The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-20
AT FINAL MOMENT INSURANCE RISKS
 ARE PAID IN FULL
Williams Claim Held Up By Anonymous SlanderOus Let ter-Maior MiIler's Estate $4OO,OOO.

Reddins May 2O.-After waiting un- til nearly the expiration of the sixty days time limit the London, Liverpool and Globe Co. has paid in full the amount of the policies held by George F. Williams on his barn and other property recently destroyed by fire. To w. H. Hill, its local agent, the com pany gives no explanation of its course in delaying payment or of trying to get MT. Williams to accept in settle ment about $1, 900 less than the entire amount. Had the sixty days passed without full payment, MT. Williams would have brought suit, being re- solved to accept no compromise of the scaling down order. It was the gen eral report that the company sought to escape full payment because Mr- Williams had violated a. provision of the contract which sttpulates that the policies should not be assigned with out notice to the company. MT. Hill states, however, that this report was erroneous, no assignment having been made. The real explanation, there fore, is probably connected with an anonymous letter sent to the com pany's headquarters and containing statements seriously reffecting @pon> MT. Williams The exact purport of these aspegsions is not revealed, but the letter effected the evil designs of it's author to the extent of causing MT. Williams no little anxiety and some expense, the worst feature of the trou- bIe being the holding up of his plans for rebuilding. The circumstances in dicate that the insurance company made a careful investigation and be- came satisfied that the damaging alle- gations regarding the subject of the letter were false and malicious. And now the community is wondering who can be the author of so despicab1e a piece of business.
 The appraisers on the estate of the late Major David IF. Miller Of George town, head of the Gilbert & Bennett Mfg. Co.,, have filed their report with l the probate court. The inventory shows that the estate totals about l $400, 900. Stock of the Gilbert & Ben nett Co. represents about $100,000 of this amount and various other high class securities most of the remainder, real estate constituting a comparative 1 1y small part. The will left by Major
 Miller virtually divides his entire es- tate equally among his nine children, the only other beqTrests being g, 900 each to the grandchildren.
 l Of the fund collected last year to meet the cost of @ spraying campaign to save the roadside shade trees from She ravages of the tent caterpiIIer something over $40 remains for use the present season and further contribu- tions are being invited by N. F. Hoge- son in a circular letter sent to many citizens. The letter suggests $2 as the amount of individual subscrip ptions and directs that contributions be sent ED J. w. Teets at Bedding Ridge. The shade trees in the Pleasant Valley sec ton have already received a. dosage of arsena-te of lead from the power spray CTS which are doing public service, as far as practicable, in connection with executing private orders from orchard owners. Thus when one of the ma- chimes was called to the Center sec d1fx5 Ridge and the Center were sprayed on i the trip.
 It has been fully demonstrated that the spraying treatment means the complete destruction of the worms provided it is done at the right time, this being the period when, they have reached about a. quarter of their full growth. It is to be observed that the growth stage of the worms varies
 widely on the same date in different parts of the town. Some trees which received no treatment against the worms are already eaten bare and
 brown while others in the same To- ca1ity and likewise neglected show an
 abundant crop of nests but so far only slight damage.
 While LenueI Sanford accompanied 1 by his wife, was driving down the steep hill from the Ridge to Pleasant Valley with load of filled milk cans yesterday morning the horse took fright at a bend and ran away upset
 ting the wagon. Howard PIatt who happened along opportuneIy, took Mrs
 Sanford in his team to the home of Sanford Osborn where it was found that she had received no injury be-
 yond the shock from her fall and some
 slight bruises. Her husband was equal 1 ly fortunate. The wagon was wrecked
 Joseph A. Bishop has gone to the nome of his parents at Riverside, L. l., in the hope that the change will benefit his health which has been de- clining for several weeks, He is prtn- cipal of one of the Brooklyn, N r.. l public schools and would soon have been entitled to a. pension awarded those performing a certain period Of continuous service. Should he not be
 able to resume the duties of, his posi-
 ton within 3, comparatively short time his claim to the pension, will be for feited. Several years ago he bought t the William D1Incomb farm at Red ding Center and has since lived there For two or three years he was prin- cipal of the Hill academy at the Gen. ter.
 Among the second crop victims of the local measles outbreak are Marcus
 H. Burr and Robert Ferry. They are the only new adult patients and both
 have the disease in rather severe form
 MT. Ferry's young daughter is also a victim A young daughter of George P. Williams is recovering from an ess- pecial1y serious attack.
 The Sanford school ball team went to Cheshire on Monday and in a skin ming game with the Episcopal Acad-
 emy team met defeat by a score of 4
 to 3. On the return trip g. Danbury
 auto transporting some Of the party broke down on the hill between the
 Ridge and Pleasant Valley and stuck
 there until hauled out the next day
 It's passengers had only a short walk home.
 Tax Collector Duncan does not ina-
 prove in health loss of appetite and growing weakness being recent unfa-
 vorabIe conditions. He refuses to ac- cept the attending physicians advice
 that he go to a sanftarium and also
 refuses to have a specialist called into the case.