The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-09-07

the lake. Its length will be about
half mile. The road built by Com
modore Luttgen this summer easterly
through the Hopewel woods was
cess a beautiful picnic grove and
swings back westerly in half moon
shape to the lake road. These routes,
which are open to the public, afford
delightful ways through country of
much rational beauty which was
heretofore practically inaccessible.
The finals in the tennis tournament
which has been in progress among
contestants representing the SUNNI er
contingent of the Ridge and Pleasant
Valley will be played on Saturday of
this week at the court of John G.
enlivened by a parade and a con-
cert by an improvised band. Mr..
Stetson was flute, Fred briggs bugie
and drum. and N. G. Hoggson, cornet,
while Dewitt Weld, in Highlander
garb. manipulated the bagpipes
In drawing the levy and sale papers
for the collection of many years taxes
standing against the property listed
in the Eame of the Drew heirs, Attor-
ney E. B. Peck was puzzled to de-
scribe the particular Drew from whom
the heirs descended. None of the
heirs can be found. The first name
Of their immediate progenitor was
said to be Levi, but town officials
who have investigated say this must
be wrong as descendants Of Levi Drew
are known to be living and they
have made no claim to the property.
The records of the Center Congrega-
tional church give a basis for the
theory that the heirs in question were
children Of one of several Drew broth
ers who Joined the British forces dur
ing the War of the Revolution and
whose property was in consequence
confiscated. The other brothers
espoused the Colonial cause If the
theory referred to is correct the town
has been assessing taxes against
property of which it was already the
owner. It did the same thing re-
Gently in the case of property former
ly owned by James Sweeney, but the
error has been discovered and, cor
rected.
Rev. Elliott w. Boone has formally
accepted the call to the rectorship of
Christ Episcopal church, and is ex-
pected to remove here from Milford
in about a month. Various improve
ments are being made at the rectory
in preparation for his coming. They
include a thorough inside painting,
new flooring and the removal from
the front door yard of three good
sized maple trees which gave an ex-
cess of shade. lit has not yet been
decided whether Mr. Boone's pastor
ate will comprise the Lyons Plains
parish
The funeral of Daniel Sullivan was
held on Friday last from the Cath
Ole church in Bethel with a high
mass of requiem. The pail bearers
were John Kolosky, James Tucker,
Thomas Reynolds, Dennis Ryan, John
H. Malone and Simon Loveley. Mr..
Sullivan was an old and highly re-
spected resident who acquired by his
own industry the home and farm at
the foot of Sunset Hill, where he lived
most of his life and reared a large
family. His children are John NJ, for
many years a merchant on the Ridge
and now in the grocery business in
Bridgeport; M. Joseph, a former Sc
lectman; Daniel, in the trucking bus
mess in Boston; Patrick and Frank.
There was also a daughter who is a
Sister of Mercy
Sanford H. Osborn was a bidder on
two State road jobs, the bids for
which were opened at Hartford on
Tuesday. For a job in the town of
New Fairfield he was practically tied
with the other low bidder The award
is yet to be made.
Representative E. M Bradley and
mother have returned to their home
on the Ridge from their cottage at
Fairfield Beach.
Civil Engineer D. c. Sanford, who
has been living with his aged parents
in Sanfordtown for the Iasst three