The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-08
Fairfield County News.
Halloween Pranksters Fined.

Halloween Pranksters Fined.
 As a result of pranks played Hal lowe'en night, Charles Carlson, of was arrested and fined sS | and costsi Some of the capers were to throw large wagon into the river, tear down signs, break window lights and set a boat belonging to Robert Beeling adrift.
 The case of Andrew Keyser who was arrested as result of halloween prank, was brought up before the Saugatuck court, where he was fined g and costs. amounting to $l7.
 Sunday Hunter Fined
 Douglass Nash, colored, of New Ca naan, was arrested for hunting on Sunday, and on Monday was fined $7 and costs. The whole amounted to $33.1 H. Nash had his regular license which is now forfeited for one year. Anthony Kelly, arrested and fined in the same place, has also lost his li- cense for a year.
 Destroyed by Fire.
 A two-story cottage owned by Ste phen Denyo at Highland Park, Nor walk, was utterly destroyed by fire, Wednesday afternoon. A lost of $2,000 was incurred, $1,700 on the house and $500 on the furniture.
 His Apples Won.
 Louis H. Warncke of Cannon has been awarded two first prizes for his apples at the recent New England Fruit Show held in Boston. MT. Warncke exhibited several varities of apples which he raises on his farm at Cannons. MT. Warncke's fruit was picked out of 13O kinds of apples which came from all parts of New England to the show. The 130 different kinds were sorted down to three and the prizes for these three were awarded by expert pomologists. Of the three that were picked from the 130 kinds. two were exhibited by MT. Warncke and these two varieties took the first and second prizes. Every year MT.
 Warncke raises several hundred bar rels of fine apples.
 No Business But Many Debts.
 H. Waring Howard, IT,, fof Green wich, who swears that he has no bus mess, in schedules in bankruptcy, did pretty we'll for man without an oc- equation, as his schedules show he has liabilities of SIS, ,728.17, all unsecured.
 His assets, all debts due to open ac- count. foot $9,910. Although the word
 anone,, is written after the printed designation of stock in trade in bus mess of', waring has many creditors who are dealers in materials that go into building construction work. Missing Boy Found. Sheriff Maher of New Milford, while walking along one of the streets there, earlys Thursday evening, saw an un- kempt boy wandering along aimless- ly. crying. He took the boy in cus- tody. and afterward learned from him that he had run away from his nome in Stamford, and, his money having given out, he did not know where to 20. The sheriff communicated with the Stamford police and found that Stephen Molaski, age thirteen years, had disappeared from his home that day. He was sent home.
 Endowment for Christ Church. An endowment fund of $100, ,000 is to he started by Christ Church, Green wich. The sum of $500 has been ap- propriated from the church funds, as a memorial to the late Rev. Benjamin rector. One thousand dollars has been received from the estate of the, late Caroline Mead to be applied to this fund, and $50 from another source The offering ope Sunday in each year will also go to the fund.
 Killed by Auto.
 l Alfred s. wilcox, aged 72, an in- mate of the Soldiers Home in Noro- ton Heights, died Friday, in the hos pital there as a nDeult of injuries re- ceiyed when, as he was returning to the Home, he lurched into machine driven by a chauffeur, Caesar Crosse He sustained a fractur of the skull and internal injuries
 Chauffeur Fined g. Albert Haltner, a French chauffeur arrested for speeding in Greenwich was fined $2 and costs. According to the officers testimony, the accused was driving his car at the rate of g miles an hour.
 While Cleaning Gloves. l Miss Boles of Greenwich is recover 1 ing from an accident which occurred while she was cleaning a pair o1 gloves. Having saturated the gloves with gasoline, she approached the fire The gloves were immediately mass | Of flames. Some of the members ot l the family ran to her assistance, but | before the gloves could be removed | her hands were burned badly. 1 Summer Liquor Licenses. I There will be an effort made in New l Cannan next spring to get licenses tt sell liouor under Q new State law 1 which permits the cTNnty commission. CTS to grant liquor licenses to sum l mer hotels for four months. Such z license can be obtained in a no-license ! town if the applicant can get his pc. l tition signed by a majority of the vot- | CTS. This law was recently passed through the efforts of Groton sum- | tol