The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-26
7 airfeld County News
Desaz.oped. by Err

Destroyed by Fire
The automobile of Robert ". Sears
of Danbury, was destroyed by fire
Thursday. Mr.. Sears and George Mil
Ter were going hunting when a sheet
of flame darted from under the, hood
of the car. Mr.. Sears tried to extin-
gufsh the blaze by the use of sand but
was unsuccessful and the machine
was totally destroyed.
Newspapers 1875 Years Old
In the possession of Winfield Mills,
of Greenwich, are issues of The Far
mer's Journal, weekly paper pub
hshed in Danbury. shortly after the
Revolutionary war. The copies Mr.
Mills has are for the years 1881 toll
1875 inclusive, making the oldest of
them 126 years old. Mr.. Mills states
that they are all in an excellent state
of preservation, and contain many
items of general interest The papers
were sent to Mr.. Mills great-great-,
grandfather, Zaccheus Mead of Green
witch, and have been retained in the
| possession Of the family all these
years. The paper ON which the news
was printed was manufactured in
Danbnry. according to an. advertise
| ment in the Journal. which calls up
ion housewives to save their rags and
fhaye them made into paper.
Chief Meyers Buys Farm
John Tories "Chief'' Meyers, has
ended his baseball days. The Indian
backstop was released Internationally
by. the Boston National league club
/ last week, anad he has decided to give
up the game. Meyers has decided not
/ to go back to California and will set
tie down in Connecticut. He has pur-
chased outright the farm Of F. s.
/ Dawless, New Canaan.
Trolley Co. Appeals
/ The Connecticut Company has en-
tered an appeal to the public utilities
com mission from an order of the town
lof Stamford with reference to the re-
Il location of tracks on a street in that
city. The claim Of the company is
i that the order to change the location
of the tracks is not made for the
purpose of public Improvement, that it
is inequitable, since it forces the COM
lpany to move its tracks and fixtures
which are now in a proper condition
for the operation of its cars, that it
Imposes upon the company the statu-
tory obligation of paving the portion
LOT the highway where the rails are
removed and that the company will
gain nothing from an operating stand
point, by, making the change.
Killed By Train.
81 Struck by a train, Tuesday, Charles
L Sacramento, section hand employed
(by the New Haven railroad, was in
|stantly killed at a point near the
IWinnipauk station. Sacramento, who
WAS tribe hard of hearing, was
working on the track. Sacramento
leaned forward, and was struck by
the locomotive and knocked to the
4 ground. probably being killed instant
lily.
Big Barn Burned
i A large, barn On the farm of H. Ray
Bailey in ,DanbuFy was destroyed by
tby fire Monday night. The cause OF
4 tho fire is unknown, but Mr.. Bailey's
tconjecture is that it was st&Seed by
|someone who went into the building
Il Ito sleep. He said that he had fire.
4 quently found evidences that persons
had slept in the barn. The building
leontained about three tons of hay.
/ Two farm wagons were also con-
isumed. The loss, which is estimated
lat about s1,soo, was partly covered by
insurance.
Queer Tracks in Road
Peculiar tracks found each morn
8 ing in the roadway had puzzled resi-
dents Of New Fairfield for weeks.
They were the print of tracks that
lshowed a foot with shoe and an
other with a strange footprint which
could not be deciphered. George
Olivet went to his potato shed one
q morning and discovered that several
bushels of potatoes were missing
Tracks were evident in the mud about
his shed, and they were the same
strange tracks that had been noticed
in the road. He followed them, and
they led straight to the home of
Frank Widkosky. After a search of
the house. Mr.. Olivet and Edison D.
Elwell, who had missed potatoes, on
ions and corn raised during the sum-
mer, found what they identified as
their products in Widkoskys cellar
Judge Hallock fined the Pole 800
: He paid the fine and was released
l Widkosky admitted having tied a
III gunny sack about his left foot, but
did not give a good reason for having
Fit there.
One day more to do your share;
Keep freedoms banner in the
lair.