The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-19
OUR NEWTOWN
NEWS LETTER
Especial to The Times.)


action recently will be sold at auction |
to pay the accumulated back taxes of |
several years. The residence OF the !
owner is unknown, and although the |
value of the property exceeds the In |
debtedness due the town the money |
received from the sale will accrue to |
the town, unless the owner or heirs of |
owner make application for redemp- |
ton of this excess within twp years |
from date of sale.
John F. Bailey, Josiah A. Tillson, |
John Lynch of Sandy Hook and Glenn |
ence Liefield and w. F. B. Read of |
Hawleyville are in the call for New |
town boys who are in the list of Dis |
trict 10 and they will report this week |
Mt the court house in Bridgeport.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Bailey Of |
Walkers Farm district have been en- |
tertaining their niece, Miss Frances
Dixon of New Rochelle, n. Y. Other
house guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
George French and family of Trum-
bull.
Mrs. Frank B. Stearns and daughter
Margaret of Conneaut, O., are guests
of Mrs. Stearns' mother, Mrs. Mar
garet Lester of Walnut Tree Hill.
Mrs. stearns will be we'll remembered
as Miss Margaret Lester as a former
teacher in the town high school,
Mrs. Emma S. Smith of Mount
Pleasant was granted q divorce with
alimony and the custody Of three mi
nor children, from Mortimer Smith OF
Newtown. The grounds are various
acts of intolerable cruelty. The case
was heard in chambers before Referee
Judge Samuel A Davis of Danbury
and the findings entered with Judge
Donald T. Warner of the Superior
Court. The defendant is said to be
in receipt of large income from in
vested funds, and the decree compels
him to pay s., 500 annually and $500 to
each of the three children, in quar-
terly payments. Mrs. Smith and chill
dren have spent the summer at the
seashore while Mr.. Smith alternates
between Newtown and the metropolis.
Mrs. Smith was a favorite in the the
atrical world and as a comedienne
won an enviable place in comedy, as
Emma Janver before she resigned the
stage for marriage.
Edward Campbell, son of John
Campbell, who was a former property
owner in town but now dead, is visit
[ ing his cousin, James E. Campbell.
A troop of Boy Scouts from New
: Haven are encamped on the banks of
Halfway river near Zoar Bridge, and
= a bevy of Camp Fire Girls from the
: same city are enjoying the hospitality
of Mapleton, the Methodist Summer
Y Home
t The Sandy Hook band will give a
: concert at the Newtown Inn plaza on
, the evening of Thursday, August %,
+ beginning at SIS o'clock. The men,
bers have put in some vigorous re-
g hearsals under the pushing leader, H.
G. Warner, the past few weeks, and
all who attend will hear up-to-date
music
:. Chaplain Barnett home from France
lectured for the Red Cross in Rox-
= bury, showing his interested auditors
> his gas mask and helmet and other
of wars accoutrements which he
. brought back with him. Chaplain
Barnett is the son of Rev. F. W. Bar
= nett of Main street and one of three
: brothers who volunteered in their
Il different capacities at the outbreak
of war. Another brother was called
s as chaplain, but his ardor to do his
n bit forcibly led him to decline that
d call, begging to enter the ranks as a
II soldier, a request which was granted.
II He is now at the front with another
l. Of the trio Of brothers. Chaplain Bar
= nett expects to return to France also.
= The annual entertainment of the
: Newtown High School Alumni asso-
# citation last week deserved better sup
II port from the resident members of
= the organizat ton, in view of the sup
: port from outside its ranks. Miss
Genevieve Brown of Bridgeport IA
e vored the audience with several solos
. Miss Marion Curtis exemplified ner
- Evolutionary gifts. while Charles Bots
u ford pleased with several cornet solos
- The play, Miss Civilization" was
!, well presented, with Miss Dorothy
- Harris and Herman Oppe, Jr., in the
10 leading roles. Paul Smith of the jul
IL Nor class was drafted in as an
nouncer for the program. The Other
members of the cast were Paul Cav
anaugh, Leonard Wright, Gordon Gale
and Alvin Coger all of whom did well
Town Hall Janitor Cannon proved tc
be an invaluable aid during the even.
ing pleasures.
Mrs. John J. Lyons of Brooklyn is
at the home of DR.. and Mrs. w. J
a Mclaughlin, who are enjoying ar
N auto trip through New England will
Y DR.. Philip Mclaughlin of Bridgeport
in his touring car.
The rural community has a problem
! to solve which is unique so far as thu
~ experiences of country towns up thu
a. state have so far met and one that il
~ causing the local educational board NJ
lie end of worries
u The Painter Hill school district o
S' RoXbury occupies the northeast cor
ner of the town which wedges into al
nc angle formed by the towns of Wood
III bury and Washington. The advisa
G bility of reopening this school whic]
III has been closed for two years pas
ed has come up again, and seems as ia
" off from solution as it was two year
H. ago when the few scholars in the dis
or trict were sent to the Hazel Plain
of district of Woodbury., and the diff
-r- Guilty temporarily overcome. Nov
RoXbury has only three pupils o
en- school age in the district and no on
er can be secured to transport then
en- daily to and flDm the Hazel Plain
ris school for less than So per day. Tht
n in spite of extensive advertising TO
'ly this service. It is about three mile
he from Painter Hill to the Hazel Plat
Use school. The school board statistical
all figured out that if this compensatio
at was paid and the cost of teacher
salary and school incidentals adde
I'd the drain on the town treasury woul
90 be startling. The three Roxbury pu
at pills would cost the town $3.50 an
ND nually. or an average of $3.50 per pu
ng pill. Thirty dnlalrs per capita Is tn