The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-12
FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEWS
Called to Georgetown

Rev. John Garland, of Yale col lege. who has been called to the pas church, Georgetown, has accepted 1t.
 Called to Stanwich
 Rev. E. C.. Torrey Of Sheffield, Mass, has accepted the call to be- come the pastor of the stanwich Congregational church.
 Discharged From Bankruptcy
 Discharges from Bankruptcy have been granted to Frederick c. Harri- son of Wfnsted. Harry Bomstein of Danbury and George s. Grumman of NorWa1k.
 Completing Trunk Ldne State surveyors have been at work | on the section of highway between | Joyce's corner, Brookfield, and the Danbury line for the past two weeks, making survey preparatory to the construction of state highway. This l section comes under the head of a l trunk line and willsbe built at state expense. When completed Danbury and New Milford will be connected by state road.
 Stole Household Goods
 1 Mr. and Mrs William G. Mu11igan, summer residents came to Ridgeheld last Saturday to look over their prop erty- Mrs MuIligan heard voices and l heard some one say That house does | Mrs. Mulligan had missed some of her l household goods she at once sum I moned Constable Frank Taylor, who, I with Justice Walden, prepared a search warrant and went to the house l of Arthur H. Crossnan in Limestone
 and found goods consisting of bed l ding, table linen,. curtains, all of which were identified by Mrs. Multi l gan as her property Crossman was I placed under arrest for having stolen 4 l1r0n In 17i ia TJexx + i en to jail in default of $500 bonds A second search warrant was issued and l another search was made. A center table and seven chairs were found be- longing to Mrs. Henry Butterworth l of New York and RidgeeId.
 Sawed Through Cannon Ball Frederick Buttery, at his mill in tSilvermine, Tuesday. sawed through I what appeared to be cannon ball I about four inches in diameter. The
 leaden rnissle was found near th6 heart of a four-foot basswood tree, which came from New Canaan The Isupposition is that the ball was fir. ed some time during the Revolution. ary War and lodged in the small tree, as it was not far from the old Dan
 bury road. where several severe sIxir- 1 rnishes are said to have taken place. l Greenwich Bonds Sold
 l < Greenwich town bonds have been lsold to Merrill, Oldham & Go. of l Boston, their bid being S22s.732Y5. The refundfng issue of $125,o00 is to retire $125,0oo Of town bonds which mature on April 1st, 1915. These bonds were twenty year bonds issued I in 1895. The refunding bonds are I serial 1000 maturing each year. SO that at the end of twenty-five years l the entire issue will be paid. The school improvement bonds are a DOT ton of the authorized issue Of $270,-7 003 for school improvements Up to $120, 900 have heretofore been is- sued, and this new issue makes a to- tai of $220.0O0 school bonds outstand- l ing. All of the bonds Of the town
 of Greenwich are now serial, except the issue of $100. 900 for High School l which mature in 1935. The town this year will, by meeting of nla- turing serial bonds, pay off $71, ,O00 of it's debt, and next year $76,O0o. There still remains $50, ,000 of the school Improvements bonds to be is- l sued, and under the highway inn provexnent scheme, $1OO,0O0 highway Improvements bonds are to be issued May 1st. 1915, and $10O,00 on the. < first of each May thereafter until the | entire $60Os000 of highway improve ment bonds have been issued. AL until January At the nearing there was very little opposition to such change except from the Con necticut Fish and Game association,
 
 be issued. at the date when the last of these bonds are issued. the bonded debt of the town will only be $172,- | 900 more than it will be on April 1st,
 1915. because during this period l $378,oe0 of bonds will be retired by the operation Of the serial system. Game Law Changes.
 The legislative committee repre- senting the sportsmen of Danbury has learned that the fish and game
 committee of the legislature has voted l to change the present game law on rabbits, and the Danbury men have I expressed themselves as greatly dis~ appointed over the fact They now I intend to make a state wide fight to j keep the law as it is The rabbit law now allows the use Of dog, gun and ferret from October 8 to November l24. then the use of dog and ferret until January 1. The committee vot- 1 ed to do away with the use of the ferret and allow the use of the gun which had opposed it every season. 1 The Danbury sportsnnen say that the old law has given good satisfaction for the last four years, except for the fact that some sportsInen have abus- 1 ed the privilege in the number of rab- isbits they have taken A bag limit l Of five is advocated to stop this. The I sportsnen contend that if the use of I a gun is allowed for five weeks after the bird season closes and ten to hf-
 teen thousand hunters roam the woods, good many birds will be killed in that time. for they say that 1 it is second nature for some hunters to shoot at any game when they have ] a gun in their hands. The sportsmen say that the present law has given eminent satisfaction and that it has eliminated this temptation by not a1-
 lowing the use Of the gun after the close of the bird season. They say l that they intend to make vigorous l protest to senators and representa- l tives against any change in the law 1 on rabbits except to fix a bag limit of five.