The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-07
ABANDONED WIFE
 LEAVES R .uDLNG, GOE ID PARENTS
concluding Chapter to Story of GeorgetoWn's AbscOnd-
 ing Minister.

such a stir in that village, has packed | Up her belongings and with her par ents returned to their home near Boston. Her father, MT. Barber,
 had been in Georgetown only tenn porari1y. He is a member of a large harness manufacturing concern iTl Boston and was in Omaha, when letter from MT. Garland informed him that the $244 check which he
 sent Garland last July for the pay ment of Connerys Bros furniture bill had not been used for that purpose. Hurrying home he demanded an ex- plantation from his son-in-law. The latter admitted his delinquency and gave Barber his mote for $200- to ad-f just matters, raising his total obliga- tion to the former to $500. MT. Barber was apprehenstve that Gar land intended to decamp, having meanwhile learned of his other large borrowings, and upon hearing that he had slipped away by the o'clock down train on the morning of Sept. 27 started in pursuit taking along Justice Pinkney as legal counsellor Arriving at Norwa1k he consulted | a lawyer who told him that Garland was liable to prosecution for. en1b clement on account of rr1isappropr1a- ton of the proceeds of the check which was given him for a specific purpose. He failed to inform the lawyer, however, that he had legal Iy. condoned the offence by accepting a note in settlement, proceeding which gave Garland immunity
 Intent on handing over his son-2 in-law to an officer and obtaining a warrant later, Barber went from Nor walk to Bridgeport, but there his quest was also fruitIess. The sub-i sequemtH chapters of the story are the formal dismissal of the delinquent from his recent past crate and the de- fr1xxT1 Of hi Txyif tfdings having been obtained as to the present whereabouts of the fu'gi- tive.
 Garland secured the pastorate of the Gilbert Memorial church in what may be called a. competitive contest. as there were number of other candidates for the appointment. Tn the opinion of the society he easily eoutshone them, all being consider ed in fact the most brilliant preach CT and possessor of the most engag- ing spersonality of any pastor the church ever had. How much truth there was in his representations that he urgently needed the $1,700 which he borrowed to discharge debts i'm cured from his college and other
 educational expenses the Georgetown people so far do not know.
 A field belonging to D. s. Sanford and located opposite the H. s. Barnes l place, is being used to practically demonstrate the value of lime as
 soil improver and crop producer, the
 lime being furnished by the Grang-
 CTS Lime Go of West Stockbridge. The lot has been divided into strips | to which lime in varying g quantities., the maximum being at the rate of four tons per acre. is applied A uniform application of fertilizer will also be made,S one strip being un- treated by either lime or fertilizer. The 1nparative results shown on the different parcels are to be care fully noted. The experiment is be- ing conducted by the Sanford school.
 The result in the tax collector con-t test was less close than expected as last year W. A. Grouse, the Demo cratic candidate, failed of election by a very narrow margin. On Monday he received 99N votes, and John NIuen- nich. the opposing candidate, 157. Taxes on the 1914 list were not due until last Friday, but up to Tuesday evening Collector AIuennich had re- ceived $t3, 900 out of al total of about s22, ,000. This is an unprecedented record He took in about $100O at the town house on election day.
 Owing toe the lateness Of the sea- son Herr Schoch and others inter ested in the formation of a. rifle com pany have decided to defer further action in the matter until spring | getting the required data from the War Department and by the time a range could be got in readiness win ter would be here. It had been planned to hold a meeting for organ E ization last week
 The present dulIness in operations at the Gilbert & Bennett plant is due to the scarcity and high price of spelter a. material used in galVaniz- ing the wire worked up by the com pany. By reason of the shut off of Appropriations from Europe spelter ad- vaneed from it's former price of five cents pound to about 80 and is now about 15.
 Preparations are @befngi made by the dramatic section of the Sanford school for the production about the
 middle of December, of s'sO1d Heidel- berg, a play identified with the menn- ory of the late Richard Mansfield. His son Richard, who is now a. pupil at the school, will have the leading male, part in the forthcoming production and the leading female part will prob ably be enacted by Miss Airline Llltt- gen, grand daughter of the scommo- dore. Herr Eohoeh is to rehearse and generally direct the production.
 The driveways in Putnam Park recently been repaired with gravel and coping laid beside the stone walk leading to the pavilion. A party of 50 girls from the Normal school at Dambury were visitors at the park on Wednesday evening of last week The total attendance this season has far exceeded that of any previous. year
 Judge Wilkins presiding naagis- ftrate of the New York Juvenile court gave a highly interesting lecture to the pupils of the Sanford school last Sunday, his theme being the court the reasons and. steps leading to it's establishment and phases of it's ad- I1ainistration- Arrangement will probably be made for a repetition of the lecture before the general pub- lie.
 At the home of Mir and Mrs. F. L. DunneH on the Ridge a. dance was given last Saturday evening iby Miss Dunne11. their daughter. There were about 40 guests, representing the