The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-30
NEWTOWN
Special to the F,aa.ner.o

of the firm of COrbett & O., or New York with four workers, set and painted the new f1ag-pole, Monday. in the presence Of the hag-pole commit tee, First Selectman Johnson and oSh- CT town officials, the borough warden, citizens, male and female, of Main street, and a fair sprinkling of the | ubiquitous boy. H. M. Trenans ST., 1 took snapshots of the groups as soon as the shaft was put in position, ana again when the mast was in place The whole cost of the pole and it's erection was $225 of which amount the committee is shy to the extent of about $20. It Is hoped, however, that the balance will be forthcoming as soon as subscribers holding back will see the completed work. It is certainly a job to be admired and the committee is to be upheld and com graduated on their success.
 SCARLET FEWER AGAIN.
 . Elizabeth. the five year old daugh- l'ter of MT. and Mrs. A. W. Reynolds of Currftuck,i broke out with what was diagnosed as scarlet fever, by Medical Examiner w H. Kernan, Sunday. He put the quarantine notices on the home and had Constable Carlson bring back to the house a domestic who worked in the family, but who had left her employment to go to Hart ford, Saturday. She was deemed to have been exposed and the medical
 
 turned to quarantine. The family are entirely at a Moss to account for the infection of the little patient who had never left the house for school or other public assenblage, and there was no intercourse between the <chH- dren of the house and those of any other recent victims of the~ disease. To al1ay any doubts, however, as to his correct diagnosis, the medical ex- aminer has notified the state board of health who promise to send on doc tor from headquarters, as was done in the last case which came to his no- tice.
 STORE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
 The Huntington general store of Samuel Nalevsky was struck by light ming about o'clock, Monday morning, and damage to the building by the bolt and a. fire following will be about $1O9 The electric fluid entered a cor ner of the building in the garret and passed through the upper floor where the family lived, hagona11y to another corner where it passed -,lt. MT Ma 1evlxy was shocked slightly and 3. large mirror flew into pieces all over his bed, but fortunately none striking any Of the inmates. The fire which started in some clothing in the garret was ex- tinguished by shirn wi -h a couple Of paiIs of water The store goods were hardly touched. The loss Is covered
 
 P. H. Cannon, of the Middle district committed purchased the forty foot hag-pole used as a stayer by the con- tractors who erected the new flag pole yesterday. He will cause it to be erected on the school grounds of North Middle school where 1t will do sentinel duty over the public buildings at the head of the street, and give some satisfaction to the disappointed ones who hoped the large hag-po1e would be erected there by the committee in charge Of the matter. Everyone ap- p1auds Committeeman Gannon's pulp lie spirit in the matter. and its erec- ton on the school grounds will be ap- proved by all.
 Thomas c. wfxted of Palestine, vis- Iited. his old home in Danbury, satur- day and Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. Curtis P. Morris and son Denton of Bridgeport, were week end and Sunday guests of Mir. and Mrs. L. c. Morris. Israel GoIdstein, who read an essay on Shall We Repeal the Panama Gam al Tolls Law at the graduation ex- ercises5 of his alma mater, the New town High school June f2, was person ally congratulated by Gov. Simeon H Baldwin on the excellence Of his es- says and urged by him to persist in a and predicted brilliant future for him in such an event
 Miss Anna M. Betts, assistant in the High school at Roscoe, N. Y., is at her home in Sandy Hook for the summer vacation.
 Miss Elizabeth Neal of Elizabeth, N. C., is making summer sojourn with her sister, Mrs. John w. Ray of North
 Main street.
 Miss Edith Northrop of New Haven expects to spend most of her summer vacation with her saunt. Mrs. L. R. SkidmOre, Bethel road
 Floyd Mccarthy of Hattertown, who was arrested last Saturday by Consta- ble Carlson on complaint of 'nefghhors on the charge of abusive language and noisy behavior, was released on pay ment of costs and his promise to be- have in the future No costs are taxed against the town in the action
 THE MILK QUESTION AGAIN
 "Nos dipped nailk'' In Bridgeport is causing many of our m1Ik1ne1l worry these days. All dairies and rniIkrnen in the city now bottle the milk for the top of the jar is what sells the milk. Under this rule, some of our farmers with registered Holsteins make poorer showing In butter far to the quart of milk than do the or dinary farmer with a scrub herd The latter has no trouble to sell his milk from his $40 cows, while the former with his $10o registered Holsteins, ow- ing to the smaller cream showing to the quart of milk. finds customers re- fusfng to take the product of the regis tered cattle, and in some cases the milk has been refused by the con s1gnees. Here as in everything else 1t is quality and not quantity that counts. Hence while the registered Holstein will give easily Is more milk than an average scrub COW the but ter fat cream will be 25 per cent less in the small unit of a quart of milk. And the Bridgeport consumer is beginning to notice this and re- fusing to buy the less robust Iactea1 fluid, with the result above indicated. The Newtown farmer is beginning to utter the "I should worry of current