The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-16
OUR VIEWPOINT
 NEWS LETTER
Special to The Times )

Newtown, May 16-Prof. Leo Hig- son, principal of the Newtown High school, denies emphatically the story which appeared in the-Newtown correspondence column last issue. He asserts that he did not make a labor atory test of the public water, and did not state that it was contanlin- ated by sewage, or that he had for bidden the use of the water for drink ing to the students, and that he did not recommend that they use the water of a neighbortng well instead. He requests that this denial be pub lished by your correspondent, which is accordingly cheerful1y done,
 His version of the affair is that in laboratory work one day his attention was called to the brownish color of the water which was due to the pres ence of fungus. That afterwards he noted that the students were drink ing the water from neighboring well and believing that a well was not as safe as the public water when the well was likely to be contaminated b3' sewage, he exhorted all the students
 
 water.
 However, the principals statement of condition was not thoroughly un- derstood by the student body, as the drinking of the public water was avoided by many of them and the well water was increasingly used by the latter, with a view to safeguard ing their health as they understood the matter and this action was based on their understanding of what the principal said. This correction of the news sent in by your correspon- dent is for the double purpose of ac- quainting the student body of the true state of affairs and relieving the prin- cipal of any responsibility for the publication and acquitting the water company of any conscious wrong use of the water furnished it's patrons. The error in your correspondents s statement was due to the prevailing misconception of the affair among a large number of the students.
 Miss Ruth Tilson, a recent grad lege has accepted a clerical position with the Premiere Manufacturing Co.
 P. F. Shay is now employed by the Premiere Manufacturing Co. A very interesting meeting of the Equal Franchise League was held Tuesday afternoon at the home of Miss Anna M. Betts, Sandy Hook. An initial paper of the study of civics was read by Mrs. Mary D. Corbett, | and action taken with a view to se- curing the attendance of Mrs. Lud- ington at the next meeting.
 Attorney James Betts of New York is spending a short vacation at the family home in Sandy Hook. Miss Dorothy James and Miss Christine Corbett spent Tuesday in Bridgeport.
 Miss Regina Bale, professional nurse of Hawleyville, is in attendance on Mrs. Frank Kirby, now with her sis l ter, Mrs. O'Donnel1 of Brookfeld. Mrs. Kirby expects to return to. her home on Dayton street this week. | Her condition of health is improv- l ed.
 Mrs. Mary Hurd has returned from Bethel to her home on Gas street Arthur Beard IS placing the finish ing touches on a large chicken house which will furnish ample quarters for more than a thousand young chickens, which latter he has en- gagged from poulterers. MT. Bayard did all the work of the building unaided and it is a model for the purpose tc which it will be put. He has in an other inclosure about 400 very thrifty young chickens, and so far his flock has been healthy, and only few losses were sustained.
 The Red Cross drive is on today 1T l the center and the men named foI each school district are wing with each other to heap up the contribu- | tions for the cause. It is believed I that Newtown will this year surpass i it's sum of last years work