The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-24
OUR NEWTOWN
 2 NEWS LETTER
(speeiaa .to Thes Fa.rrnAr.l

Newt own, July 24-Co9nty SealeF of Weights and Measures SCunningharn. accompanied by Q deputy sheriff, swooped down on SSandx Hook yester- day afternoon, calling for F. H. Gan non, town sealer- of weights and meas uress who lives in Newtowr, taking him along in a car. The local officer had just finished the annual inspectforl of the weights and measures in town and sealed. all with the official seal.
 That a state official could come in and set aside his careful work pained MT. Cannon, and all he could do was to look on helplessIy while the state officer condemned in succession the scales for weighing coal and hay near the New England station. the weights and scales of a tea. coffee and spice merchant, the measure used by a green grocer, the scale in the grist mill all of which Cannon found accurate and Q. K.d a few weeks ago.
 These condemned weights and meas ures they either destroyed by- strokes of a hammer or took along with them. Tn less than4an, hour, they had their car loaded with tke indestructibIe spells, and operations were suspended with less than one-eighth of the town covered.
 They departed just before the storm came on, but gave no information as to when they will return to complete the inspection,f Consternation has seized upon those not visited and these dealers are on the anxious seat as the county officers said they ex- pected to exapaine into sales of pack age, foods etc.,, not having the net weight stamped on them as required by law
 MT, Cannon is as much surprised at theSvfsit of the county officers. as the victims of the raid were and dis claims any knowledge of how. or why < TT <a.- not to the town center
 Miss Anna Murphy and not Miss Anna Keajne has been hired as teacher in Gray's Plain district, as published in this column.
 The report of the officers of the Sandy Hook Free Public library made at the recent annual meeting showed this Village institution to be in a, f1o6r- ishing condition. Two hundred new books were recently added, and its patrons cover nearly every family in the second voting district. The of f1cers elected for the ensuing year are: Directors, John o. Pitzschler, Rev. C.. A. Tfbballs, Mrs. Birdsey Sniffen, Mrs. Her1nan Oppe. Mrs Harriet Snfffen; secretary and treasurer. Mrs W. N- Mitchell s- book co4nnittee, N1esdames F. H. Mitchell. H. H. Curtis, B. Spif- fen and Rev. C. A. Tibballs; librarian, Mrs. Birdsey Sniffen; assistant lib Tlcr1t4A4s MISS M Slys M GIN a mara
 Postals received from the A J. Smith auto party show they reached their western limit, Duluth, Minn., July4R.2 They will return by way of Detroit and Cleveland to the east.
 Mrs. Thomas C.. Keane was visitor in Danbury, yesterday.
 Fred Lockwood is building a front veranda on his cottage in Gas street.
 w. L. Mershon has employed J. A Tilson to remove the rest of the ma chinery owned by him in the Mantle Mills. It will be shipped to Railway, N, J.. by rail.
 Town Clerk Pitzsch1er has been en- gagged by Borough Clerk c. Beard sIey to make typewrftten copies of the borough. charter bylaws and amendments to same for the use of the printer. in accordance with the vote of the annual meeting authoriz- ing the printing and distribution of Q copy of the municipal laws to each taxpayer