The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-06
Fairfield County News
A New Church.

An effort is being anade to. organ ize a Protestant Episcopal church in Sherman and from present indica- tfons the effort gives promise of be- ing successful. The originators are MT. and Mrs. w. H. Cfittendon and Miss Alice Norman. A house on the property belonging to Miss Norman, about two miles south of the Center, is to be remodeled and fitted up and the equipment, prayer and hymn books are to be donated by MT. Crit tendon and Miss Norman.
 Taken to Asylum.
 Stanley Aszenbury, aged SC of Da, rien, has been taken to the Norwich Asylum, for confinement, because of insanity. It is said that Aszenbury has religious mania and at times is violent.
 Theft of Auto.
 A Studebaker ear was stolen from the garage of Gilbert W. Finch, in Greenwich, Saturday night. An en- trance was forced by breaking a pane of glass in a window.
 Trapped Whole MenagerieA
 Samuel Waring, the Stamford hunter and trapper, has 8 long list Of animals which he either trapped or shot during the past season. In the list of animals, MT. Waring has 16e rnuskrats, 5 foxes and sone beaver. In | skunks, 13 minks, coons. possums. 3 wildcats and weaseIs, two of the last being white weasels.
 Loss by Fire.
 The shoe store of Max Levy, in Danbury, was damaged to the extent of about $3,0o0 by a mysterious fire Saturday. The damage by fire was not great. while the principal part of the damage was done by water. To Leave Danbury. Rev Harry ChamberIain Meserve, l pastor of the First Congregations Church of Danbury since 1904, has resigned to become pastor of the Rye Presbyterian Church. Rye, N. Y.
 Drank CarboIic Acid. Josie Rotundo, the two year old daughter of MT. Thomas Rotundo, of Danbury, was very near death Sun | day, when she drank a quantity of carbolic acid which she found in 9 bottle lying on the ground in the rear 1 of her home. By quick action the acid was removed from her stomach l before it had penetrated the lining | of that organ. She feels no i'll effects from the poison with exception of burns on her face, where the acid was l spi11ed~ pr. Thielcke ascertainins; the nature of the poison gave the child antidote, consisting of the whites of eggs. He then used the | l layed the action of the poison was 1 the fact that the child had eaten a | hearty meal not long before she | drank the acid and the food retarded the acid.
 Stones, Knives, Etc. Stones flew, knives flashed and there was a general riot Saturday ev- ening in Norwalk. when strikers for merly employed on the Roodner l theatre contract clashed- with strike i breakers. Dominick Eula of Stam- ford, was struck in the head with 8 stone and received a slight fracture of the skull, Matted Pagia. was stab bed in the arm and Detective Ser geant Thomas Leather was struck ir | the leg with a rock. Six arrests iwere made.
 $10.00O for New Canaan Trolley
 The task of raising in NorwaIk, tt< g. 900 necessary to secure the Nor. walk and New Canaan street railway line was virtually finished in sever working days. The agreement enter ed into with the promoters conten. plated thes ecuring of subscription to $10,000 worth of the common stocI and by the terms of the agreemen construction is to begin within thirt1 days after the two local trustees hay. certified to receiving lists bearing tn. names of subscribers to the am oun indicated. It is tacitly understooe that that the promoters are bendin, every effort toward completing tn, road and equipping it in time to ge a share of the mid or late suname business from New Canaan, Silver
 mine and intermediate points. Tn rate of fare is to- be five cents within Il the city limits and New Canaan if teen cents one way, Twenty-Five cent fox the yoafnd trin.