The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-30
OUR VIEWPOINT
 NEWS LETTER
Special to the Farmer,


 NewtoWn, Sept. 30-William Conger, employed as a teamster by John Frank, the Bethel wood contractor, was kick ed in the abdomen by horse, Mon day forenoon, and so badly injured that his life hangs in the balance. The accident happened near the New Eng land railroad station while Conger was backing up his team. Dr. w. H. Kier- nan was called by telephone and re sponded at once, He advised Con gers removal to the hospital at once. The doctors car was temporarily out of commission, so B. w.. Troy vo1un- teered the use of his car. Martin Conger, a. brother of the injured man, drove the car, for the doctor and charge to the Danbury hospital He was operated on at once. The sur geons found three punctures of the intestines. The patient has rallied and today the hospital doctors say he has an even chance for life. The unfor- tunate man Is very popular among his associates and this hopeful news from the hospital today has pleased them greatly. Conger is a small man about p years old and the son of MT. and Mrs. Homer Conger
 The continued case of State vS. Ben jamfn Archer. the Bethel nilkman who was arrested last week for selling adu1- terated milk, came up Monday after noon before Justice P. H. Mccarthy. The defendant was not represented by a lawyer, but Samuel Underhil1, the well known farmer of South Center, appeared in Archers behalf The lat ter refused to plead guilty even after the state chemist. B. M. Bailey. pre- sented his report showing an adulter- ation of more than twenty i've per cent. in the samples of Archer's milk examined by the state board. He, maintained he did not water the milk. and thought the prosecutor should prove this before the court could hnd7 him guilty The court did not favor this contention, as the charge on which the defendant was held was the sale of adutterated milk, not the of fense of adultera ting it. He was ac- cordingly found guilty and fined $7 and costs amounting to $2S15, which he paid.
 DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK.
 Enquiries by your correspondent among the leading Democrats of New town as to the strength of the senti~ ment in favor of Congressman Jere-
 niah Donovan. disclose a practical unaninity of belief that he is far more popular in this section than two years ago. His appointment of Robert T. Bradley to the postmastership was done after mature consideration and this has added to his list of friends, not only the young Democrats, but many Republicans who admit that the COa8i6SS1Lf1fl rom the F'Ourth district is a conservative statesman, and not simply a dispenser of patronage. Thin younger element in that party do not favor the return! Of the Roraback-HfH crowd to power and many Republi- cans will sidestep @Uncle Ebenezer'' on election day, and vote for the Dem ocratic Congressman,s reelection To this may be safely added a fair accre- ton from the three score Republicans who voted for Governor Baldwin two years ago and will undoubtedly vote for him as United States Senator in November. Messrs. Bradley, Brew. Wright and Hurd, the Newtown dele- gates to the Congressional convention say that the solid backing Of Con- gressman Donovan by the Hon. Lynn w Wilson will be an asset Of great value to the former, for 1t will bring to the front all Democrats, even the considerable number of disappointed Ny1IspnItes or two years ago, some of whom ssu1ked in their tents.s' The Congressman's attitude in upholding the hands of President Wilson in the
 wing times of legislation to carry out sne platform pledges, his devotion to duty in Congress, his pertinacity 1T, compelling his confreres to exact Der- formanee of their duty, resulting il, the. no-work- no-pay'' congression.sI order, are among the reasons advanc- ed by representative citizens why tfnev propose to vote for Congressman Don. oyan's reelection in November It fs hoped by many, though, that the party m nanagerss will arrange a Democratic rally at which tho issues may be dis cussed in our town hall.