The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-24

by her will, subject to the life use of
her husband, G. Watson Cole. This
f'7-,d will be known as the Ransom
Ho11ey Memorial Fund" and the in
come will be used to preserve the pub
lie health by detection of cases of tu-
berculosis, the prevention of the
spread of the disease and the care and
treatment of persons afflicted with it,
who are unable to pay for proper care
and treatment.
Found In Boston.
Melvin wilkins, IS years old, who
ran away, from his home in Torring-
ton with the Uncle Toms Cabin troupe
about two weeks ago, was heard from
on Thursday through a telegram from
the Associated Charities in Boston,
saying that the boy was stranded in
that city and asking for a remittance
to pay his fare home. The matter was
referred to the probation officer, who
guaranteed reimbursement for his rail-
road ticket on the wanderers arrival
he has been working in a restaurant,
and his only reason for leaving, as far
as can be ascertained, was to see a
<1itt1e more of the world than he can
get from moving pictures.
Foreclosure of Mortgage.
The foreclosure of a mortgage for
$500. 900 on the Draycott Mills property
In New Hartford, Barkhamsted and
Canton, the first named better known
as the GreenWoods Mills property, has
been ordered It was shown that the
mortgage was held by the Interna-
tiona1 Cotton Mills company. The
mortgage was given December II, 1911,
and no interest has been paid since
January 1, 1914. Besides the mill
property and So tenement houses in
New Hartford there is considerable
land, a house and the rake factory in
Barkhamsted, 80 acres of land in Can
ton and as, collateral security 264
shares of the Harrington River Power
company.
Objects to Conservator.
The hearing son the application for
a conservator over Miss Louisa
Thompson,. an aged and wealthy wo-
man of Goshen, occupied the attention
of Willard A. Roraback, judge of the
Torrington probate court, for several
hours on Saturday The applicant,
Mrs. May Hurlbart Clark, of Liteh-
field. was unable to be present. The
C1arks contended that they were not
acting from any mercenary motives,
but felt that the aunt, Miss Tnomp-
son, was in danger of neglect, living
alone on the farm in Goshen, and the
testimony for the applicant showed
that Miss Thompson's recent deed Of
a piece of real estate to Herman Fink
was an indication of incapacity to
E. Small and Mrs. Small Of Goshen
testified of complaints that had come
to them that Miss Thompson was not
looking after the stock of her farm
nor after her own food supplies as
carefully as the neighbors thought she
ought to. Miss Thompson resented
the implication that she could not take
care of her business. st earned this
money myself" she said, land nobody
has a right to take it away from me.
If didn't have a few dollars, these
people would not be so anxious about
q CONSERVATION. My relatives haven't
been to see me for forty years. and
some Of them wouldn't speak to me
the street, but now they think I'm go
Ing to die pretty soon, and they want
all my money. They won't get a
cent" As to the gift of the house and
lot to Herman Fink, she said he had
been good to her and had agreed to
and If she wanted to reward him in
that way it was nobody else's bus
mess.
The testimony of Mrs Mary Robin
son. OF Plainville, a cousin. who has
been at the Thompson home a great
deal of the time for the last ten years,
was strongly against any necessity for
granting the application. Others who
testified in her behalf were Joseph 7.
Handlinn, who bought her farm last
fall and admitted that she was capa-
bic of driving a shrewd bargain,
George Farnham, Lyman B. Munson,
Fink and A. H. Wilcox. Judge
Rorabac reserved his decision
ADVERTISE IN THE FARMER.