The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-19
HOTEL co. DEBTS.
 TOTAL $4,649
Newtown Inn Go. Liabilities Are Prepared By Trus-
 tee A. J. Merritt
Especial to The Farmer.)

Newtown, Feb. 19.-The trustee of the insolvent Hale Hotel Corporation, Attorney A. J. Hull of Bridgeport, has
 made public the schedule of claims
 presented. The total is $4,649.1S of
 which only $36S.70 are preferred.
 These latter include moneys due the
 help and taxes due the town of New
 town. The ordinary claims amount to $2,563.48 exclusive of a chattel
 mortgage of s717.OO due the John
 Buckle Metropolitan Supply Company of New York.
 Among the unsecured Newtown claimants are w. c. Johnson, $150:
 L. c. Morris, $40; W. A. Leonard. $447.SO; R. H. Beers & Co.,, $44.68; William Egan, $6S.72; Newtown Coal
 and Grain Go, $6o.3o; Newtown Wa ter Company, $57.55; Harmon H. Peck, $25; R. P. Shepard, $T7.66 John A. Peck, $9.9O; Gilbert Brothers $1A2O; total of $931.81.a
 l The unsecured claims due Bridge port creditors total $1,215.55. The Home Brewing Co.,, $428: F. D. La1- ley & Co.. $222; J. Ruppert Agency, $121.50; Public Market, $1S8, and E.. l B. Quinlan & Co.,, $$225. The balance of the indebtedness is due business firms in New Haven. Danbury. New York and Boston.
 l The chattel mortgage covered the stock on hand and the unexpired
 lease, it is understood making that transaction reasonably secure. but the rest of the creditors stand to lose and must balance their bills by transfer l ing them to the profit and loss page of their 1edgers. The hotel building
 was never an asset of the Hale Hotel | Corporation, being the property of
 Mrs Laura Leonard, the original l landlady. The license for the cafe was always held in the name of her | TTT T 1
 Quently not attachabIe.
 The regular meeting of Pootatuck grange will be held Tuesday night.
 Feb. 23. Besides the regular routine
 the rehearsal of degree work will be
 engaged in by the members.
 Representative P. w. Campbell l is taking a rest of a few days with
 his daughter, Mrs. Harvey Walker of l New Haven.
 Postmaster Robert T. Bradley will
 receive proposals to carry the mails 1 between the post office and the rail- road station as per spseiflcatlons of Route No. 206.063 of the U- S. mail
 service, up to and including Febru- ary 23. The present holder of the contract is ". A. Leonard.
 l Mrs. Wallace N. Mitchell is visiting her old home at Lake Mahopac. New York, this week.
 1 The senior class of the high school | have chosen Esther Beck, Marion | Curtis and Russell Wheeler as a, com
 rnfttee for the selection of commence l ment invitations.
 l Deacon and Mrs. Henry M. Smith | were granted letters of dismissal from the Congregational church of New town to the First Congregational church of Milford this week. MT. and Nrs. Smith are now residents of 1 the shore town at Walnut Beach. Dr. and Mrs. Henry B. Waite of FfowfclS lodge DodgtnEtowns are en- 1 fertaining their daughter-in-law Mrs Harry Waite of New York this week I x w. B. Glover and Frank Mitchell 1representing Pootatuck grange were lin NorwaIk this week attending the meeting of the Fairfield County Farm Bureau. It was thought at first thai this work would be undertaken by ths tpatrons of husbandry singly, but theiz E4dilatoriness lost them the chance. A more representative body now will take up the work and make 1t ar urban as well as country activity Leonard M. Johnson, principal of the l high school, and an influential mem Der of Pootatuck grange is on tho board of directors of the new farm bureau.
 Miss Mary E. Lynch. teacher 1T
 woodbury, and her sister, Miss Jennie Lynch who teaches in Bridgeport visited the Gray's Plain school, las
 Friday and spent a pleasant sessfor with Miss Murphy, teacher, and witk their former pupils.