The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-19
NEWTOWN

P. L. Keane of Cemetery avenue who has been spending the winter
 with his sons, John F. and F. E. Keane of Jersey City, N. J., returned Thursday to his home.
 Edward Troy past commander of Custer Post, G. A. R., of Sandy Hook. 1 received last week a commission and | appointment as aide de camp of the National board of the Grand Army of the Republic. The commission is a handsome specimen Of 1ithography, and bears the signatures of A. B. Beers National Commander and Henry G. Seeley adjutant. The document is highly prized by it's recipient, and the honor greatly appreciated as it was unsought. Comrade Troy expects to to Gettysburg, July 1st to 4th for the National camp fire and regimental re- unions, celebrating the fftieth annt- versary of that great batt1e,-a turn ing point in the worlds history. Later he may go to the national encampm ent at Chattanooga.
 Mrs. P. H. Cannon of the Bor ough was thrown from an automobile, Thursday and quite seriously shaken up. Charles Cavanaugh was at the wheel on trip towards Bridgeport, when in the vicinity of Long Fill con trol of the machine was lost in some way and it suddenly turned turtle. Both occupants were thrown out but fortunately away from the car. A telephone message was sent to a. local garage informing friends here of the mishap and 8, ear was dispatched to the scene of the accident, and brought back Mrs. Cannon. She will be con- fined to the house for a few days, but it was a marrow escape and her friends are thankful the mishap is not seri- ous for her.
 C. B. Glover of New Britain who erNv-1 5Sc4r a Sunday guest of w B. Glover of the borough. While here he enjoyed an auto trip with his host, in the 1atter's new automobile.
 Il e baseball team of the High school went to Shelton Saturday, and played a game with the High school nine of that borough Newtown was defeated by q score of IA to 7.
 The ball team of the Diamond Ma atch Co.'S shop. in Southport, played a game yesterday with the Sandy Hook baseball team which resulted in favor of the local team, the score being g for Sandy Hook, for Southford. A good crowd attended the game
 Frederick Reiner who lately sold his place on Botsford Hi11 has moved with his parents to the H. H. Oppe farm in Gray's Plain district.
 Miss Mary Clark, of Bridgeport, in town to attend the funeral of her cous- in, Mrs. Andrew Egan, was the guest of her sister, Miss Elizabeth Clark at the pleasant home of Town Clerk Os- car Pitzschler in the borough.
 There was a mad dog scare in town Friday. A telephone message was re- ceived in Sandy Hook that a mad dog was on its way from Botsford Hill pursued by six men with guns And this is what 1t was: Levi Banks and Eli Greenb1att are near neighbors and good friends. Both have dogs that are not and never have been good neigh bors nor good friends. After many bloody encounters in the past which settled nothing as to which was the canine victor, they had recently patch ed sort Of a. working modus vivendi which pitched upon a certain stone wall midway between the homes of their owners, as the boundary line be- yond which neither might go unless accQmpanied by its master. This un- derstanding worked sp1endidIy until last Friday, when the truce was vio- lated by accident. The Banks dog is the faithful guardian of a mother tur- key and a, brood of a score of young