The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-27
Fairfield County News
Acquitted of. Bigamy.

EVa SSymOur-EiaV1lands or SOuth Norwalk, who was arrested in Ma charged with bigamy by George M. Barker. who claimed to be. her hus- band, was discharged when Barker failed to show up and press the charge. Judge AppeH accepted the statement of the defense in her coun- ter charge that Barker had a wife living when he married her.
 Gold Mine In Wilton.
 Wilton is excited over an alleged discovery of gold. Thomas Pierce while excavating for a bungalow to be erected for s. W. Merrill of New York, hit ore which was submitted to mineral experts at Yale university. They have reported that it assays $4 0 to $6o of gold per ton.
 Heir to $66,000.
 f Mrs. Walter c. Humbert of Darien. through the death of her aunt, Mrs. David c. Wing. has become the sole heiress to an estate valued at $65,0OO. Mrs. Wing died while in St. Peters burg, Russia. some time ago.
 Apple Culture.
 Alcampaign to teach people to eat Gold, of West Cornwall, one of Con- necticut's most successful apple grow CTS, at the meeting of the State Ad- visory Board on Farmers Institutes with the Danbury grange Thursday afternoon. MT. Gold said Connec- ticut apples now bring from four tf five dollars barrel, and he suggest ed that they be put on the market fol three dollars, instead, so as to en' courage a larger consumption of the fruit
 Mrs Mead's Estate Settled The final account in the estate od the late Parmelia, wife of William H Mead. has been accepted by the Greenwich Probate Court, and the property has been distributed. The
 real estate was valued at $2O,000 and 1 the personal estate at $1O,5O0. Al | the property goes to her husband, Will | liam Henry Mead, during his life and at his death it reverts to the son, g Augustus Mead, and two daughters
 Ella P. Mead and M Alice. Dog Strangely Found.
 Miss Florence M. Brett. of Green
 wich, student at. the State Norma 1 School in Danbury. is very happy ai
 result of having located the val
 uabie St. Bernard dog that disap | peared from the home of her folks il l Greenwich two weeks ago. While walking up White street or
 Thursday Miss Brett spied a hand away. She immediately recognized l it as her dog, and called it by name l The dog rushed to Miss Brett, al
 though very glad to see her. How 1 the dog managed to get to eDanbur, | is unknown. It was without a col | lar, although it had one when i | disappeared from Stamford. Damages by Lightning. 1 A thunderstorm during which great hailstones fell did a lot of dam. age in rural Stamford, Saturday ev-
 ening. Alfred H. Knapp's house wal l struck. One of the brick chimneys
 was cracked throughout it's length
 a great hole was torn in the roof, ths rafters were scared, and every mem Der of MT. Knapp's family was more or less shocked. Frank E1aVi1and's family were stunned by this same hasf | of lightning. It entered their house | over a telephone wire.
 St. PauPs church StSepIe in NOrwa1l I and the fIagpoIe over the Hotel Cliff ford were struck. MT. and Mrs. New | com Shriver are considering them l selves fortunate that they were no1 1 seriously hurt. MT. and Mrs ShriveI were about to retire and had started
 upstairs. A bolt of lightning hit z | large elm tree in the back yard and | shooting off the tree crashed through
 six panes of glass in the kitchen win 1 dows, knocked a brush and medicine I tube off the mantle in the kitchen shattered the plaster on the kitchen | ceiling and walls and went into thf sink breaking the iron trap it passed l through.
 Scarlet Fever
 Scarlet fever in East NorwaIk iG not diminishing The fourth grade o1 l the Marvin school has been dismiss | ed.
 Painters Get Advance The threatened strike of the mem
 bers of the Painters Union, of Nor
 walk, has been averted by the mer
 accepting the modified terms of the employers The men are to receive
 s32s per day for forty-eight hour: | work week, six full days. If the men do not care to work on Saturday l afternoons they. will lose that nall 1 days pay. The six full days pay g week amounts to $19.6s, which is $1.6S ] more than the men have been receiV- ] ing.