Putnam patriot., 1913-11-07
FARM ON TALCOTT
 MOUNTAIN SOLD
J. s. Rowe Buys Sedgwick Property in West Hartford
NOTABLE LAND TRANSFER
Place Contains 200 Acres for TiIlinq. Pasture and Orchard Purposes Price Over s20.ooo-Has Been
 Used by Dairymen.

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 Hartford.-One of the most import. ant farm sales that has been recorded among many in the suburban towns the past few years was made when J. Scofield Rowe, vice president of the accident and liability department of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, bought through H. c. Long & Co.,. the old Sedgwick property in Mountain road. West Hartford. The place has been owned and operated for the past twelve years by Thomas Bannon.
 It is one of the most slightly places on the eastern slope of Talcott Noun tain, and about a quarter of mile back from the street is a plateau that commands view of the surrounding country, including Mount Tom on the north, Meriden Mountain on the south and Bolton Mountain on the east.
 Price Was s2o,ooo.
 The farm contains 200 acres, which consists of tilable pasture and orchard land, and thirty acres of fine woodland. The price paid for the property is understood to be somewhat over $20,000. The place has been used by MT. Ramon as dairy farm, but it has also one of the best orchards in the town as many as 1000 barrels of apples having been gathered in one year, and it produces several hundred barrels every year.
 Mir. Rowe owns a place in Fern street, just over the line from Hart ford and it is not known whether or not he will occupy the place himself. He will, however. run it as farm for the present. This is one of the few ideal bungalow sites along the west ern border of the city These places are purchased by Hartford residents for future homes, or summer pur- poses, about a dozen properties hav- ing changed hands during the past year, while the woodland on the noun tain has been taken off the market by business men of Hartford.
 Child Deserted at Station
 After sitting for nearly five and a half hours on a bench in Union Sta tion, little Olga Schiman, eight years old, daughter of Adolpt Schiman, of Bristol. was questioned by Policeman Charles E. Russell and when it was learned that she had been deserted by her father, she was sent to the po- lice station and put in charge of Ma tron Farr The child is unusually bright and spoke up readily, wholly unconscious of the fact that she was lost She was sitting among women most of the time at the railway sta ton and was not noticed particularly by the policeman
 The child came to Hartford early in the afternoon with her father. for the purpose of visiting an occulist, and, after they had accomplished their mis- sion, they returned to Union Station, where the child's father left her, say ing that he would return soon. The hours rolled by and no father came. The girl was neatly dressed wearing a red dress, red hat and long black and white coat.
 Policeman Russell bought the child something to eat. and Policeman Gavin bought two comic masks and
  made Olga forget her troubles.
 The child seemed perfectly willing to pass the night at the police sta tion and sat hp for more than an hour talking with the matron.
 Examining Chestnut Blight.
 The story that the two young sons of MT. and Mrs. Charles P Roberts, of Forestville, proba bly died from eat ing chestnuts, the trees which pro duced the nuts. having the blight, led to an investigation hy the federal de partment of agriculture. A represent ative of that department from Wash ington. D. C.. spent day making study of the trees with view of car rying on the investigations further when he returns to Washington.
 He called upon Dr. Donahue. the at tending physician of the Roberts boys. The government chemist went to the trees where the chestnuts were gathered, examined them, and took samples of the fruit as well as parts of the tree with him to be analysed in the government laboratory. He later went to Granby, East N ihdsof flu and other places where deaths have been reported.
 A Milk Conference.
 Theodore N. Vail chairman Of the agriculture committee of the Boston Chamber of Commerce has called conference of milk producers. distrie- utors and consumers to be held m Boston on November $ at 10 A. M. The aim of the conference is to create feeling of confidence among the three clements. represented and to agree. if possible, on a form of legislation that would be a benefit to all and which would establish confidence ID milk as a pure and cheap food
 Dispute Over Commissioning.
 The term of the Supreme Court at which the contest between Major Ed ward T. Lyons and F. Ernest watkins as to the county commissionship in this county was scheduled to De argued in Bridgeport. It is the last case on the docket-