The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-02
OUR NEWTOWN
NEWS LETTER
Especial to The Farmer.)

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Newtown, Feb. 2.-The sociable to be
given in the town hall, Monroe, Feb.
| IL, by the young people of the lower
part of Newtown will be the closing
event of the pre-Lenten season. Con-
gers orchestra of five pieces will fur
nish the music and light refreshments
will be- served by the ladies. These
affairs IA literally patronfzed by the
people of the associated Villages, and
do much to bring about neighborhood
good feelings.
A scarlet fever case was discovered
| in a family on Main street yesterday.
A daughter~in the family returned
from Bridgeport a day or two ago,
and fell i'll at once. A physician was
at once called, the patient segregated.
and all precautions against the ex-
posture of others taken 1t is believed
the disease will be stamped out.
The High school was wired for cleo
tricity last week, and the fluid was
turned on yesterday for the first time
well satisfactory to the students,
when Principal johnson invited each
student to turn on and off the mystic
rious fluid once for his own gratifca-
ton.
James d. Corbett, the Farmer news
| boy, is the delighted owner of a small
wireless receiving apparatus, which
was installed and set in operation by
Walter Glover "a student Of the High
school, much interested in electricity
as study. The latter has both a
sending and receiving apparatus, by
which he is enabled to get in touch
with the Brooklyn navy yard, Wash
ington, d. c., and Norfolk, Va, but
his radio power is limited to 200 miles.
He sends messages to his neighbor on
Queen street, who is mastering the
CODE and both are enthusiastic upon
,1~f<, 1e of
Communication.
John r. Peck, farmer of South Gem
ter, is much annoyed over a dispute
with his neighbor, Mrs. ]. Miller, who
lately purchased the F. M. Kahle
property across the street from his
home Tt seems Peck has been. get
ting his summer supply of ice from a
fpond on the land now owned by the
Afillers, for several years without let
4 or hindrance. The new owners have
not yet taken actual possession of the
property, and Peck took the liberty
! of cutting the ice without getting per
mission from the Millers, although he
maintains he sent them word of his
! intentions. Hearing naught~ of objec-
ton, he filed his ice house as formerly
4 but on the last day of ice-cutting he
/ was surprised by a sudden visit of
i Miller who lives i'm Bridgeport. The
Halter seemed disposed to critfcise
Pe.ek's haste and said he expected to
bring a force of men from Bridgeport
next day to fill the Miller ice houses,
and must now change his plans and
wait for new ice to form. Peck as
sured him that was not necessary, but
advised him to bring his men along
and he (Peck) would assist with men
and teams in the work Miller then
bluntly told Peck that he expected the
latter to fill the Miller ice houses as
payment for the ice taken without
permission of the rightful owner of the
pond. In view of the fact that it cost
him SIS in labor cost to get his own
supply and another $25 to do as Miller
4 proposed, Peck demurred stoutly. The
argument waxed hotter and hotter the
more the matter was discussed. Peck
Withdrew. Miller went back to Bridge
port and nothing has been seen Of him
Isince. Then the January thaws came
on, and the ice almost wholly disap-
peared from the surface of the Miller
pond The ground hog came out to-
day and did not see his shadow, and
the prospects for another ice crop this
season seem dubious.