The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
OUR VIEWPOINT
 NEWS LETTER
Special to The Times.)

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 Newtown, Aug. 5.---The body of 12- year-old Leopoldina Hecktor of Ho- boken. N. J., who lost her life in the Housatonic river early last week, was discovered about noon Sunday by a party of fishermen encamped on the banks of the river about four miles below the place of drowning. The body had come to the surface and was badly swollen and hardly recog- nizaible when landed on the river banks on the Eewtown side of the stream. As the unfortunate girl lived in Southbury tie body was brought across the river to be viewed by the medical examiner of Southbury, who turned it over to Undertaken F. w. Troy of Sandy Hook. The distracted father and mother who have been ceaselessly on the vigil for -four suc- cessive days and nights, were over come at the end, and are in a state of utter collapse. The unfortunate victim was their oldest and only re- maining child of a family of seven children all now dead. She was 8 bright student at the parish school att tached to the R. c. church on Fourth street, Hoboken, and was general fa- vorite of teachers and pupils of the school. On May last she celebrated sher 12th birthday and was promised 8 trip to the country to visit her cousins. children of Michael Klutchet of Southbury, aa part of her good time. She was wading in the river at the Fording place attended by other children, but the swollen waters sud denly washed her into a deep pool where she was drowned. Despite every effort to recover the body since Wednesday last, it was not until Sunday that the accumulated gases of decomposition brought it to the surface about two miles above Zoar Bridge. The body was put into a sealed caslzet today, and shipped to her native city of Hoboken. Her fa- ther is an Austrian with his first pa pers only and experienced much de- lay in gushing to Newtown when news of the fatality reached him on Wednesday.
 Miss Esther Kilbride, who was grad uated recently from St. Vincent's hos pital training school for nurses, has successfully passed the state exam ination for nurses, and is now reg istered nurse.
 Michael Rilbride has bought the two double dwellings of Mrs. Louise Gib-
 
 amount of consideration Is not known. Mrs. Gibson contemplates giving up all her possessions here and removing to Brooklyn, her home.
 Miss Catherine Ward spent the week end and Sunday with Bridge port friends.
 James E. Campbell of the Sandy Hook grist mill is grinding 50 bushels of rye, besides wheat of last wears crop, brought in by farmers from as far away as Woodbury on the east to Easfun on the west. The Sandy Hook grist mill is one of the few remain ing old fashioned grinding mills of the state with it's machinery intact and is enjoying Nnuoh popularity in these days of restricted use of com mercial flour, Many farmers bring in 8 bushef of wheat as occasion requires and has 1t ground into whole wheat flour, MT. Campbell says that a large number of our farmers for the past two years have again begun raising wheat which branch of farming has been neglected for over a generation So far only spring wheat has beer sownn, but many farmers will essay the sowing oS "vinter wheat this fall.
 w, H. Conger, who went to the fornt In March from an American contonment, has returned home dis charged for disability,
 Joseph ID. Keane, son of MT, ant Mrs, Thomas c. Keane, who enlisted in the serctce last year, has received his call to go across, and left al AmorScan port Saturday.
 John D. O'Neil returned Saturda! from ten days vacation spent in tn, Berkshire Hills.
 Ex-Senator NJ. J, Heulihan is en toying a, weeks vacation,
 John F, Bradley of Brooklyn is wis iting his mother Mrs, Peter Bradley of Curtis Hill.
 Miss Charlotte White of Danbury i a guest of Mrs, Mary Hurd, of Ga street.