The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-24
News From Neigfboring Towns
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 Newborn. April 2s-P. F. Lynch. the blacksmith of Beaver Brook nears Stony Hill. has purchased five pass lenger touring car.
 George Fairchild of this town has lcontributed $z5 to the upkeep of thel poses. 0
 A F. Clarke and wife are now pleasantly domiciIed in their summer home on Main street
 Marcus Corners has resumed his | wors as caretaker of the village cem-j Ietery for the summer.
 I Miss Nellie Maloney and niece, Ma lrie Maloney. have Just returned from | a pleasant trip to Bridgeport. 1 I The High school alumni will hold a. 1 meeting in the High school building. EFriday evening, April a. at z 30, for the purpose of arranging for it's annual whist and dance
 The next meeting of the Hawleyv vile Whist club win be with Miss Cora IBaTnums B. Goodsell a progressive farmer Iof the Hopewell district, insured his T help and now under the cornpe1asaAiorl ida1e in his employ was kicked by i horse last Saturday and seriously irl-k N ljured. This Is the first case occur
 ring in N'ewtown under the new law the public, especially by the farm J Trailing arbustus abounds plenkifx1- ly in NewtoWn and parties are out I every day securing the delicate low
 High school principal L. NJ John Ison. report the following honors for IInonfh. Seniors, Marion Summers,
 Sarah Beers. Gordon Gale. Israel Gold lstein, Hattie Reed Juniors, Waiter < lGIover. Grace RuffeIs Virginia Houii- Than, Marion Curtis Amy Bantle Soph- Ionzores. Paul Gavanatgh Molly Cold Istedn. Anna IT. Corbett Mary Keane ICa1herine scanion freshmen Mary Ichf1d. AfIeen HeuIih an. NO. Grade i Iwork 1Iilliceht Eavanaugh, Jacob IGonnberg, Alice Houlihan, John Keane 2 | Dorothy James, Sidney Kilbrfde Flor , Ience Page. Mary sarnnnis. HaIry sus- .man, CIaribeI Troy, Louis Walter sdorf { Donald Wright.
 Newtown. pril 2 George Bale of Tort Worth. Texas, yzho is with his , of FIa,wleyvi1 i1le for an extended stay 7s slreports he prey Hing entin1ent Of all { classes in Texas Is very much anti l Mexican The xGreaser7 is as cordial
 1y dizailzed there as the esrin go' as t across the Rio Grand de. While cor
 dially with President wilson in his ! ldetermination to have the flag stain . e wiped oszt. most Texans believe we { { are in for war, and they are patrIo- s ticalIy preparing to preserve the state E st rom N4GK1Eans a31 T1C41 TS10nSs De Ll<sy < < IIuertistas, or Constitut tionalists; and [ 2 many would lik ke to march straight ssl for the city of Montezun1a and corral E 4 EIuerta in his den, and teach him a good lesson. sg s Fl F The Borough officials; lack of fore sight in the matter of supply of
 water for fire lighting is the topic of dsi the hour in the Center That nIl- os necessary loss Of property wort h 5 1a5 z Fl 900 occurred in an hour and a.lf p yesterday by fire because hydran ts Is would not work is admitted by every k body on hand and there is a wide Y I spread demand for an Investigation te soAl fix the responsfbfI1ty where 1t belongs E Insurance adJusters who have seen tl1s
 water supply of the borough tested E and volume under normal conditions
 the borough is not surpassed by any n town in the state under the gravity sT ssT system NewtoWn's volunteer fire de- $. material and were promptly on h. ll 1l job, but for one half hour after hs ss . arrival the water could not be coaxef v to How It is to be hoped that an 1n
 vestigation will show up Just who ans s what cause was resDonsfbIe for tllf LII destruction of property. The ten yea x- contract made by the borough boars ae a year ago. makes no provision for in m spection or testing of the hydrants 1g and the borough has no officiaI scharg a6 ed with the duty or Suca inspection O " test The hydrants are not the prop
 erty of the borough, but are oWnei
 by the Newtown Water company an. ba are leased by the borough. The New S-, town Fire department is a vo1untar be association and its members are no Fs authorized by the charter or by thei ,>s5 bylaws to inspect or test the Wate sv | supply. The names of the chief of E. II ncials of the Water company are tn
 entire roster of the borough citizens The citizens and tax payers enjoy tn .s4 privilege of paying $I.0o0 per annuI .r. = for the use of thirty hydrants to pu : out fires as per contract. The indiea s II tfons are that the lesson of yestez II days fire may reslllt in divorce be ~ n tween the present contracting partie af in the borough election which take ~ place early in May: for the taxpayer = are now fully aroused In the Farmers report of the Mo1 ii ris block ire in Newborn yesterda .ol the starting place of the fire was ir sb correctly given as Iin the garage
 pr. F. J. Gale. The fire started l
 Mir Morris, garage and communicate
 itself to the Gale garage directly
 front of the former garage pr. Gal
 was on professional calls. so his ca
 escaped, but the Morris car burned.