The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-18
FAIRFIELD

Fairfield. July 18.-''It never rains bot ir pours'' Is quotation quite of ten quoted. It would be well applied to the troubles of Ralph G. Law, al New Yorker with a cottage at Fairfield beach Mir. Law has been having nls Erroubles, still has them and is about + to have more. Only a few weeks lago he was arrested for queer WorK n II Icheclr manipulations having given lo- cal business men checks on a Jersey bank which were returned as N. G. He succeeded in wiggling hln1self out l. of those difficulties. Then one of his lchfldren was stricken with scarlet fe-
 yer and Is still ill Sheriff Ewood mas { q writ In a civil suit brought by Mrs. \ EiiHe Pike, Laws landlady, which he win soon serve on Law, that is, just sR soon ag he will dare to go to the Qu@xantihed home. The claim Tn the action is that Law has neglected to bay his house rent. He was 70 pay $50 when he first went to the cottage and $50 more by July l, but Mrs. Pike thas yet to receive payment. A dnck boat with a lone passenger whose name could not be learned, cap- ssized off Fairfield beach during the ls9orrn Tuesday afternoon. The occu- lpaut was dropped into the water and lbeinr a good swimmer managed to af- fix himself to the overturned craft ana await hefp His pFedicament was seen ba,v many along the beach front. Wil- tliam Amodin put off to his help In row boat and Robert Titus and How I ard Smith in their canoe. They suc- cesaed ir bringing the man and his ] craft ashore He is New Yorker ! stopping at one Of the many cottages and purchased the duck boat on Tues 1 day morning. He was on his Irlal { trip when the swell raised by the hhesvy downpour capsized the craft. The heavy rain of Tuesday after noon also was the cause of another accident. this on terra, firma. Postman William IT smith of NTH Plain was returning from the beach in his Ford machine when at Morehouse's corner { the macrine skidded and crashed into [ q lamp post. Tn the car at the time Ehesides MT. Smith was Miss Kathryne EcCaffery. who was slightly shaken up when the crash came MT. smith while rounding the corner first turned te one side and then to the other, the latter bringing obout the skid on the wet roadbed The car was not so greatly damaged that 1t could not continue on. it's journey. MT. smith besides his duties as rural mail car- rier operates a passenger service be- tween the depot and the beach. It was on one of these trips that the ac- cfdent happened It was but a few weeks ago that MT. Smiths car ran away from him. The car of Commls- sioner Simeon Pease had been in a mix up with a. trolley car at the sli-
 brary corner. MT. smith left ms car Ito sympathize with Commissioner Pease when bystanders who first saw the accident beheld a driverless car
 make a course down Spring street. lt ionly stopped when a pole near the fountain was in it's path
 Lightning executed many pranks about Fairfeldse Tuesday afternoon.
 The Kiondyke club was visited by stray bolt while a, tree was felled in Little Danbury road. An OK belong ling to John Nichols of Greenfield Hill
 was electrocuted.
 Mrs. Horace Jacoby is ill at her
 home in Elliot street
 The Interscholastics of Bridgeport
 will play the Fairfields Sunday at Mo
 Garry's lot.
 Charles Shelley is painting banner
 to advertise the fair of the Fairfield [ be swung on the front of the engine
 house in Spring street.
 Hail stones of large proportions fell
 in Greenfield Hill during the storm or
 Tuesday afternoon.
 The workneh of the United states Dredging. and Irrigation go. are now t,,
 approaching Sasco creek where !ne
 wdrk of Rexcavating and digging
 trenches will end.
 Mrs. Frank Sherwood and two
 daughters of Brooklyn, N. F., are oc-
 cupyine the Sherwood homestead in
 the Bulkley district.
 The condition of l.. A. Jennings or
 Greenfield Hill, who has been quite
 i'll with rheumatism, continues to inn
 prove.
 A. c. Acker of Greenfield Hill is at
 Fairfield beach for the week.
 Rev F. S. Child with his daughter,
 Miss Bessie, are staying in Northheld
 for several weeks.