The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-16
WESTPORT WATERS
GIVE UP BODY OF
Unidentified MAN
Progressives Endorse Nominations of
Democratic Second SeIectman
and Town Clerk.


Westport, Sept. 16.-The remains of
an unknown man aged about 40 years,
were found floating in the Saugatuck
river Sunday morning by George Law
renee, 1 8 year old son of Expressman
Lawrence. There was nothing on
the clothes which give any indication
to the identity of the man. The
remains are now at the Fable under
taking esta b1ishment where they are
awaiting Identification. Unless claim
ed the body will be buried by the
town.
The remains are those of a man
who has been seen about the town
for the past week. Expressman
Lawrence states that he saw the man
only last Friday, that he recognized him
as soon as he turned him over in the
water. The Lawrence boy with anoth-
err lad was playing near the Gault
Bros lumber yard when they saw the
body come floating by. Mr.. Law
renee who was near at hand was call
ed by the frightened lads. The body
was floating about one foot under wa
ter in about ten feet of water. 1t is
supposed that the man fell asleep |
along one of the docks and rolled off
into the water. There is also a pos |
sibility that he may have committed |
suicide. There are no marks of vio- |
Ience upon the body.
Robert H. CoIey and Robert r. Mills |
the present first and second select |
men, respectively, were re-nominated
by the Democrats at their caucus held |
Saturday evening. Other nominations |
were, town clerk. William Mills COL |
Iector of taxes, Michael Donahue; as |
SCISSOR, Charles B. Mills; school board, |
Robert w. Post and Michael Dona- |
hue; auditor, Edward Beers; board of |
relief, Herman Petrie and Frank Tay- |
Ior; constables, George Mills and Jas. |
London.
While the democrats were holding
their caucus, the prOgresstves were al
so nominating their men in the town
hall. The nomination of Robert r.
Mills for second selectman and VII
liam Mills for town clerk by the dem
ocrats met with favor with the pro-
gressives for that party endorsed their
For first selectman
they nominated Austin Wakeman.
John wichotski thought he was a
woodchuck Saturday evening and tried
to crawl through the fence in front
of the home of Thomas QuinIan in
Main street. The pickets offered ar
NOR plate resistance for all that John
could do was to bark his nose. He
was going good when Constable Geo.
Mills took him in tow. Yesterday he
was brought before Justice Joseph G.
Hyatt who found him guilty filming
him 81 and costs. John is now work
ing out the fine and costs in the coun-
ty Jail in Bridgeport.
westport is now without fire chief
as Chief Louis flaming has remov-
ed to Norwa1k. 1t is expected that
within a short while committees FRONT
the various fire companies in town will
get together and appoint a new head
Of the department
Business changes occur in threes
about the center. The Underwood
store has been taken over by Bridge
port parties who now conduct a mil
inery and dry goods store; the drug
shop and stationery store of William
=. Nash has been disposed of to John
B. Louis Toquet will take over the
Westport pharmacy now conducted by ,
George @. Green. Only a short while
ago the Westport restaurant went out
Of business, the Bradley Hardware Co.
,emod cling the building, while F.. G.
the plumber went into the
place vacated by the hardware COM
1any. /
A wrecking barge arrived in the :
liver yesterday to lift the steam roller 6
rom the river bottom William Dor
;ey of Saugatuck has the contractl I
rom the Warren Bros. Co. to lift the ,
'olIer. The barge will be run up $
llongside the roller. t
John J. OHConnor, who has pur- 7
chased the store of William c. Nash g
n the Hurlbutt block intends to con-
luct a first class pharmacy on theI I
premises in connection with the sta t
ionery and news stand. Mr.. Nash &
drugs for a number OF
ears but only in a small way. Mr.. t
)'Connor is a licensed pharmacist and i
las been with the Luin B. Switzer 7
pharmacy in Southport. h
J. Franklin Bradley has returned to 1
lis home in Saugatuck after a shora s
tay in Gloucester, Mass. He intends C
hortIy to leave for Cornell University r
where he will pursue a special course. q