The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-11
SLIGHT DECREASE IN INCOME FROM
 CLEMENS ESTATE
But Recently Awakened Ac- tivity in Bedding Real
 Estate is Maintained.
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which is less by several thousands
 than the income of previous years. yield from some of the securities be- l longing to the estate. From Harper
 Bros, publishers of the late authors books, there was received for royalties i S18,000, the same amount they have paid in each of the preceding years.
 The residential property in this town
 remains unsoId and has never pro- tduced any income. It was originally ] held at a, price of $75, 1000, but this was 1 lowered to $55,000 at which figure it still stands. Since the reduction three l offers of $40O0O have been refused. i There are still many visitors to the
 place, but their visits are mostly due
 to curiosity as they have recently been 1 followed by no propositions to buy. It l is understood that Mrs. Clara Gabrilo-
 witsch, the daughter and sole direct 1 heir of Mark Twain. has given up any intention she may have had of occu-
 pying the property. Since Her return 1 from Germany about a, year ago she
 has not visited the place. MeanwhileS the villa, despite occasional repairs, 1 increasingly shows the deteriorat. on
 which is the natural effect of time and
 unoccupancy.
 l Joel Thorne of New York was in town last Saturday and made it known before leaving that he had decided to l exercise the option which he holds for ] the purchase of the fourteen acre
 tract owned by Mrs. Robert Nichols 1 and located at the corner opposite the Ridge school house. Therefore the transaction may be regarded vir- tual1y closed although conveyance is
 yet to be made. The marshy patch in | the lot where the house will be erect l ed is to be drained and converted into
 a garden. Drainage and clearing up work are to be got under way this
 fall but probably actual building op- l epations will not be started until
 spring. MT. Thorne belongs Ato the wealthy New York family who for merly had summer place at Black
 Rock The negotiations for the loca. | transaction in which he is one of the principals were conducted through the
 Sanford real estate agency. The same
 agency has in hand another prospec- tive deal which promises to become 1 accomplished fact. The prospective buyer is w. E. Emerson, an artist of New Canaan, and the property in question that owned by Miss Adelaide Lyon and situated in the southeast
 corner of this town. on the Easton line | Iclose by the Rock House school. MT. l Emerson was piloted to the place on Saturday by w. G. Sanford and said that it just about met his ideas.
 Should he purchase he will remodel i the house.
 Negotiations have been going on for several weeks on the part of Mrs. I Brooklyn. N Y, for the purchase from John MuennicFl of his residence on the Ridge. The price was approximately. S6.000 and an option was obtained. In this affair the Sanford real estate
 agency was also the intermediary.
 Answering a knock at his door on
 Monday evening Ralph Rockwell gave salutation and entrance to a couple of
 friends who had barely received ad- 1nittance when another couple emerged iron a rif rSI,c A followed and this continued with suffi- cient interval between arrivals to. keep up the suspense and interest until the incomers numbered about fifty. They
 had come to help Mir. and Mrs. Rock welK celebrate the eighth anniversary
 of their marriage and made the occal sion a surprise in fact as well as in name. An incident of the evening was the presentation by the visitors of a
 silver tea set.
 The local telephone exchange is
 again in charge of the Misses Ostling
 who were the original operators there and who removed about a year ago tc Bridgeport. In the interval Miss Es- l ther, the younger sister, suffered a complete loss of eyesight due to ner- visual power is TOW returning with prospect of entire restoration.
 The machinery for the new electric
 light plant of the Sanford school ar " connected up under the supervision of Harold Sanford, who in connection with 9 post graduate course in elec- trical engineering is acting as assist ant in laboratory work at the Yale Scientific school.
 Bedding Fire Go No. ? has been or ganized by residents of the upper west side with B. tP. Sanford as president Lloyd Blackman vice president and Iohn Ollry secretary and treasurer. A committee on the purchase of appar- atus was also appointed and will re- port at the next meeting
 Rev. B. E4 Case was sufficiently inn proved a few days since to leave the 1 Danbury hospital where he had been under treatment for 1umbago for sev- eral weeks and he is now onvaIescing at the home of his daughter in Hart ford. During his absence Rev. MT Judd of Bethel conducts the services at the Center Methodist church.
 A State inspector of milk supply condi tions was in town this week look ing into the sanitary conditions of dairy stock herd quarters. The princi- pal changes ordered were for enIarge- iment of window space, this being 1 matter of statutory legislation.
 The post office department has not | yet announced a decision on the peti- ton for an extension of the rural de- livery service by ro--+N 24 to the Put 1 nam Park locality It is believed that the extension will be ordered to go into effect next spring.
 At their grounds on the Ridge Iast | Saturday the Sanford school football l team played a return game with the l Brunswick school of Greenwish, the 1 visitors winning by 8 score of II to 12. 1
 Free stereOpticon exhibitions show | ing Biblical views from Genesis on- 1 ward were given at the Center last I week, one in the town house and two 1 in the Methodist church. The series l was continued this week at Grange | hall on the Ridge. The work is car | ried on by the international Bible Stu i dents association.
 Mrs. Eickok of Bethel has been en- | gagged as lower grade teacher at the | Center school to ill the vacancy l