The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-17
Fairfield County News.
Trouble in Georgetown

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 There is something doing in the school circles in Georgetown accord ing to reports from that place to The Hour office this afternoon. Some dis the principal. MT. Hogden, and the school committee, John Ferris and others. The story is to the effect that Hodgon was fired or rather given the grand bounce and consulted a, Norwalk lawyer Saturday. The lawyer adyts- ed him to resume duties in the school and Hogden went to his business this morning He was met by the com mittee and is alleged to have been roughly elected from the bui ding, re- ceiving injuries which will con9iEe him to his home for several days. The school children revolted under their new masters, the school committee and others and got out of the school. The cause of the discharge and outcome of the trouble are unl1nown.-Norwallk Hour, Jan. Is.
 wildman Divorce.
 Tn the Superior Court in Council Bluffs, Ia, on Saturday Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart Wildman, of that city, was granted a divorce from Captain Leon ard D. Wildman. U. s. A., of Dan bury. The ground on which the di- vorce was granted was incompatabn- ity of temperament in which was in corporated an allegation of cruelty. Captain Wlldman. in a statement mace .tie Tn New York shortly after the suit was brought. was quoted as saying: We were unsuited to each other Our relations were uncongenia1 and incom- patibility Is the real reason for the filing of the suit. The charge of cruelty was necessary under the laws of Iowa. as I understand to insure the granting of decree of divorce, cuss any Of my wife's allegations.
 No Road Money.
 Because the board of estimate and taxation of the town of Norwalk did not see fit to appropriate $2.5o0, Nor walk sits up and takes notice while get big gifts from the state for road work The towns finance board was asked by the selectmen to lay aside a fund for this work but closed its work without doing so.
 Post Office for Greenwich.
 Greenwich will have a handsome post Office building if bill whi h Rep resentative Hill has introduced be- comes a law. It proposes that there shall be erected in Greenwich, on land already owned by the United States, a new building for the postoffice and other Federal offices. For the Struc- ture, including fire-proof vaults, heat ing and euti;ating apparatus and ap- breaches the bill would allow an ex- penditure of $1o0.ooo.
 Take Entire Issue,
 N. W. Halsey & Company. highest bidders for the $250,000 worth of Nor walk town improvement 0OnQS maLur- ing in 90 years and bearing interest at the rate of If per cent. from January 1, 1912 will take the entire amount It was arranged that the company would take what money the bridge committee did not want to use at once and get 8 per cent. interest for the town.
 Not a Great Success. The recently inaugurated branch of the postal savings system, which is established in the registry department of the Danbury post office. has not proved a great success. The mem bers of the foreign population, who, 1t was expected, would take advantage of the new system in large numbers and with substantial deposits, have patronized it little if any.
 As yet no deposits have been made in the Postal Savings bank recently opened at the Saugatuck post office.
 Surveyors at Work
 New York New Haven and Hartford railroad surveyors have been at work in the vicinity of BranchvilIe recently and the story there is that the re- ductiQn of grades and the abolition of grade crossings is in contempla ton. Some of the crossings and the grades in the neighborhood of Branchvile are among the worst on the New Haven system