The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-13
WESTPORTER MAY SELL FARM OWING
 TO REGENT FIRES
Ge1latly Said to Have Decid- ed to Quit the Town The
 Banana Thief Incident
Especial to The Farmer.l

Especial to The Farmer.) Westport, Feb. 13.-It is rumored about town that John GelIatIy, the New York millionaire and owner of large estate in. Westport, has offered for sale his large estate on Cross Highway, consisting of over 300 acres because of the two fires the estate within the past six weeks, with loss ebing estimated at about $25, 600. State Policeman Bridgman of Hartford has been working on the suspected arson cases for the past three weeks. MT. Gelatly is a retired merchant and re- sides in New York in the winter and spends the summer on his Westport estate.
 Meade soutney has left for Morris town, N. J., where he is studying law. after having spent the past week with his parents, MT. and Mrs. A. G. Southey. of State street.
 A well founded rumor is current to- day that Mrs. Mildred Taylor Mills and Arthur B. Je1liffe, who disappeared from Westport a week ago, have ac- cepted a vaudeville contract. Mrs | Mills is the daughter of Mrs. Frank | Taylor of Lincoln street and for long | time considered the belle of Westport. | She is heir to one-third of the estate | of her late father. Frank Taylor, which | is valued at $12 GOO. The mother and | two sisters of Mrs. Mills have asked for the appointment of a conservator over her and a hearing on the ap- pointrnent will be held before Judge 1 of Probate D. B. Brad1ey\ one week I from today
 The centenary of peace between the United States and Great Britain will I be celebrated with special services at the Church of the Holy Trinity tonor- | row. A program of patriotic music 1 has been arranged, and the rector, Rev. Kenneth Mackenzie, will preach an appropriate sermon.
 l At the regular communication of Temple lodge, No. 60, F. & A. M, held in teh lodge rooms Thursday evening, a banquet was served the members by a committee composed of Charles [Sninen, Joseph Sniffen, Everett Sirnp-
 son and Gustave Lees. At the. bus
 mess session which preceded the ban
 quet, the FelIowcraft degree was <. worked upon three candidates
 One of the most notable social af- ] fairs of the local social season was
 held last evening in National hall
 when a dance was given under the
 auspices of the Westport Equal Fran chise League. Mrs. James Lees Laid-
 law, who had been engaged to ad-
 dress the gathering, was not able to
 attend and Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn,
 president of the state association.
 made the address, outlining the aims 1 The committee in charge included:
 Mrs. ". D. Dickson, Mrs. Arthur B.
 Dove, Mrs D. B. Bradley Mrs w. A.
 Borden, Mrs. John Adams Thayer.
 Mrs. Ralph Willis, Mrs. John Craw-
 ford, Mrs. Carl Dodge Mrs Burritt
 Wakeman, Mrs. Robert Fuller, Mrs.
 Ossip Linde, Mrs. stephen Banks, Mrs.
 W. J. Woods, Mrs Frederick Hubbell,
 Mrs Frances Day, Mrs. David Sachs,
 Mrs. Charles Prizer, Mrs. Louis Lou- quet, Emily McLaurie, Mrs Robert L. Dolge. Dorothy Bowles and Ruth Mac-
 Farland.
 George St. John has the contract te
 erect two story building on the Ezn- I tfbalming Supply company property, as !. 8 nicke1-plating and machine shop.
 The many friends of Marie Keitf
 will be pleased to learn that she has |. returned to her home on King street l, after spending several weeks in the iNorwalk hospital. following an opera. |, tfon for a severe attack of appendi l, lcitis. She will be able to resume he
 studies at the Staples High school fl - a. few weeks
 Fl Friends of Constable Frank sturge
 have not yet done joshing him abou l. the outcome of his arrest Of Charle = Alexander, for theft of fruit iron
 Carusones store, Wednesday, AIexan
 der fed through the street, the con Is stable in pursuit, and as the officia st overlook him he discarded what als
 peared to be bunch of bananas 3, The constable brought his prfsone 1T before Justice Purdy, who demand e
 the presentation Of the stolen fruI IS as evidence. When the scene 0 st the chase was retraced, 1t was foun
 that the bananas were not real but t, clever imitation on cardboard. Tn n justice nofled the theft charge an
 fined the prisoner s1O for drunken J. ness.
 n. The junior class of the Staples Hig
 school gave a very novel affair in tn '. n gymnasium of the school Thursda eA evening, in the form of a nasquerad | dance. A number of varied an
 unique costumes were worn by tn ss masqueraders Refreshments wer 1- served. The committee in chars
 included James Murphy, Judsox Cot tett, Grace BuIk1ey and Dorothy Hal 1A ris.
 s- Deaths recorded at the office (
 Town Clerk Joseph Woods for tn
 month of January include those ~ Gregory A. Oates, Jan. 8; John Stoe = dard Graham, Jan, 6; William ] :" :" Coley, Jan. 10; John. zaigler, Jan. |: Elizabeth Bancroft Lees, Jan I: !, Adele Jeanne Fresenius, Jan. II <, James H. Wilbur, Jan. IT; Martin 1' Pasternick, Jan. IS; Rose Cohn. Jal 11 25, and the infant child of MT. an ,v Mrs. J. J. Sullivan on Jan. 1. " Mrs. Benjamin Hanger will ente . tain a number of friends at a brids .n | party to be held in her home, Mol ,oee day afternoon The Neighborhoc rlr day, of Mrs. Oliver Keith in the aud
 toriun of the Fable building ( 1T 1 State street.
 r- Mrs. W. B. Osborne of ValIv m Forge, IS conVa1esc1ng from a sevel m atCack or 1he grippe Whlch~has kel O. her under the care of pr. Frar n- Gorham for several days.
 n Sylvester Hur1burt of Norwalk,
 former we'll known resident of th -- town, was in Westport last evenir hv renewing old aCQuaintanCeS. He fir