The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
Fairfield County News
Katv-pids Are Here

The advance guard Of the katy-dids has arrived little bit sooner than ex- pected. and therefore, we are to have an early frost, provided the popular . Superstition turns out true. The su- perst4tion is that there will be frost exactly six weeks from the night the first katy-did Is heard.
 Contract for Norwa1k- westport Road
 State Highway Commissioner Mac donald has announced the awarding of the contract for the State road between Norwalk and Westport. The work was let to A. D. Bridge Sons Company, Inc, of Hazardville, Conn. work will be started at once, and the contract calls for the expenditure of over s25.oo0.
 rr- Selling Without License.
 Deruty Sheriff Finnegan, of Green wich, while investigating the circum- stances leading to the stabbing affray which occurred at Nigger Hole Hill, learned that Teresa Ieonette, In whose .101fse tfrS quarrel occurred, had been selling ifquor without a license. The woman had been before the court. on one or two similar occasions for a nirnilar offense. She was fined $100 md costs. She paid ft
 I4-Year-old Girl Burglar.
 A tourteen-year-old school girl ar- rested at Danbury, Wednesday morn tlng. confessed to the police that she wtoae eilverware and jewelry valued .at more than s100 from the home of nErs. George LeRoy. The girl pawned her loot, getting only s450 for it. and eha spent the money to buy shoes for Marself and little brother, deceiving %r@r mother by declaring her grand father had bought them. All of the loot was recovered.
 Struck by Lightning.
 Lightning entered the house of Pat TICK Nalcney, in Weston, Saturday ~@all paper, but did not injure mem bers of the family. The residence of W. B. HTrlbutt was also struck and e hole burned in the wall
 Rare Operation
 The operation of Caesarean section, which has been attempted in Danbury arly a few times and is comparatively esare in surgery. was performed at the 0feAnbury hospital on Monday, so suc- .,easefully that both mother and child Have every reasonable prospect of liv- ohk. The operation was made neces- OQ&y by the presence Of a tumor. The ecatient was Mrs. Samuel Sanford of s1RidEeffeld The child is a well devel- oped and apparently healthy boy
 Attacked by Bees.
 George H. Robertson, of Daubury, Is suffering from stings from large swarm of bees. which attacked him when he was returning to his home, Monday afternoon. One of MT. Rob- .srtson's eyes was closed and his cheek cHRS badly swollen.
 ~Sss Bob Veal Calf
 Fi Isaac Kaufman. who keeps butch sr market at Danbury. was arrested Wednesday, charged with selling bob veal The police say Kaufman dis poeed of the calf to Dominick Giloti. The officer says he had the whole calf weighed and although it's liver and heart had not been taken out. IL tipped the scales at only fifty-four hounds. The law says that no bob zeal may be sold unless it is at least four weeks old and tips the weights sH-at least sixty pounds dressed. The seller is liable to a fine of $100 or six Fn6nths' Imprisonment.
 Destroyed by Fire
 nafer Robert M Wolfe's automobile Together w%Gan robes, physician's instru- rnerte and other materials. was des- .srnwed by fire in Southport Tuesday evening, mourning a loss of S2, 800. The automobile was valued at s2400 and ~rre other materials brought the loss up to the s2.500 mark.
 Eaten's Horse Dead.
 ESF%e biz chestnut stallion, Mon Fort %jpner of hundred races, which Har-
 
 .-the estate of John J. Hynes, of Stam- q8fe last Wednesday died Tuesday in Nt,i Eaton's stable at Lake Kenosia
 ha horse had been i'll only one day
 Miss Boles' Ribs Broken qssgates Bertha Boles of Greenwich has -heen suffering from broken rib the result of injuries received while ir 7Vimming. She is an expert swimme! Ind diver and was about to dive when J Harvey Finch dove, as he suppos- edR ein different place from where Miss Boles had entered the water. He landed on Miss Boles' chest, almost stunning her.
 ar Finds His Sister
 Edwin Lathrop, employed at scha- EoiTzs garage. Stamford has found his plster. whom he has not seen for near ysthirty yearE When young lad ksathrop ran away from home. About hyez years ago he decided to try to locate his family. St length, after a search, he found a sister and a broth Ef- He read in a newspaper of the ECath of his mother, stepfather and brother. His other sister he was un- able to locate until he recently heard pf her being at Bridgeport He ad- NmM~ G l