The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-14
JAMES STAPLES 6 co
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Fairfield County News

Fairfield County News
 Joseph Dennis of GIenbro6k lost 6 mustang and rUIabou in Stamford last week. He zhelieEesa@ they were stolen.
 Fear of Kidnapping. sa
 Extra precautions are being taken to guard the two-years+old daughter of William Williams :. of Stamford. Mrs. Williams, 8 daughter of the late James Everard,s millionaire brewer, is suing her husband for divorce. Wil- Hams was once her fathers chauffeur. They were married in 1909 and sep- arated in 1912. The little girl is watch ed day and night by detectives in the employ of <. it's mother and gPand- mother. sess-s s~-s>s,- nss :. ,S-
 Bicycles in collision.
 John Newton. fifteen years old. is in the Norwalk hospital recovering fl Iom concussions and Waldo Cable is at his right eye, which was closed by six stitches. The injuries to both are the result of a. head on -coI1isfon as the young men we're riding their bicyeles in opposite directions. Neither. rfder had light on his wheel.
 Accepts the Call.
 Rev. Henry E. Anderson, Of Old Mystic, has accepted stneecali of the Rowayton Baptist church. Ne s sl
 .s Shocked by IBTast Ss As the result Of a heavy blast on the part of some workmen engaged in larbor improvement in the vicinity of Purdy'e Grove, East Port Chester, Wednesday, several peopfe. received shock from which theys WsH not soon recover Perhaps the greatest dam- age was done to she residences Of Mrs Caroline R. Orrock Here a hole was made in the siding byfa piece of rock thrown in, that direction by the blast. A number of windows, were also broken.
 sPeti6don in Bank fiu1p5tcy. s
 Charles Thomas Wilson Main of tamford has filed a petition. He made oath that he did not have $3e to pay the filing fee He was engaged as a florist. His liabilities sare listed at s, 434. .sS and 225s.s4 is unsecured. In his assets for creditors the stock and tools, $z56; debts due on open ac- count, s2ee, and ain aut6mobfle. $75.
 Looking for Site sz
 Herreshpff, the celebrated yacht de- signer and builder who is building one of the cup defenders for next fall, was in Norwalk one day fast week look ing along the shore for a place to los cate a boat building; sestabl blishment, the idea being to get iaacloser touch with New York. -y-as -ss
 Danbury 6 Harlem.
 The Danbury & Harlem railroad is about to be sfisfnai1tfed. It's rails and ties are to be torn ups and shipped awya and the maehineI'yssin its power house Is to be sold. In fact all lrne equipment of the railroad except the real estate and. the franchise are to be disposed of either as scrap, at scrap prizes ,or as usable material. In Philadelp11ia ~~ two days before Christmas the bondhOfders Of the rai1- road offered all the remoyabIs prop erty for sale. Several bids were re- ceived, among these one from Joseph G. Hitner, representing the Henry A. Hitner company, of Philadelphia, who are dealers in scrap iron. Hftper pur- chased fr orn the trustee for the bond holders all rails, poles, power house machinery, and other removable artt- cles In the power house is all the machinery needed for operating the road and furnishing power. down to the oil needed for 1ubricating the switches. Some Of the machinery was ready to operate with the attaDhment Of belts while other parts as, for in. stance, the boiler, were not completed The boiler was estimated by MT. Hit ner to have cost close to SIG, ,O0O Mir, Either said that he estimated the for mer value of the. eauip1nent.. in the power house alone as $40.000.
 Danbuny- New town Road.
 It was stated at 4thes office of State Highway Superintendent Bennett in Hartford, last week that the depart ment expected to have the work so1 constructing the proposed state high way between Danbs4ry and =' New town under way as early in 'tE1es coming spring as possible. The department advert:ees for bids for the contract for building. a. continuous section o1 26, 200 linear feet of gravel or native stone Inacadam construction in the towns of Danbury, Bethel and New town The section of road in question will begin at the bridgecsata-th the paper mill in Beaver Brook, and extend to the point in NewtoWn to which a state highway is already being built This will make. with the construction ot the fve-mile section for rfEwf1ich bids are now asked. continuous state highway from the bridge in Beaver Brook to Newtown street. The road will be built by the state, as, astrunfz