The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-11

next session they will make compar- ison between the present abstract and that of last year. This may reveal some instances which in the boards s opinion call for readJustment.
 Some of those who failed to mar vest ice from the carry crop are now filling their houses from the Putnam Park pond, D.. S. Sanford and S. c. Shaw of the Ridge being among the number. On Monday Thomas Dela- ney,8 the park caretalzer, slipped while making the rounds of the trip-ups he had set at the pond and went into the water where it was beyond his depth. There was no one around at the time to give him a helping hand and he had considerable difficulty in scram- bling back upon the ice.
 SeIectnan H. s. Barnes went to a New York hospital on Tuesday to re- ceive treatment for an affection of one of his eyes supposedly due to and at tack of the grip with bronchial com plicatfons from which he has been aiI- for about two weeks. During the same period nearly all the members of his family were tnvalided from colds. Miss Catharine Barnett, who has also been a victim of the grip is now convalescent.
 Daniel, the young son of D. S. San ford. placed his finger on a, board a. few days since to indicate to a youth
 
 strike with his hatchet. The other struck too hastily and the blow near ly several young Sandford's finger. The injury is healing we'll.
 August Brunessen has sold to Ed gar IT. Fellows tract of about 38 acres adjoining the land which the lat ter bought from Harry Lounsbury two or three years ago. The Louns- bury parcel consisted of about forty acres and upon it MT. Fellows has built a fine residence near the Saul gatuck river a. short distance above Seneck's Corner.
 E. F. Sanford is one of those who will take the examination for fourth class postmasters to be held at Dan bury on Saturday,. Nomina1ly John H. Jennings is still postmaster atSWesJ Bedding although MT. Sanford assun- ed the active duties of the position with the title of assistant when he ac- Quired by purchase the building in which the postoffice is located.
 w. c. Sanford has so far recovered from his recent indisposition that he. was able to meet on Monday with the board of relief of which he is a member
 Sanford H. Osborn was summoned this week to do jury duty in the Com mon Pleas court at Danbury-
 B. B.. Banks performed his first service as a grand juror last Friday in connection with the game law prosecution of two Branchyflle par ties.
 Highway Commissioner Bennett has arranged to have the new state road in Georgetown top dressed with trap rock screenings Ten car loads of material have been ordered for the job and it will be put on by s. Fl. Osborn as soon az weather conditions permit. The total expense will be about $500.
 Miss Esther Waterman and Miss Kate Fox were over Sunday guests of Mrs. w c. Sanford.
 More About Davis.
 ~He must be pretty old by this time as he had quite an elderly appearance when he was around here twenty years ago. said a Sunset Hill resident the other day referring to the counter feiter Davis who was recently arrest ed at " aterbary while he was getting out a batch Of spurious money When Davis engaged board with William F. Gorha1n on the Hill he posed as a re- tired business man who was in the country for his health. It was on the plea of il health that he explained his frequent absence from meals. All this time he was engraving in his room the plates from which the bo- gus bank notes were to be printed. His manners were very gentlemanly and no one suspected anything wrong until a Mrs. Johnson came to board with the Gorham family. She was one of the prying sort and showed such an inquisitive disposition about Davis that he took alarm two or three days after she came and went to board with Joe Morgan in the Elm wood district in Bethel. To guard against Morgan becoming alert and investigative Davis and Russ Hoyt his partner and financial packer in the counterfeiting enterprise, kept him soused with drinks. Hoyt was a hat ter whose home was in Bethel but who worked at his trade Tn Phi1a- deIphia. He had a brother who was in the confidence of the conspirators without being actively engaged in the