The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-20
Fairfield County News
Wild Geese Arrive.

Wild Geese Arrive
 The advance guard of the wild geese those old reliable weather prophets who have never even been accused of wrongly foretelling the approach of spring-have deserted their winter abpde in the warm south and are now lowering over the north. A large flock of them. thirty or more, was seen flying over Danbury last week.
 Two Hurt in Fall.
 William A. Cougle, had three ribs fractured, and Fred Bothroid, sus- fained broken nose when a scaffold on which they were at work at Dan bury fell to the ground. distance of twelve feet. Wednesday afternoon.
 Mystery in Greenwich.
 An unknown man was killed by train between Cephoeus bridge and day. He was apparently an Armen- ian, about twenty-five years of age. He was we'll dressed and clean-sha en- Aside from a letter addressed to the Commercial Hotel, lower Green wich Avenue. and written in Armen- find anything which might lead to his identity. Death was due to a com pound fracture of the skull and broken neck.
 Jewelry Theft Cleared.
 Through the arrest at Danbury, Thursday evening of Mrs. Catherine Bigham, the police recovered a quan- tity of jewelry, which was stolen with about $50 cash and a note for $1OO Kaidy. The police gleaned the neces- sary information through the admis- eions of a small daughter of Mrs. Big ham. who after her mothers arrest, was sent to the town farm. The girl told inmates of the farm about the theft. Mrs. Bigham and Henry Yeats. who live together and were jointly suspected of the theft by the police, denied at the time that they knew anything of the theft.
 Missing Man Found.
 James Smith, of Wilton, who eloped Tuesday afternoon with $20 belonging to his employer James McNamara, was captured Thursday by the Stamford police. Smith had spent the money for clothing.
 Will Leave Bethel.
 Rev. Warren l. Bowman, who has been pastor of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal church for the past three years, has accepted call to the Meth odist Episcopal church of Baldwin, l..
 -. Nine-Min Tax Laid.
 4 nine-mili tax, as recommended by the Board of Estimate and Taxation, was laid at a special Greenwich town meeting Saturday afternoon. Held Up and Choked.
 Assaulted and nearly choked to 1 death, Miss Charlotte Head, of South 1 Norwalk was the victim of a hold-up near her home Wednesday night. Her assailant escaped after a chase made | by John Miller.
 Offered to State.
 At a special Danbury town meeting held Saturday evening the selectmen | were instructed to offer to the state of Connecticut two sections of improv l ed town highways, to be taken over and maintained by the state. The | sections in question are three miles | of the Sugar Hollow road and 2,2OO | feet of road in Beaver Brook.
 A letter written to the selectmen by | State Highway Commissioner Macdon- l aid was then read. In the letter the | spring he or deputy would go over the roads in question, to see if they | would be acceptable to the state The | letter stated that, if the roads were | in f1rst-class condition, and on the | trunk line system, it was probable that | the state would accept them.
 Losses by Fire.
 Fire, probably of incendiary origin, | destroyed "The Strand" for several ! at Lake Kenosia, Saturday evening. | Sidney Bailey, owner of the hotel, l places the loss at 5000. He carried | $1 900 insurance on the building. For | several months past business has not | been conducted there and nobody re- mained in the hotel at night The | was a two-story frame build ing.
 A fire in the Secor building, Green wich Friday morning, did damage to over 8, GOO. It originated in hot coals, i in an ash-barrel in the cellar Char les Trepani occupies the first floor as a barber-shop and lives on the second l floor His stock and fixtures, togeth- CT with some of his furniture, were damaged. Both floors were damaged by water.
 Peril in the Ponds.
 Health Officer Klein. who. with State Chemist New1ands, recently made a test of the lakes or ponds in Bruce Memorial Park, Greenwich, reports that they are menace to health of those who reside in that part of the town. One lake contains typhoid germs, and should be filled in at orce. He reports that there are three lakes In the parkTso shallow that little op- portunity is given for water to go in from the Sound, and says that these are mosquito-br Commodore Benedict sent specimens of the water from his two new artesian wells, which had been drilled to a great depth on his Indian Harbor estate. He receiv- sd a report from the State chemist that the water was not fit to drink Finding that there was no source of on his own estate, the Commodore looked about on the bor- iers of his property. Believing that the lake might be infected by drain age from the property on the north side, Where there are cottages, he had 3 barrel of alkali dumped into the lake, and shortly after made a test from his artesian wells, which showed that the alkali had reached the spot There is a formation of rock between the lake and the artesian wells, which are over a quarter of mile distant, and the water from the lake went through the strata and into the well.
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