745; Bedding, 222; Sherman, 119; New Milford, consolidat- ed districts, 1,16s; New Canaan, con- solidated districts, TAI; Bethlehem, 120; Wilton, 461; Harwinton, 355; Norfolk. 349; Litchfield,' consolidated, 65S; Wash ington, consolidated district, 347; North Canaan 4S3; Winchester, consolidated, 1860.
 His Body Found.
 The mystery which for twelve days had shrouded the sudden disappear ance of James Pierce Evans, West ports young author, was cleared Mon day when the body of the young man was found at low tide in the Westport river at the edge of the channel 300 feet north of the boys home. An autopsy showed little water in the lungs. This goes to show that heart the young man was dead before touch ing the water. V
 Typhoid in Norwalk.
 Two patients known to be suffering from typhoid fever and another who is believed to be victim of the dread disease, are at the Norwalk hospital: Mrs. Mary Marback, is recovering from an attack, but the ambulance on Sunday brought in the daughter of the woman, a victim of the same disease. Aside from those at the hospital, there are said to be other victims about the town.
 Money from Licenses.
 Stamford, s31,0O5: Norwalk, $a2, 365; Newtown, $1,485; Huntington. A,590; Fairfieldfi $2,S25; Darien. s1,710; West port, s2,520;- Ridgefeld, $21.60; Strat- ford, $S,375; New Canaan $2,465; Beth el, $10.s6; Greenwich, SIS, ,150; Danbury, $21. .150.
 Losses by Fire.
 Taking fire from a burning oil stove, the contents of the parlor of Dr. Albert E. Kyte's residence in Westport were totally destroyed Saturday noon. The oil stove had been left burning and was later discovered all ablaze and while endeavoring to extinguish the blaze with the aid of blanket, Dr. Kyte overturned the stove, setting the room ablaze. The woodwork and fur niture of the room were nearly de- stroyed, the loss being in the neighbor- hood of $200
 Philip F'innegan's barn in Green wich was destroyed by fire, Saturday, with several tons of hay, several horses were led from the burning building before the roof caved in. The loss was about $1 800.
 A chimney fire starting at the home of Hanford S. Jones in Norwalk caus- ed S200 damage Wednesday evening.